Costa Mediterranean Cruise Reviews

After returning from a vacation, we decided last minute to try Costa Toscana. Both my wife and I have worked in the Cruise Industry in the past. We wanted to share our experience with our 10yr old boy, to show him what cruising is/was like, for him to experience the things that we have experienced throughout our ship life careers. Most of the places we visited during this cruise, we have already ...

First off, I think I owe the previous reviewers an apology! We sailed with Costa previously some years ago and felt very comfortable being English speakers and enjoyed spending time with our European counterparts, we felt that things couldn't be that different and perhaps it was just people not really used to being surrounded by the European Culture. However once boarding we soon realised that ...

To begin, I'd like to share some background about my cruising experience. Over the past 30 years, my wife and I have embarked on 43 cruises with various cruise lines, such as Seabourn, Regent, Oceania, Viking, Norwegian, Celebrity, Princess, Royal Caribbean, Carnival, MSC, and, of course, Costa. This review covers our recent 7-night cruise aboard the Costa Toscana, departing from Rome. On May ...

The Costa Toscana it’s a beautiful ship has a lot to offer. Great Amenities on board. I recently sailed on the Toscana, and I was so disappointed in the Frontline staff who should have all the answers to your questions. The Frontline staff were very rude and unhelpful. The food choices were adequate, controlled, but the Buffet choices were the same every day. I took the liberty of going to the ...

We choose an european cruise for Mediterranean, we expected great food and good service, but was totally different. Always a delay in dining roomn, maitres didnt answer our concerns, the food was bad, really bad, no taste or flavor, all 5 days the same food in breakfast, lunch and dinner. the worst was the service, always slow, waitress always angry no smiling, very unfriendly, they have a lack of ...

I have travelled on Costa before and picked this cruise for the ports and also I liked the ambiance on the ship. For any of the staff to go beyond their parameters seems impossible. To me an excellent customer service seems unattainable on Costa. This tired cruise line needs a complete rethink on what they are offering and higher management needs to give the front facing workers a bit more ...

Repositioning Dubai-Genoa March 2022. I have been on Costa enough to have Diamond Pearl status, and have sailed on many of their ships, including this itinerary in 2018 and 2019. I expected some cut-backs, but this was the worst Costa ship and the worst Costa cruise I have ever been on. Completely ordinary, same-as-everybody-else, nothing about this cruise stood out from the competition. The ship ...

Costa sent people to the wrong port. You don't start the embarkation process in Port of Marghera/ Venice like a lot of people thought.  You start it in the port of Tronchetto. Families,  old couples,  me and  my husband living our honeymoon,  all lost in the other side of Venice. We actually only spent money with a night in tronchetto because we thought we had to travel all the way to the port of ...

Cruise number 54 Costa Cruises – Costa Smeralda 20th January to 27th January 2020 Cabin number: 15250 - midship , Deck 15 - Premier Balcony Cabin Total pax : 6554 , Crew : 1646 : Decks : 19 Cruise for 7 nights Barcelona – Palma – at sea – Civitavecchia – La Spezia – Savona – Marseille – Barcelona Eventually we get to cruise on the brand new ship after a delay in delivery of ...

When I think of Costa Smeralda I’m drawn to Longfellow’s Poem, “The Little Girl” There was a little girl, And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead, When she was good she was very, very good, And when she was bad she was horrid. Those last two lines perfectly sum up Smeralda, making this an incredibly difficult review to write. The cruise was a one week, ...