Cruise ship was excellent the shore excursions where not up to expectations

Vision of the Seas Cruise Review to Europe - Western Mediterranean

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 24

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5
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Vision of the Seas

8 Night Western Mediterranean (Barcelona Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 02, 2022

Ship: Vision of the Seas

Cabin number: 4506

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

The ship was excellent, and all of the food was outstanding. We had lost a bag from our departure. Service on the ship tried to locate but could not find it. they gave us a letter of explanation but that did not help my wife as the bag lost had all of her makeup and hair products in it. I was a long week of torture for me . Seas were great except for last day of Saling had 8-foot waves and rough ride back to Barcelona. Would not recommend long excursions only tour of port then go out on your own. We enjoyed the cruise.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
it was good took a little time but overall good

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Main dining room food and service were excellent. Breakfast buffet was great also. Went to two special dinning Giovonie's was outstanding and Chop house was great

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Listened to music on deck 5 almost every night , theater events were very good

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Shows were very good

Children's Programs

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Imade and Mark our main table servers were outstanding . They called us by name not only in dinning area but when they saw us elsewhere on the ship

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Ship layout was great

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
room was perfect, bed was great and cabin attendant was outstanding Omega

Ship tip

Only take shore excursions that give you lay of port maybe 2 hours then go out and explore yourself

Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

5 out of 5

Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France

5 out of 5
This tour was the best of all the ones we took

Toulon, France

3 out of 5
Tour guide was terrible , older people had to use bathroom and she did not know where they were and ingnored them I went into a shop and said I will spend $25 can you let these people use you facilites and he said yes , while tour guide kept on walking and left us there. She also knew people were behind did not go to check on them . Asked for way back to bus and she said keep walking that direction and you will find it and then left us. Walk back was over 2 1/2 miles

Portofino, Italy

4 out of 5
We never go to go to city we walked past got on ship for 30 minutes to get a bus for one hour to get a train for 30 minutes took small bus over the mountains very bumpy and not comfortable and then a tour back to train , and another bus ride 1 hour then the boat back to dock and our ship. Boreing and too long . would not recommend

Palermo, Sicily

4 out of 5
This was an hour plus bus ride. to Sicily and then an hour tour that was supposed to have a wine tasting which was a thimble paper cup of wine , then a hour plus bus ride. We never got to see Palermo the city

Disembarkation

3 out of 5
Got off ship to terminal could not find baggage. Had key and they sent us to wrong baggage claim A new Samsonite bag had a large tear on it and lost a wheel
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