My wife and I have cruised with Costa before so we knew before embarking in Barcelona what to expect.This cruise company offer a well packaged holiday particularly for families with children, Pacifica was no different with lots and lots of them.This was accompanied with the usual loud music so you can imagine the subsequent noise levels, and tough if you are a light sleeper!!

Barcelona is one of the better ports to join a ship as it is very accessible but unfortunately we had the ongoing problem of volcanic dust with our flight having been cancelled, so a hasty plan B was initiated! Can I make a special mention to Maria at Costa customer services for arranging alternative flights when all others abandoned us at Edinburgh Airport,if not for Maria we would not have caught the sail away at 7pm.

Our balcony cabin on deck 6 had adequate storage,spacious and was well appointed with a large comfortable Queen-sized bed. I was a bit disappointed with the clingy shower curtain you have a wrestle with when showering. There was also those awful shampoo/body wash on the shower wall along with those small bars of soap.I thought that this was not in keeping with this grade of cabin or even the age of this ship which is just a year old. Read more