Dancing Over The7 Seas

Has anyone traveled with Costa to South America? How many English speaking passengers would you guess were on board? Just curious of the number of other NA Families would be on-board.

 

What were your thoughts about the trip? 10-Day trip on Fascinosa. We would stop in Rio, Brazil Beaches, Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Not many Costa reviews of South American itineraries on CC. I would love to hear from any past cruisers to SA.

 

We are booked on the Costa Pacifica Nov 2019 from Savona to Buenos Aires, we live in Uruguay at present so thought this a great way to get home.

We have done around the Horn from Buenos Aires to Santiago (Norwegian) and last year from Buenos Aires to Rio for carnival ( Celebrity). About 1/4 -1/3 of the passengers on both cruises were English speaking. Maybe as many from the UK , Australia and NZ as N. America on both and only a handful of children who were pretty well all Spanish speakers. We also met Mexicans, Italians, French, Germans and Brazillians.

We really liked the mix and prefer it to an all N. American ship. I expect our Costa cruise will be mostly Brazillians and Argentinians with some Italian and Spanish but we are not expecting many native English speakers. We shall see!

 

I will say, it is often difficult for us to practise our Spanish down here, so many locals have better English than my Spanish and quickly switch to English when I open my mouth.

My wife and I have travel RCCI from Spain to Panama and have been on about 5 Costa Cruises from Fort Lauderdale to the Caribbean on 7 day trips. From Florida mostly English speaking

with Spanish and other idomas. We will be on the Deliziosa on March to Venice Italy so i know English might be not widely used.

We live in Costa Rica now for about 10 years. Although we can function pretty well in Spanish we will never be fluent as we didn’t start to lean Spanish till well in our 50s

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We were onboard for the Eastern Caribbean in June and again in August for the Western Caribbean. When we booked the Eastern cruise, the itinerary had already been altered so we knew what we were getting. Apparently Grand Turk or Amber Cove had been dropped. Had a fabulous time anyway. For the Western cruise, there was no change in itinerary.

Yes you will have a wonderful time on the CP. We always do, we have a princess cruise booked on the Royal. Will not book the Caribbean Princess till it’s fix.

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Just got off the Caribbean on Saturday. We were at 18-19.5 knots daily. No vibration or rattling all week. Didn’t know of any possible issues, just smooth sailing.

We know that. We we’re on it in March no problems except. We were one of the first trips right after the problem and they had to adjust the stops and island time. So now when you book you know the stops and times. We will not sail Caribbean Princess till

After it’s fixed.

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What is your reasoning for this? I'm curious as we are on her 11/25 sailing.

Less port time and if winds are blowing strong they miss ports we were on the ship in March and they skip a port because of strong winds. Not that they could not dock at the port but because they could not sail at normal speed. We have sails The Caribbean Princes 3 times and we love the ship. We are booked on a princess cruise but we skip the Caribbean Princess.

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Sailed on CB in April. Hadn't been fixed at that point. Not a problem at all. Had a great cruise.

Yes we did too Back in March. But we lost time and they skipped Cartagena. Which was one of the reasons we took the trip. You can do better on some of Princess other ships and not skip ports.

If the wind is blowing to hard they will reduces your time in ports. We love the Caribbean Princess but will not book her till they fix the problem.

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We love the shop but will not book till the engine is fixed. Been on her 3 times but never again. Till it’s fixed

Do yourself a favor don’t book Caribbean Princess to they fix the engine.

American here! I agree with your comment that Costa has a lot of great looking itineraries - so we're taking the leap and sailing on their 24-night Transatlantic next spring. We're pretty low-maintenance when we cruise, so we're expecting to have a great time! Hoping to come back here with a glowing report. :)

Which ship what date we are on the Deliziosa March 3 email us at whereisjerrytoday at Yahoo dot com