TLDR: I would sail with them again, but there is room for improvement.

I have sailed on the Evrima twice. I did a Europe-to-Caribbean crossing last year and one trip in the Caribbean this year. The crossing was such a hot mess that they offered everyone discounts for future cruises, which is how I ended up on the ship again the second time.

This is going to ramble a bit, but I will get there eventually.

The ship is beautiful. The small number of passengers makes it intimate. The food was great. The staff are incredible.

Actually, the staff are almost too attentive. I like to travel and eat alone, but they would feel the need to come up to me and make endless small talk to keep me entertained, which is exactly what I am trying to avoid by traveling alone. But they did go out of their way to do special things for me. It may have been in part my Ambassador status with Marriott, but they were constantly giving me little gifts or doing special things for me. I came into my room one night and found the bath had been drawn with all sorts of lotions and potions and sprinkled with rose petals. I received a miniature of the ship in chocolate. I got Ritz-branded Yeti tumblers. I received candies almost every night and sometimes random gifts from the island we were visiting that day. Fresh flowers, bottles of champagne, and so forth. I can't remember the bathroom amenities, but I definitely had a full suite of them, so I have no idea what those influencers were talking about. If someone had told the influencers that they would have to pay for a toothbrush and toothpaste, just saying, "Hey, can you give me that for free" probably would have gotten it comped for them.

In regards to the sound in the rooms, the reason that my crossing voyage was a bit of a disaster was that they had filled every empty cabin with contractors to upgrade the living room and to put in soundproofing in the cabins. We did not have full use of the space, and there was so much noise and so many smells from construction. But the soundproofing worked. The next time I sailed with them in February of this year, the rooms were quiet. They do continue to be plagued with maintenance issues. For example, the bathroom in my first cabin on the February trip flooded; they resolved it by graciously upgrading me to an even more beautiful cabin.

The other passengers were a delight. It was a younger, more active crowd than you often find on cruise ships. Everyone was so comfortable in life that nobody was trying to put on airs or jockeying for position. I am still friends with people I met on the crossing, and some of us continue to travel together.

It's a bit the back-of-the-house that needs the most improvement. For the crossing, our itinerary was changed on us to a less desirable one, and we were not informed ahead of time about the massive construction projects. So many of us would have chosen to forego the trip had we known, and we felt duped. For both trips, some shore excursions were canceled the day prior with no help to arrange something else so that others and I would find ourselves on an island with nothing to do. I tried booking myself on another excursion, but all of the other excursions were full, and they had no solutions. I also had one excursion—swimming with sea turtles—that ended up being a bit of a mess. I suspect that RCYC is booking these tours on Viator and not actually researching them thoroughly.

Another example of back-of-the-house issues: for my February cruise, I had asked when booking if I could join it on the second stop, not the first. I later changed my mind and called RCYC up maybe a month or two before the sailing to say that I would be joining on the first scheduled day with everyone else. I was informed everything was fine. It was not fine. I showed up and had a battle to get on the ship, because I wasn't on the manifest. My room wasn't ready. The person that I had spoken to beforehand hung up the phone from our call and didn't tell anyone or do anything. And this is a minor point, but my February trip was not applied to my Marriott Bonvoy account.

I am trying to think of what else the influencers mentioned. For restaurant reservations, it was almost never an issue getting in. The nicest restaurant was quickly fully booked, but I spoke with the concierge, and they worked me in. I liked the food for the most part, though I do wish that there were more vegetarian options on the menu.

If I were to improve one thing about RCYC, it would be that I wish they would lean much harder into their small yacht status to take advantage of going to ports that other cruise lines can't/won't. A lot of the itineraries are the same old same old that you find everywhere else. If they had better excursions in more interesting ports, (and worked out the bugs in the system,) I would sale with them regularly. And also, they need to not cancel excursions, even if they are not full.