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10 days before the cruise you should have received an online medical questionnaire, once completed you get your boarding pass.

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If all else fails request a call back from Costa (at the top of their website home page) i have done this a lot and they do call back at the time you give them, good luck.

Costa Black Friday Sale, book before end of November. Found this solo rate from Rio to Barcelona...... Just £299 for inside guaranteed cabin for 15 nights. Other deals to be had.

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Interior

Minimalist

Welcoming

Extremely comfortable!

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£798

 

£299

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Sea View

Elegant

Bright

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SUMMARY OF YOUR CRUISE

Transoceanic15 days - 14 nightsCosta Favolosa

DEPARTURERio de Janeiro14 Apr 2023

ARRIVALBarcelona28 Apr 2023

Adults

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Children

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The stop in Haifa (Jerusalem) may be the reason?

Just received my boarding tickets for this. It says that you need antigen test no later than 48 hrs before boarding, very confusing. More money down the drain, then. 

On 11/6/2022 at 10:47 AM, Dancer Bob said:

I was very disappointed in my Firenze trip this spring, but the ship was only 1/4 full, there were not enough people to justify hiring a full set of entertainers. It was indeed a same-as-everybody-else experience.

I'll be on Diadema next spring, I've been on that ship before.  If it's not back to normal, then my Costa days are done.

I was on the Diadema a couple of weeks ago, it was all back to normal including the entertainment.

I am boarding in Barcelona to Dubai and will not be getting a test. I booked directly with Costa UK and that's the info i have copied from their UK site. I did a med cruise with Costa about a month ago and you did need the test then. It may be different rules depending which country you are from. On their site the rules are just below the search option on the main page, that part of the page scrolls right to left and the protocols about testing are there. 

When you board the ship, you are required to link your credit / debit card with your room key. I noticed on my last cruise that some customers were doing this with cash through machines, instead of using credit cards. Does anybody know if you can do a mixture of both? So, i put 500euros in cash through the machine and also my credit card details, when the cash runs out will it automatically then charge my credit card, or can you only use one method of payment? Thanks.

Internet packages are available on the app when you board the ship. The cost depends on the number of nights you are on the ship, as is the cost of the beverage package. 

On 10/12/2022 at 2:49 PM, maryann2 said:

Will you be booking the Toscana from Dubai next March. I remember you were doing that in March 2020, and we know what happened then.

No, i will be on Toscana in November from Barcelona to Dubai for 22 nights. Got a good solo price 820gbp for an outside premium cabin with a double bed. I have a transatlantic from Rio to Barcelona in March next year.

Just come off a 15-day round trip from Barcelona via Istanbul on Costa Diadema. I booked an inside guarantee, travelling solo. When they sent me the room documents i was not very happy to find the cabin i was given was a small single bed affair. I did not know Costa had single bed cabins. I rang them up a couple of days before the cruise and asked them to change the cabin so i could have a double bed. They told me they had None available. When on the ship i was surprised that you could not walk down some of the corridors as they had blocked them off, as they could not sell the cabins. I was on level 2 port side and the starboard side was closed off, same on some of the other floors.

The bars seemed busy at night, but you could tell by the numbers in the theatre that they are struggling to sell cabins. Another problem was excursion's, i had a couple cancelled as there were not enough English speakers on the cruise booking the tours. One of the tours was to Istanbul, but that turned out to be a blessing. All i did was get off the ship and walk for about 20 minutes to the Main Mosque and grand bazar, well worth it on foot. As this was a round trip, customers embarked and disembarked at every stop including the island of Crete. There was only a handful, of English-speaking guests on board, a few French and Germans but the vast majority were Italians, don't think there were any Russians on board. 

For Costa, this seems to be the perfect storm. First Covid then the war in Ukraine and now the cost-of-living crisis. It would not surprise me if Costa were merged with Aida to save money. 

I think you will find that the vast majority of posters on here, will say no. The posters on here are only a small fraction of the cruise market though.

At this time, the agent is more likely to under than the cruise line, Costa is part of Carnival and is safe. In these uncertain times, i would not personally go through a agent, no matter what perks they try to entice me with. Having said that, its your money, do what you think is good for you.

I have done Barcelona to Buenos Aires via Brazil, and the following year Barcelona to Rio, both in November. Once we hit Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands it was hot , hot all the way to Brazil, and on both occasions the seas were very calm all the way there. The route the Costa ship took was to sail Gran Canaria and head south towards the Cape Verdi islands, you could see the islands but we did not stop, the cruise then crossed the Atlantic towards Racife in Brazil. Would have no problems in taking this cruise again. 

Check when you booked the cruise. If i remember rightly, you could cancel without any penalty up to 48 hours from departure, depending on when you booked it. They keep changing the rules so its hard to keep up, if you want to cancel give them a ring to see what the rules were when you booked. 

If you are looking for a testing centre ask at the nearest pharmacy / chemist, they should be able to point you in the right direction.  

I could be wrong, but i think MSC have cancelled cruises (last year) due to lack of demand. Happy to be corrected. 

Unless its changed, coffee, tea and water is only available for free when the buffet is open, if you do not have the drinks package. 

Never seen paid upgrades with Costa, but they may do them. Give them a call, with them struggling to fill their ships even at reduced capacity, you may be in luck.

48 minutes ago, Alex71 said:

Nice, for sharing. Is this from their ?

Their Facebook page.

1 hour ago, Alex71 said:

Another question: I just got my embarkation time for our cruise leaving exactly in 30 days. Embarkation is already at 10:30, which is a bit earlier than expected. Will the restaurants already be open so early? Is there a problem if one is a bit delayed? We are driving to Savona from Germany and staying the night in Milan, which is about two hours away from Savona. Wondering if we need to plan with a lot of buffer time to make sure we get there exactly at that time or if it does not matter that much if there are traffic delays.

I would have thought that the buffet will be open until 11.00. More than likely that there will customers who boarded on previous days. Embarkation at 10.30, expect to be on the ship in time for lunch service at midday. 

At the moment you can not leave a Costa cruise independently in the Med. I believe its up to the countries the ship visits and not the cruise line. Hopefully things will change sooner rather than later.