Star Legend Cruise Reviews - Reviews

While not perfect it was a fabulous cruise. Would have preferred to actually dock in Dublin rather than Dun Laoghaire.

A nice pleasant way to get a feeling for Iceland. While I think one might see more and at a personal pace by driving the Ring Road, the cruise gave a nice overview with many spectacular sites. Do not do this cruise on its own, do a pre or post cruise tour of golden circle and other sites reachable from Reykjavik, if you do not you are selling yourself short on the experience. Windstar as always delivers a great product. Star Legend is small enough to be berthed at all these ports. In several of the ports we crossed paths with some large ships, some at 3k passengers. These ships have populations larger than the towns they are visiting, and must use tenders, with some of the rides being quit long. Another point though we usually do not take ship excursions, we could not find any adequate private tours despite extensive investigation. The towns are small and do not offer much (unless you want to sit around and drink beer all day) take excursions, only way to see some of the country.

If you are considering touring this part of the world, I would suggest taking a cruise ship through the Norwegian fjords. But Iceland is really much better seen with an inland tour. The towns the ship docks at are very small and you have to take long bus rides to see the sights. Save the long busrides and the expense and do Iceland by land instead of sea.

I was celebrating my birthday and of course, the wait staff knew and surprised me with Happy Birthday and a cake at dinner. To top it off, when we went back to our cabin there were balloons and decorations and rose petals and Happy Birthday signs. Could not have asked for more!

windstar is best --- as is our travel consultant -- brian mitchell

Great trip. The ship is awesome. Staff is incredible. They called me by my name by Day 2 or 3. Room very very nice BUT the balcony is kind of a joke. Too small PLUS THE WIFI ON BOARD IS HIT OR MISS IT IS REALLY REALY BAD

This is our 2nd Windstar Cruise and it was beyond amazing. The captain on the Star Legend was visible and beyond amazing.. I would sail his ship again due to him. The food was perfect, staff excellent... Islands and excursions rated a 10+. Windstar treats you well with impeccable service and you get to know every one with a small ship of 200+ guests. Planning for many more Windstar cruises... Thanks

Windstar is the Best !!!! the friendliness and the attention to detail is perfect -- You fell like you are part of a large family -- and staff become friends -- wonderful time we are booked already for next windstar adventure

Great potential that was lost on cheap destination that disrespected our time and money.

I will definitely sail with Windstar again - all in all a wonderful experience

Would pick again for some routes but not all. Marina deck a big plus but would not be deployed in, say, Iceland.

I would book with Windstar again in a minute. Loved the Star Legend ship as the size of the rooms were so relaxing and tons of space to hold everything we brought with with and accommodate the new stuff we bought. Wonderful cabin attendant Desi who immediately was able to soften the bed for me a bit. I found the bed to be quite hard and also found softer pillows for us. Our waiter each night was Deva who we had met when we were on a prior Windstar cruise and remembered us. Met a new waitress Trisna who had a smile for everyone on board and learned my name the first day and what I liked to drink. Kristi who now works in the onboard tours, was our photographer on the Windsurf and immediately remembered us from our previous trip. Met the new photographer Rhea who was also extremely friendly and went on a tour at every port and got some amazing pictures. I love that they have reasonable package deals and you don't feel pressed into buying their pictures. Our captain was great and made sure to point out things as we were traveling. We had a pod of blue whales who swam with us for a bit outside of Iceland. We did a 360 spin in the Geiranger Fjord so we could all see the waterfalls. We had a piper playing his bagpipes as we left the dock in Kirkwall Scotland and then the captain got up closer to the Orkney Cliffs just outside of Kirkwall. We lucked out with amazing weather, sunny blue skies. Definitely a trip to remember!

Best cruise I've been on. Small ships all the way. Wonderful staff, very accommodating. Food was exemplary every meal. Ship was a little older and had issues, odd water damage on top floor, for example. Would liked to have seen more entertainment and a stop added so we could enjoy the water deck and toys, like in the Azores. Can't wait to sail on this ship and line again.

We had a blast on the Star Legend! The ship is showing a little wear & tear but overall immaculately kept. I do think they need to work on the tenders, as the boats are pretty run down. The best part was the crew. Very attentive, engaging and so friendly. Lots of fun with them! They genuinely seemed to love their jobs. The food was smaller in portion but delicious. I wouldn't say 5 star but if was flavorful, hot & beautifully plated. (and no worries if the portions are small, as you can order more than one thing, i.e.; 2 entrees) This was our first small ship and I definitely prefer it over the larger ships. Jost Van Dyke and St. Maarten were our favorite islands.

Star Legend is an awesome cruise line with spacious rooms.  It is very well maintained.  The staff work so incredibly hard to make your experience the best.  Never want to be on a big cruise liner again after being on this boat.  Will definitely take more trips on this one in the future. The staff addressed us by our first names by the 2nd and 3rd day.  Everyone was extremely friendly.  I really liked the crowd of passengers that were drawn towards this particular cruise.  Extremely enjoyable experience.  No lines- no waiting.   Fantastic, relaxing trip! 

Great Windstar Cruise.  This was the fifth one we have been on and once again they did not disappoint.

Our cruise was scheduled to leave San Juan on December 9.  In the evening of December 8 we got a phone call indicating that the cruise line had not filed the proper paperwork to dock in San Juan so they were going to charter flights for everyone to meet the cruise ship in St. Maarten.  We were supposed to board in San Juan at 1pm and ended up boarding at 10pm on a different island.  The communication with the charter company was botched and that flight left late - after wasting a day waiting to fly.  Windstar didn't have a rep to meet the bus at the closed port in St. Marteen so we ended up sitting on bus waiting.  Embarkation was delayed while waiting for equipment to be shipped down to St. Marteen - ship finally left port at 3am.  They changed itinerary so that Sunday excursions were now Saturday, but did little to inform people (didn't change the tickets, make announcements, call people, etc)  Went to Antigua on Sunday instead of Saturday and the island was basically closed.  One day my wife and I were using the watersports deck and were almost run over by Zodiac operated by a ship employee that drove over our water mat - we had to jump in water to escape being crushed.  Room service was a joke - after 3 wrong meals we gave up on it. They had exactly two gaming tables in Casino and only one dealer on board - so he only opened one table at a time and closed frequently for breaks since there was no one to back him up.  Even the directory in the room had incorrect phone numbers so we had to call the operator every time we wanted to speak to someone.  When we docked in San Juan to disembark, they didn't have enough buses to take us to airport (we all had prepaid passes so they knew exactly how many people were going) so we stood outside an hour.  Then bus that did show up couldn't accommodate all the baggage so they filled bus aisles - good thing we didn't get in accident because aisle and door were completely blocked.  From start to finish there was a lack of attention to detail.

As I previously reported directly to Windstar, the almost total lack of modern, 21st century internet WIFI aboard was very disappointing. I needed to be in constant contact with my business and family (mother is very ill) and I was only able to reliably do so by spending an inordinate amount of time ashore searching out public WIFI. Had to cancel 2 shore excursions because of this issue.

The exorbitant fees charged for a 1980's connection were not appreciated.

What an amazing cruise! From the beautiful ship, wonderful crew, and delicious food, to the fabulous itinerary and informative shore excursions. Windstar exceeded our expectations! We throughly enjoyed our cruise, and we look forward to cruising with Windstar again in the future. 

The Star Legend is getting on in age, but Windstar has renovated the ship to the degree where it's very nice. Service on the ship was excellent and not really lacking in any way. We experienced a James Beard co-sponsored cruise, where every day and every night was a culinary and wine experience.Wine Lovers take note! Portugal isn't everything it's cracked up to be. It's FAR MORE!