Our first sighting of the cruise ship behind the terminal building
Kids in their lifejackets
Sitting in the cabin window
Level 12
Waiting for the water slide
Samuel
Ella
Andrew
The people looked like ants on the ground waving the ship goodbye
SundeckIt was a real thrill seeing our cruise ship, the Costa Pacifica for the first time. You have to see it in real life to appreciate the beauty and size of it. It’s a brand new ship and totally luxurious in decor and we are the first group of passengers to sail on it. Lucky us!
The car was booked into parking at Savona Port for the time we’re on the cruise. The checking in of the car and drop off of our luggage went smoothly. The terminal for the cruise at Savona looked brand new and when we arrived upstairs there was already a couple of thousand people there before us. There’s about 3000 people on our cruise. This is our first ever cruise and I can’t believe how many people cruise all the time.
We were given a card with a number on it which was our number for embarkation. At a quick glance our cruise companions all look like older people (maybe in their 60’s) and couples without kids. But we’ve seen a few kids who might be in the Maxi Kids Club with Samuel and Ella.
Our itinerary departs Savona and then we sail to Marseille, Barcelona, Mallorca, Tunisia, Malta, Palermo, Civitavecchia then back to Savona, 9 nights in all. The ship arrives in port every morning about 7 am and sails through the night to the next port.
Shore excursions are available at each port. I initially thought the excursions were quite expensive but after we’d been on a couple and found it so relaxing not having to organise everything by yourself, we considered it money well spent.
We’d been to Marseille a week ago so we stayed on the ship for that day. In Barcelona we got the shuttle bus in to town and wandered along the Ramblas for a while. In Mallorca we walked into town ourselves which was a lot further than it looked on the map. The kids were whining early on and it was very hot. We made our way to the cathedral and walked around with hundreds of other tourists. The view of the island from the steps of the church was beautiful.
We tried to haggle on the price of a horse and buggy ride back to the boat but the cheapest we could get was €50 – still too much for a 5 km ride. We ended up getting a cab back to the port for €8.
That night the four of us went to a fantastic show at Son Amar which had a variety of different entertainment. There was a magician, a comedian, singers and flamenco dancers. I’d never seen flamenco before and the dancers were magnificent to watch clack clacking their way across the stage.
There was a mini drama when we had our first dinner on the boat because our Costa card wouldn’t work. This is the card that we use to open our cabin door and also to pay for anything you buy on the boat. All was revealed when they discovered that we hadn’t actually been embarked by Immigration officials even though we were already on the ship and in our cabin. Anyway that was soon sorted out. But then we get a phone call from our travel agent (my sister) in the middle of the night in a panic because she had received an email at work saying the Speedie’s hadn’t been checked in to board the ship on Saturday. So Irene thought something had happened to us because of the mixup with Immigration. But all was fine.
The car was booked into parking at Savona Port for the time we’re on the cruise. The checking in of the car and drop off of our luggage went smoothly. The terminal for the cruise at Savona looked brand new and when we arrived upstairs there was already a couple of thousand people there before us. There’s about 3000 people on our cruise. This is our first ever cruise and I can’t believe how many people cruise all the time.
We were given a card with a number on it which was our number for embarkation. At a quick glance our cruise companions all look like older people (maybe in their 60’s) and couples without kids. But we’ve seen a few kids who might be in the Maxi Kids Club with Samuel and Ella.
Our itinerary departs Savona and then we sail to Marseille, Barcelona, Mallorca, Tunisia, Malta, Palermo, Civitavecchia then back to Savona, 9 nights in all. The ship arrives in port every morning about 7 am and sails through the night to the next port.
Shore excursions are available at each port. I initially thought the excursions were quite expensive but after we’d been on a couple and found it so relaxing not having to organise everything by yourself, we considered it money well spent.
We’d been to Marseille a week ago so we stayed on the ship for that day. In Barcelona we got the shuttle bus in to town and wandered along the Ramblas for a while. In Mallorca we walked into town ourselves which was a lot further than it looked on the map. The kids were whining early on and it was very hot. We made our way to the cathedral and walked around with hundreds of other tourists. The view of the island from the steps of the church was beautiful.
We tried to haggle on the price of a horse and buggy ride back to the boat but the cheapest we could get was €50 – still too much for a 5 km ride. We ended up getting a cab back to the port for €8.
That night the four of us went to a fantastic show at Son Amar which had a variety of different entertainment. There was a magician, a comedian, singers and flamenco dancers. I’d never seen flamenco before and the dancers were magnificent to watch clack clacking their way across the stage.
There was a mini drama when we had our first dinner on the boat because our Costa card wouldn’t work. This is the card that we use to open our cabin door and also to pay for anything you buy on the boat. All was revealed when they discovered that we hadn’t actually been embarked by Immigration officials even though we were already on the ship and in our cabin. Anyway that was soon sorted out. But then we get a phone call from our travel agent (my sister) in the middle of the night in a panic because she had received an email at work saying the Speedie’s hadn’t been checked in to board the ship on Saturday. So Irene thought something had happened to us because of the mixup with Immigration. But all was fine.
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