I think your view of Magellan is likely to be influenced greatly by whether you have cruised before or not; I have.

The embarkation process began well (the staff in the carpark were superb), but when we went to collect our cards for access to the ship ours had been misfiled in the "N's" (our surnames begin with P and B!) and after 20 minutes it was actually my travelling companion who found our cards. Ah well, these things happen!

The ship just doesn't have the "Wow factor" - having travelled with other cruise lines before, I wanted to be wowed - I wanted to go to the atrium (there isn't one) and look out and think "wow" ... unfortunately, there was no area on the ship which afforded me any type of wow! :-( Read more