Cruise into the ice bergs of Greenland

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Comment by BANK, durban (26 Jan 12 10:53) about this REVIEW

WE TRAVELLED WITH CAPTAIN DE GREGORIO IN SOUTH AFRICA MANY TIMES WITH MSC. WE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE PERSONAL CONTACT AFTER MANY YEARS. MY EMAIL jeanette @xloceanair.co.za

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Question by donnelly, nottingham (01 Sep 10 20:59) about this REVIEW

hi please could you tell me if you have to pay tips on board the luminosa and if so how does this work. This will be our first cruise with costa and not sure what to expect ? thanks.

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Answer by Heinig, Bad Säckingen/Germany (01 Sep 10 23:03) to a QUESTION by donnelly (01 Sep 10 20:59)

Hi, Donelly, Costa's policy is (in Europe) EUR 6.-/person/day (on cruises over 8 days) as service-surcharge that will be added to your account every day you spent aboard/in your cabin. If you are very satisfied with your cabin steward, and/or the waiter at your (every evening) table (which you are dedicated to all cruise the same table), resp. the waiter's assistant, then of course you CAN provide them with some tips at the end of the cruise. It's voluntary though. You won't be "advised" at the end of the cruise how much money to put in an envelope ready prepared waiting on your pillow 3 nights before disembarkation (as it is on other cruiselines - depending on the poilcy). They depend sometimes more on a good rating with mentoining the name/in person in the form you are requested to fill-in at the end of the curise, how satisfied you were with food/presentation/service/cabin, etc. That might lead to either one day off or even a promotion/higher grade work. Hope that could answer your question a little at least. Please let me know, if you need any more info. Thank you.

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Comment by Heinig, Bad Säckingen/Germany (29 Aug 10 22:10) about a COMMENT by Liz (29 Aug 10 17:11)

Thank you for your positive reply. Just uploaded August 16, 2010. Another few days to go to finalize the wole blog. It's really a huge load of pictures, but worth while, I guess. Keep on looking in the blog form time to time, till it's finalized. Regards,

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Cruise into the ice bergs of Greenland	1 of 1 people found this review informative

Reviewed By: Heinig, Bad Säckingen / Germany on 26th Aug 2010
Cruise Line: Costa Cruises	Times cruised before: 6-10
Cruise Ship: Costa Luminosa	Sailed: August, 2010
Destination: Arctic	Age: 36-45
Cabin: Inside	Occasion: Annual/regular holiday

It was a brilliant cruise, fantastic views, whales, orcas, dolphins, seals - and all "for free", since we did not attend a specific organised whale-watching-tour. Even though - of course - we also had rain, really heavy fog and, strong wind, we were rewarded with fantastic sunsets in the middle of the night (around 11p.m. to midnight). Attaching picture didn't work here, sorry. Stops of the 20-day-cruise were Amsterdam (start and end of cruise), Bergen (Norway), Akureyri (Iceland), Nuuk (Greenland), Ilulissat (Greenland), Passage of the Prins Christian Sund (a real adventure with a big ship like that), Reykjavik (Iceland), Torshavn (Färöer Islands), Invergordon (GB) and back to A'dam. Many more pictures as well as the blog of our cruise can be found at www.millisglashaus.blogspot.com (German only, but roughly translatable with Google-translator). The ship itself is really great, has lots of space, makes an "open impression", has lots of technology "state-of-the-art" - also to use by customers, real four-star-service (we didn't lodge in the Samsara-Suites, we were "regular" customers) and everything cleeaned really high frequented. To give it a short note: brilliant and couldn't have been performed better ! A great "Congrat" to the Captain (Michele de Gregorio) and his crew for taking us there and back without "damages" (thinking about ice & weather conditions from time to time)!
Quality of Food
Breakfast & Lunch / Coffee-Time: Andromeda Self-Service Dinner: Taurus Restaurant
Entertainment
We only went to see the Crew Show - unfortunately, only 2 real "unprofessional" persons performed, the rest was "used to perform in public". We know crew-shows from other ships with real-behind-the-scenes persons and appreciated their skills more then.
Shore Excursions
all Excursions were great - we wouldn't have changed opinion alfterwards: Bergen & Nuuk - on our own, Akureyri (Pearls of the North), Ilulissat (tour into the fjord & to the icebergs with a small ship), Reykjavik (geysire & nature), Torshavn (vikings history and ruin of gothic church), Invergordon (Grand Dunrobin Castle)
Staff
They all did a brilliant job. For clear details and names, please refer to our blog (www.millisglashaus.blogspot.com) where names and job description will be published under "Fazit" at the end of the cruise.
Children's Facilities	n/a

Onboard Activities	n/a
As many that you could get into real stress situation, if you would want to attend all of them... We didn't attend, but saw a few, so no comments from our side.
Cabins
The Cabin had lots of storage space, even a "long" (high) cubboard for (long) evening dresses not to be wrinkled up, wehn put on hangers, and the shower had an approx. 20cm wider base than we were used to - great! Also very modern equipped and very comfortable beds - easy to fall into deep sleep in.
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