Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades) Costa Mediterranea Cruise Reviews

Costa Mediterranea- March 29-April 5, 2008 Background: We were a group of 28 kids and adults, 14 kids in tow ranging from 2-10 and 14 adults from our early 30's to mid- 40's. Most in my party were experienced cruisers and my family goes on a cruise at least once a year so we are not new to cruising. I traveled with Costa about 15 years ago and had a great time, I remember the attentive ...

Plain and simple, this had to be the worst cruise that my wife and I had ever been on. Only good part about this cruise was that we were familiar with the ship, since we recently had been on the Carnival Legend, which is identical except for the decor. Mediterranea claims to be Italian? The only Italian we saw was the Captain and the majority of the Officers. Not should that make a difference, ...

This was our 9th cruise, our 1st on Costa. Embarkation went smoothly, just the usual waiting in line. We made it to our oceanview cabin #1148 and it was exactly what we had expected. Our cabin steward met us at our door and was great. He was the nicest employee we met all week long! We dropped off our carry ons and went to lunch on the Lido deck. The food was not great, but we thought it would ...

The CostaMediterranea is a beautiful ship (score 9.5 of 10) and the big shows were very enjoyable (score 9 of 10). The service was very poor, food was fair to poor -- both service and food a 3 of 10 score and I am being generous at that! The help is slow, getting water at your meal at the formal dining room (1st seating) was very slow and dinner a 2 1/2 hour ordeal. Not one time was the high chair ...