I'm with you, Masaki, paying for bottled water gets me down. Bad enough having to pay a fairly hefty rate for a bottle of wine at dinner. The idea of schlepping cans of tonic and bottles of water unto a luxury cruise has never appealed to me.

Looking at the veranda level staterooms, at 215 square feet, does that include the balcony perchance? If so, that's smaller than the PG, the smallest rooms in the Radisson fleet, if not, then they aren't much bigger than the PG.

I have also gotten an overall impression from various posts that there is somewhat of a class system on Oceania--that passengers with higher cabins are treated better than lower. Is there any truth to this?