Corfu to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Reviews

We choose Marella because we could depart from a local airport, and the most important to us were the destinations. Another plus was only one sail day in the week. The destinations lived up to our expectations and the sail into Koper was lovely. However, we found the dining below average, two meals were sent back. They were aware of problems, new staff, poorly trained and hadn’t worked as a ...

Full capacity. 1925 passengers and they cannot cope. Not enough staff. 30 minute wait every night for dinner unless you eat In the Gallery buffet with the drunk.people who never get off and sit drinking all day,letting their kids run riot. Dive bombing in the pool which is unsupervised and running around. The staff work really hard but there's not enough in peak summer season. You will ...

This cruise was chosen primarily based upon destinations. None of these disappointed. Embarkation: We had to take a covid test prior to embarkation (greek rules). The previous evening we had to take a chronomics covid test which we paid for (why - no one asked about it). We had a water leak on our cabin on second night. Initially response was very poor. When day staff came on we were ...

Probably the biggest disappointment was the food. The buffet restaurant seems to have no dress code and the food was absolutely appalling. Cheap, mass produced rubbish. The a la carte restaurants (47° and gallery 47) were slightly better but the food was all bought in and heated up, menus lacked imagination and the quality was average at best. We did have one good meal by paying £46 to ...

I have previously cruised with Tui, on this ship and a sister ship. The quality of the food has gone down hill to the point of being very average now. The Italian restaurant was a choice of three menus that just got rotated. The main restaurant choice was poor and didn't arrive as described too often. Peach Melba came out as tinned peach slices and ice cream. Truffle oil came out as olive ...

we wanted to cruise the greek islands and visit olympia. FIRSTLY :- the broadway show team were outstanding, better than discovery one (and that takes some doing). dining:- on all but one evening on trying to enter the dining we were given a pager and told we would be summoned when a table was available by the two daleks on the door. on the final evening one of the daleks appears in the ...

Having done numerous cruises with Thomson/TUI/Marella we were looking forward to this one on Discovery 2. The ship is nice and has had a good re-furb. But we were disappointed to find that they seem to have cut down on the amount of staff, therefore we sometimes had a long wait to get a drink as the waiters were rushed off their feet, and if we went to the bar there was always a queue to get ...

We went on the Adriatic Explorer cruise. We were on Marella Discovery 1 two years ago so my comparisons are with that ship as they are very similar in layout etc. We were disappointed with the variety and quality of food especially the Islands restaurant but also in Restaurant 47. We went to Gallery 47 one night and the food was ok but we had to wait 55 minutes on a table, when we were buzzed in ...

Beware of the aft junior suites on deck 8. We had 8086 right in the middle of the rear, two weeks ago, a very large balcony and a good size cabin. The problems started between 2-3 am in the mornings with the cleaning crew dragging day beds and sunbeds above us on deck 9, they also jetwash and clean all the glass screening, we thought it was a thunderstorm. We complained at reception, filled in ...

We have cruised many times, including several cruises on the QE2, but with a growing family, other expenses and priorities intervened and we have not cruised for some 10 years. Of all the cruise lines we have used, Cunard has always been favourite - or maybe it was really the QE2 which held the magic? Either way, the whole Cunard experience was always so special that I felt it was worth the extra ...