Having read a few non-complimentary reviews before we undertook this cruise, we were naturally wary of what was in store.

However our experience compelled me to submit a review in order to strike a balance.

We found that the tra... read more

One of the best Thomson cruises we have been on so far, service in all areas speedy,
Staff very friendly and helpful, [ shower leaked on 2nd day and was fixed immediately when we reported it ] food nonstop and great, can't comment on Captains restau... read more

We travelled on the Emerald from the 4th-12th May 2007, we has an excellent holiday we were a party of 10 adults, and 1 baby, and we had no complaints!

The cabins were all good sizes and very clean, the food excellent with lots of choice. The... read more

Poor hygiene on board resulting in sickness bug affecting a large proportion of passengers. Chanterelle dining room had poor choice of food which was bland, not up to the standard of other cruise ships.

Le Bistro restaurant dirty and fly i... read more

Although showing some signs of age we found the Emerald to be comfortable with a crew that couldn't do enough for you.

Went on overnight trip to Egypt which was fantastic and was excellent value for money. The city tour of Tripoli was not goo... read more

Cabin 737 is a superior outside cabin, it was tatty, but clean and presentable. Unfortunately, the large window was completely obscured by a lifeboat! It is next to the bistro on deck 7, but was surprisingly quiet.

This is not the worst crui... read more

My wife and I had the worst holiday experience ever on board The Emerald.

The ship is over 50 years old and should have been scrapped ages ago. Our cabin, 447, for which we paid an EXTRA £700, was rated as "outside premier". It was so noisy ... read more

Firstly, to anyone reading these reviews, please do not be put off by the bad reviews of this ship and remember that often people are very quick to write a bad review and often not so quick to write a good one. This ship was our 5th Thomson Cruise and mos... read more

We should never have booked with Thomson, we travelled to Egypt with them some years ago and were disappointed then.

The girl in the Thompson shop in Manchester should not have taken our booking as she did not have a clue about cruises and sh... read more

Having recently spent one week on the Emerald I can honestly say this is the worst ship I have been on. Arrived on ship at 1.30pm after a taxi transfer from the Grand Glyfada.

Luggage was not at cabin so decided to go to Corfu town to do som... read more

This was our first experience of a cruise, and we couldn’t fault it at all.

I can’t understand people moaning about not having food 24hrs a day, there is far too much food to consume as it is. We had an outside cabin which was quite basic, b... read more

Went on this (our first) cruise to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. We were apprehensive that we would even enjoy a cruise at all but absolutely loved this.

Have only not given a 10/10 rating as we have not other cruise experience to c... read more

The ship was very good, the staff excellent, ports of call was excellent, food outstanding, and the whole holiday was very good. But alas the cabin was poor, small, we had little sleep, we could hear the engines all night long, the lady in the next cabin ... read more

We have just returned from our 1 week cruise to Greece and turkey, it was an excellent holiday, the ship was very nice and the staff were excellent, our cabin was a good size and very clean, the entertainment was good and there was something going on most... read more

Again a brilliant cruise. The ports of call were very exciting (quite a few we had done before) but new on the itinerary for us was Antalya (Turkey), Beirut (Lebanon) and for the whole ship Tobruk (Libya).

Beirut was certainly beautiful an... read more