South America Marina South America Cruise Reviews

4.5 / 5.0
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My sister celebrated her 71st Birthday on the ship - the cabin team helped make her day extremely memorable! We were all "over the moon" surprised! Never been on a Cruise line that went to this extent before!!! Well done Oceania!
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Just one of the many fabulous food dishes  on the ship!
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Ceremony for "authorization to CROSS the EQUATOR" - the entertainment team were fantastic!
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Tea in the horizon Lounge!
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Awful ship well past it's prime but good pre and post tours

Review for a Antarctica Cruise on Marina

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Intermediate_cruiser
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

We chose this cruise because it was going to Antarctica at the time that suited us. We have sailed Regent before and had good reviews of Oceania. How wrong we were. This cruise was awful from boarding queues to the end. Oceania at minimum misrepresented this cruise and at worst, outright lied about the ship's amenities. Let's start... Boarding Disorganization was so awful in Lima that ...
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Sail Date: December 2023

Cabin Type: Concierge Level


It was chaos to start!

Review for a Panama Canal & Central America Cruise on Marina

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Scolei96
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

Going on a Panama Canal cruise from Miami to Lima Peru was on our bucket list. The itinerary was terrific. The boat is old and needs renovation to to bottom. Unfortunately, we are on this tub again in June from Lisbon to Oslo for 23 days. The scheduled renovations will only touch the Penthouses and common areas, not the balcony staterooms. We were lied to about this from several sources onboard. ...
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Sail Date: December 2023

Cabin Type: Verandah Stateroom


Missed opportunities and misinformation

Review for a South America Cruise on Marina

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TexSurg
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

Looking for a three-fer: Machu Picchu, Panama Canal, and Chichen Itza, BUT 1. Turmoil in Peru - no Pre cruise visits 2. Canal - cool; bucket list, but poor excursions 3. Railroad repairs blocking roads, no Big Mayan event. 1 of 3 done. Cabin and floor crew - outstanding - 10 floor Dining - good specialties, fair grand dining room; Terrace - just no. Food availability limited - ...
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Sail Date: March 2023

Cabin Type: Penthouse Suite


Good Food, Poor Communication on Boarding & in Disembarking. Cabin showing its age

Review for a South America Cruise on Marina

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bonamie
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

Wanted to do South America in comfort.. this was our 3rd cruise with Oceana Most of the staff were wonderful, some of the staff when just mechanical in responses some were totally arrogant, dismissive and could not care less - not just us but others also. Internet access and speed (lack of - worse than the old dial-up) - allowing just one log-in per cabin - when two people are in the cabin is ...
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Sail Date: February 2023

Cabin Type: Penthouse Suite


Communication not in their vocabulary. Suite was great. Food Average. Entertainment so so. Service spotty

Review for a South America Cruise on Marina

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jjinlotusland
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

We chose this cruise for the itinerary, food expectations, and service levels. Not sure they lived up to any of it. While they cannot do anything about the weather (cancelling the Falklands) and uprisings (cancelling Pisco), their complete inability to communicate was unacceptable. Pisco was cancelled before we even boarded, but they told no-one. We only learned about it by the itinerary ...
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Sail Date: February 2023

Cabin Type: Penthouse Suite


A big disappointment

Review for a South America Cruise on Marina

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bulpittw
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

We’ve had four successful cruises with Oceania, including the Amazon, so continuing around South America with them seemed obvious. A sad mistake. Our experience has been that it was very poorly planned by the itinerary team from the outset, we suffered three failed port visits for a mix of weather and ‘safety concerns’ (one, the Falklands, not unusual, but three!). The low point was a port ...
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Sail Date: February 2023

Cabin Type: Penthouse Suite


Extremely Disappointed

Review for a South America Cruise on Marina

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tourfrance
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We are experienced travelers on both ocean and river cruises as well as independent travel over the past 20 years. This was our fourth cruise with Oceania, we did two before COVID and one after; but this was the first on Marina. We selected this cruise because of the itinerary which included the fjords of southern Chile and Antarctica. Our previous cruises with Oceania were on the smaller ships ...
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Sail Date: February 2023

Cabin Type: Verandah Stateroom


Oceania marketing strategy is a "Hostage to Fortune"

Review for a South America Cruise on Marina

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EJO
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We were meant to go on this trip in 2022 but Covid got in the way. So we were really looking forward to this cruise. Given the brochures outlined that we were going to experience the finest cuisine on the seas we had very high expectations. Unfortunately we were extremely disappointed. We would advise anyone thinking of booking a cruise with Oceania don't do it on the basis of their promises ...
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Sail Date: January 2023

Cabin Type: Verandah Stateroom


First Oceania Cruise - Very Disappointed

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R Register
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We chose Oceania because of friends recommendations. We have been on over a dozen other cruise ships and this was by far the most disappointing experience. For a concierge level room compared to similar class on other ships, this was well below average. The concierge lounge was sparse and the appetizers snacks were the same every day. The worst experiences were found in the shore ...
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Sail Date: January 2023

Cabin Type: Concierge Level


A Two star ship from a Two Star cruise line - Oceania Marina

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PaulMCO
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

Marina is a 10+ year old ship that looks her age, Decor is dark, halls are dimly lit. You can see signs of rust, large dents on the ships side, and the ship was due for refit in 2022 and then postponed to 2023 and again until 2024. This obviously is due to NCLs tightening the budget. Several crew members complained about issues with kitchen, dishwashers etc that are showing their age. Ship ...
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Sail Date: December 2022

Cabin Type: Oceania Suite

Traveled with disabled person


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