We took this cruise because it spent two days in Copenhagen and 3 days in St. Petersburg.

Delta airlines managed to lose our luggage on a direct flight to Amsterdam. We spent several hours in the airport waiting in line to report our luggage missing (since they forgot the entire plane's worth of luggage). By then we were running late and needed to get to the ship, so we accidentally got a licensed cab driven by a crazy driver who hated Americans. It was not a good start to the trip.

ONBOARDING: we were in the Concierge class and boarding was exceptionally easy, no wait at all. When we got onto the ship, it was easy to navigate with lucite models of the ship at each level. Our cabin steward immediately came and introduced herself and was great - always easy to find and very helpful. Read more