Nice cruise. The port is a bit of a distance from Rome but only about an hour from the airport. We checked into our room and the boarding process went very smoothly. By the time we had a bite of late lunch our bags were in our room. We were in a balcony stateroom and were a bit disappointed that the side window had a bunch or cracks in it so the view was not real good. The door area and windows below the rail were also so dirty you did not have a view from the room through them. The cabin guys cleaned the door and a couple days later the rail windows were cleaned. I did writh HAL about it and the gave me 200 pp room credit on our next cruise.

The staff and I mean staff,everyone from the painter to the cabin guys were the most friendly and hospitiable I have ever seen. I can not tell you how great they all were. Never a frown or a head down anyplace. The whole 10 days were nothing but smiles and hellos. Great Great staff. The ship is OK nothing special and the entertainment was very weak. No lets make that very very weak. If you going for the entertainment don't go on this one. Food was pretty decent and we ate at the Pinnicle which was very good. One night was a special dinner night they do once a cruise. The extra charge was 39 pp and while nice I would pass on this one also unless you like the fancy stuff and not much of it.

One of the biggest problems with the itenerary is getting to the sights. Florence bus was over $100.00 each and several other ports were 5 to 6.00 per person per direction to get , in some cases a very short distance. Barcelona was 5.00 each way pp and the public bus was 3 euro round trip. Lots of passengers not happy with the charge. Read more