On 8/8/2013 5:22 AM, wrote:
This was my first Costa and I have not had such a great experience with
a cruise as this one in a while. Food was very plentiful.The waiters were
wonderful! Buffets offered a nice variety each day along with the
consistent ones with pizza and ice cream. The entertainment was wonderful
with also a nice variety each night

You have to understand that reviews of a LINE are a lot different from
reviews of individual cruises. I am very glad you enjoyed your cruise.
But, IN GENERAL, there are less of the experienced cruisers that enjoy
Costa.

For instance, I took my first Carnival cruise quite a while back for the
inaugural sailing of the Legend out of Europe. It was great! Good
food, very good service, the ship was very clean (should be ... it was
just built!) and the itinerary was spectacular (Baltics). We had such a
great time, we talked our family into Carnival for our semi annual
family cruise get together. It was terrible! Poor to mediocre (but
abundant) food, so-so service, not bad but still mediocre entertainment
and we seemed to always run into dirty dishes in elevators and hallways.
Since it was a discount sailing in the Caribbean, we chalked it up to
"Discount Passengers" and chose another Carnival for our next family
sailing. Again, it was terrible.

Our first NCL cruise was spectacularly good on all counts. Our second
one was VERY disappointing but our third, forth and fifth were all good
to very good.

So far, EVERY cruise we have taken with RCL, Princess and Holland
America have been good to outstanding. so for MY PERSONAL CHOICE, I
stick with these guys and have put NCL on a maybe list with Carnival and
Costa (based on family experience ... not my own) on the rather not list.

HOWEVER ... a week on a lower grade discount cruise line, at a cheap
enough price is still better than a week in the trenches at work! ;-)




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