Europe - Northern Europe Cruise Reviews

Nice cruise experience around Nordics with St. Petersburg and Tallin as highlights - a must go! The ship is clean and comfortable with excellent staff. The ares to improve on - the internet access, communication tool among a group on the ship and information source on the ship. Overall wonderful experience for a relaxing holiday with kids.

Good cruise overall. If you book a non-cruise-ship tour of St. Petersburg, as we did, make sure you get off the ship at least one hour before your tour is scheduled to start in order to get through Russian immigration. The cruise lines mislead passengers who do not book their tours through them, so that they can get the ship tour groups at the head of the immigration line. I asked the ship personnel when I should get off the ship in order to make an 8:30 am tour and was told to get off at 8:00 am. At that point I was at the back of a one-hour queue, and barely made the tour. The ship cannot refuse disembarkation once the ship has been cleared. (No announcement was made when the ship was cleared.)

Wonderful ports of call. Ship was beautiful and very clean. The buffet was a nightmare at peak times, but most of the food was tasty. Main dining room was good except that you had to pay for water and coffee with your meal. Shipboard entertainment was just okay. All in all, a decent cruise, but I wish I had know literally everything was a la carte before I booked.

Its a wonderful selection of cities and I highly recommend. Pace is fast to take it all in. This is not a truly relax and getaway (pun) schedule. That said the same cruise on a smaller ship would be nicer. Remember that 2-3 ships dock at each port disgorging around 8000-10000 passengers at same moment into these small towns. It really takes away from the charm. Knew this ahead of time but the reality is something to see.

Would like to go again All port of call were excellent Food was very tasty and buffet had an excellent variety Organization for all ports was great

The Baltic cruise is excellent and well worth it. The highlight of the cruise includes St. Petersburg Russia, Berlin Germany, as well as Stockholm Sweden.

Don't ever use the cruise line.. carnival is even better than this mess. We were at least 2 hours late to each port and they did not extend our excursions at all and we can screwed on each excursion and only gave us 10% off when we lost sometimes 40-50% of the excursion time... just awful! .

Not worth your money. From day 1 to day 7, this is a chaotic, unfriendly, and boring cruise I have ever been on. I am told there were only 66 Americans on this cruise. They treat the European citizens different from treating the English and non- EU counties such as the Americans. They kept our passports and we all had to stand in separate lines. People on this cruise cut in line at buffet, at drink stations, at waiting lines to get on or off the ship. Imagine you are standing at the buffet line next to your party, and all of the sudden, a human arm poked in from behind you, and under your armpit with their own fork/spoon sometimes, to pick up the food you are about to pick up for yourself and not even say "excuse me". Isn't that frightening?? And if you don't keep up the pace with the rest of the line, someone will cut in and separate you from your party on a daily basis. Now that I am home and have some time to reflect on this cruise, I regret having made the choice to be on MSC. I hope you will do your homework carefully before taking any cruise on MSC.

We would heartily recommend this cruise to anyone who enjoys the cruise experience. It is not geared to families with children - thank you. The staff and crew definitely have had excellent training in attending to the expectations of the passengers. The food was good and the cabins and public areas were always clean and well-cared for. I am not sure why the rating does not add up to a "5" as that would be our recommendation.

We cruised late in the season - it rained and rained. Sea was somewhat rough. However we enjoyed the ship and the excursions. We would recommend sailing in mid summer.

Great cruise. Great ship. Great staff. Great ports. Food was not as good as I had expected but was good. I definitely would go on Norwegian again. Also great value for cost. Overall happy.

Excellent cruise and ship the only down side is that in the night clubs for the most part they played 80s music or older and is not a great variety of other music genres

Well, the illness i've got on board disrupt my vacation, we had tours booker in london which we couldn't do and we lost our money, because i couldn't leave the hotel room, I was in bed for 2 days. When I returned to canada I went to emergency twice, i'm still sick after 20 days, i did not eat for 13 days and i have more tests to do. Ct scan on monday I should know more in a week. I had a full physical 2 days prior to my trip and everything was normal, so it is something i've pick up on the ship!!

Cruise was great! When we had an issue with a guide in St. Petersburg, we contacted our Cruises-Only agent, Glenn, who got us a new (and great) guide for the next day! Thank you, Glenn.

Very good cruise would rate it better than costa or msc. overall only the entertainment variety was lacking some. Those that performed were good, smaller entertainment venues were difficult to get into if not reserved early

Overall had a very enjoyable cruise. Excursions were well done and gave us a good exposure to each port/country. Ship and amenities were very satisfactory.

LEVEL OF SERVICES AND PERKS NEEDS IMPROVEMENTS FOR GUEST TAKING TOP LEVEL SUITES. ROYAL CARRIBEAN RECOGNIZES THIS. DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THAT TOP LEVEL SUITES SHOULD NOT BE SADDLED WITH THE SAME PETTY CHARGES THAT YOU CHARGED TO THE LOWER LEVEL CABINS. PAYING $25,000 PLUS FOR CABIN AND TOLD YOU MUST PAY FOR WATER IN RESTAURANTS AND MINIMAL INTERNET PACKAGE FOR ONE USER AND DEVICE IS A COMPLETE TURNOFF.

Enjoyed the trip very much so (good food, nice excursions, knowledgeable guides). Jennifer Martin was very helpful in booking this trip and in providing us with all of the necessary details.

Embarcation easy. and well organized. Day time activities seem slow and maybe more appealing for 70+ but lacked enthusiasm and vitality for my taste. Most of the programming was come listen oh...BUY BUY BUY...Staterooms SMALL , actually smallest Ive seen compared to other ships. Others who cruise this line often said: gelato pay bar, Dive in, and other revenue producing stands added to this ship take away from cabin space. Entertainment in evenings not always happening. Sail away night...no show!

This was a great cruise. Thoroughly enjoyed the Baltic states. The Silhouette was a beautiful ship that I would cruise on again. Learned a lot about the Baltics, Russia and the people who live there.