This was chosen because it WENT TO CUBA!!!!

fathom Travel is NEW - really really new. The concepts that are the backbone of fathom are NEW - and the leadership at fathom is re-inventing cruising as we know it - this structure of this cruise has questioned the “rules” of cruising. In the words of Vishen Lakhiani, fathom is not operating under the established BRULES of cruising - they are not blindly following the idea that a cruise “MUST” do, be, provide, .... Because “that’s the way things are.” It is a refreshing change in an industry saturated with standard 7-day cruise to an island paradise.

WE (Wife, Lynn and I, Rob) were some of the first people to partake of the fathom Experience. We sailed on the THIRD cruise to the Dominican Republic, May 8-15, followed immediately by the SECOND cruise to Cuba, May 15-22. As one would expect, new and first mean wrinkles and issues. fathom is up-front and honest about this - another FIRST in the cruise industry. They let us ALL know they are a NEW line with a NEW concept, and are a Work in Progress. Despite this..... we overhead MANY petty complaints (I did not know there could be issues with the hairdryer, sheets, salt versus pepper shakers, or the Tea Pot in your room. All in all, on our trip we had only TWO real "complaints". 1) Lack of easy, free, water on the shore excursions. Yea, we were told we could purchase it - but who wants to carry a gallon of water around... 2) Better sorting of people onto the buses (there was NONE). One bus should have had young, ACTIVE, walkers. Another people WITH walkers. Better yet, one should have spent more time shopping, while another spent more time in museums. There were close to 20 buses, so it IS possible to do even a LITTLE sorting based on BOTH what one wants to see and IF one is highly active, or not. This factor is the SOLE reason for very good, not excellent! Read more