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Conference abbott::cruise_travel

Title:CRUISE TRAVEL
Moderator:XANADU::FAMULARO
Created:Thu Aug 04 1988
Last Modified:Thu Dec 12 1996
Last Successful Update:Wed Jan 01 1997
Number of topics:562
Total number of notes:2834

54.0. "Please help.........." by WFOOFF::MROCZEK () Tue Dec 13 1988 18:31

    Hi there,
    
    A friend of mine will be taking a cruise in April. She is booked
    on the Dafne. Do any of you have experience with that ship?
    
    Thanks, Sue
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54.1Our Experience Was Not Too GoodTLE::BENTLEYWed Dec 14 1988 14:5133
    Yes -- if you're talking about the Daphne of the Italian Costa line.  
    The experience was not the greatest.
    
    Two years ago we took the Carla C (the Daphne's sister ship) and
    we had a wonderful time.  The ship was old but decent, the food
    good (not superb), and the service friendly.  We were told that
    the Daphne was the more luxurious of the two ships so last year
    we booked a trip on her.  What a disappointment!
    
    The ship was shabby, with cigarette holes in the drapes and just
    a general dismal appearance.  The service was terrible.  The crew
    was very sulky and moody.  It was like pulling teeth to get our
    steward to leave fruit in our cabin -- supposedly something they're
    supposed to do every day.  In one case, a pasenger who spoke Italian
    overheard some of the crew making fun of a passenger.
    
    On top of that, we did not sail at midnight with all the other ships
    (standard procedure), nor did we have our festive lights on the
    rigging, as did the other ships.  It seems that a plane was late
    out of NY and they held the ship for them.  Consequently, we did
    not stop at St. Maarten, as planned.
    
    I have since been told by my travel agent that the Costa lines are
    not financially solvent and that all the good crew has moved on
    to better paying jobs and that is why our crew was so poor.
    
    I hate to be a bearer of bad tidings, but we were disappointed.
    Things tend to constantly change of these cruise ships -- depending
    on where the money and customers are.
    
    We had a good time off the ship on the islands, however.  The itinerary
    was good -- if you make it to all the islands!