Costa Concordia
I’ve never sailed on the Costa Concordia. However, I did sail in 2007 on her sister ship, the Costa Serena on a 3 week cruise in the Western Mediterranean.
The ship was massive weighing in at 112 thousand tons! The interior of the ship was “interesting” with bold glitzy post modern designs complete with glass bubble elevators. The service staff were largely Italian, Eastern European and Filipinos. The best thing about the ship I thought was the Formula One Simulator on board.
As a former motor racing champion, the F1 Simulator was something I looked forward to, so I wasted no time booking a time once I was on board. The session was so intense that when I emerged from the cockpit after 15 minutes, I was drenched in sweat, partly due to the intense concentration and partly due to the fact that I insisted on wearing my old racing overalls to simulate the actual experience!
Although we enjoyed our cruise, we were rather put off by the loud mainly Italian passengers and the fact that everything on board, including the evening shows had to be translated into 5 languages! We resolved never to sail Costa again … fortunately.
The Costa Concordia incident has not put us off cruising. In fact, we booked two 6 star cruises in the aftermath of the Concordia incident as we knew that prices would plunge and the perks offered by cruise lines would rise correspondingly! Sure enough, we booked a back to back Crystal Symphony and a Seabourne Odyssey cruise to the Greek Isles at massive discounts and received on board credits running into $2,500, which we used for purchasing useful stuff such as high end watches on board.
In our view, cruising is till the world’s safest mode of transport for you can count on your fingertips the number of fatalities since the Titanic incident more than a century ago!
Fortunately, on the fateful night of the Concordia incident, when the captain was racked by indecision and some say, cowardice, the captain of the Costa Serena who happened to be on board hitching a ride back to Savona, Costa’s home port, took charge and ordered the evacuation! As a result the damage was greatly mitigated.
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