On Vista right now - June 21 Athens to Barcelona

[azmaui]

Hi I am on Vista right now and happy to answer questions. We are family with seniors and young kids. Everyone is having fun :)

[slaine29]

Are you staying in a family harbour room, if so any chance of some pictures with the pullman bed down. Have a great time, we are on vista at the end of august, only 63 days to go, but who's counting...........ME !!!!!!

[featherw8]

I'm curious how the boarding process in Pireaus went considering the port workers strike. Did it take longer? Did you have to bring your own bags on board?

[bluwes]

Same question as featherw8. Interested in how the embarkation process went.

Also what time did you arrive at the port, and how long to get on the ship.

 

Sorry , another question what time was the muster drill as our roll call want to meet up around 4pm. I know we don't sail until 7pm, but didn't want to interfere with dinner service.

 

Thanks in anticipation, and have a great cruise !

[cavcmy]

Hi, azmaui - hope you are having fun and thanks for your gracious offer to answer questions! If you stop/exit on Deck 9 Midship elevators and face opposite of the stairs, is there a door between sideways cabins 9342 and 9341? If so, what is door labeled? I will be directly below that door in October and am concerned what's above me (noise etc). Thanks again for doing this!

 

Carley

[seabeelarry]

Sorry to hijack your post 😜 But, we are also in board now.

OUR experiance in Athens was pretty much painless, and I saw no "strike" issues as there were baggage porters all over. We had 2 rush our cab to get our 4 bags.

 

Being Plat, we did notice that the priority checkin was not like in the states...no real priority check in at all really.

A travel friend, on her 1st cruise, blue, went to the "normal" checkin, and actually was in the passport check line before our "priority" line got us there.

Not a big for us, as we jumped line and got in with her, but I heard a ton of others complaining about the priority non-exsistance.

 

The passport check line was chaotic, as 6 lines funneled to 2 agents, but again, not too awful bad.

 

We arrived at the docks about 11:30ish, and was on Lido eating a Guys burger by 12:30ish.

[azmaui]

Hi, we got email from carnival not to arrive before 1pm. They suggested arrival 1-6pm. We arrived around 2pm and it was packed. We had a choice to check in or carry luggage. I carried mine, my parents checked in theirs. It was very hot and crowded and it took us half hour to get through to check in line. Then they gave us number to wait for embarkation. By that time my mom who has heart condition was not feeling well and almost fainted. I talked to carnival rep and they brought her wheel chair and took us through all the lines forward. (After a line to check in there was another line to get to security building. Then another line to get through security. And one more to go through passport control!) It took us an hour being escorted through and skipping the lines to get to the line that takes you aboard... I have no idea how long it took for people who arrived around the same time and waited but I would think at least 2-3 hours.

[azmaui]

Our muster drill was 5pm followed by sail away

[azmaui]

I will check about cabins on deck 9, that's where we are staying in family balcony. Sorry not staying on family harbor deck. Love the deck 9 mid ship location and noise from lido is non existent.

[featherw8]

Hi, we got email from carnival not to arrive before 1pm. They suggested arrival 1-6pm. We arrived around 2pm and it was packed. We had a choice to check in or carry luggage. I carried mine, my parents checked in theirs. It was very hot and crowded and it took us half hour to get through to check in line. Then they gave us number to wait for embarkation. By that time my mom who has heart condition was not feeling well and almost fainted. I talked to carnival rep and they brought her wheel chair and took us through all the lines forward. (After a line to check in there was another line to get to security building. Then another line to get through security. And one more to go through passport control!) It took us an hour being escorted through and skipping the lines to get to the line that takes you aboard... I have no idea how long it took for people who arrived around the same time and waited but I would think at least 2-3 hours.

 

Thanks! I'm glad to read that the impact of the strike is minimal to nonexistent, but wow, this sounds like a very different experience than seabeelarry who also embarked on this cruise (this thread, post #6 above). He arrived earlier than you did, so I have to think that your assigned 1-6PM arrival time didn't help. It sounds disorganized.

[brightfeather]

Thank you for your info. I'm following this post as I'm on the Vista Sept. 13th from Athens.

[Mr305]

I'm on the cruise after yours. What movies are playing onboard (IMAX)? Is the onboard ATM dispensing Euros or Dollars?

[Adam Rose]

Are you using Camp Ocean? Any good or bad points?

[seabeelarry]

Here is whats playing in our cruise; Athens-BCN 6/21....

 

Capt. America 3d

Warcraft 3d

Legand of Tarzan 3d

ID: resurgence 3d

 

$12.95 adults

[lizardhowson]

I'm on the cruise after yours. What movies are playing onboard (IMAX)? Is the onboard ATM dispensing Euros or Dollars?

 

The ship uses US dollars.

Guest services does not provide currency exchange.

John Heald has already stated there are two ATMs aboard, one dispenses US dollars, one dispenses Euros.

Edited June 24, 2016 by lizardhowson

[akerwood]

Have you had an elegant night? Thanks!

[flybarry]

First off, thank you for taking the time to answer questions about Vista and your cruise. I was curious if you have been to the library bar, and if so, what wines are they self-serving by the glass. I saw an earlier post from the inaugural cruise and the wines looked to be quite good.

[Springdale]

We were on the 5/24 Athens to Barcelona cruise, and had 2 formal nights - one was on our only sea day, and the other was on the Livorno/Florence evening. In the Horizons dining room, there was a mix of attire on both nights (cruise elegant and cruise casual).

[brightfeather]

I'm hopeful someone will post the dailies from the Athens to Barcelona itinerary. Please!? :-) I don't know about anyone else, but it truly helps plan the days around excursions and for sea days. Anyone? Thank you in advance.:D

[azmaui]

I will be posting more details once we are back home.

 

Yes we had first formal night on the sea day.

 

Have been using camp ocean every day, kids usually go there in the evening (I take them to dinner on Lido or bring them food to the room). They also have an option to take kids to dinner at 6pm which my kids did yesterday and liked it. Couple of days they stayed for a few hours during the day when I went ashore and only my parents were close by and had a blast. They don't want to leave the ship now and prefer to stay in club and play! I'm very impressed. Having sailed on Disney before I didn't expect such a great kids club and kids loving it that much!

[Cruisenewbie88chester]

Just got off the ship after a fabulous trip! Weather brilliant but too much food!!

[azmaui]

Hi, azmaui - hope you are having fun and thanks for your gracious offer to answer questions! If you stop/exit on Deck 9 Midship elevators and face opposite of the stairs, is there a door between sideways cabins 9342 and 9341? If so, what is door labeled? I will be directly below that door in October and am concerned what's above me (noise etc). Thanks again for doing this!

 

 

 

Carley

 

 

Hi I've checked and there is a locked door labeled pool maintenance. No idea if it will affect noise in your cabin. FYI I've stayed in cabin 9363 right under lido deck and never heard any noise from there! But I could hear neighbor's tv.

[azmaui]

I'm on the cruise after yours. What movies are playing onboard (IMAX)? Is the onboard ATM dispensing Euros or Dollars?

 

 

Yes there are 2 ATM machines one for euro and one for dollars. Here is imax schedule:

 

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[cavcmy]

Hi I've checked and there is a locked door labeled pool maintenance. No idea if it will affect noise in your cabin. FYI I've stayed in cabin 9363 right under lido deck and never heard any noise from there! But I could hear neighbor's tv.

 

Thank you for checking! It is as I imagined - a mechanical room; couldn't imagine a space that size being totally vacant. Appreciate you.

 

Carley

[azmaui]

Sorry here is another try to post pic with iMax schedule