Excellent work. Really appreciate the extra effort you and Ken go to so that your clients are as knowlegeable as possible. We all benefit so much from your expertise. Carol and I for two find a balcony as a close to must have to consider a ship. I understand it is very much a personal preference and some find the dollar savings more compelling. We do not. Would gladly pay something, a modest something but something to have the flexibility of a private balcony. I think on a river cruise it might be more important than on a big ocean cruiser. On a river you are always passing something to look at while on the ocean sometimes it is just ocean.

I might have missed it but is dinner a fixed seating or is it come at your convenience around a short period of time. Having dinner at a set time is ok but would prefer to be able to change the table partners for dinner so that the people one meets and gets to know can be from a larger circle.