So after giving this more thought, I am thinking you are referring to
DCL/Fantasy/service related issues, rather than FE issues. In this case, I've given this some thought. Here are my observations:
First off, it was the Fantasy's 12th cruise. It's still a virgin LOL In fact, our asst. server?. It was his SECOND cruise. His SECOND in his whole life. We knew more about DCL and the ship/ports than he did. However, he was VERY sweet, did a great job, and interacted with DD so well. Now, our server Daniel, worked his @$$ off. He was training two new asst servers - Daniel had 4 tables and they each had 2. We talked to Daniel some at the end of the meals when it had slowed down for him and he told us he had been with DCL for 5 years - 1st on the Magic, then opened the Dream & then the Fantasy and he does a lot of training. Our Head Server was also busting @$$ - carrying out trays, things like that. Usually, they are roaming around, but this guy was noticeably busting his booty - heavily working. You could tell he was picking up slack for some. We met a new bartender in La Piazza (Melissa) "Earning her Ears," but she was excellent - very personable. That same evening in a Piazza, we met a waitress in the bar that had started June 16th - yes, the same day all of us boarded the ship!! She was still trying to adjust to ship life, not to mention learning her job. There is still a ton of new people. The only issue we had was that we asked for loungers for our big huge aft verandah. We called when we were still docked at Port Canaveral, and Guest Services told us no, safety concern. Fine......until we learned on St. Thomas day that decks 8 & 10 had them!!! So, our neighbor asked his stateroom hostess and got them!!!! Grrrrr......It was already day 5, so we figured, forget it. We were miffed because we know 9674 has them on the Dream & I wrote it on our survey, but it didn't ruin our vacation!
Our stateroom hostess was friendly, but it was unlike any other one we had. She didn't introduce herself to us, but really, that was fine. The room was clean, we had zero issues, and when we did run into her, she was friendly. She did her job. We didn't need anything extra like ice, etc., so no problem.
We didn't care that the Aquaduck was closed for an entire sea day, either. It was windy. Safety first. No prob. There's the "taking it all in stride."
DH & I actually felt that in all 4 ships, almost every CM we encountered on the Fantasy was engaging (except for the CMs in the shops, which was odd). Almost all CMs went out of their way to say hello and start up a conversation with us or DD.
We took the DCL excursion to Trunk Bay beach in St. John and have no complaints about that either. I do wish we had had more beach time for the money, but that's really no big deal.
CC was terrific as always.
This was our 6th and most expensive cruise to date. It was worth every penny. I can't wait to sail her again in 5 1/2 months
There's my 2 cents