I actually am enjoying our cruise. The people on the ship are genuinely kind. The food is fantastic. The destinations are fabulous.
Personnel: They really care about their customers. I have food allergies and they made sure I was always safe. Vira made sure my preordered meal was available to me during the White Night Buffet. That’s service. Our stateroom attendant, Ketut, is always working ...
Thanksgiving Cruise
Ship: Silhouette
Class: Solstice Class
Dates: November 21, 2022 – December 1, 2022
Ports: Leaving out of Miami, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, Antigua, St. Kitts, St. Maarten
Captain: Michael Sympouras
Cruise Director: Mike Gibbons
Cabin: #9280, Deluxe Ocean View Stateroom Veranda
Sorry this has taken me so long to write, but after we ...
Fortunately the Oosterdam is one of the older HAL ships (from before the Pinnacle class). That means: bigger staterooms, more space around the pool, less noise in the pool area and more space (in hight) in the main dining room. We are no fans of the new Pinnacle class ships although those ships (Koningsdam, New Statendam, Rotterdam 7) also have a lot to offer.
It was therefore a great pleasure ...
This was our 7th cruise with MSC but the first on the Magnifica, which we choose because of the great itinerary to Casablanca, Santa Cruz, Madeira, Malaga, Marseilles and Genoa and the ability to spend 3 nights before the cruise in Barcelona a city we had not visited, but thoroughly enjoyed, a great start to the holiday.
Embarkation in Barcelona was swift, seemingly only 400+ passengers were ...
We have been trying to sail the Classic Dalmatia and the Croatia Coast itinerary since COVID and I'm so happy our dreams finally came true! We have been lucky to sail on Windstar on a previous 6 cruises so it was like coming home!
This time around we booked Cabin 146 (this was our 3rd attempt at this specific itinerary). We typically sail aft so I wasn't very excited about being so far forward ...
AZAMARA QUEST Sept 2022
Club continent suite. There were approx 520 guests on board (max capacity 690)
Greece dropped the need to have a negative covid test the day we boarded!.
The first thing our butler said was "there were only a few Covid cases in the previous week". Then mid way the captain announced 4 cases in isolation, but the rumour was that there were up to 13 positive . ...
This was our 8th cruise with Oceania and our first after the pandemic. Some have mentioned that the ship decor is dated, which I agree with, however, I heard they are renovating the ship in a few months. The restaurants were great as usual - my favorite was Jacques. The spa was wonderful and the cooking class was a lot of fun.
While there are still many things to love about Oceania - the ...
Traveled with my mother, and had a relaxing and interesting time visiting the islands.
The Norwegian Jade is in good shape and the crew always wore a smile on their faces.
I did have to visit Guest Services more than once because the internet we paid for wasn't working properly and honestly never did, my eSIM with Airalo was a true salvation.
Our balcony cabin (#10628) had a good size ...
24/9 to 8/10/22. Barcelona to Athens 14 nights. This was the first time we had taken the cruise line flight & transfer package, it will also be our last. Flight landed at 14.20 hrs, still sitting on the bus waiting to leave the airport at 16.20 hrs. Told the bus driver (who not speak english) to remove our luggage from the coach and that we were going by taxi, he made a phone call and we left ...
Being first time cruisers (this being a "trial run" before doing a TA with Cunard), we had read up on reviews and info re MSC and the Poesia somewhat beforehand.
The Western Mediterranean intinerary suited us well, as we had never before been to Portugal.
Having 11 days in port out of a total 14 was a very exciting prospect, too. On paper, at least.
More about this later.
The ...