APT River Cruises & Tours
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Have just returned from an 8 night…
Have just returned from an 8 night break on Travelmarvel Capella. Whilst the ship is lovely and new we found it very limiting - only one lounge in the evenings and the dining room quite noisy and busy as the start of the meal was at a set time.We found the food quite bad and cannot believe a qualified chef would serve some of the food we were given. We sent quite a few dishes back after one taste - come on APT people want good food not frilly nonsense eg one appetiser was half a boiled egg & the tiniest grissini ever seen !!! The entertainment in the evenings was mediocre - some passengers very loud and who seemed to think walking round in the same pair of shorts and t shirt for days was acceptable ? What happened to the brochure description that shorts were not allowed in the dining room and lounges in the evenings ? No staff ever enforced that. We also had a couple of issues on the included tours one of which involved 8 of us being left behind in Vienna for an hour as 2 shuttle buses failed to show up and they seemed to expect us to get taxis back to the ship - we had to do this eventually which they paid for but it left a nasty taste - not very organised. Overall the cruise was not what we had expected - it was our first river cruise after many ocean cruises and have to say it will be our last. Back to ocean cruising for us