Costa Serena Cruise Reviews for Family to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean from Venice

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Costa Serena- Outstanding Value

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Dancer Bob
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

This review covers three trips totaling 19 days, Adriatic/Aegean, November, but the experience was similar on all three trips. These were end-of-season trips, with a large number of new staff joining, before repositioning to South America. The ship holds about 3500 people, with only 5-10% being English-speakers. The English hostess said 25% is normal for high season. I've only included ...
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Sail Date: November 2010


Superb Family Cruise on the Costa Serena

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Jo and Rob
2-5 Cruises • Age 50s

We had a fantastic cruise and could not be happier. I admit that we went with pretty low expectations having read all the criticism on the forums based in the US and UK. I would like to set the record straight as we feel that Costa gets a lot of bad press which from our experience is completely unfounded. I have previously cruised with Princess and Royal Caribbean and Costa is certainly in the ...
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Sail Date: October 2010

Traveled with children


Amazing Voyage through history along magnificent coastlines

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Derrygirls
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

I am writing this review to give you our experience of the Costa Serena. If you like to travel with well mannered British passengers and speak English all the time then I suggest you read no further and travel on a British ship from the UK. However if you want a more European style fun ship and an amazing itinerary then this might be the ship for you! We have travelled with Costa before and ...
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Sail Date: July 2010


7 lovely days in the Western Mediterranean

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jurgen
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

This was my third cruise with Costa. I have also cruised three times with Kristina Cruises. Normally I travel alone, but this time the trip was present from me to my mother. We came to Venice one day earlier. Transportation from the airport Marco Polo to Venice's bus station is very easy, fast and cheap. We lived hotel near to railway station. Location is perfect. There is Vaporetto station beside ...
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Sail Date: May 2010


FIRST EVER CRUISE – BUT WILL IT BE THE LAST?

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ts636
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

BACKGROUND First up I have to declare that cruising has never really appealed to me. The thought of being stuck on a ship with several thousand strangers and being forced to don a tuxedo before being allowed to eat anything just wasn't my idea of fun. However having received glowing reports from numerous friends and relatives who have cruised recently, including the news that dress codes ...
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Sail Date: October 2009


Fantastic First Time Cruise for Families

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Happy Cruiser
First Time Cruiser • Age 20s

We were a family of 6 - granny aged 80, myself and my husband, plus 3 teenagers (17, 15, 13). We chose this cruise ship because it catered for us all and we were not disappointed. Having read some of the previous reviews I went expecting lots of negatives but these were totally unfounded. From arrival to departure everything was well organised and the comfort of the passengers was always of ...
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Sail Date: August 2009

Traveled with children


An American family heads for the high seas on the Serena

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Rojos
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

Ah where to begin...thanks to Cruise Critic I had a lot information going in to this cruise and yes there were many ups and downs about the trip, but overall I would say we had a really great time. We have never done a cruise so I'll start with the positives. We had two cabins one for me and my husband and one for our two teenage boys ages 14 and 17.  Jocelyn was our cabin steward, she was ...
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Sail Date: July 2009

Traveled with children


Costa cruises lovely but you need to be Italian

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jc123
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

I went on holiday with my daughter, I thoughtly enjoyed it. It was a new experience. Things that I wished I had known. 1. Do not miss the induction as they have an English speaking person telling you all about the activities and when they are in English. 2. Buy the drinks vouchers and the soft drink vouchers, I tend to drink alot of soft drinks and I wished that I had brought ...
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Sail Date: July 2009


Pleasantly surprised

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Joren
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

Disclosure: I'm not a Costa employee, but all of my work experience has been in customer service, including many years as someone that had to say thank you when given sick bags, or worse :-) As a result, I have a tendency to have high expectations with regards to customer service and am, not surprisingly, frequently disappointed. I had feared the worst when prior to our departure, I called ...
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Sail Date: November 2008


Costa Serena to Istanbul

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Kitchen Sink
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

In November 2008 my wife & I made our own way to Venice to join the Costa Serena for a cruise visiting Bari, Katakolon [for Olympia], Izmir [for Ephesus], Istanbul & Dubrovnik. At Marco Polo airport the Costa staff were high profile & extremely helpful even though we were not using their transport. They assisted relabeling our luggage for getting it to our cabin & told us where to catch the bus ...
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Sail Date: November 2008


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