Good Mediterranean cruise

Seven Seas Mariner Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

frankjmuller

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 38

Overall rating:

3.4 out of 5

Verified Review

10 Night The Paths Of Great Conquerors (Athens To Rome)

Sail date: July 03, 2023

Ship: Seven Seas Mariner

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 778

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

If you use Regents air package be prepared for long travel days. You do not know the itinerary until just before departure and then everything is full and basically unchangeable and they charge you to change it. Regent does NOT have previews of the upcoming excursions which we missed greatly to inform us specifically and in general about the areas we were about to visit. Viking is our go to and comparison cruise line and we feel still the better choice for us.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

2 out of 5

Suite had a tub, not walk in shower and was much too high to enter safely although the purser was able to switch us out to a stall shower suite that did not have 6 foot on clearance, floor to shower head.

Ship tip

consider a younger ship.

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Ports of call

Piraeus (Athens), Greece Did not visit port

embarkation only

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Istanbul, Turkey

4 out of 5

interesting but a very strenuous walk ( 14,000 steps on various terrains).

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Izmir, Turkey

4 out of 5

Santorini, Greece

3 out of 5

beautiful but overcrowded on a lightish cruise ship day. Return to ship was horrible.....1 1/2 hour wait/standing for the cable car

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Chania, Crete

4 out of 5

would have done more had we been better informed by Regent

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Catania, Sicily

4 out of 5

Taormina was great

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Amalfi/Positano, Italy

3 out of 5

Positano tour was cancelled and Citera was substituted.

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Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy Did not visit port

disembarkation only

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Disembarkation

3 out of 5

Regent did not often have sufficient greeters and ground directors on shore

5 Comments

Robbodog 1 year ago

Installed Hamworthy water treatment plant on this ship with other engineers in 2004 including my brother who unfortunately has since passed away , it was classified as the top luxury cruise ship in the world that year.

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Gwbigdog 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

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cruising2004 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing your cruising experience.

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javawoody 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

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Carnivalfoodie 1 year ago

Thanks for the review

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