Europe - Western Mediterranean Cruise Reviews

I very much enjoyed this cruise. Lived the karaoke team... Lived Andrea Tammie at the windjammer as well as the Philippine gentlemen who really packed the house and was wonderful. Loved lindjy who organized the solo travelers group and did a wonderful job of getting us together and booking dinners. Had a great group of solid.. Lots of clicking going on so we all felt close soon.. shows were entertaining.. Jason the singer Peter the magician, Nicola the singer, the Violin player.. The cat... Everyone was great. Good was very good.. Very accommodating staff.

Very poor experience with staff and cruise excursion team.

A very good first trip to Europe. If you're considering going to Europe for the first time, I would highly recommend this cruise. Takes you to many lovely places and you get quite a bit of time to enjoy them. Ship itself is very good and had plenty of amenities for a family with young children.

MSC. Go for the itineraries. At least on Magnifica, the food has been aeful on both our trips and the service subpar. It's a 2 star hotel that moves you from port to port. If that's all you want from the cruise, you'll be happy. I thought Carnival was low class, but this was worse.

Overall, good cruise; few things could use improvement. TV in room very unfriendly to English speakers... only one English news channel, and movies were not free. Evening shows were nice.

After taking many cruises on 6 different cruise lines this was the worst one. They cancelled two of our tours (not enough booked them), they cancelled a port stop in Sicily (the only reason we booked on Costa was that they stopped there), you cannot download the Costa app on US phones and the food was terrible. We were celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary along with my in-laws celebrating their 6oth and my son celebrating his 15th. We were all very disappointed and wished we would have done something else. It will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.

I strongly recommend this cruise for the relaxed pace, great food and drinks, fantastic staff. They greet you by your name from the first day and cater to all your wishes.

Lots of 8- 10 hour tours nearly every day. Most were rated strenuous. It was off season, but the excursions were not adjusted to reflect that the shops were closed.

I would definitely recommend SeaDream! As the motto says it’s Yachting not cruising and it’s so very true! We had a party of 10 and had a fabulous time!! This was our fourth SeaDream Cruise! Richard Mize was our travel consultant, and he was wonderful. We will definitely book through him again!!

DON'T DO IT! This ship charges for EVERYTHING! Your beverage that is included? Water! They even tack on a "Hotel service fee" of almost $200 at the end of the cruise! Very minimal food is included.. and while you are eating dinner, they try to sell you the next nights "Special dinner!" Only $35 per person, per dinner! We will not be cruising Costa again! DON'T DO IT!

Stay Away, this company has a lot to catch up with its peers. No customer service, poor organization and communication. Visa process for some ports was a complete nightmare. Just go with the other guys.

High-end all-inclusive boutique cruise experience.

awesome itinerary, ship was just placed back in service, the crew were trying and doing their best.

Most definetly a cruise to remember for a lifetime

Never again. We are avid cruisers and have tried Royal now 3 times... This will be our last. First night I was served something I was allergic to, which caused a throat reaction and not being able to breathe correctly. Through a comedy of errors and poor service - I missed the first four days of the cruise due to sheer stupidity. The medical team gave me DayQuil... To which the first ingredient I am ALLERGIC. Main dining room staff apologized but blamed the kitchen. Medical team could not tell me anything and would not listen to what I needed (having had this allergy my whole life). I was offered a "future cruise credit valued for one day" and had to ask for my gratuities to be withheld as we did not dine in the dining room again due to service. Buffet was average. Rooms were outdated but we expected that. Ship was dirty and poorly kept up.

We had a wonderful vacation with Royal Carribean on The Wonder Of The Seas. The ship was massive, sailed smoothly and was full of activities to participate in. The high level of the service and the quality of the food and entertainment were excellent!

Overall a great time was had. So much histroy to take in. Could have spent another month and still not enough time.

If you only speak English you will not understand alot of things that's going on in the ship because most was only in Italian. We cruise every year for the last ten years and there was nothing on that ship that was free. They will nickel and dime you for everything, even water!!! I'm so use to having some free ice cream, pizza or hamburgers but there was nothing free. Maybe I'm a little spoiled. When you get off the ship it was really hard to communicate with people. Don't get me wrong the ship was nice and the ports were great, but I felt kind of alone on the ship because there was not alot of English speaking people. I'm sure alot of people speak English, but we were for sure the MINORITY even though I am a minority. You couldn't enjoy comedy shows, activities by the pool was in Italian, everything we couldn't understand. Our servers could speak in English and were great and most are either from the Philippines or India, but it was different to not talk to anyone that whole week pretty much and believe me we tried to talk to people like in the elevator and they did not understand us Americans. We shared this with other English speaking cruisers on the ship and they all felt the same frustration. I will next time make sure if I cruise in that area that it's primary language for the cruise and activities are in English. I won't cruise again on Costa. I will find a cruise like that speaks English so we can understand what's going on. We plan on going on a family cruise in two years to Greece and in that area. If you know of a cruise line that is more English friendly and won't make us pay for water or normal juice or nickel and dime us for everything please let me know. One more thing the food was not great either. It was okay but it didn't WOW me. I had some pizza and I thought "Little Caesars" pizza is better than this. Anyways that's my review. Please advise me if there are any cruises to Greece in 2024 that hopefully won't give this experience. I'm taking my whole family of 10 and I don't want them to experience what my wife and I just experienced. Please let me know.

No words to say…excellent in all aspects, the ports were great, staff onboard very friendly and helpful

Prepaid for many items. When we got on board they claimed we hadn't paid for any since they couldn't see it in their system. Everything was a fight but thank God I had printed receipts with me. Many card changes because they claimed we didn't look like our pictures. Cold food. Limited food selection.