The 18% service charge made the wine over-priced: we paid $34-$53 for wines which would've cost £8-£18 retail in the UK. The excursions ARE over-priced, but we only took 2 (thankfully not the Acropolis trip and shame on Oceania for not owning up to the dangerous, overcrowded shambles it sounded like). We agree that the Siena trip was very enjoyable, and might have been worth the $318 it cost the two of us had lunch, with wine, been included. The big draw on Oceania's three ships is the passenger space ratio (see the Berlitz rankings), the small(er) ship ambience and the food. All the restaurants are good (the Toscana in our view is usually very good) although we had one unmemorable dinner outside in Tapas on the Terrace. One disappointing aspect was that we could not dock at Delos/Mykonos (and we note that there's another review saying that the next cruise couldn't dock there either, as well as a load of other ports of call).

We were on this cruise and thoroughly enjoyed it. Service and food were excellent and we loved the smaller ship having previously travelled on one much larger. We would also give Oceania five stars and are already considering booking for next year.

For us this was also our first cruise, and both of us enjoyed the experience. But the Acropolis visit was a disaster, not on the part of the excursion staff, but the Greek authorities at the Acropolis. There could have been a major disaster caused by the sheer number of tourists trying to get off the monument.Otherwise, five stars all the way. We however felt that the Bar prices were a bit steep and the wine was overpriced. Dyer, Clows Top