Costa Serena Review

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Review for the Western Mediterranean Cruise on Costa Serena
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mdwilkie
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Dec 2007
Traveled with children

My wife and I, along with our 14 year old daughter, decided to celebrate our 25th anniversary on a Western Mediterranean Cruise. We had done another Med cruise on Costa in 2004, on the Costa Victoria, and in 2006 we did a Celebrity Cruise to the Baltics. We enjoyed the Costa cruise more so we chose Costa again this time.

We left Savona on Dec 27 - we had a suite, which allowed us priority boarding, so the embarkation process wasn't too bad. The terminal was very crowded however - the Concordia (another large ship) was boarding at the same time and it looked like people from the previous cruises (from both ships) were still in the process of leaving. They had problems getting everyone onboard on time, so we were a couple of hours late and had to wait until about 7PM to do the lifeboat drill.

The ship was full, with well over 3000 passengers. I'm not sure what the breakdown by nationalities was but there were only about 200 English speaking people. Many were American ex-pats; didn't see any other Canadians on board except for the English-speaking hostess (Audrey) was coincidentally was from a town just a few hundred kilometers from where we live. I've heard others on this forum complain about having to hear announcements in 5 different languages - I didn't find that too bad as it was fairly easy to tune them out. But the 5 language lifeboat drill was a bit much.

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