Bucket list trip

Vision of the Seas Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 4
Helpful Votes: 57

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
Vision of the Seas

13 Night Mediterranean Greek Isles (Barcelona Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 05, 2018

Ship: Vision of the Seas

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Ports were amazing - so happy to have had this experience. Truly a bucket list adventure. Vision of the Sea was smaller than mid size but for us was great. Would not hesitate to recommend. Spend extra time in Barcelona.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Main dining room - food was good, service excellent. Windjammer - food ok, other ships staff will serve coffee or drinks which kept the chaos down

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Used pool and fitness center - both were fine

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Stage shows were just ok - captain and crew performance in centrum was exceptional. We had long active days in port : therefore was not really concerned about the nighttime entertainment.

Children's Programs

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Main dining room - exceptional - pool bar as well.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
We prefer the mid to smaller size ships

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Aft balcony was a pleasant surprise

Ship tip

Captain was amazing - you could tell how much he was liked by crew. If you are expecting a lot of nighttime entertainment choose one of the larger ships. Ship was great for us as we chose this for the ports but wouldn’t hesitate to cruise on Vision again.

Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

5 out of 5
Stayed additional 3 days in Barcelona but only scratched the surface of this amazing City.

Cannes, France

3 out of 5
Was not impressed - went to Antibes and Nice.

Livorno (Florence & Pisa), Italy

5 out of 5
Excursion to Cinque Terre was great. When we originally booked the cruise port was La Spezia which would have been better than Livorno.

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

4 out of 5
Loved Rome but just way too much to see in just one day in port.

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

4 out of 5
Our excursion was cancelled due to a strike at all archeological sites whis was disappointing but no fault of RC - we took the ship transport to Plaka and spent a nice day roaming around and had lunch.

Mykonos, Greece

5 out of 5
No excursion needed- nice place to walk around, shop and have lunch.

Santorini, Greece

5 out of 5
Did the transport to Oia, wine tasting and then Fira. Fira was very crowded line was long for cable car down so we walked. Couldn’t imagine being here which more ships in port.

Valletta, Malta

4 out of 5
Port is beautiful when pulling in - went to Medina which we were rushed through.

Marseille (Provence), France

4 out of 5
Ship transfer to old port / shopping area. Nice to just walk around.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Very quick
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