Costa Pacifica Cruise Reviews - Reviews

World wind tour of a lifetime. The ports and excursions were well worth the trip, though I would not sail this particular cruise line again. I recommend taking time after the excursion, which are usually only 4 hours or so and tour the cities on your own to get away from the commercial aspects.

Despite some of the poor reviews we had a wonderful time! We met 4 new cruisers and they loved it too. OK. A few niggles. They no longer give free water at dinner, and no hot drinks at lunchtime as they did before. If you like a tipple or two -buy a drinks package -excellent value compared to single drinks, as on any cruise. The ship was very clean, our cabin was kept spotless. The entertainment in the theatre was OK -the dancers were excellent -but plenty of other venues to visit too. The announcements in several languages could be a pain, but hey ho it’s only for a few minutes! The food was good, but wouldn’t have had dinner in the buffet - and the entertainment by the waiters on a couple of nights was wonderful. No problems finding a sun bed on most days, but obviously on the day at sea it was more challenging but we found one! We don’t do ships trips. In Marseille We paid for the shuttle bus, and drove by the port gate where a shuttle was free -but only for those who didn’t mind the long walk out of the port. The shuttle to Valencia was essential, and it was a lovely place to visit. Sadly the end of our holiday was a disappointment thanks to the French air transport strike and we were delayed by 4 hours spending 10 hours at the airport before we took off. However, some folk didn’t take off at all, and had an unexpected extension to their holiday. With Costa you get what you pay for - it’s the itinerary that counts and it’s what you make it! This was my 4th Costa Cruise and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

In all aspects caters to Germans  A totally racist cruise Only two TV channels in English. Even cruise director cater to her German people mostly only speaking in German. Entertainment is mostly only ball room dancing. Food is at a minimal.

Music every night that was great what was not so good was cancelled 4 excursion because we spoke English .  Food was failed. No coffee after breakfast no ice 

Among the shore excursions the ROMA and StPeter excursion was fabulous, thanks to the guides that were accompaniing us (ENG speaking), no matter that there were. 

The Sardegna Cagliary excursion of Olive and Wine was pretty weak. The visited sites (olive farm and winary ) were interesting, but the young lady guides were pretty uncompetent.

The Ship itself - COSTA PACIFICA- is pretty good, though little bit more shabby than the Fascionosa (we were cruising in 2016 with). The serving staff were kind and very pleasant.

The food on the ship was realy not so tasty. The Breakfas variety was good according to expectations, but the coffe served were blaaaah (hot and tasteless). We were avoiding the the lunch on deck 9- because of huge mass production and mass-tasty- we often had lunch on the shore. The dinner menu seemed well planned, but the cooking was worse than in Fascionosa last year.

We had Samsara Room reservation- and could not realy make advantage of the free spa entrance, as the hot tub and hot saunas has not so much advantage on hot summer days. 

The drink package "Brindiamo" covered fully our expectations. We are not coctail fans, but prefer more than 1 bottle wine/day , coffee and water. 

Взагалі нам сподобалось.

Гарно підібрані міста .  Ввічливий , доброзичливий персонал. Принаймні досить природньо посміхаються.

  Досить незвичне для нас явище - прихована ціна. Необхідних витрат - більш ніж 200%! То податки , то сбори,  то взагалі "сервісний збір"!

  Але найбільше обурила необхідність залишити каюту до 8:00 в останній день. 

  Хотілось би ще. Але!!!  лише з компанією, яка не буде примушувати залишити каюту до моменту висадки з лайнера.

Kiel Germany --- Gdynia, Poland you can spend a whole day at the Malbork Castle. Klaipeda, Lithuania  was a fantastic site to see and interesting history of the Curonian Split Island. Riga, Latvia also fantastic sites of the old city and St. Peter and John's churches. Tallinn, Estonia.  Great sit of old town. St. Petersburg, Russia was the best. Fineland , Helsinki  great sites. Sweden, Stockolm great sites. I will hope everyone can get a chance to see these sites.

Nice destination, ship okay. Very good service at Blue Moon Restaurant. Not enough information about privileges for suite category. We had to request all special services that we had included. We requested to remove automatic added gratuity charge and we were told it was mandatory.

I have to say the itinerary for this cruise was great.  We loved the cruise but the food was awful.  If you don't care much about good food this cruise is for you. 

The itinerary was  the reason I chose this one.  I would never go on Costa again.  Too many people, too much being herded like cattle, they don't seem to care about English speaking people (the daily news was often missing information, like explaining that there is a Gala celebration and what that means, and the announcements were not always repeated in English).  The staff was nice, but I think they have to follow bad procedures. For example, the disembarkation meeting was primarily a sales pitch for future cruises and to rate the staff highly, and then she didn't have time for questions. The computer systems do not interface with the My costa system.....not worth the money spent.

Itinerary fabulous, daily Italian pasta just too much!

Entertainment by duo terrible, especially when the recording of Beethoven's 9th final chorus went totally and very painfully off-key! Had no one of production team noticed??

Ship ran out of alcohol-free beer on the third day, poor planning...

Lady M. Louisa  in charge of english-speaking passengers was the very best!!! Helpful, planning ahead, resourceful, kind and caring - we thank Costa for her!

1.  Cruise is not designed for those who don't speak Italian.  We only met one other person from English-speaking country.

2.  Karaoke was terrific.

3.  I love history so the stop in Corsica to see Napoleon's birthplace and Malta were very interesting. 

4.  Stops in Savona and La Marseille were disappointing.

5.  Easy to get to ship from Rome.  Train costs 5 Euros.

We went on this cruise for our 5th anniversary. The boat was nice and had enough entertainment. The ports were nice areas with a lot of places to eat and shop. I would recommend to a friend.

Desilución casi total, deben mejorar las actividades, tener más organización con relación a las excursiones, los empleados deben estar más orientados y ser más amables. Lo único que puedo decir, sobresalio en este crucero, fueron los empleados en la cena ( los meseros ) fueron muy amables y complacientes. Pero para mi en general le doy un tres de 10. Tomé esta linea de crucero por la ruta que tenía, que incluia Turquía, Egipto ,Israel, y algo de Grecia, pero a último momento fué cambiada, y ya no tuve tiempo para cambiar el crucero y por eso lo tomé, pero aunque ya conocía la linea en otro crucero que había hecho con ellos y sabía que no era excelente, esta vez fué demasiado decepcionante. 

The Costa web page lacks of enough information. We did not know anything about our dinner and if water was included or not. We got that information the first day we got to the ship because we went to the front desk and ask. Our room was old and dirty, some lights did not work, dusty, I had to fix the shower head because it would not  stay up, there was not an iron in the room we had to rent it!!! At dinner time we had to share our table with two other people!! We took the cruise as our honeymoon!! And we had to share table???? Even on breakfast you could not sit alone! And on the buffet people would just share the table because there was not enough space! The food is not that good (except on dinner) the buffet is until 4pm and there is a "Merienda" time that is just one hour!!! So people is mean doing the lines because is not enough time to do the line and eat in one hour! And if you are hungry between lunch and dinner there was just a pizza and salad place that closes at 6pm. So between 6 and 9 (second dinner time) there is nothing you can eat. The shows in the theater were mediocre except a few that were hire by Costa. I do not recommend this cruise and this Company.

I selected this cruise because of the excellent Itinerary.  If you want to see the most Northern capitals in the least number of days, this is the cruise to be on!  The food was filling, but not special; even on formal nights steak, shrimp or lobster were not on the menu.  There were fewer ship-activity choices than expected, but with excursions every day, we were pretty tired.  My husband and I were very satisfied with this cruise, as it was the destination that was important to us.  The staff was excellent. 

Pros: We had a great time on this cruise with our teenager in a triple room (bunk bed). We loved the itinerary and would highly recommend Costa for the Baltic Sea! The staterooms were very nice. The ship was clean and well-maintained. Overall, the staff was very helpful. The food at New York, New York was very good and the service was excellent. We had no problems getting on or off the boat from excursions. Muster station exercise was organized. We had no problems with people smoking. Minor maintenance issues that cropped up were taken care of within an hour. We are moderate drinkers and were very happy that we did not buy the package. Bottled water was included with our dinner. We shared a carafe of wine at dinner and it was very reasonable. Buffet lines were not too long for breakfast. Singers were very good. Cons: site stated that we would be stopping in Denmark. Costa site stated it was an at-sea day. (which it was) Lido deck and restaurants were decorated like a Carnival cruise. (who knew?) Other than the singers, the entertainment was not exactly top notch. We stopped going. Disappointed that the pizza wasn't better. "Venus Beauty Spa" no-showed every activity on the Lido deck that we attempted to participate in. Boo! Teen zone activities were "eh"-but our teen isn't really a joiner anyway. My teen was disappointed that there wasn't a free soft-serve ice cream machine. (He did catch on to ordering double desserts.)  Overall: great cruise experience. Would cruise with Costa again!

The Costa Pacifica cruise itinerary is spectacular and the cruise personnel were very helpful and pleasant.  Breakfast and lunch menu items were the same each day which was a little disappointing as we are use to a wide variety of foods at each meal on other cruise liners.  Over all, the value of this cruise was very good and we were satisfied.

   Muy bonitas las cabinas, muy amplias y limpias.  El servicio muy bueno de parte de toda la tripulación.  Las excursiones muy bonitas pero algo caras, si las adquiere junto con el crucero ya no tiene que preocuparse durante el viaje.  Lo único que me parecio fuera de lugar es la venta de los refrescos gaseosos, que no van incluidos en las comidas, cada refresco cuesta 3.50 Euros; las bebidas que si van incluidas son: agua, té, café, leche, jugo.  La comida en general buena, pero muy estrictos en los horarios, retiraban todo el bufet y si alguien llegaba fuera de ese horario ya no encontraba nada.  Los shows del teatro muy buenos, los bailarines de las coreografías son excelentes, dominan todo tipo de bailes, pero la pareja de cantantes que se presento casi cada día, no sirven, no es que esten desafinados, sino que no transmiten ninguna emoción cuando cantan, como que les falta alma o algo.

   Fuera de esos detalles todo muy bonito y recomendable.

Staff was rude Food was average Shows were below average all inclusive drink package was nice