Review of Western Caribbean Cruise on the CostaMagica January 15-22, 2006

I am writing this review primarily in response to reviews of the CostaMagica that I read prior to boarding our cruise and that contain a lot of misinformation. By way of comparison we have been on two other cruises in the past two years - one a Caribbean Cruise on NCL and the other a Mediterranean cruise on the Wind Surf which is a Windstar ship. The NCL cruise cost approx the same as the Magica cruise but the Wind Surf cruise was over twice as much per person.

We arrived at Ft. Lauderdale airport and took a taxi from the airport to the ship. With tip, the taxi costs about the same as the cruise line bus for two so there is no advantage in taking the bus. We left our bags out front of the pier building and were checked in and boarded the ship - it took only 45 minutes from the time we landed at the airport until we boarded the ship. Read more