TMV2018

Looking for any info regarding the Aida Perla; next year there will be a trip to Norway and France, it sounds like these trips are going pretty fast?!

Quick question (we have to 'decide' if we go on a rather expensive trip next year, looks like it's always fully booked): does Aida offer excusions woth english guides?

On pur first ever cruise (with MSC), starting in Germany, was crowded with a lot of Italians. Now I know this is a generalisation, but boy, they were obnoxious.

Very loud, even wondered if most of them had a hearing disability. Almost none spoke English, well, not a real problem for us, but it struck us imediately as strange. The males were flamboyant to their female companians but in the process couldn't care less for their surroundings. Chair were taken without asking (my daughter almost fell because some italian jerk swiped it right from under her).

And their kids! The parents were all flirting, courting, showing off withe their stuff.. meanwhile their offspring terrorised the pools, scraming their heads of, eating limitless icecream in the pool..

But we learnde and adapted. We stopped eating in the main restaurants because of the huge crowds, some wouldn't follow dress code, some kept shouting... so we eat (a tad earlier) in the buffet restaurant.. with the crew. We leave them to it, they have their time off so it is ultra quiet, which is great for our kid and we eat early, like we are used to at home. We stroll around the ship in the early morning, when only the fit people are in the gym and few people are up and about. Once the italians show up, usualy around 12 o'clock, we get out of the sun and pool area and find a quiet place inside. Better than burning in the sun;)

Live and let live, avoid the crowds. Too easy to find something wrong with a crowd. As for us, they probably think we are weird. But at least we don't cause trouble .

Dreamy evening on our way out of Iceland.