Costa Mediterranea Review
2 Week All Inclusive Hotel + East Caribbean Cruise
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Buying the Cruise
We bought a 10 day all inclusive Hotel + East Caribbean Cruise holiday from a travel bureau in our hometown Espoo from our regular travel agent whose services we have used for many years. At first there was no more cabins with balconies left on the cruise ship although it was the 1:st of October almost 4 months before the Ship was going to sail. We decided not to go if we do not get a cabin with a balcony. Luckily our dear agent managed to the wished cabin with a balcony so we invested the 2315 EUR / person and started choosing excursions from the catalogue printed out from the Costa-Cruises website. The average monthly wage in a steady job in Finland is about 2800 EUR so it takes years of saving and planning to take the cruise.
Day 5 Tuesday Bus to Cruise boat
Cabin Review
We had the unbelievable luck in getting the first (front) cabin with a 5 meter wide balcony on deck 6 (6115) other cabins had only a 2,5 meter balcony some of them even with lifeboats limiting the view. The balcony is furnished with 2 fabric chairs and a small coffee table. The cabin it self is approximately 15 square meters. The floor space is occupied by the double bed a little table and 2 small chairs. There is a little bathroom with shower sink and toilet.
What is more important there is a 230/110 V socket to charge the mobile phone and use the razor in the bathroom. There are also 3 closets and many drawers. There is no suitcase table so we kept the suitcases on the floor corner. Each cabin has a mini bar and TV. The floor is covered with a wall to wall carpet.
Our Cabin servant Cedi was on an 8 months contract. Some 6 months was still left before he could travel back to see her little daughter back home in Indonesia. He was always polite friendly and smiling alt-ouch he had 20 cabins to look after.
We had reserved a breakfast to the cabin in the morning (it was included into the cabin price) but it was not possible to order any fruit or yogurt. It was so dry that we decided to take the breakfast at the restaurant for the rest of the cruise.