When Crystal sadly went bankrupt Oceania were among the alternatives we tried out. Here are our findings.
Oceania try to carve out a space for themselves between the mass market and the luxury segment. If you ask me they are closer to the former than the latter.
THEIR BOOKING AND ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS are designed exclusively to prevent any wrongdoings by the staff in favour of the customer. It ...
We booked this cruise as it had been several years since we last visited Europe and we liked this itinerary. This portion of the trip embarked in Rome, we stayed at the W Hotel, a brand new property with excellent and clean accommodations and outstanding service. Would not hesitate to rebook there. We contracted with Rome cabs to transfer us- the dad dropped us off right in front of the ship. ...
This back to back (12 + 7) days cruise was booked one year ago. Four weeks before departure we were informed by Oceania that our chosen stateroom 7004 was unavailable for "Maritime Technical" reasons. We chose this particular cabin because of the extended balcony. Phone call queries with both our Travel Agent and Oceania as to what this term meant proved fruitless. We eventually agreed with ...
We chose this cruise to be with friends, and for the opportunity to visit ports and countries in the Mediterranean for the first time. We boarded in Barcelona, sailed for 17 nights, and disembarked in Malta. We unfortunately caught covid two days before the end of the cruise, and had to quarantine onboard, and for an additional week in Malta. Oceania did not handle this issue completely to our ...
Oceania is our cruise line of choice. Always top class dining , service, and Penthouse Suite cabins. The Red Ginger and Toscana restaurants are our favourites , but all restaurants are great and great value they are included in the pricing. I like their “ menu pricing” construct as extras can be selected by choice. The drinks package is good value . Service is unobtrusively good and we love the ...
We wanted to go on an upscale cruise so we wouldn't be "nickeled and dimed" with everything. Aside from being extremely expensive (with all the add-on's it wound up costing close to $8000 per person and it was definitely NOT worth the price.
Let me start at the beginning. We booked a10 day cruise to Turkey and the Greek Islands. Oceania claims that they have the best food of any cruise ...
This was our first cruise on Oceania, after having sailed Celebrity on our most recent 3 cruises. Oceania was recommended by friends, so thought we would take the plunge, and we were glad that we did! Here are some of our observations:
CHECK IN: We departed from Civitavecchia (Rome). The terminal was older, but well laid out. Being a small ship with staggered check in times, there were no ...
We originally scheduled this cruise for April 2020, then COVID-19 resulted in cancellation. We were rescheduled for August 2020, with a different itinerary but again, COVID resulted in cancellation. We had challenging and frustrating interactions with our Oceania agent to the point where if we didn't lost our investment we would have cancelled altogether. To be honest, we were sort of numb by ...
All in all Cruise was good as I told the ship staff in a review...the ports were varied and interesting although they changed our debarkation port VERY LATE in the process from Barcelona to Tarragona! Tarragona is far away from Barcelona where we all had our departure flights. The journey to Barcelona the last day was close to 90 minutes, and $$$. The biggest negative in the cruise was in ...
We had sailed on Riviera before. We had also sailed on Marina. We have 40 plus cruises of all types under our belts.
Anyway, we chose the one because of the itinerary, We were on deck 7. The cabin was as we expected. I think there were about 700 passengers, By and large the services were pretty good. The ship was not allowed to visit Malta. More on that later. We had reservations in all 4 ...