Customer comments: 10 day cruise on the Splendour of the Seas
... We just love RCI. They did a great job. This was a smaller older
ship, but we liked it fine. Our junior suite was perfect. The veranda was very
nice size. There were a lot of Europeans on board, but we did not have any
problem with them smoking out on our deck from either cabin on our sides. It
was a very nice crowd and the crew and staff could not have been more helpful,
and somehow seemed genuine at all times. The room attendant was twice as good
as any butler we have ever had on lines much more expensive than this one!!!
The pics are : Venice (3 great days there at the Molino Stucky
Hilton) prior to the cruise. The Giants' Staricase at the Doge's Palace, and
St. Mark's Square. Then we are dining at a little spot on the canal near the
Realto Bridge. The lion is at Diocletian's Palace (from 300 A.D.) at Split,
Croatia; our stateroom and one of the great room-service breakfasts we had each
morning before our tours; me in Old Town Corfu which is a Unesco World Heritage
Site, and the waterfront in Crete (we loved Crete!!); In Athens we opted for
the Acropolis Museum since we had been to the Acropolis before, and the museum
is all new, all glass, and you can see current excavations through the glass
floors on all 3 levels. It is amazing and the Parthenon is towering above. It
is an amazing tour!!!!! The mosaic is from Delos (tour from Mykonos) We did
this the last time and loved it so much we repeated it. The marble lions are
also from Delos and there was a lot more excavation that when we were there 2
years ago. The ship shot is from Santorini (crowded, congested and hot there).
The cable car is a real bottleneck in getting in and out of there. We fell in
love with Katakolon and Olympia....much more impressive than we had thought it
would be. The last 3 shots are from there: the stadium, lion heads from Zeus's
Temple and me at the latter also. Wow, it was amazing!!! The area was beautiful
with corn, melons, cotto, wine grapes and olive groves all round.
The cruise was a delight. Only problems were the intensely hot
weather (115 the day we were in Croatia with 84% humidity........this continued
most days but not quite as hot, finally some cooling at Katakolon). Also the
flights, security, and airports in general were awful. Virgin Air prem. economy
was not bad, but we had a few hassles and they lost our luggage in Venice for a
day and a half. ...
