Horrible experience
The ship was old we knew that, but the disrepair and condition was very poor with water dripping onto our tile floor which made it very dangerous to walk. They finally fixed that when we complained but it took a few days. The bunks were dangerous to sleep in with the rolling of the ship. I thought I would roll out on several occasions. The wood around the door on inside of bathroom in cabin 1 was rotted. The guy came once in a week to clean the room and we had to ask for new towels and toilet paper. We never got any more soap. This was the worst! They kept recycling the the same 5 ingredients. My husband ate linguini about 4 days in a row! Black beans today would end up as bean soup tomorrow and the next day. The chicken was almost inedible and I was sick most days on the boat with diarrhea. I have concerns about the cleanliness of the kitchen. The dishes certainly were not sanitized as I watched them wash them each night. The heat in the dining room was intense with broken fans and the staff was surly and acted put out if you wanted anything different or more food. The portions were so small my husband was literally hungry. I would equate it to high school cafeteria food, but my high school was better. They rushed us thru meals except when they were making speeches at the end. The YouTube video with Capt. Sly, showed lobster and lots of platters of appetizers, we were given small amount s of appetizers and things like pizza with sliced hot dogs and small hot dogs with barbeque sauce. It was completely different than what was advertised on YouTube, in essence fraud. cokes were 3.00 and warm. No premium liquors, only the cheapest stuff. Watered down juice almost impossible to get refills of anything but water. I am sure they knew their jobs but they did not seem like they wanted to be helpful. Several seemed like they had a very poor attitude. They were surely and the gentleman with the mustache yelled at my husband and was rude. I would have left no tip except for Mash up and the young man who drove the launch to shore, they both were very nice. Aloof, difficult to understand, very secretive about where we were going and what we would do next, spoke in a high falsetto voice, rambled on the morning "Story time". Not very friendly and instructed the crew not to share information about where we were going. He dressed in a Pope costume for a couple's renewal of vows, thereby insulting the catholic passengers, it was just sacrilegious. Only friendly the last day when telling me it was customary to give a 125.00 tip for each one of us. Story time was a joke, I was not interested in crab races or the dress up party. The shore excursion I was able to go on due to my intestinal issues, was 11 people smashed in a hot mini van driving to a few places like a fort, a garden and a lookout for a volcano. It was totally not worth 114 for two people, although the tour guide was nice and spoke very clearly and was easy to understand. The photos I say and video showed all sails up and the vessel actually sailing under wind power. This is the only reason I came to sail. What I found was that we were never just sailing, but we motored the whole way. The put a couple of sails up (they only had about 2-or 3 for front mast only) just for show but we were not really sailing. The ship's couple of sails were so worn and patched it was pathetic and it was clear there was never any intention to actually sail the ship. It wasn't even possible with the current number of sails. There was a box on the bar if we wanted to give a donation to buy new sails! There again, this is false advertising. It was like on a horrible week that I just kept praying would end. The only really nice day was a day when I was able to go to the beach in Bequia. The beach was beautiful but then I had to go back to the ship.