Just back from our long awaited cruise from Barcelona to Istanbul. With 2 days in Egypt and 3 days in Israel. We did a private guide with 10 others from cruise critic in Egypt. Egypt is quite an experience and to see the pyramids was awesome. Oceania did a great job of the overnight we did in Jerusalem. There were only 5 couples and we had the most wonderful guide. We hope to return to Israel some day. We booked the penthouse suite and found it to be small compared to Regent. Even the balcony wasn't any larger than the standard suites. Our Butler was very helpful. He delivered dinner in courses from the specialty restaurants when asked. He was a better Butler than we had on Regent. The food this time was not up to par. The diningroom and Tapas Terrace was very repetative and not very good. The food in the speciality restaurants was very good. Over all, oceania did a good job but they are not up to the standard they were 5 yrs. ago. As usual, Brown & Keen did an outstanding job with all the arrangements. ;)