Well the first night we sat with another couple, they asked to sit with us and not wanting to be rude we said ok. The next night we ate at the captain's table and that was fine and the last night we sat with a lovely couple who kept to themselves most of the cruise but asked us to join them when they heard the matire d' say there was a 40 min wait for a table for 2. That was a speedy dinner at only 2 hours in La Veranda (sp?).

There was one couple, the wife was a nice lady, but the husband was downright rude to her in front of us. I felt so bad for her.

The two men (couple), were wonderful and just what I thought most people would be like.

We really didn't want to eat with anyone. We were tired from shore visits and a quick meal would have been more enjoyable for us.

As I said, this was an honest review from our point of view.

Would I have known the length of the dinners, I most likely would have opted for a larger room and taken most of my meals in my room.

THe lovely older couple we ate with the last night felt the same as I did, while the room is a good size and fine for breakfast room service, for supper, it is a bit tight. We didn't have room service at night, but they did and they said they had to wait 2 hours and call 2x to get the "set up" removed so they could not go to sleep and felt it was really tight with the setup in the room.

My hubby and I didn't really want to interact with other passengers other than to perhaps briefly chat.

Of course there were loads of passengers we did not talk to and that was fine.

What did surprise me was the last day at sea (disemark the next day), they did a chocolate high tea. I never saw such a push and shove in an upscale setting in my life. I didn't even venture over to the chocolate table only wanting a scone which was on another table and pretty empty but hubby went over to try to get a piece of chocolate cake and he got shoved around so much he said. It was really a zoo.

I forgot to mention that we did book a shore excurision (group type tour) independtly since Radisson didn't offer this in Juneau, after the private tour. It was gold panning/salmon bake.

The people were all from a Carnival ship (small group about 20 in total). This was nice (you could see the difference in PAX but it was a nice tour and the food was fantastic at the salmon bake and quick.

Again please understand that what I write, I write as a personal observation.

I think for us, the food was the least of what we wanted to experience and while the service was great and I can't say the food was bad, it's just to much for us.

What I think would have been fantastic and maybe it was available and we just didn't know would have been if they would have offered the room service menu at one of the bars.

A steak sandwich in the bar would have been a great dinner for me and thrown in a small desert after that for the hubby and we would have been very happy and satisfied.

One gentleman who we met briefly at the Pan Pacific made a similar comment to us on the ship. He felt the dinners were to long and to much, and he said this when he overheard hubby and I talking and said, he would have been more than happy with a soup and salad at the bar in the evening.

But again, this is just us.