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Itineraries of the Costa Serena

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decks plans

Deck 14

Vela
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Deck 12

Pegasus
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Deck 11

Virgo
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Deck 10

Taurus
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Deck 9

Libra
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Deck 8

Perseus
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Deck 7

Acquarius
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Deck 6

Centaurus
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Deck 5

Gemini
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Deck 4

Orion
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Deck 3

Aries
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Deck 2

Cassiopea
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Deck 1

Andromeda
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Ship's attributes

Services And Amenities

  • Elevators
  • Self-service laundry room
  • Casino
  • Jacuzzi
  • Pool
  • Beauty salon
  • Spa & body care

Specific needs

  • Wheelchair accessible staterooms

Technical specifications

  • Classe:  Concordia Class
  • Tonnage:  114500
  • Speed:  21.5 knots
  • Passengers:  3780
  • Decks:  14
  • Length:  289 m
  • Width:  32 m

History

  • 2007: Année de construction

Sixty-five nights from Tokyo to Buenos Aires

The Costa Serena entered service in May 2007. 289 metres, 1507 cabins, 3014 travellers at double occupancy. She is the oldest of the four ships in her class, and she has just come out of an eighteen-day refit carried out in China in autumn 2025: a new dining area, a restaurant with signed menus, a pizzeria, a sushi counter, pool decks and suites entirely reworked. She is the last ship in a five-year fleet revitalisation programme.

The point to check remains the class's: fewer than forty per cent of the cabins have a balcony.

The most sellable cruise in the fleet

This ship ends a decade in East Asia in autumn 2026, with Taiwan, Korea and Japan. She then leaves the region on a sixty-five-night repositioning cruise: departure from Tokyo on 18 October 2026, twenty-four calls in fifteen countries, arrival in Buenos Aires.

South America follows from December 2026 to April 2027, with Rio, Montevideo and Buenos Aires, then the Mediterranean from May 2027. Two hundred and fifty-seven departure dates sit with us.

The other ships in the fleet

The Costa Pacifica and the Costa Fascinosa share her hull exactly. So does the Costa Favolosa, with a northern programme. The Costa Diadema is the most accessible in the fleet.

The line, and what happened to it

Sixteen ships in 2019, eight today. Half the fleet left in six years: sold to American, Chinese or British companies, transferred to other brands of the same group, or cut up in a Turkish demolition yard. Of our seventeen Costa pages, nine describe a ship the line no longer operates.

Costa was born in Genoa in 1854, in the olive oil trade. It has run ships since 1924 and carried passengers since 1947. An American group took half of it in 1997 and all of it in 2000. It is today one of the nine cruise brands in that group, and its position there has weakened.

The wreck of 13 January 2012 off the island of Giglio killed 33 of the 4252 people aboard, including a diver killed during the salvage. The captain was sentenced to sixteen years. It is from that wreck that the muster drill before sailing comes, on every cruise ship in the world.

The fare, item by item

Included: the crossing, the cabin, meals in the main restaurants and the buffet, shows, entertainment, the children's club and port taxes. Transfers are included only when they are part of the package purchased.

Not included: air travel, insurance, drinks outside meals, excursions, speciality restaurants, treatments and laundry. A drinks package exists and is bought in advance or aboard.

The hotel service charge deserves a paragraph of its own. It is added to the onboard account every day, automatically, and the North American contract calls it mandatory. The amount depends on the traveller's age and on the region of the world. It can be adjusted at the front desk, during the cruise only: after disembarkation no change is possible.

Life aboard, unwrapped

This ship is a floating hotel rather than a destination. You go ashore every day, come back for dinner, and the evening starts late. It is a European format, and it suits anyone who wants to be in Europe from the moment they board. It suits badly anyone looking for the continuous entertainment of a North American line.

The unsettling points, said plainly: announcements in several languages in turn, an evening buffet on European hours, wider tolerance of smoking than here, a reduced daytime programme, and service more distant than on an American line. In exchange, the crew-to-traveller ratio is around one to three, the excursion catalogue runs past two thousand options, and the speciality restaurants regularly exceed expectations.

Accessibility calls for care. No official table of adapted cabins is published ship by ship; the available figures come from deck plans read by third parties. They are indicative, not contractual, and any booking for a traveller in a wheelchair is validated with the line before the deposit.

Leaving from Quebec

Air travel is booked separately. From Montreal, Rome, Barcelona and Athens are reached non-stop for part of the year; Savona, Genoa, Kiel, Hamburg and the Caribbean ports need a connection. A hotel night before embarkation is not a luxury, it is the margin that absorbs a delayed bag.

On recourse, the situation deserves saying clearly. The carrier is Italian, the contract provides for Italian law, and the competent courts are those of Genoa, to the exclusion of all others. The contract also invokes the Athens Convention, which caps liability for personal injury. This is not particular to this line: most European cruise operators have equivalent clauses.

Nothing establishes a Quebec licence in the line's name. Voyages AquaTerra holds that licence: trust account, Compensation Fund for Customers of Travel Agents, and one file for flight, cruise, hotel and insurance.

Frequently Asked Questions

A sixty-five-night repositioning cruise leaving Tokyo on 18 October 2026, with twenty-four calls in fifteen countries and arrival in Buenos Aires. It is the most sellable product in the whole fleet for a lover of long voyages.
Yes, an eighteen-day refit carried out in China in autumn 2025: a new dining area, a restaurant with signed menus, a pizzeria, a sushi counter, pool decks and suites reworked. She is the last ship in a five-year programme.
No, and that is the point to check before booking. Fewer than forty per cent of the cabins on this class have a balcony, and nearly forty per cent are inside. If a balcony matters, book early.
Three thousand and fourteen at double occupancy, in 1507 cabins. The maximum capacity the line publishes counts third and fourth berths, and is therefore markedly higher.
May 2007, with a naming in Marseille. She is the oldest of the four ships in her class, but also the one that has just received the fleet's most complete refit.
It has been halved. Sixteen ships in 2019, eight in September 2026. Seven hulls sold or transferred to other brands, one scrapped. That is half a company gone in six years.
It is added automatically each day to the onboard account, the sums are pooled and shared among the staff, and the amount varies with the traveller's age and the region of the world. The contract calls it mandatory.
No. The fare covers the cabin, meals in the main restaurants and the buffet, shows, entertainment, the children's club and port taxes. Flight and insurance are booked separately.
East Asia until October 2026, then South America from December 2026 to April 2027, then the Mediterranean from May 2027. Two hundred and fifty-seven departure dates sit with us.
Twenty-eight adapted cabins are listed on this class by third-party databases derived from deck plans. The line publishes no official table: the figure is indicative and never contractual. Have the cabin validated before a deposit.
Before the courts of Genoa, in Italy, to the exclusion of all others. It is a standard clause in the sector, but it deserves reading before booking rather than discovering at the worst moment.
Rarely. A traveller comparing with the big North American lines will be disappointed by the daytime programme and unsettled by the multilingual announcements. The format is European and you have to want it.
That depends on the published programme. On a repositioning of this length the line generally splits the route; we check the exact structure before any proposal, because it changes everything about the budget.
Spring and autumn in Asia, the southern summer in South America, May to September in the Mediterranean. This ship changes continent with the seasons, which leaves a rare choice in the fleet.
In Quebec a licensed agency deposits the sums it receives into a trust account separate from its own funds. The Compensation Fund for Customers of Travel Agents then steps in for the cases set out in law.
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