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Royal Olympic Cruises

MTS Triton

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Reviewed by: Alan Docksey
# previous cruises: 10+
Date of Trip: September 23, 1999
Itinerary: Mediterranean

Well our cruise was from Civitivecchia via Messina, Itea, Piraeus, Mykonos, Patmos, Kusadisi and Santorini. The ship is not as billed in its literature when you get there. If you travelled across the north sea by ferry then you have some idea of the accommodation you get after paying a £245 per person upgrade, only the ferry is better! On the day we left one person boarding saw their room and wanting to go home straight away!

The ship is undergoing continuous refit so be prepared for your cabin interior to have changed while you go ashore. During our cruise no public toilets were available so you had to continually return to cabin for facilities.

Beware the pricing in dollars means you pay in dollars and they give you drachma in change unless its the last day of the cruise when you cannot buy anything by credit card or charge to your cabin.

The rear deck with the pool was in grubby condition, the pool could accommodate no more than 6 people and was actually drained for most of the cruise.

The Sirenes lounge where most entertainment took place was serviced with such loud music that many people were driven to other areas where acceptable noise levels were used. Many of chairs were grubby and some appeared to be broken.

Breakfast was free sitting in that you were free to sit where ever the waiters put you with no consideration of the language spoken, so be prepared to share breakfast with people you cannot converse with.

Lunch in the restaurant was hit and miss, sometimes good sometimes appalling. The pool deck buffet was much more reliable and consistent.

Evening meals were good, waiters generally good and some good wine waiters but watch out for the non greek wine waiters - really surly.

As said above north sea ferry standard if your lucky. Many cabins were small. Showers are ageing with dodgy temperature controls so be careful! We had a cracked basin and a plug that did not hold water even after it was "fixed". Fixing took several days.

When the ship docked fumes from the funnels would feed into the air conditioning for the cabin a wonderful early morning call.

Entertainment was very average Scandinavian Seaways do better on the one day run to Hamburg. Band was poor and was out shone on the amateur talent night. The magician was brill and should have had more time. Beware Valentino the murderer of many a ballad.

The classical music duo played the same tunes every day for every performance!

The cruise management staff were particularity helpful if you had no serious problems - if you had a major problem they were never to be found or ran a mile.

Also be prepared for the booze tax. There is no daily tipping of staff but they add 15% to all drinks you purchase and you only get free non alcoholic drinks at meal times.

The best thing to do on this boat is go ashore. The trips were pretty good and some great things to see but disembarkation was chaotic. You would not believe how much shore time you lose through this.

No child care that we heard of parents had babies in prams in the lounge during the shows.

Beauty salon got good reports.

Otherwise you need plenty of books sun oil and a big towel to get to the sun beds early.

Met some really nice people we would invite home. Lots of people who had done cruises felt the boat was abysmal one american caterer described the food as dog meat! On the formal dinner night some people still turned up in t shirts - no effort made at all.