Picked this cruise because of the ports of call, but found the cruise company to be poor. The food on board was bland, over cooked and lacking in any quality. We visited Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey and non of the meals were authentic to the place we visited. The wine on board was poor low grade wine and over priced while again traveling through wine counties, never had any "casa" wine on board. We ate lunch each in the city we visited and had house wine with lunch and was never disappointed and highest we ever spent was about $20 USD.

The rooms were not provide with ice or any means of getting or have ice in the room. The refrigerator was small and filled with the cash bar drinks, leaving no room for our things, had to have the drinks removed but they had to stay in the room occupying space. No laundry facilities on board except ship laundry with cost more than the cost of the item being laundered, sock -$3, shirt -$6, and so on. Literature received from Celebrity said we needed a Visa to get in to Turkey but no one at check in know anything about a visa and said it was not needed, no announcement in disembarking saying a visa was required - Turkey requires a Visa, I had it but was disturbed that the staff had no clue about a visa.

We elected to most tours on our own. The ship however never stopped at the city being advertised but at a close port requiring transportation to the city. The cost of this transportation was to costly. We found after a few days the means of catching locale public transportation at about 10% of the ships cost. But some of the ports were in the shipping yards making it impossible to catch local transportation, with their bus service costing $16 per person while local transportation was $4 or $5. Read more