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Originally Posted by Moemg
. Royal Carribean has the Splendor of the Seas doing baltic. That is one of their smaller ships but still very nice . I know Nemo uses Pullmantur cruises which is basically older ships from RCL and Celebrity that have been redone Their cruises tend to be cheap but Nemo enjoys them and he likes basic cruising .
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Currently about to leave Krakow, Poland, for Warsaw, we were on the Pullmantur
Monarch from May 09 to June 10.......(boarded in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, and disembarked in Bergen, Norway)......the
Monarch has a GW of ~74k tons, and while it's not 'small' it's not huge either.
Loved the ship, (although, for foodies, the fare would likely be considered 'repetitive'...we're not foodies so it was a minor issue), it was cheap and all-inclusive, and even though we're not drinkers per se we did suck back a couple free
Tecates after a warm day ashore.
(Post cruise we've had contact with other passengers, (who in one instance have spoken with other-other passengers), and a number of them have already booked an eastbound transatlantic with Pullmantur for next Spring.
One couple, (who have already booked), we had previously encountered on the CDF Croisières de France
Horizon, which we've been on three times.........don't know the operational details but Croisières de France, which was also a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean, has, (or will be shortly), been absorbed by Pullmantur.)
VTG are offering a 'past guest' rate (for an inside cabin) of $949 p.p., their 'fastdeal' #10187 on the
Monarch from Helsinki to Rostock, (stopping at St. Petersburg, Tallinn and Stockholm).......there are others.