Hello 👋 we’re Laura and Craig and we love to cruise! We particularly enjoy exploring new destinations, finding interesting excursions and food (on land and at sea).
We enjoy sharing our cruise ship tours and bringing you the information you need to help plan your next cruise vacation.
Thank you very much for the video! I’ve enjoyed watching and listening to it, and I certainly didn’t feel it’s 18 minutes long at all. Very useful info for my upcoming cruise on the same ship and route in two weeks. So glad I found your video and have downloaded it with RU-vid on my phone 🤩
Hello. unfortunately, the prices for the CT card have increased. Now priced according to the various seasons. Peak season is now priced more than 30 euro per card.
Thank you for sharing this information, it’s quite a hike for peak season! Last year we visited in May and June for a standard price but if we were visiting in June this year it would be a lot more.
we are back from Iceland expensive but nice doing 5 days in Butlins Minehead in September of to Dubai in February and gran caner-era in July saw a mate going to majoria at Guildford today wow its been hot
No it’s been replaced by The Catch by Rudi. This video was made before the switch. The Catch has had much better feedback so is worth a try if you enjoy seafood.
Loved this video - I always feel like I'm grabbing a coffee and having a chat with you guys when I watch your channel. Great to see Cadiz feature on here - that's one of my absolute favourite European ports!
Great video we recognise many of the places. All the ports visited are easily explored on your own, as you say no need for expensive excursions. In Marseille we planned to do the mini train but just as you found it was very busy with long queues so we jumped on the local bus up to the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde which is the main stop on the land train. Great views of the city. The bus fare was very cheap. My favourite of all these was Cadiz, so beautiful and walkable would love to go back. Thank you for bringing back the memories.
Thanks for your question, it depends more on which ports you’re visiting because a river ship will always dock facing upriver, for example, river ships all dock on starboard side in Budapest. We made a separate video about it to help decide how to choose a river cruise cabin that might help: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kbCYFKBnLdU.html
Thank you! We took a taxi to the train station and it took 5-10 minutes but we walked back through La Spezia to the cruise terminal on the way back and it took about 20-25 minutes strollling. It’s a nice walk back through the town with shops and cafes to stop in if you want to break up the walk.
Sorry I don’t think I understand your question. The train is quick between villages, only a few minutes between each village. The first village takes 7-8 minutes from La Spezia. From the furthest village back to La Spezia train station it’s about 20 minutes.
Thank you so much for the very informative video. I am going with my friend in October 2024, on the Costa Pacifica and as my friend has slight mobility problems, I think we will be ok taking the train to Manorola I am so happy because I didn't think she would be able to cope with the walking and be stuck in La Spezia for the day
There is walking involved and I think from memory there may be steps at Manarola train station but there’s no reason why you can’t take your time and enjoy the village.
I just got back from my cruise on this ship and it was one of the best vacations of my life the food was amazing the locations were super fun. We went to Costa Maya Mexico, Roatan Honduras, we were supposed to go to Belize but we couldn’t because of the storm and instead we went to Mexico again Cozumel this time and then finished off in Nassau Bahamas the cruise was June 29 to July 6
Booked for September on Skylar after wattching your videos - Thanks. Gone with "Full Board Plus" so not the extra £126. We dont drink much alcohol so fine with just meals. What I cannot quite work out is if the self service tea and coffee machine is included for us or restricted for the extra payment people!
Thank you! To clarify the hot drinks machine is available for all passengers to use so you can use it as much as you like without the package. Hope you have a wonderful time!
@@CruiseLifestyle Great - thanks for confirming. I get a bit panicky if I am too far from a supply of coffee. We have gone for the "Treasures" option and so will check out your on-shore info next to sort out how much we will do organised or on our own. Thanks again.
No worries, we planned most ports ourselves as most of the time you can walk straight into the town/city from the ship. We did bump into passengers on our cruise a lot in ports as we were seeing the same things, just at our own pace. We did the walking tour of Vukovar and found our tour guide really helpful in sharing the history and showing us around. The archeological park was interesting but if you don’t fancy it, you can stay onboard and still see the Golubac Fortress after a leisurely afternoon cruising down the river. Our friend did the folk dance and lunch excursion in Belgrade and said it was very good. Just pick and choose what you fancy doing but don’t feel like you need to book something in every port.
Just watched your video and I can’t thank you enough for posting this in time for our cruise to Western Caribbean in a few months👏🥳😎! This video is very helpful to skip the cruise tours which is very expensive 😊!! I subscribed to your chanel💗! I hope you post more of your travel vlogs👍🎉! Thank you so much💗!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for your feedback, we’re assuming you meant Western Mediterranean? There is no way you need to book an excursion to visit, we wanted to create this video so you know how, save money and make the most of your time in port. Enjoy the cruise and let us know how you got on!
Great video, great to see all the dishes in detail. Sindhu and afternoon tea In Epicurean were our favourites. We didn’t do Green & Co and really wish we had. Interesting that you mentioned the grab and go cabinets, I kept looking to see what was offered there but never saw them in use. Hi There we are new to your channel and look forward to watching more of your videos👏
Sindhu was very good, which is why we booked to dine there again whilst on the cruise. I wonder whether the grab & go will ever be reinstated, we really liked it on Britannia. Thank you for finding our channel! 😁
Great video Laura. You're better than me, I wouldn't take the traghetto.. but I did enjoy the alilaguna from the airport. The area across the ponte Dell'Accademia was worth a visit alright. Was popular in the evening and nice promenade walk as well. I would have liked the rooftop view from the shopping centre but didnt have time as only there 24 hours. We found all the little streets really interesting and especially enjoyed walking around in the evening when it was quieter..totally changed my mind about Venice
Thanks Anne, we were staying further away from the main areas and so we didn’t get a chance to walk around in the evenings so much but I’d like to do that more if we return. That area over from the Accademia bridge was nice and certainly much quieter during the day. It was quieter in the evenings where we were, which was nice after the crowds in the touristy areas during the day.
We did! If we’d have had more time we would have done some of the other crossings but further up the grand canal they were shorter so we picked the best one.
My wife and I have just returned from a 10-day Mediterranean cruise on the Azamara Pursuit. Our first experience of this type of cruise and I must say that all expectations were met! Great ship and even better service. Of course there is room for improvement, but the overall impression was very positive. And yes, we took advantage of the self-service laundry! 😄
This was our first experience of a small-ship cruise and we enjoyed it too. It was the little touches we noticed that were really nice. Wished we’d have had longer because a week flew by too quickly! We think the laundry is a good feature and definitely got used a lot on our cruise.
