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Splendour of the Seas Cruise Review to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean

robertrmatthews

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Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 9

Overall rating:

2 out of 5

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Splendour of the Seas

7 Night Greek Isles (Venice Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 30, 2015

Ship: Splendour of the Seas

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 3560

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

The on-board activities were mainly inane--towel-folding lessons, fox-trot lessons (the fox-trot became passe 60 years ago). Too much bus-riding on the off-ship excursions. Why Argostoli? Nothing but a third-rate cave and a so-so monastery. Surely some other island would have been more interesting. The solo guitarist for the last night dance party was really disappointing.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Same as above.

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5

Most felt like activities at a resort hotel in the Pocanos in the 1950's.

Entertainment

3 out of 5

The evening shows seemed somehow repetitive. The piano-bar singer was terrific. Some, but not all, of the evening dance-parties were a lot of fun.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Friendly, competent, very helpful, patient

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Neither better nor worse than other cruises I've been on.

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Very like other cruise ships. An in-room coffee maker would have been appreciated.

Ship tip

Bring a good book.

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Ports of call

Venice, Italy

5 out of 5

A visit to the historica. museum next door to the Doge's palace.

Kotor, Montenegro

3 out of 5

Beautiful scenery, but nothing particularly memorable.

Corfu, Greece

3 out of 5

I don't remember anything bout it.

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

5 out of 5

Nothing anywhere beats the acropolic!

Mykonos, Greece

5 out of 5

Delos was ancient Greece as I had dreamed it. A highlight of the cruise!

Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece

1 out of 5

The nadir of the cruise. Why, for heaven's sake, did we go there?

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GingyB 6 years ago

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