Vision of the Seas Review

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Great Overnight stops!

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TravelDreamer75
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Oct 2010
Cabin: Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony

Venice- spent 1 week here before departing. Loved every minute of it. Did 2 day trips- Ravenna and Padua, as well as a day in Murano. It really helps to speak the language, avoid tourist traps for restaurants, and spend the night in the heat of things (I like the St Marks area for convenience).

Embarkation: Not impressive. In all of the details of our trip, there was a start time to embarkation, there was a location (Piazzale Roma) where a bus would be, but that was it. We took a Vaporetto to the Piazzale where we found many confused and upset cruisers (not just RC though). There were no cruise line representative, not even a sign, and large mass of unorganized people. When a bus would come our way, everyone would attack it. Some people were waiting 4 hours! When we got to the port, the wait to get to a representative was not long. But, she could not estimate the time at all, for how long it would be until we could get on. We asked around and it seemed it was over 30 minutes, and daylight was wasting! We decided to abandon the ship and go back out for the day. We went out and found a RC bus, but all he could tell us was that he was not going to Piazzale Roma, he dropped us off at the entrace to the port- no one could tell us how long of a walk to get to P. Roma, and we ended up jumping on a Costa bus back. We had asked RC about how long the buses back to the boat went- and we were told midnight.

We walked around the area of P. Roma- all the way to Scoula San Rocca and loved this area of Venice- especially the Piazza San Barnaba.

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Superior Ocean View Stateroom with Balcony

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