bobtuba Cruise Review on Costa Fortuna on Apr 01, 2007

Item: Costa Fortuna
Rating: 3
Author: bobtuba

Costa Fortuna Cruise Review

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Reviews: 28

Helpful Votes: 277

Overall rating:

3 out of 5

Sail date: April 01, 2007

Ship: Costa Fortuna

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Ancient history now, this was my first cruise in 2007 departing Savona through the Med. Reading other comments, it's clear that Costa has changed some things in the last 10 years and probably not for the better. First the good: I enjoyed the food, yes, it was very Italian but that's quite all right with me. They still had a very impressive buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner, and at that point, 10 years ago, I would not remotely say the food was bad or inedible. Quite the contrary. The ports of call were interesting. The room stewards and waiters were attentive and helpful, more so than the customer service types. Now a few detractors: Hearing everything in 6 languages got old after a while.... ok, it got old quickly, even if I understood 4 of them. There were very few Americans on the ship and they took our passports, and we had to go through a horrendous procedure every time to get them back for ports of call. This alone was cause to never sail with them again, unless they changed it. I agree with other commenters who complained about traffic choke points and constantly being routed through the casino. Last but not least, they lost my daughter's suitcase in the 100 yards from the ship to the baggage claim area. Other commenters wrote about the "rude" fellow passengers, all I can say is welcome to Europe (except Britain) where queue jumping is an art form. Waiting your turn is a sign of weakness.

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cruisellama 5 years ago

Thanks

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elvis18 6 years ago

Thanks for the review sailing next year on Costa for the 1st time

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GIL155 7 years ago

Wow! Nice historical review. I think most of us would prefer cruising today vs in the past as you described. Thanks for sharing.

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