Costa neoClassica Review

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Review for Asia Cruise on Costa neoClassica
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Proseknitic
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Mar 2012

Costa has by far the best organization (at least from Europe) of finding you at your origin airport, managing transfers and delivering you to the ship. Once again this proceeded flawlessly on our way from Frankfurt to Singapore.

Things were a bit chaotic at the cruise terminal. That was my first clue. The Classica is the oldest ship in the Costa Inventory and it shows. The basic staff was wonderful, hardworking and extremely anxious to please. Our cabin steward was great, attentive and flexible to our weird comings and goings. The Cruise director was extremely hard working - we saw a lot of Petra and apparently reading the reviews - we saw a lot of both the restaurant manager and head waiter.

Didn't do anything for the food. If you are a vegetarian, this Costa ship is not for you. Meal choices are extremely limited and the menu rotation is short. Doing Diary on this trip - the Cheese Souffle was superb and otherwise, your choices are rice, vegetables and pasta. Salads are poorly prepared with about 100cc of water dripping off the lettuce, the breads are decent, deserts good and the soups boring. Our waiter was great - even though I have no clue why they assigned someone who spoke little German to a German speaking group. With great luck on the random assignment of dinner companions, we sat with an interesting group of people who excellent. All had sailed with Costa prior as well as other lines (mostly Aida).

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Cabin E2

The cabin was large, roomy, comfortable and the port hole a good size. The A/C was marginal without a separate fan setting. Two sets of four drawers for clothing and plenty of closet space with hangers. The shower has only a curtain which provides the usual challenges for trying to keep the floor dry.

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