The Costa Serena cruise ship sailing past a coastal city. The large white ship features a yellow funnel with a blue "C" and yellow lifeboats. A smaller tour boat cruises in front of it, and a tall stone tower rises from the city hillside.

Costa Cruises

Eastern Mediterranean from Piraeus | Athens

Europe

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Costa Serena

Eight years in Asia, and now the longest way home in the fleet, Taiwan to the Caribbean by way of Brazil

Aboard

  • Delivered by Fincantieri at Sestri Ponente in 2007, at a cost of about €450 million
  • The oldest surviving ship of the Concordia class
  • Christened by Marion Cotillard
  • Themed on the Roman gods, with 1,500 cabins across thirteen passenger decks
  • Based in China from 2015, then India and Thailand from 2023
  • Four continents on one calendar: Asia, South America, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean

Ashore

Where You Stop

Piraeus

Valletta

Mykonos

Europe

The Greek Isles

Whitewashed villages spilling down volcanic cliffs, harbors the color of a swimming pool, and ruins you walk through rather than past; the Aegean is small enough that a week reaches a genuine cross-section of it.

Best Time to Go
May, June, September and October; July and August are hot and crowded
Typical Length
7 to 10 nights
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Porto, Portugal

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