Vantage Cruise Reviews

I chose the cruise for the Amazon river experience but they changed the whole itinerary. New ship is already rusted and old and tired looking. They cancelled an extension and said I will not be reimbursed for 1-2 years. Impossible to get through to customer service and you CANNOT speak to a manager. Crew was great yet there are rumors they are not getting paid and that the company is ...

We chose this cruise because of the published itinerary but unfortunately many of the planned activities were cancelled because the crew felt tendering in zodiacs to shore would be too dangerous. Two planned days at sea turned into three. The ship is new only going into service in Nov 2022. The layout is beautiful, both cabins and public rooms. The restaurant food and staff were the highlight ...

Visiting Antarctica on the Vantage Ocean Explorer was the trip of my dreams. I reserved a solo cabin, but about a month before departure was offered an upgrade to a Grand Veranda Stateroom on Deck 7 for a nominal price, so of course I said yes! The 2 days/nights in Buenos Aires were fun and interesting. Day 3, when we flew to Ushuaia was a grueling, long day though Vantage did everything possible ...

The brochure from the tour operator made this sound like a very nice cruise with some interesting ports of all. Unfortunately, several ports of call were very uninspiring and required extensive bus rides to the actual port of call such as Hue and Phnom Penh. A few other ports were not worth the time to visit with very little to see and do such as Koh Samui, Thailand and Kuantan, Malaysia. The ...

The original cruise was called "The Heart of Brazil and the Amazon." However about a month before we were to leave, we received an email from Vantage that the embarkation city was changed to Belem. No explanation or reason was given. This took away nearly all of the Amazon - the focus of the cruise - and we did not see any of the Heart of Brazil, only the coast. We tried to call and ask what ...

I booked this cruise prior to March 2022 getting a last minute deal of $5500USD including flights. It was postponed to November 2022. The cruise was supposed to finish in Manaus Brazil & visit Devil’s Island. A few weeks before I got a trip alert on my portfolio telling me of the changes. My main reason for booking this cruise was to visit the above. At the first night on the cruise at the ...

We've been traveling the world, with numerous companies, for 50 years. This is the worst trip we have EVER gone on. Other than the land portions in Boston & Montreal and some decent food and wait staff, the trip was a DISASTER! The Program Manager and Cruise Director were the worst we have ever encountered, even with "bargain" trips. They had never been to the most ports and knew almost nothing ...

The Ocean Explorer is a small ship that has the potential to offer a wonderful vacation, but Vantage Travel is hopeless. We sailed out of Nassau Bahamas for the Atlantic Seaboard trip - ending in Boston. Vantage required us to get a PCR test within 48 hours of boarding that cost us $350 (even though the Bahamas and every other cruise line would take the much cheaper antigen test results) and then ...

It was our dream to travel to Antarctica. Due to a vantage customer service error we were stranded in the filthy crowded San Paulo airport. We believe this resulted in our case of Covid-19’s 4 days later. We missed 7 days of the cruise quarantined. The emergency phone number to vantage is a joke. The Antarctic is beautiful. The food on the ship was hit or miss mostly miss. For a $50000 luxury ...

This was a cruise to South Georgia Island, the Antarctic Peninsula and the Falkland Islands returning via Ushuaia and Buenos Aires. The ship was brand new and this was Vantage's first try at Antarctica on their own vessel. The overall experience based on the locations visited (minus the Falklands as they denied us landing due to COVID) was really good. The crew of the vessel was very nice and ...