Europe Cruise Reviews

Firstly this is my fifth cruise since September 21 and I have been happy with Celebrity, Princess and Cunard Covid precautions. My issue with P&O started before boarding the ship. My LFT was a test with a swab low down and maybe three seconds in each nostril but it produced a negative result. I have taken several self administered LFTs recently so knew I had no covid. After entering the terminal ...

Chaos at the terminal. It was the blind leading the blind. People jumping the queue, loads of staff asking the same questions, wanting to see the same paperwork. Food was poor,. Service was poor, although a waiter can’t serve what does not come up from the kitchen.. Christmas Day meal was chaos food was poor, choice was poor. Dining room full to the rafters. Staff gave impression they were out ...

I have to say that I am not a fan of short cruises during school holidays and my recent cruise on the MSC Fantasia confirmed this. Firstly I commend MSC for the cleanliness and the overall level of maintenance of this older ship. The crew – as on all cruises I have taken were welcoming, full of smiles and ready to go out of their way to satisfy cruisers. Being a round-robin Mediterranean trip ...

We booked this cruise pre pandemic and waited 2 years for it. We did not believe it would go ahead until the day before departure as everything was so uncertain. I am so glad we did not move it again as we had a wonderful time. One port was altered due to Germany shutting down but we were very happy with the replacement port of Stavanger, Norway. The other port visited was Zeebrugge where we took ...

I am a very seasoned cruiser with 94 cruises behind me. We booked this cruise five days before sailing as we were supposed to be on the Crystal Debussy that was cancelled because of the Netherlands closing down. So not wanting to stay home for another holiday season we went on the Grandiosa. We boarded in Marseille which is not a very accommodating port for moving your luggage. There are no ...

We wanted to get some winter sun without flying....this fitted the bill. The ship was broadly excellent, food was excellent, ship is very manageable, production shows were excellent with some very good guest acts. As would be expected the Crew were very professional, but to the point of blandness. Very few of them showed any warmth or made anything personal. While the ship (and Cunard) ...

We had an Oceania cruise cancel so we replaced it with this one. We signed up for the pre and post extensions. Our Cruise Director, Vanessa, was really great, perhaps the best we have had. There were lots of last minute cancellations due to the lockdown in Austria and all the COVID political things going on in this part of Europe, but almost all the lockdowns lifted, many markets opened, and we ...

Sailing Viking’s Rhine Getaway on the Viking Kara is like traveling through a dream montage full of gothic cathedrals, castles and sweeping countryside vistas. This was a “last minute” travel decision to make up for lost travel time in 2020. I really didn’t think much of it, but I am soooooo happy I made this choice! The Ship One of Viking’s longships, the Kara’s understated elegance and ...

I will start off by Hurtigruten make it very clear in their advertising the coastal voyage is not a cruise, so if you go with that expectation you have not done your homework properly and might be disappointed. If you want to have an authentic adventure, voyage to the Artic and back, learn and experience Norwegian culture and coastal life, see the most wonderful scenery, relax and escape the ...

This ship is far too large. Some people were still confused about the layout two weeks into the cruise. Inadequate directions. The cabin was tiny and cramped. The air conditioning blew straight onto the beds. The television is in a corner, only viewable from one bed. Only one chair. The washbasin water supply was a faint trickle spray, ages to get hot water and to partly fill washbasin. No ...