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Pam
I have been on ATHENA last Friday.The ship is a classic ship with beatiful interiors, all well maintained with fresh and warm colors. It's the typical Italian-Mediterranean style.She was completely reconstructed at Varco Chiapella in Italy in the early 90ies, only her hull remained from her former life as STOCKHOLM and VÖLKERFREUNDSCHAFT.All the rest including the superstructure of the ship is new.The vessel is now operated by Arcalia Shipping (CIC).The crew is very friendly and attentive. It lokks very much like they were trained and formed well and are familiar with the ship already.Currently she sails under charter to Vivamare from Germany which has its own cruise-staff onboard. Cruise-director Werner Franke is professional and very friendly but be careful about a certain Mr Auer from Vivamare who thinks he is the boss of all but finally has no influence anyway... Not a friendly guy at all.Captain is from WORLD RENAISSANCE.
All in all I can recommend this ship from what I could see. Unfortunately I cannot judge about food or cabins but if I take other Arcalia-vessels, these pionts should be positive.Only disadvantage could maybe be that her engines are very noisy compared to other vessels of this kind. But a real ship-fan might not feel disturbed by this and gets used to it.
Patrick
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