Janet&Carl

It says you can in the booking confirmation letter sent when you pay your deposit ......."SERVICE CHARGES ON BOARD: The hotel service charge is part and parcel of the of the price of the cruise. It can be paid on board or prepaid when booking your cruise. More information can be found in the "Useful Information" section of our official website."

We did a similar cruise to this it was 20 nights from Venice to Male on Costa - it was one of our best and we have had 17 cruises - three of them on Costa. We had different entertainment each night. The menu items did repeat although I cant say that I noticed complete menu repetitions. We thoroughly enjoyed going through the Suez Canal - make sure you take binoculars with you. Costa ran trivia and other social events every day and did well at keeping people busy on the sea days. It helped that out of 2500 passengers there were 1400 english speaking people on our cruise (over 1000 of them from Australia). Usually we are in the minority.

I have always managed and "early bird" cuppa on Costa I usually wake at around 5am and look for a bar where I can get a hot drink. Never had a problem and I have cruised 3 times on costa.

Have the rules changed to enter america ? I'm Australian travelling to America in September