Sujormik

Thanks again for sharing your trip for us celestyal newbies! I’d love to hear about your day in Athens too, if you’re up for it!

Thanks for the tip, wish we could get off first, but I may arrange our tours to begin a little later and not rush to the tenders. we are in St Petersburg, not sure if that’s near you in FL!

Your reports are so helpful, thank you. I’ve already decided to go with private tours on each of the islands except Ephesus, just don’t want to deal with waiting around for other people to tell me how to spend my limited time! Think we will try to eat meals on the islands as much as possible too!

Following, this is already so helpful. We’ll be on Journey in May, and I’m surprised at how crowded Santorini was for you in March! We aren’t expecting much from Celestyal so thanks again for your detailed posts.

But wondering if anyone will be on Idyllic Aegean May 19-26. We are looking at private shore excursions/tours if anyone wanted to discuss sharing. Maybe this thread will be allowed.

You need to let them know, and I don’t think they’ll discount your fare, but you should be able to disembark early.

I’ve been reading that it’s an absolute disaster. Filthy ship, hanging electrical wires, no ac, toilets not flushing. I came on to see what’s been reported, surprised nothing more here.

Your photos are gorgeous! I’ve asked a weird question on this forum, hoping you’ll take a look at it. Thanks.

My husband has a business meeting in LIsbon in May 2024. Because our air will be covered, we want to extend our travel to finally visit Greece! But our dates are fixed and we don’t have a ton of flexibility. The 7 night circle offered by Celestyal would work with a bit of tweaking and I wonder if anyone has any insight. We’d like to do a 7 nights Athens-Athens but not actually board the ship until day 2 in Thessaloniki. We are willing to pay for 7 nights and only stay for 6. There will be people boarding at Thessaloniki so that shouldn’t be an issue, but I’m wondering if you who know the line think it’s worth asking about. We could also simply board in Thessaloniki and exit Athens and miss the last night instead of the first, if that’s allowable. Does this sound insane? I welcome any insight. Thanks.

Didn’t realize about the title search option, I promise I did search Riverside in the main search function!

Anyone know anything about this line? Thanks.

There were at least a dozen on my cruise.

When you check in at a restaurant they ask your name and room number. I just had wine/beer with meals, didn’t do the bar. The package includes unlimited wine & beer at meals.

I keep getting emails about the 3 free nights and $600/cabin OBC, and sale prices on upcoming sailings, but when I click to the website the lowest price is double or more than what’s advertised. And nowhere to explore the extras without going through the whole rigmarole. Has anyone actually gotten the sale prices on these upcoming trips? Specifically looking at the one in Croatia/Greece ending in Istanbul on October 4. Just curious I guess.

I have been posting on the On Marina Now thread from our first O cruise. I’ve been fairly critical but you should know there were a lot of positives too! We loved our penthouse, the linens were great, towels replaced all day long. We don’t drink soda but our ice bucket was refilled often, as requested. Most of the food was really good. We had no issue with the decor. The gym was good. Etc. We may get on a Viking sometime, though no cruises for us now for awhile.