Quite an experience

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Reviews: 4

Helpful Votes: 78

Review summary

We have booked this cruise as a last minute and the value for money was great. We already have seen all the ports, except Mykonos which we have not visited since it was too windy for the tender and we just thought we will relax more. I didn't expected to be this crowded honestly. I did had a problem with the people in and around the small pool where mostly the Americans were entering sometimes fully dressed, I've seen them with beach shoes in the jacuzzi, drinking in the pool and jacuzzi, a lot of hair since none of the ladies were tiding their hair. They were eating and drinking on the sunbeds leaving the trash there, being windy a lot of leftovers were flying on the deck. They were leaving the pool towels all over the place. We've seen some of the left behind on some ports. The food this time wasn't that great, a lot of fast food and I'm not a fan of that. When we booked we didn't thought the hours spent ashore were inconvenient, but with the heatwave and the crowd, there are just a couple of hours to enjoy the places. The worst was in Santorini where we stopped in the old port from 2pm-10:30pm, it was incredibly hot, there were 2 more ships there, so some of the people waited around 2-3 hours to go up with the cable car, some people like us walked 600 stairs and other used the donkeys and horses (which it was just cruel, the poor animals were exhausted from the heat). Climbing the 600 stairs that smelled like manure at 40 degrees is something that you will not forget. Thank God nobody needed special intervention because it was really brutal.

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Ports of call

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

Istanbul, Turkey

Santorini, Greece

Katakolon (Olympia), Greece

Catania, Sicily

Naples, Italy

Livorno (Florence & Pisa), Italy

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

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