Really enjoyed this video - very well done! I really enjoyed my cruises with Costa - I'm really surprised by their price point, and always found somewhere quiet to relax! My warning with Costa is that the ships have LOTS of people on them, but then of course they do - they're low-cost cruise ships, so you need the footfall to turn the profit, I guess!
Thank you so much. Yes there were lots of people on board, but they all seemed to gravitate towards the same places! We just went to the other places! There's certainly quiet spots all over the ship if that's what you like. We would definitely sail with them again and it's great to hear that you have had good experiences too. Cheers 🍻
I love your 'down to earth' comments and how you report on the things most people find interesting or important. Much better than looking at an agents brochure or their own marketing information. Real people, real experiences ... looking forward to the next one already 😊
Thank you so much. Thats a lovely comment. Were the same, we'd much rather see people's real life experience. We always tend to find a good time wherever we go, and as we found with Costa, it can be as lively or as quiet as you want it to be. Cheers for watching 🍻
Interesting to hear your thoughts on Costa. Its fun exploring new ships. Like you say we all can find a space to do our cruise our way. Sprouts for brekkie.... that's just weird! sounds like you had a great time!
Yep sprouts for brekkie is a new one on us! We really enjoyed Costa and would definitely sail with them again. As you said, just do it your own way and you'll have a great time. Cheers 🍻
Great video, love the voice over work and storytelling. That day in Sardinia sounds pretty close to being perfect!! Looks like a decent cruise to me, very surprised that it's rated so poorly.
Cheers Matt. We love Sardinia, the beaches are just something else. We loved Costa. Great value, interesting ports and we'd definitely sail again. Cheers for watching and your lovely comment 🍻
Hey both, excellent fast paced summary of whole cruise well edited. That ship reminds me of older carnival ships, but I like it. Food looks pretty good and ship looks very lively, did you find it a bit too busy? Pools looked a bit crazy! Nice touch you get to seat with other english speaking people. Look forward to in depth port day vlogs. Have great week. Cheers 🍻
We thought the same offer watching one of your vlogs about carnival. Old school glam decor, but we loved it! Costa offer great itineraries and they really should t be rated worst cruise line. A cruise is what you make it. There was plenty to do to make it either a relaxed cruise or a party cruise! Cheers 🍻
Cheers guys. Thanks for all the info in your vids too that got us Costa ready! Yep, he was a great cruise director, language skills for days! Cheers for watching 🍻
Part of the local mafia 😝 love the branded t-shirt. This ship looks cute as hell! Aww sorry you didn’t win the quiz, SWOT! 😝 feel ya pain we are losers too! 😂 That looks like a good sausage Wills 😉 That Teppanyaki booking was so weird! We’re really intrigued by the theatre! Can’t wait for the rest of this series.
Ah thanks guys. Yep it's a different experience, but it's certainly not a bad one! The music quiz was funny, as it was mostly modern music and then the odd Spanish or Italian top hit that we didn't have a clue on! I think the Teppinyaki was a one off, the guy said that now and again it happens! No worries though, we just went the next night, but I guess the lesson is, if it doesn't show on your app and you've booked it, go check! Costa's itineraries are great and do differ from the P&O ports. We'd love to see you guys try Costa! Cheers 🍻
Finding your spiritual home at the aperol spritz bar, I'm with you on that one Rach 😂🍹👌. Nice early embarkation. Bonus! All in all, the ship looks great, definitely worthy of some higher ratings and better reviews. Food looked good too 😋. We liked that you showed the quieter areas, and that you could get away from the crowds if that was your thing. Loved the cook at the sushi restaurant, that is one happy dude 😊. For us, we need more solitude, so costa looks too busy for us, but that is just our personal preference, we think it is great you guys are giving it a fair hearing, and we love watching you two on a cruise! Can't wait for the diary vlogs of your port days, bring them on!🤩👏. Have a brilliant week guys, Shell and Pete 😊👊👍
Ah thanks guys. We had a fun week and although it was busier in places, we always found somewhere quiet (to be honest more so than on other ships!). The Teppinyaki chef was a legend and that food was amazing!! We'd definitely cruise with Costa again. They offer really lovely itineraries that are often different to the usual go to British cruises! Cheers 🍻
Like you ... Seen so many mixed reviews on Costa, and have for years tended to stick to one cruise company... But they seem to have let standards slip so might be worth a little look at something else like this... 👍
Hadn’t finished my comment 😂 but wow it all looks great! Your week on board looks awesome! We don’t do cruises or kids so definitely not for us 😂😂 but we love coming along with you guys 😂
Thank you. Sardinia is just stunning and we love it! We've done a few videos just about Olbia and surrounding areas (about 2 years ago now). The sea there is just incredible. Cheers 🍻
Wow! From what you’ve shown the ship deserves higher ratings! I love the decor and the food looked delicious. Looking forward to seeing more. ~Cheers Cara ❤
My first cruise was on the Carnival Inspiration many years ago and this ship gave me the same vibes, especially with the more colourful decor than more modern ships have. I’m a little surprised that you didn’t enjoy the MSR food as much as expected, I would have thought that’d be great?
Thanks for watching. Yes those older ships certainly have character. We had a brilliant week and would veritably cruise with them again. We did enjoy the food, I think we just preferred other lines we've been on. The pasta was amazing though. Cheers for watching 🍻
@@kennethfinnegan2978 hey Ken, not really. Bit scared of the reaction video thing in case we get any copyright issues but to be honest, we don’t want to stray out of the travel genre. Might consider one for the Patreon 😂
You had me at bombalone, the breakfast donuts. I think that would almost be enough to get me on a cruise. What's that about the cold shrimp? Cold prawns are a tradition here in Oz. Everybody sits around peeling cold (cooked) prawns by the dozen and chowing them down. Of course if yours were freshly grilled prawns served cold then that is indeed wrong. Teppanyaki is Japanese isn't it. 😂 That's all the preparation you need for Japanese trip. Actually there are cruises around Japan. That would be very cool. Great job on the video again. Cheers!!!!
Cheers Shane. We were thinking that maybe as it's so hot they prefer cooler buffet food! If you get served cooler food in the U.K., you usually end up with food poisoning! The Teppinyaki was amazing! We are so Japan ready (although our Japanese chef was as he put it - Tokyo via the Philippines!!). A Japanese cruise???? We'd try it! Cheers 🍻
Cruises are totally not for us but why is it we thoroughly enjoy watching other people taking them 🤷🏻♀️! This was so good! These floating Cities look amazing! The cabin looked great and superb for the 4 usb points! Ooo that pizza looked good 👍 great tour of the ship! 4pm for your holiday drink is totally acceptable! Yay your cases have arrived 💃 wow you have to go through quite a lot to get settled in 😬 meals looked good especially the pasta 👍 you really have to get on with folk you meet! Think that’s our problem with cruises…. Fill it with animals we’ll be fine! Will be a struggle with humans… too much pretending everything’s ok 🤣🤣🤣 cheers with the wine situation 😂 sprouts??? 😮😂 you always find jacuzzis to your self! Places look so cool and we look forward to your adventures! Always love seeing pizza 🍕! Great DJ night 💃 10 and a half tracks is 1 mile wow! Great you can keep fit to allow for holiday treats! Ooo good sausage 😂 disappointed re bookings but good pizza and tiramisu result! Great visits! We look forward to more! Gandam style 😂😂
Cheers guys. It was a really fun week and we'd certainly sail with them again. Our finding companions were all wonderful people, we really enjoyed getting to know them. It was busy around the ship, but you could always find a quiet spot! Yep we enjoyed walking our mile - we walked miles and miles in ports for sure! Cheers for watching 🍻
Thank you so much for your review I am going on the Costa Pacifica in October not with my husband but with my friend who lives in Mallorca, we embark at Palma. She has never been on a cruise and is super excited but she rang me and said OMG have you read the reviews on this ship; I said I haven't but don't worry it's what you make of it. I have just watched your video and I feel so relieved I have forwarded it over to her so hopefully it will put her mind at rest
Ah thank you so much. We were pretty apprehensive after reading the reviews and watching a few very negative vlogs, but as you say, it's what you make it. We thoroughly enjoyed our week and have another 4 videos coming out that show our week in a more diary style. You'll have an amazing time! Cheers for watching 🍻
I think if you go on with a view of how your cruise should be, you probably won't like it. But if you look, you can make it anything you want to be. We loved it. Cheers 🍻
It’s a big thing here in the states but I don’t know if it has hit you guys yet. Never charge your phone from a strange USB port. You don’t know who is on the other side of that port stealing your phone info and personal info. Always use a electric outlet. Wills, any port in the storm is not your friend! Here they say don’t even use the USB ports at the airport!
Cruise experience is always exciting 😊
I have been in a cruise ship 🚢 only once in my lifetime
I can never forget that
Thank you so much Aishu. It sounds like you had a wonderful time. X
Really enjoyed this video - very well done! I really enjoyed my cruises with Costa - I'm really surprised by their price point, and always found somewhere quiet to relax!
My warning with Costa is that the ships have LOTS of people on them, but then of course they do - they're low-cost cruise ships, so you need the footfall to turn the profit, I guess!
Thank you so much. Yes there were lots of people on board, but they all seemed to gravitate towards the same places! We just went to the other places! There's certainly quiet spots all over the ship if that's what you like. We would definitely sail with them again and it's great to hear that you have had good experiences too. Cheers 🍻
I love your 'down to earth' comments and how you report on the things most people find interesting or important. Much better than looking at an agents brochure or their own marketing information. Real people, real experiences ... looking forward to the next one already 😊
Thank you so much. Thats a lovely comment. Were the same, we'd much rather see people's real life experience. We always tend to find a good time wherever we go, and as we found with Costa, it can be as lively or as quiet as you want it to be. Cheers for watching 🍻
This Cruise looks very nice to me, don't think it deserves a bad rating!
Beautifully edited video😊❤😊.
Thank you so much. We agree, it doesn't deserve the reviews it gets. We had a wonderful week. Cheers for watching 🍻
That's a very wonderful and meaningful journey. Thanks to you, I was able to enjoy the Cruise Line. Thanks for sharing, my friends.🥷🇯🇵
Thank you so much for watching 🍻
Interesting to hear your thoughts on Costa. Its fun exploring new ships. Like you say we all can find a space to do our cruise our way. Sprouts for brekkie.... that's just weird! sounds like you had a great time!
Yep sprouts for brekkie is a new one on us! We really enjoyed Costa and would definitely sail with them again. As you said, just do it your own way and you'll have a great time. Cheers 🍻
Great first day. Love to see the drinks flowing. Way to get your exercise in. Tiramisu, yum!
Cheers guys. We had a great time and it was a lovely itinerary too! Gotta get those steps in after Tiramisu!!! Cheers 🍻
Great video, love the voice over work and storytelling. That day in Sardinia sounds pretty close to being perfect!! Looks like a decent cruise to me, very surprised that it's rated so poorly.
Cheers Matt. We love Sardinia, the beaches are just something else. We loved Costa. Great value, interesting ports and we'd definitely sail again. Cheers for watching and your lovely comment 🍻
Hey both, excellent fast paced summary of whole cruise well edited.
That ship reminds me of older carnival ships, but I like it. Food looks pretty good and ship looks very lively, did you find it a bit too busy? Pools looked a bit crazy! Nice touch you get to seat with other english speaking people.
Look forward to in depth port day vlogs. Have great week. Cheers 🍻
We thought the same offer watching one of your vlogs about carnival. Old school glam decor, but we loved it! Costa offer great itineraries and they really should t be rated worst cruise line. A cruise is what you make it. There was plenty to do to make it either a relaxed cruise or a party cruise! Cheers 🍻
Great video guys! Absolutely packed with info. Amazing to see you had the same cruise director as we had on Diadema
Cheers guys. Thanks for all the info in your vids too that got us Costa ready! Yep, he was a great cruise director, language skills for days! Cheers for watching 🍻
Part of the local mafia 😝 love the branded t-shirt. This ship looks cute as hell! Aww sorry you didn’t win the quiz, SWOT! 😝 feel ya pain we are losers too! 😂 That looks like a good sausage Wills 😉 That Teppanyaki booking was so weird! We’re really intrigued by the theatre! Can’t wait for the rest of this series.
Ah thanks guys. Yep it's a different experience, but it's certainly not a bad one! The music quiz was funny, as it was mostly modern music and then the odd Spanish or Italian top hit that we didn't have a clue on! I think the Teppinyaki was a one off, the guy said that now and again it happens! No worries though, we just went the next night, but I guess the lesson is, if it doesn't show on your app and you've booked it, go check! Costa's itineraries are great and do differ from the P&O ports. We'd love to see you guys try Costa! Cheers 🍻
Looks absolutely wonderful, very much looking forward to the follow up, 🤩.
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Cheers 🍻
Finding your spiritual home at the aperol spritz bar, I'm with you on that one Rach 😂🍹👌. Nice early embarkation. Bonus! All in all, the ship looks great, definitely worthy of some higher ratings and better reviews. Food looked good too 😋. We liked that you showed the quieter areas, and that you could get away from the crowds if that was your thing. Loved the cook at the sushi restaurant, that is one happy dude 😊. For us, we need more solitude, so costa looks too busy for us, but that is just our personal preference, we think it is great you guys are giving it a fair hearing, and we love watching you two on a cruise! Can't wait for the diary vlogs of your port days, bring them on!🤩👏.
Have a brilliant week guys,
Shell and Pete 😊👊👍
Ah thanks guys. We had a fun week and although it was busier in places, we always found somewhere quiet (to be honest more so than on other ships!). The Teppinyaki chef was a legend and that food was amazing!! We'd definitely cruise with Costa again. They offer really lovely itineraries that are often different to the usual go to British cruises! Cheers 🍻
Like you ... Seen so many mixed reviews on Costa, and have for years tended to stick to one cruise company... But they seem to have let standards slip so might be worth a little look at something else like this... 👍
We had steeled ourselves for a sub par experience - what we got was a really great experience. We'd definitely sail with Costa again. Cheers 🍻
Hadn’t finished my comment 😂 but wow it all looks great! Your week on board looks awesome! We don’t do cruises or kids so definitely not for us 😂😂 but we love coming along with you guys 😂
Ah cheers guys. There were plenty of quiet spaces as you can see! Cheers 🍻
Great vlog thanks
Thank you so much for watching 🍻
Another great video can’t wait to see the rest Sardinia looks amazing. Never been there now on the list.
Thank you. Sardinia is just stunning and we love it! We've done a few videos just about Olbia and surrounding areas (about 2 years ago now). The sea there is just incredible. Cheers 🍻
Wow! From what you’ve shown the ship deserves higher ratings! I love the decor and the food looked delicious. Looking forward to seeing more. ~Cheers Cara ❤
Honestly, we loved it. Unless we had an exceptionally good experience, it certainly doesn't deserve the reviews it gets!! Cheers 🍻
Rachel is so nice and polite when a problem comes up. I would have been furious.
If our booking had been cancelled maybe I'd have been mad, but it just moved to the next night - no harm done!
My first cruise was on the Carnival Inspiration many years ago and this ship gave me the same vibes, especially with the more colourful decor than more modern ships have.
I’m a little surprised that you didn’t enjoy the MSR food as much as expected, I would have thought that’d be great?
Thanks for watching. Yes those older ships certainly have character. We had a brilliant week and would veritably cruise with them again. We did enjoy the food, I think we just preferred other lines we've been on. The pasta was amazing though. Cheers for watching 🍻
Have you guys ever thought about taking a week or two off of traveling and doing movie reactions? I would love to watch that.
@@kennethfinnegan2978 hey Ken, not really. Bit scared of the reaction video thing in case we get any copyright issues but to be honest, we don’t want to stray out of the travel genre. Might consider one for the Patreon 😂
@@PostcardAndAPint well if you do it for Patreon, start with the Rocky movies!
@@kennethfinnegan2978 good call!!!
Think I’m first 😂…now on to the video
You certainly are - enjoy 🍻
You had me at bombalone, the breakfast donuts. I think that would almost be enough to get me on a cruise. What's that about the cold shrimp? Cold prawns are a tradition here in Oz. Everybody sits around peeling cold (cooked) prawns by the dozen and chowing them down. Of course if yours were freshly grilled prawns served cold then that is indeed wrong. Teppanyaki is Japanese isn't it. 😂 That's all the preparation you need for Japanese trip. Actually there are cruises around Japan. That would be very cool.
Great job on the video again. Cheers!!!!
Cheers Shane. We were thinking that maybe as it's so hot they prefer cooler buffet food! If you get served cooler food in the U.K., you usually end up with food poisoning! The Teppinyaki was amazing! We are so Japan ready (although our Japanese chef was as he put it - Tokyo via the Philippines!!). A Japanese cruise???? We'd try it! Cheers 🍻
Wills didn’t scare Beth & Chris away with his Rocky Horror t-shirt? 😂😂
He didn't. They were a lovely couple 🍻
Actually, if the shrimp is cooked already you can eat cold, room temperature or even microwaved. I prefer it cold.
@@Amanda--- I too love them cold - usually out of the fridge. It was the lukewarm that was not for me!! Cheers for watching 🍻
Cruises are totally not for us but why is it we thoroughly enjoy watching other people taking them 🤷🏻♀️! This was so good! These floating Cities look amazing! The cabin looked great and superb for the 4 usb points! Ooo that pizza looked good 👍 great tour of the ship! 4pm for your holiday drink is totally acceptable! Yay your cases have arrived 💃 wow you have to go through quite a lot to get settled in 😬 meals looked good especially the pasta 👍 you really have to get on with folk you meet! Think that’s our problem with cruises…. Fill it with animals we’ll be fine! Will be a struggle with humans… too much pretending everything’s ok 🤣🤣🤣 cheers with the wine situation 😂 sprouts??? 😮😂 you always find jacuzzis to your self! Places look so cool and we look forward to your adventures! Always love seeing pizza 🍕! Great DJ night 💃 10 and a half tracks is 1 mile wow! Great you can keep fit to allow for holiday treats! Ooo good sausage 😂 disappointed re bookings but good pizza and tiramisu result! Great visits! We look forward to more! Gandam style 😂😂
Cheers guys. It was a really fun week and we'd certainly sail with them again. Our finding companions were all wonderful people, we really enjoyed getting to know them. It was busy around the ship, but you could always find a quiet spot! Yep we enjoyed walking our mile - we walked miles and miles in ports for sure! Cheers for watching 🍻
Thank you so much for your review I am going on the Costa Pacifica in October not with my husband but with my friend who lives in Mallorca, we embark at Palma. She has never been on a cruise and is super excited but she rang me and said OMG have you read the reviews on this ship; I said I haven't but don't worry it's what you make of it. I have just watched your video and I feel so relieved I have forwarded it over to her so hopefully it will put her mind at rest
Ah thank you so much. We were pretty apprehensive after reading the reviews and watching a few very negative vlogs, but as you say, it's what you make it. We thoroughly enjoyed our week and have another 4 videos coming out that show our week in a more diary style. You'll have an amazing time! Cheers for watching 🍻
I have heard so many polarizing views about this ship, it seems people either really love it or hate it
I think if you go on with a view of how your cruise should be, you probably won't like it. But if you look, you can make it anything you want to be. We loved it. Cheers 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint very true
Brussel sprouts for breakfast 😳, they are so expensive though I can’t afford them.
Neither of us like them!! They were just so random sitting there in the booked section one day! Cheers 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint I love them but they are about $20 a kilo here .
It’s a big thing here in the states but I don’t know if it has hit you guys yet. Never charge your phone from a strange USB port. You don’t know who is on the other side of that port stealing your phone info and personal info. Always use a electric outlet. Wills, any port in the storm is not your friend! Here they say don’t even use the USB ports at the airport!
Not heard that before so cheers for the heads up! We tend to charge on our own power banks 🍻
Like 115, Wonderful footage stunning the beautiful alluring scenery, thanks for sharing and bringing us here and stay safe always.
Thank you so much for watching. We had a wonderful week. Cheers 🍻
Rach, Aren’t you meeting your niece on this trip?
That's the next trip!
Racist cruise to everyone except Germans?! Oh man that’s brutal.
The reviews make for very dry entertaining reading!!
@@PostcardAndAPint I deleted what I wrote about the subject first. You would have deleted it. 🤣😂
@@kennethfinnegan2978 haha, just seen your email 😂