Magellan Review

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The trip to hell

Review for the British Isles & Western Europe Cruise on Magellan
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Garigale
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Dec 2017

Now this was an extremely memorable cruise for all the wrong reasons. I am in fact lucky to be alive I feel after spending three weeks on board over Christmas 2017 on a trip to Cape Verde and up through the Canary Islands, Tenerife and Madeira. These were all places I was keen to visit and me and my elderly mother of 88 flew to London from Australia to join this cruise.

We are not cruise novices at all. In fact I have been on all the major cruise lines and before this I only had cause to whinge about the most mundane things.

From the get go we were not impressed with the Magellan but I became increasingly alarmed as more and more people succumbed to an horrific form of pneumonia. Apparently there were dozens of people lying around on drips in the ship's hospital. Out of our table of 7 people, 4 became incredibly ill and I assume it was rampant through the air conditioning system which was turned too high. I just sadly waited my turn and then it hit me too, but fortunately after we'd seen Madeira so I only missed Porto. However I have never been sick on a cruise ship and now I associate the Magellan with death and destruction.

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The cabin was extremely noisy due to creaking sounds made by ghosts perhaps. Also the air conditioning was too high. But Maria our room steward, was extremely good and helpful. The cabin was kept very clean by her.

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