We agree in the main with these comments and feel that Ocania should ditch Destinations and find a more sensibly priced excursions organisation. They had very little knowledge of alternative transport such as local buses for people not wishing to spend so much on the excursions and the excursion we took in Santorini included a visit to a ceramics factory which took up time and was not wanted. Also the so called local guide for Genoa did not point out the Railway station from which it is a simple matter to get to Santa Margherita and from thence to Portofino. It was a similar tale at Naples where for a nominal sum they could have organised a bus to Sorrento far less than 50 dollars per head! Apart from the disappointmet of missing 5 ports of call and finding shops and museums closed in the bigger ports because of the national holiday, we did enjoy this our first cruise on this beautiful ship with the wonderful crew, fabulous food and we found the entertainment just perfect especially the wonderful Ray Solaire, Bruce Smirnoff, Emily Garth and the incredible violinist Artur Banasievic!! We are already looking for our next cruise with Oceania.

We loved the ship, the food was very good and the staff excellent. The shore excursions are overpriced, we were also on the Siena trip but having been before several times felt that the information offered was lacking. We were very disappointed in the missed ports, whilst we understand safety comes first, there should have been a contingency plan in place. Very disappointed in management's handling of the missed ports particularly when the visits to those ports was for us the reason Oceania was chosen above other cruise lines.

The on shore excursions were overpriced but most of the passengers were from America and Australia. These people , having come so far , were prepared to pay but the miserable English were not. THe cruise was brilliant and if you do your own thing on shore and don't drink alcohol then it was very good value for money. The nightly entertainment was brilliant and Ray Solaire was amazing.