I returned from a week long Mediterranean cruise on The MSC Fantasia two days ago and have never been so pleased to disembark a cruise ship in all my times afloat, having already sailed on most of the current cruise lines in the past six years.

The ship itself is beautiful, with plenty of swimming pools, bars, dance areas and open spaces and it is kept spotlessly clean, but that is where it all ends.

The ship was extremely overcrowded with a large percentage being rowdy badly behaved Italian and French children, running riot through the ship until all hours. Read more