We were keen to cruise vietnam but when we researched cruises to this region that matched our 14 year old son's school holidays and were "teenager friendly " we were restricted to one _ the Costa classica. We eagerly booked but when we read the cruise reviews were tempted to cancel. Through desperation we decided to go ahead and decided to approach it with a potential "Fawlty Towers " attitude.

Happily we were pleasantly surprised. First up, this is not an expensive cruise and does not sell itself as a 5 star experience. So , if you accept this and move on it should be enjoyable.

Embarkation: was simple and quick and we easily found our cabins. My luggage failed to arrive but a quick visit to information produced said luggage which had lost it's tag. The tags Costa provide are inadequate BUT our travel agent was aware of this and so provided us with more heavy duty tags, In the end they still fell off so I guess Shit Happens. Read more