Celestyal Olympia Cruise Reviews

I am not an experienced cruiser and I am not a big fan of cruise ships so that may color my evaluation. However, I feel that this ship was adaquate for taking me and my wife to a number of Greek islands. The sea food was good. The deserts were good. The breakfasts were fine. My wife and I traveled independently and did belong to a tour group. The instructions and communications onboard were ...

My rating would have been higher except for 3 major issues: On the first day, there was no announcement the required safety drill was delayed. MANY passengers assembled at the scheduled time and wasted more than an hour waiting with lifejackets on. The restaurant maître d' was rude and unaccommodating in seating our group in the dining room even though our guide had made reservations for a ...

We were with a group of 21 visiting Athens and this short 4 day trip to the Greek islands. My wife and I have done over 25 cruises, mainly Royal Caribbean, Holland, Celebrity and Disney--cruises to Caribbean, eastern and western and southern routes, Med and Baltic cruises. The ship was not that bad. It was an older (1982) former Royal Caribbean ship "Song of Norway". Fastest embarkation ever. We ...

The positive report is the embarkation and debarkation were the easiest I have ever experienced. It is a small ship so not thousands of people to move. You do surrender your passport which makes me nervous, but worked out okay. My husband had to see the ship's doctor, first time ever on a cruise, and that was a good experience. The room was okay. We booked an inside cheap room ...

We received this cruise as Christmas gift... my brother and me. We was afraid if the weather will be ok, because the previous week was too cold, but in Mediterranean was perfect... It was a luck that the ship embarked from Piraeus, was easy to access with airplane/taxi. Decent hotels was available very close to the port... a walk distance.. The cabin was decent, larger than ...

My partner Raman & I were on this ship (Celestyal Olympia) for a 3 Days Cruise, as part of our Globus tour 'Iconic Agean with 3 Night Cruise'. It was their first cruise of 2016 (March 11-14, 2016) & the weather was early spring, so guess the ship was less than half capacity, to our advantage. We had upgraded our indoor cabin on deck 3 (ic) to the balcony suite (sb) on deck 9 by paying a ...

We read reviews before embarking on our trip so we knew to keep our expectations in check. Here is what I found to be true- It is indeed a 30 year old ship. If you are used to cruising on the newer beautiful Caribbean cruises (as I was) keep in mind this ship was not like that at all. Passport- you surrender you passport when you board. It was nerve wracking for us to do that. It made us ...

It was our very first cruise experience and we are definitely impressed and the highlight of our Europe trip. Prior to our departure date, we read some of the reviews about Celestial Olympia which some were not favourable but we were pleasantly surprised because our experience in the ship has not dampened or spoiled our enthusiasm to go on a cruise again in future, in fact we could go for a ...

I'm writing this review, (something I never do), because it was difficult to find anything recent about this ship and cruise. It's true one books this vessel only for transportation to some beautiful Greek Islands but had I known in advance how poorly the ship is maintained and operated, a fishing boat would have been preferable. The food was bad, even the deserts, in both the dining and ...

High marks to this cruise as a whole. I was very impressed with the staff. They were friendly and did their best to make the cruise as enjoyable as possible. It was a pleasure to come back to the room each night; everything was always clean and tidy. For the most part the food was quite good. I think they could have done better in the entertainment department. I preferred not to take the shore ...