We decided on this cruise because we have never been to South America. Rio and Buenos Aries were exotic cities that we were interested in seeing.

They are both wonderful cities with much to explore.

The difficulties started when we arrived at the embarkation port at 1/pm the published time. On most other lines boarding starts perhaps two hours earlier and the flow of passengers is smooth. Apparently boarding actually started at 1/pm and there were thousands of passengers sweating in the reception area which appeared to have air conditioning ducts, but there was none. We boarded at about 4/pm after enduring barely distinguishable announcements announcing the code that was placed on our E-Mailed boarding documents at the entrance to the waiting area. The announcements were in Spanish or Portuguese. Read more