Sadly not as wonderful as expected.
Crystal Symphony Cruise Review to Transpacific
11 Night Isles Of The South Pacific (Papeete To Auckland)
Sail date: December 09, 2016
Ship: Crystal Symphony
Cabin type: Oceanview
Cabin number: 5008
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
I was truly impressed at the caliber of activities they had available for the days at sea. There was a wide array of excellent speakers and truly top notch instructors for the wide variety of classes. That said, it was disappointing that we could not go to key ports that were the entire reason for the trip: Cook Islands and Fiji, but Mother nature was very uncooperative.
The cruise could still have been excellent if the cruise theme of "Food and Wine" had been better executed. 2 cooking demonstrations, 2 limited wine tastings and one evening with some dishes by the specialty chef did not a Wine and Food cruise make. To make it worse, the food was not as good as on previous Crystal cruises and at our final dinner i couldn't eat my duck (nor my husband his beef) due to the heavy hand with salt.
Evening entertainment was excellent; Crystal dance hosts were very good and they had excellent musicians on board for the lounges and some specialty entertainers for select evening. Plus the "I Imagine" show was excellent. Service as always was spectacular.
Ship experiences
Food and Dining
Onboard Activities
Entertainment
Service and Staff
Ship Quality
Cabin / Stateroom
Ship tip
Staff is first class, accommodating and will go out of the way to help you, get you whatever you need or want. Musical entertainment and on-board activities were excellent. I wish the food had been as good as on other Crystal cruises.
Ports of call
Waitangi, Bay Of Islands, New Zealand