Awful. Worst cruise ever.

Costa Firenze Cruise Review to Europe - Northern Europe

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 20

Overall rating:

2.3 out of 5
Costa Firenze

7 Night Northern Europe (Copenhagen Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 15, 2023

Ship: Costa Firenze

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 7395

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

Worst cruise ever. Awful food menus. Staff attitude was terrible. Would never recommend costa!!

Embarkation

2 out of 5
Embarkation wasn’t too bad.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Food terrible and I’m not picky at all, I think they do it on purpose so you are willing to pay for the specialty restaurants to get a decent meal.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5
Two pools on board. Couldn’t use rear one because it’s the smoking area, couldn’t use indoor one because there were 100 screaming kids every day. Went to one trivia event, frustrating to listen to everything inn6 different languages.

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Couple shows were great. Others not so much. Evening performers in atrium were great. Abbamania totally fun.

Children's Programs

No kids with us.

Service and Staff

1 out of 5
Awful awful awful. Snotty condescending attitude. Only pleasant helpful staff was our room steward. He was great.

Ship Quality

1 out of 5
Poor layout. With so many people, doesn’t flow well. Very crowded by food areas, then the staff is trying to push through with large push carts. Gaudy paintings everywhere. Hope designer was fired. Common areas were clean so that was nice.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
Room was fine. Could rarely use balcony because of smokers near us. They shouldn’t be allowed to smoke on balconies, not only is it a fire hazard but it affects non smokers. Cleanliness was great.

Ship tip

Don’t go on costa!!’ Having sailed on many cruise lines, this was by far the worst. Staff attitude, food, activities-all extremely poor.

Ports of call

Copenhagen, Denmark

4 out of 5
Port was great. We stayed there several days before and after cruise. No excursion from ship.

Hellesylt, Norway

3 out of 5
We simply stopped there to get on a bus. Yes did an excursion that ended in geiranger.

Geiranger, Norway

4 out of 5
Cute town but can’t handle a ship dumping 5000 people in a day. Should be limited to much smaller ships only.

Bergen, Norway

4 out of 5
Did a private excursion which was great. Nice city.

Haugesund

3 out of 5
Nice town to walk around. Did not do excursion.

Kiel, Germany

1 out of 5
Very industrial city. Not pretty at all. Not much to do that was interesting. Would recommend dropping this port.

Disembarkation

3 out of 5
No issues. Only time i saw staff actually smile and try to be help.
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3 Comments

javawoody    1 year ago

At least you didn’t sink

cruising2004    1 year ago

Sorry you were so disappointed with your cruise.

Carnivalfoodie    1 year ago