Treasures of the Aegaen
We have booked Treasures of the Aegean for May, 2027 and we would like to get reviews from others who have been on this small ship tour. Thank you in advance to those who respond !
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We have booked Treasures of the Aegean for May, 2027 and we would like to get reviews from others who have been on this small ship tour. Thank you in advance to those who respond !
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You can see a lot about the cruise in my blog - https://www.mikeandjudytravel.com/2024-2Athens-01.htm
The ship was the WindStar which is a very old ship (40 years), the cabins are tiny, there are no elevator(s) and you have to take an outside stairs to get to the restaurant (not bad unless it's raining). I don't know which ship they use for that tour today.
The highlight of the tour is the dinner at Ephesus.
My one real disappointment was that I could not find a company that offered a day tour with a boat ride through the Corinth Canal. I contacted every provider of day tours that I could find in Athens. They would take me to see the Corinth Canal but none of them would provide a boat ride through the canal.
Following up on my original post above, our ship is going to be Wind Surf.
Mike, I've seen and looked down into the Corinth Canal when we crossed the bridge during a bus excursion (not Tauck) from Athens to the Peloponnese. It is nothing more than a deep, narrow, rock-cut channel built about the same time as the Panama Canal. You would just see the rock walls and sky if looking up from the Canal and It might be just mildly interesting to see a small cruise ship from above as it slowly sails through where there is literally only a few feet clearance either side of the ship's navigation bridge, but, having seen it, it really isn't something that I would spend any extra time or money to see.
@AlanS - Yes, I know. I've looked at pictures. I just wanted the experience of sailing throught the canal.
The Wind Surf is a different experience than the Wind Star. We have done Wind Surf twelve times and I just booked antother trip on her. The cabins are small. It’s a sailboat. You sleep there and change clothes. You are rarely in the cabin.
Mike, my guess re: the canal is that boats going thru the canal must pay a fee to do so. Of course, the tour operator could pass that along to the customers if it wasn't so much they'd lose business on it.
Yes, there is definitely a fee for a boat to go through the Corinth Canal, just like the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal. But, as you say, the tourist could pay that. And if there were multiple people on the boat, the cost would be spread over all the passengers. I'm sure the cost is by boat and not by passenger.
Like other canals, I assume the toll is based on the size of the boat, so a somewhat small tourist boat would not be charged the same as a small cruise ship (it has to be small to fit through the canal).