Costa Concordia Review

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CostaConcordia - Eastern Mediterranean

Review for the Eastern Mediterranean Cruise on Costa Concordia

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Sail Date: Dec 2006
Traveled with children

This is a long awaited Costa Concordia review. Please accept this as my families (Parents, 2 children 10 and 13, and grandfather - disabled in wheelchair) review of our experience. We flew from Manchester to Genoa on a chartered flight to meet up with Costa Concordia in Savona. Before I enter into the review I might add that customers need to be extremely careful with their luggage when leaving the UK. I purposely went into the travel agents beforehand to ask about hand luggage rules and was told that regulations had now been relaxed and was back to normal. Whilst I am happy that we are made to feel safe and are agreeable with all security/safety issues  we had many things taken off us, as well as having to strip down. Only prescription (liquid) drugs are allowed through. The queue's at baggage handling were so huge that I had to be asked to be pushed through or I would have missed the flight, so be prepared.

On the return fight the rules appeared to be much less strict.

Good flight and easy access to coaches who were to take us to the post of Savona. Embarkation was a bit chaotic, you were given a number as you left the coach and walked into the embarkation area. Having been on last years P&O Aurora Xmas cruise, we were extremely disappointed to find that you had to purchase a drink and had to just sit there until your number was called to enter the ship (well over an hour)..as opposed to carols by a choir, sherry and mince pies and a happy xmas atmosphere last year on Aurora. Whilst we should not compare cruises as they all have their advantages and disadvantages it is sometimes difficult not to.

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