(Finally) finished back of the AIDA Having toiled really much this year, we wanted to enjoy a relaxing break. Karina had long been a desire to go on a cruise.
Well, now we are back home and said the bottom line, I can only recommend, not to take any cruise or especially on the AIDA to pass.
Why are we (I am a little more, Karina slightly less) come to this question?
summary, I can say:
Positive: - The food is excellent.
- The shows are of high quality.
- The equipment of the ship, especially the spa and sports area is excellent.
Negative: - volume on the car: Our cabin was super loud! We were most directly similar to the main generator at least it has 24 / 7 growled deep and loud. Even the walls would shake off easy. No kidding! I slept in the first 5 nights, maybe a total of 15 hours. Accordingly, I whacked did. On 6 Day we were given by other guests earplugs. From then on it was a little better.
learn how we can get it at expensive and cheap cabins to noise. (Disco, laundry, drive, generator, child care, ..)
- Continuous assessment: After each shore was lit entirely by you could, belt and watch and take everything metal. Pure idiocy to calm the masses - without any purpose. To sink the boat in a terrorist act there are more deliberation many ways to circumvent this control immediately. So it meets again only the normal citizens. One day we were allowed to queue at the entrance control about 20 minutes to get to's ship. The people have 20 minutes after us, but probably have to wait 45 minutes because the stroke was about 200m long!
- preventive detention of dangerous objects On entering the vessel was taken from me in fact my pocket knife. It was with a blade length of 8 inches is exactly 1 inch longer than allowed. We are reminded, once again, that terrorists operate regularly with pocket knives. The removal of nail clippers at airports has indeed been shown to prevent several hundred aircraft hijacking, as we all know.
- Senseless action "swine flu" On entering the ship you were forced (But I have always pushed for it) to disinfect their hands. Most Travelled have this senseless activism in their ignorance, even made friends with. The skin looks forward to regular disinfection special!
is that the flu virus by droplet infection and more widespread transmission of "hand" of entirely secondary importance, such logical arguments are not known for activism.
- Security Lab: You had to take part in a drill. Here we practiced how to create a life jacket and then goes to the assembly point. The creation of the life jacket is trivial. The road to the staging area is recorded on the inside of your car door foolproof. If the vacation was relaxing, then I would use this exercise for an hour has been stolen.
The exercise we have on 2 Days made - if we were now ready to open on the first day ...?
- Overcharging about prices can known, one can argue. What is a bargain for the millionaire expensive for the poor. We consider ourselves a good average. And the prices are for services that go beyond the full board, demands are sometimes acceptable, but often quite crisp.
drinks at the bar, I still considered part of the acceptable pricing structures, shore excursions are even more direct.
particularly expensive but is the on-board hospital. Through my
significant sleep deprivation is an old "war suffering" broken again - a tooth root infection. So I went to the hospital, said I to the tooth No. 6, right upper jaw, a bacterial root infection 've got. You may contact me to give an antibiotic. The doctor is thus in the next room, pulls the antibiotics (pharmacy price \u0026lt;20 EUR) and gives it to me. Total time: ~ 3 minutes Men on board. "This time is not enough if one wants to even take a full day hike. Get go with idle times, such as rental car, drive back, make car and some safety buffer is left too little time to really travel to go.
Conclusion .
The bottom line is a boat trip from our subjective point of view with more post-posing a benefit, but sea travel fails more expensive in the Canaries also 50-100% more than a comparable hotel stay
We next time you go back to a hotel. Maybe back in the Barcelo Varadero
where we had a super relaxing and exciting vacation.
Now we have to first hear about this Holiday Relax!