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surely this cant be correct, yiou cant request a table for two/dining times unless you are in a premium balcony cabin. If this is the case I will be canceling my booking and i would imagine others would do the same:(
it's correct. it has been over a year now since blondie's and my original post. i wouldn't worry about it, though. speak to the dining room manager as soon as possible after you board with your request. i have always found them to be accomodating.
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Yes E-tickets and oter details can now be printed on line at least for the Europe cruises we do now with Costa. only change you now have to pay up-front for extras.
Don't forget as a Suite guest you get priority boarding.
I didn't in Miami... They had no idea what I was talking about when I asked. :confused:
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The Costa itinerary was a memorable one. Saw this today. So ... what was the Vietnam war all about?
indeed. i loved viet nam, but kept thinking "where's the mc donald's" :rolleyes:
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Shaving mirror ?
Hair dryer ?
:)
mirror, no. hairdryer, yes (might be in a drawer depending on what ship)
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thanks for taking the time to write such and extensive review and posting all the beautiful photos!
from a design standpoint, what a beautiful ship.
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I sure hope so, especially that we will be waiting almost 6 hrs. at the airport for them.:eek: I suspect that that is the time the shuttle bus takes people from ship to airport?:confused:
That's the biggest disadvantage with using costa (or and line's) transfers. They wait until they have a fullish bus before they leave.
Why did you fly into nice? it's so far away from savona. Geona would've been a much closer choice.
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as long as it is a costa shuttle, they will wait. same goes for costa excursions.
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Giglio News story with 29 photos:
thanks!
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I certainly will. By the way is it a different price if you book in advance than if you book when you get onboard. The reason I ask is that we will be going in October and of course prices might increase in the meantime.
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price might increase. who can say? book it now and lock in the price.
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I haven't been on RCI or celebrity, so I can't offer a comparison. I would suggest you read some reviews and go with an open mind. both of those cater more to American tastes, so expect a difference.
here is my 'live' thread from a recent cruise on mediterranea: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1741791
and a bunch of food photos from the same cruise: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1748219
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Hi, should I pack a shower cap just in case or it's for sure that the steward would have one?:)
Thank You
if you absolutely have to have one, take one. they take up no space or weight...
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i wouldn't expect costa to know this. i WOULD expect your TA to know it, though.
try asking this on the ports of call boards. there are some natives who post there regularly.
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So even for a non drinker and a casual drinker the All Inclusive package is worth it?
i thought it was well worth it, even though i don't drink alcohol. i DO drink a lot of coffee, though. water, softdrinks and OJ are included as well.
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Of course not, this would be really silly!
It is a special thing to make a latte macchiato, you at most can only do this with a machine (because of the layers).
I have been on many cruises and cruise lines before and there always were latte macchiato available, so this is really strange that an Italien cruise line doesn't know how to make it! :confused::eek:
But I am no latte macchiato junkie, so it is not so important for me.
I just wondered about that it is not listed on the bar lists.
no self-respecting italian would ask for such a drink. they ask for a coffee and are served an espresso. i think you're in for a bit of culture shock.
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Normally "Latte Macchiato" is not the same as "cafe latte".
Latte Macchiato: http://www.google.com/search?oe=UTF-8&q=latte%20macchiato&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=611&sei=SJrHUNj5JY_otQa_noG4Bw
Both of them are not listed on the bar list.
Maybe there are not all items on the list, which you can have at the bar...
So I then will ask there if it is available and included or not.
i doubt they will even know what it is. it aint starbucks. since a latte is coffee and steamed milk and macchiato means 'to mark with espresso', order both and make your own.
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We're on the Neo from this Thursday - can someone (quickly please :)) confirm if you can buy the all inclusive drinks package on board, or if you have to prebook before you go? Many thanks...
you can buy it onboard. there were fliers for it on the bar the 1st day. there is no discount for buying it the 2nd day, so best do it right as you board.
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I have got 2 other lists, what is included of Extra alll inclusive and in each is written that apparantly only "Espresso decaffinated" is included.
So I am really wondering about this!
Can someone confirm, that the caffinated espresso really is included?
And does someone know if the Lavazza cappucino / espresso also are included in the mdr after lunch/dinner and can you order it at breakfast in the buffet?
i had dozens of caffinated esspressos. dozens. never tried in the dining room, as i ony ate there once.
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I posted the following on the Ask a cruise question thead:
Flying from Singapore to Detroit today, I found it interesting that several passengers wore face masks, which are quite commonly sported by some throughout urban Asia. It made sense, I thought, as I and several fellow passengers competed in coughing.
We just ended a month in Asia on the Costa Victoria, an experience that I catalogued on a "live from" thread on the Costa page. We booked the cruise as a B2B, but Costa later marketed it in so many installments that it turned into four separate itineraries, each stopping in Singapore.
As passengers kept changing, each new group brought in their own coughs. After about the 21-day mark we, too, were feeling unwell. We should have gone to the ship's doctors, of course. Instead, we tried all kinds of old and tried Chinese medicines, to unsatisfactory effect.
On our final day in Singapore, before flying back to the U.S.. I looked at myself in a mirror and said to myself: A more rational guy would check into a hospital instead of trying to fly more than 24 hours. Of course, I didn't do that, and now, back in Baltimore, my medicine cabinet has produced an instant improvement. My wife and I will see our doctor tomorrow.
This is not an isolated incident. We had a horrid experience in South America on HAL's Veendam and problems also last year on a trans-Atlantic on HAL's Noordam. The turning point, it seems, occurs somewhere around the 17th day.
We were mulling over a 30-day South America cruise in 2014 on HAL's Statendam but are now seriously rethinking it. We might not survive a long cruise.
Any thought?
there was a cold-like bug going around on mediterranea, too. several years ago, on a carnival transatlantic 700+ pax came down with the noro-virus. i think this is part-and-parcel with cruising. lots of people jammed into a small area = increased transmission. i wash my hands a lot and touch as few things as possible. sometimes i don't catch anything, sometimes i do.
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Omg. Just off the mediterranea, catching up on this thread while waiting for my flight home. I'm laughing my butt off reading the comments about co. Thankssta. Too true. It is what it is. Thanks for the laughs!
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LOL... As a smoker, I find this amusing and took the math 'all the way' -
Potential fines for one carton of undeclared cigarettes (singarettes?) is 6,540.00*SGD or 5,329.42*USD at today's exchange rate.
$5,329.42 divided by 200 (the number of cigatettes in a carton) = $26.65 per cigarette. Then, of course, one has to add the cost of purchasing the cigarettes in the first place... which, I assume, in Singapore is not inexpensive... and is 98% tax.
A: "Can I bum a smoke?"
B: "No."
they are serious about the fines, too. i was allowed to bring half a pack off the ship. i did go through the 'red' line and they did inspect how many i had in the pack.
what really pissed people off was the fact that the ship was selling cartons in the duty-free, but uneducated people did not know about the restrictions.
you are not allowed to even take the cigs from the ship to the airport. ironically, the airport sells them duty-free (outbound) very inexpensively.
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We wil be in Singapore in the morning. The taxman cometh! All passenges have received circulars telling them that “it is important that everyone passes through the RED CHANNEL to declare the quantity of sigarettes, even if it is only 1 packet. If you have one carton of sigarettes, the tax is SGD 7.70 x 10,/Euro 46. [ U.S. $68 ]. . If you go through the RED CHANNEL without declaring the above mentioned the fine will be 20 times MORE than the tax due and you can also be charged up to 5,000 SDG in fines. . .”
a whole list of things not to be taken ashore was distributed to us, including chewing gum.
singapore is disneyland with the death penalty. my least favorite port of the entire cruise.
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barante - i'm enjoying your blog immensely. it has been 3 years since i have been on a costa cruise (the last was shanghai to singapore). this is bringing back some very pleasent memories. the quirkiness you are mentioning give me a laugh and reminds me why i enjoy costa.
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We are approaching Hong Kong. It’s nearly 5 a.m. Wednesday (11 p.m. Tuesday on the East Coast, and I am trying to find out who won the presidential election. Too early to burn my expensive wi-fi minutes, so I am trying to find out through Costa Victoria television offerings.
No such luck. Usually it’s a relief not to be bombarded with the schizophrenia of CNN or FOX, but on the Costa Victoria we live in splendid isolation: This is our lineup:
Channel 12 Euronews (English), prerecorded Eurocentric coverage
13 Euronews (German), prerecorded
14 Deutsche Welle (German), Berlin’s overseas propaganda channel.
15 RAI (Italian)
16 Channel One (Russian)
17 Lotus (Chinese)
18 France 24 (French)
19 TV5 (French)
20 TVE (Spanish)
Some of these channels are presumably live. . .
it is only 4:30 PM tuesday. i'm enjoying your blog. thanks!
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i think you answered your own question ;)
go and enjoy your cruise. i am american, have been on 3 longer costa cruise and i can see a point in some of the complaints, but i still disagree. i always say 'if you want it to be like home, stay home'.