I like to start off with good things to say, the bread, pastries, deserts, our table waiters and cabin steward and dance lessons were all good. Outside of that the experience on the ship was the worst.

This was our 16th cruise and 9th with our son. So I will compare with my previous experiences. The Costa Deliziosa has interiors that are very tacky and gaudy, your reflection will follow you everywhere and after a while you will get annoyed that 12 of you are moving in unison everywhere. The color Red is overdone to a point where now it is no longer my favorite color. Everything is in Italian, and English is the 5th language after, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

The food choices were very limited and the stations that they had setup had very long lines. Being a vegetarian limits your choice even more. For breakfast (because of their limited choices) everyone wanted fresh eggs or fresh omelets and the lines would move at a snail pace cause the poor guy (yes one guy) making the fresh eggs an omelets just could not keep up. By the way they use European powder mixes for scrambled eggs and I cant even describe to you the texture of that supposedly edible item. The other problem was the slick floor tile they used along the main isles, so along with the crowded lines one had to share the crowed isles cause by the second day on the ship everyone was walking slow in the isles. Read more