4 of us were on Segment #1 Mariner Amazon Cruise
01/09/07 to 01/20/07 and found the new open bar to be very positive. In the past we would gang up in someones cabin for cocktail then may have one in a lounge before going to dinner. Now we would meet at one of the lounges and almost always met someone else and had a great time. Seems others thought the same way.
The other positive surprise was that they still gave us our in cabin bar set up as before. That was real nice.
Abuse? We never saw any. If anything it probably helped.