We booked a 3 night Christmas market cruise with CMV on Magellan to check out the company with an eye to longer cruises and to see how we coped with an inside cabin instead of our usual ocean view. Overall we had a good time.

Embarkation was smooth we queued up at our allotted time and were moved through reasonably quickly. Our inside cabin on deck 7 aft was clean and had everything we needed plenty of hangers and draws and a very powerful shower. Shampoo and shower gel were provided in dispensers also bars of soap. There was a lot of engine noise and vibration coming into port but no noise from our neighbours or the dining room above. Our steward was excellent, friendly and kept the cabin immaculately clean.

We eat in the MDR on all three nights, the the first two nights the food was really good but poor on the last night. The Buffet had a good salad selection and we enjoyed lunch and breakfast there. It is small when the outside area is not in use but as we get up early we never had a problem getting a table in the morning. Pretty much the same food is served in the dining rooms for breakfast, also buffet style, so if it was very busy passengers could always find room some where. A pizzeria operates within the buffet between lunch and dinner and the freshly made hot out of the oven pizzas were not to be missed. Read more