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Hello All  We are going on the Costa Smeralda later this year  Does anyone have any info on their spas and saunas  Thanks

Hello All  We will be traveiling on the Smeralda later this year   Does anyone have any information about the spa and sauna on this ship

On 3/31/2024 at 2:35 PM, dunscrimpin said:

I booked an inside guarantee on MSC Euribia and got a balcony  cabin , midship slightly forward on deck 12. Well happy.  

This is our hope 

6 minutes ago, Essiesmom said:

I booked a fantastica inside gty and got a balcony.  EM

awesome

I am curious how people went when they booked a guarantee cabin  What did you book?  What did you get?

We had an inside cabin booked but they are all sold out now.   An oceanview with the same package is now over $500 cheaper so cancelled and rebooked a Guarantee Oceanview   On the site and speaking with MSC they only had oceanviews available on Deck 5 (three cabins)

Hoping now for a great cabin to be offered   Cruise is not until November 27 Days Transatlantic

Will keep you updated

Can i change a booked cabin to a guarantee cabin?  I booked direct with MSC

Yes we too would take the re route around Cape of Good Hope if it was offered

Thank you 

Just looked at our cruise which does not depart until November some 8 months away. All the inside cabins are shown as sold. If we booked a specific inside cabin number under the Fantastica program what are people’s experiences in this situation at getting offered upgrades! 

I see other cruise lines are cancelling or rescheduling their cruises that pass through the Middle East due to tensions there. We are hoping this all settles and our cruise proceeds. If Costa were to redirect the cruise around South Africa we would also jump at this opportunity. 

Come on.  Where is @7Seas

Do people who have booked ‘fantástica’ and selected a cabin ever get upgraded ? We have booked an interior on deck 11

How did you get the free cruise offer ?

On 2/12/2024 at 10:19 AM, the wandering two said:

Going on our third Costa cruise this September, a return to Favolosa which was our first in 2019.

Smeralda in Nov '22 & loved it, will be interesting to see the differences going back to a more traditional ship. 

We are on the Smeralda in December hopefully it’s awesome. 

On 2/11/2024 at 8:56 AM, SpeedySal said:

I quite agree that it does seem as if not many out there want to comment! This board used to be much livelier before Covid, of course.

I suspect many of the regular commentators from previous years have stopped cruising with Costa……..or perhaps stopped cruising all together.

 

The Costa cruising experience has changed enormously, too. I think that Costa are now maybe after a different clientele than in previous years.
 

Perhaps they have also lost a lot of loyal clients with the changes to the Costa Club which is now a little bit of a joke really. I don’t know enough about other cruise lines to know how Costa’s loyalty scheme compares but it used to be quite generous in my opinion but no longer!

 

Does anyone else get the impression that today’s ships are more appealing to younger cruisers and that even older cruisers who are still ‘young at heart’ are no longer very important to Costa? I would be interested in some other opinions so shall we try and stir up some enthusiasm to create a bit of activity on this forum?!

This will be our first Costa cruise. Genoa to Dubai. 

thank you

Does no one that uses Costa comment? or virtually no one?

Anyone been on this ship. Any comments. Doing 8 days Dubai to Dubai. Thanks. 

Thank you  Would you suggest if only one of us drinks, is the drink package a better deal or just purchase say 6 or 7 drinks a day is better than the package

Thank you so much Luffe  We have booked this cruise  Do you remember if there was a sauna and spa?  was it co-ed or seperate for men and women,

Hi all. We are looking at the Genoa Italy to Dubai cruise in December on the Smeralda.  We have never cruised Costa. How is this ship? We are looking at an inside on deck 10. Any info would be appreciated.  How much are drinks onboard? Do you find the drink package good value? Two of us.  One drinks average amount one drinks very little. Was thinking this cruise we would just buy the drinks as we go. Thoughts ? 

hello all  anyone sailed on the Jade lately?   any comments?  my husband and I have two cruises booked soon on the Jade

Thank you 

Thanks Joe. That’s what we are hoping