My husband and I cruised on the August 19th sailing. We had a fantastic time. The English speaking passengers were very much a minority on this sailing(not sure if this is the case every week being that it sails from Civitavecchia). All annoucements were made in English and Italian and there even was an Italian counterpart to the English speaking cruise director, who had a whole Italian speaking staff.

Embarkation was the easiest I have every experienced. We were on the ship in

minutes!!! The same went for Debarkation at the end of the week. Read more