We sailed on the Costa Magica in February 2007 along with two other couples, one of which were first time cruisers. We drove to Fort Lauderdale and spent a couple of nights in Hollywood, FL prior to sailing. Upon arriving at the cruise port, we found the lines for embarkation to be incredibly short, which was a surprise to us, as this was a sold out cruise. We literally were checked in and ...
I first want to say that this cruise was booked spontaneously at the last minute by my wife and I. We booked it two weeks prior to departure and got a great deal for three of us, $808.00! Then we read the reviews from passengers whom had sailed back in December 2006, we started to be a little concerned about what they were saying about the crew and the service. We decided that we keep an open mind ...
Review of our Costa Magica cruise 2/4/07 - 2/11/07.
We were in cabin 7422 aft corner cabin and our friends were in cabin 7326 you can view these cabins in my picture link.
First off the embarkation was long.... Once though security we were put in line for the Suite passengers and thought it would move quickly. It did not! They only had 2 people working the line and someone had decided to do an ...
I found the reviews at Cruise Critic to be very helpful. I also think Costa must be reading the reviews as well because everything prior reviewers complained about has been improved or outright fixed.
First, the cabin. Our cabin was on the smoking side of the ship (odd cabin numbers, not even) and the prior occupant smoked up a storm, which I found disgusting. Upon boarding, the room spelled ...
My husband and I cruised on the Costa Magica in Feb. The ship is fairly new and kept real clean. The location of our room was unbelievable, it seemed we NEVER walked anywhere. We were right around the corner from the elevator and mid ship so everything was right there. Upon arriving at the port to start the cruise we arrived about 11:30 and were about 50-75 people back but they opened the doors ...
Sailed the Costa Magica January 28, 2007 from Fort Lauderdale. This was our 6th cruise, all past were on Carnival. We received a post card for a special rate for this cruise and my husband and I decided that for the price we really couldn't loose, even if we hated it. After so many "bad" reviews we read, we were really surprised by our experience.
We booked our parking from the Costa site, and ...
Talk about being nervous after reading Cruise Critic reviews! I organized this cruise for 135 people, and I didn't want to spend my vacation listening to complaints. I was very pleasantly surprised and relieved with the entire cruise experience!! I have cruised with Celebrity, Princess, Holland America, Royal Caribbean and Viking and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed my week with Costa. ...
Sailed on Magica on Jan 28, 2007 for 7 day western Caribbean. This is our 6th cruise - 3 Carnival, 1 Holland, 1 NCL and now Costa. We're professionals in our early 50's.
As in most of the other reviews, the Magica was clean, well cared for and appears to be nearly identical to the deck plan of ships like Carnival Valor. Most of the crew were pleasant with smiles and greetings. The exception was ...
This is our second cruise with the other being on the Celebrity Infinity. We were a little afraid after reading some reviews on here but we had a wonderful week.
We arrived at the port at approx 1:15 PM. We waited in line less than 10 minutes. After checking in and registering our credit card we went right to our room. We were in a Category 8, #6273 which is a balcony room. We met our cabin ...
Costa Magica Travelogue
Sunday, December 17, 2006
We got the car loaded up and drove without problem over to Port Everglades in good time. We had considered parking at the Park n Fly for about $7 a day but the Costa Magica was docked at Pier 21 which was immediately next to one of the port's parking garages. We decided it would be better to have the car handy and found a spot on the 4th ...