" This was our worst experience in Lefkada. We deeply regretted wasting 9 hours of our lives for a few minutes that we were allowed to dive into the sea.
CONS:
The trip consists of 4 stops for swimming and 1 stop for food. They had asked us to be there one hour before the departure time. They had advertised free parking, but the parking was full - it only had spots for a few cars. The available parking spots were about 1 km away - and parking was not free.
The cruise was so overcrowded that you could barely move within a deck and between the decks. It was a very hot day, and they had promised an AC room, but the AC was not working properly, so they turned AC off, when the AC units started dripping water over the customers. The air-conditioned room was supposed to be smoking free; however after the AC turned off the windows and doors were opened and cigarette smoke was coming in.
The ship was dirty. The carpet was filthy and was smelling awful.
The entire swimming experience was awful too. Because the cruise was so overcrowded, the captain and the crew were rushing people off and on the boat. Other than the first stop, people had to jump on and off from the boat. There were barely any safety or precautionary measures. People were jumping from anywhere on the boat, even from the upper deck (fourth level), over other people. Getting on the boat was a constant struggle. There was only one spot where people could get on the boat and people were pushed around - people in our group ended up with bruises from other people trying to get on the boat.
The captain was unprofessional and completely inappropriate. He was using a megaphone to talk to the customers and the crew. He called a customer "stupid" over the megaphone. He made sexist comments over the megaphone: before one stop, he urged husbands to buy gifts to their wives, boyfriends to buy gifts to their girlfriends, and he shouted that he would buy gifts to the widows on board. He also thought it was a good idea to share with everyone on the boat, a story and location where his parents had unprotected sex and conceived him.
PROS:
The locations we stopped were beautiful, but the entire experience did not allow us to enjoy them as much as we could. "
09 August 2017
Anynomous
" Bad review mostly because of the false information about parking.
Crew didnt let us use Makedonia Palace parking but when they were selling us the tickets they said that we will have secured parking and instead of that they sent as to some wild parking lot.
Captain is very kind and interesting especially towards children. Speaking with a lot of details in I believe 5 languages.
Ship as a ship is OK especially if you have in mind that you paid only 20e for the whole day cruise.
Please choose the middle deck and avoid all day in the sun like we did.
All the best
Nemanja "
24 July 2017
Anynomous
" I feel like on a train in Baghdad. They took our money and people (families) don't have a place to seat and enjoy the view. Don't take this boat or any of these. "
19 July 2017
Anynomous
" The cruise is boring, but maybe the best choice between all the cruises - very long information served in 5 languages and you lose your concentration. This ship was the best decision, because against the others is a bit modern and bit so overcrowded like the others. If I was stucked on some other ship, I would rather jump to the water and kill myself... Than you make few short breaks, for me the only interesting was swimming on Egremni beach, where you can't go by car, or by foot. Anyway the ticket settlers tell you, that only this ship goes to Egremni, only this ship stops on Onasis's island etc. In Greece everybody has the best kebap, best accomodation and best ship cruise. Than you are on the beach and arrives another ship with another 500 people onboard - is it really big problem for all companies to make an deal, that for example this ship goes first to Egremni and then to Porto Katziki and the other ship makes the opposite? The price is 25 € including food, 20 without food. The served souvlaki is so-so, but what you can get for €? Drinks prices about 7 €. In the afternoon they have kinda happy hour, when everything's gets better prices, for example espresso costs 1 €. "
23 June 2017
Anynomous
" All day long cruise that we found very boring for the following reasons:
- 1 h and 45 minutes till 1st stop - Porto Katski
- the promosise was to visit also Egremi beach and did not stop there
- we stopped at the Kefalonia island to visit a port that seams to be not the most important port on the island little things to see an do
- Scorpia insland's stop very crowded, you can not swim as the beach is very small
If you decide to go on the cruise try to negociate the price, go early in the morning to take good places, be patience as it is very crowded, take some clothes as it will be very windy.
- nothing much to do between stops. Just sleep, drink or sun bathing if it's not to windy.
- the announces in the speakers can be annoying when they are talking too much or too loud. There were moments when there was relaxing music playing, that was ok.
You can take your own drinks and food on board as the offer is poor. The prices are similar with those on shore. "
04 June 2017
Anynomous
" Sama tura je super ali preteruju sa brojem putnika na brodu. Ako ne dodjete sat vremena ranije za vas nece biti mesta za sedenje... "
Anynomous
" This was our worst experience in Lefkada. We deeply regretted wasting 9 hours of our lives for a few minutes that we were allowed to dive into the sea.
09 August 2017CONS:
The trip consists of 4 stops for swimming and 1 stop for food. They had asked us to be there one hour before the departure time. They had advertised free parking, but the parking was full - it only had spots for a few cars. The available parking spots were about 1 km away - and parking was not free.
The cruise was so overcrowded that you could barely move within a deck and between the decks. It was a very hot day, and they had promised an AC room, but the AC was not working properly, so they turned AC off, when the AC units started dripping water over the customers. The air-conditioned room was supposed to be smoking free; however after the AC turned off the windows and doors were opened and cigarette smoke was coming in.
The ship was dirty. The carpet was filthy and was smelling awful.
The entire swimming experience was awful too. Because the cruise was so overcrowded, the captain and the crew were rushing people off and on the boat. Other than the first stop, people had to jump on and off from the boat. There were barely any safety or precautionary measures. People were jumping from anywhere on the boat, even from the upper deck (fourth level), over other people. Getting on the boat was a constant struggle. There was only one spot where people could get on the boat and people were pushed around - people in our group ended up with bruises from other people trying to get on the boat.
The captain was unprofessional and completely inappropriate. He was using a megaphone to talk to the customers and the crew. He called a customer "stupid" over the megaphone. He made sexist comments over the megaphone: before one stop, he urged husbands to buy gifts to their wives, boyfriends to buy gifts to their girlfriends, and he shouted that he would buy gifts to the widows on board. He also thought it was a good idea to share with everyone on the boat, a story and location where his parents had unprotected sex and conceived him.
PROS:
The locations we stopped were beautiful, but the entire experience did not allow us to enjoy them as much as we could. "
Anynomous
" Bad review mostly because of the false information about parking.
24 July 2017Crew didnt let us use Makedonia Palace parking but when they were selling us the tickets they said that we will have secured parking and instead of that they sent as to some wild parking lot.
Captain is very kind and interesting especially towards children. Speaking with a lot of details in I believe 5 languages.
Ship as a ship is OK especially if you have in mind that you paid only 20e for the whole day cruise.
Please choose the middle deck and avoid all day in the sun like we did.
All the best
Nemanja "
Anynomous
" I feel like on a train in Baghdad. They took our money and people (families) don't have a place to seat and enjoy the view. Don't take this boat or any of these. "
19 July 2017Anynomous
" The cruise is boring, but maybe the best choice between all the cruises - very long information served in 5 languages and you lose your concentration. This ship was the best decision, because against the others is a bit modern and bit so overcrowded like the others. If I was stucked on some other ship, I would rather jump to the water and kill myself... Than you make few short breaks, for me the only interesting was swimming on Egremni beach, where you can't go by car, or by foot. Anyway the ticket settlers tell you, that only this ship goes to Egremni, only this ship stops on Onasis's island etc. In Greece everybody has the best kebap, best accomodation and best ship cruise. Than you are on the beach and arrives another ship with another 500 people onboard - is it really big problem for all companies to make an deal, that for example this ship goes first to Egremni and then to Porto Katziki and the other ship makes the opposite? The price is 25 € including food, 20 without food. The served souvlaki is so-so, but what you can get for €? Drinks prices about 7 €. In the afternoon they have kinda happy hour, when everything's gets better prices, for example espresso costs 1 €. "
23 June 2017Anynomous
" All day long cruise that we found very boring for the following reasons:
04 June 2017- 1 h and 45 minutes till 1st stop - Porto Katski
- the promosise was to visit also Egremi beach and did not stop there
- we stopped at the Kefalonia island to visit a port that seams to be not the most important port on the island little things to see an do
- Scorpia insland's stop very crowded, you can not swim as the beach is very small
If you decide to go on the cruise try to negociate the price, go early in the morning to take good places, be patience as it is very crowded, take some clothes as it will be very windy.
- nothing much to do between stops. Just sleep, drink or sun bathing if it's not to windy.
- the announces in the speakers can be annoying when they are talking too much or too loud. There were moments when there was relaxing music playing, that was ok.
You can take your own drinks and food on board as the offer is poor. The prices are similar with those on shore. "
Anynomous
" Sama tura je super ali preteruju sa brojem putnika na brodu. Ako ne dodjete sat vremena ranije za vas nece biti mesta za sedenje... "
25 July 2016