Vista Yacht Cruises

EXCEPTIONAL CRUISE! I have been on others for more money and Vista Cruises on the Majestic Princess was above and beyond. The food was excellent. The staff was lovely. Sitting in the bow was comfortable and lovely. There was plenty of food as I went up for seconds. My friends and family were comprised of seniors and 20 somethings. Everyone enjoyed it. Parking was free across the street. Beautiful evening. I would recommend it and go again.

Great experience. I had a blast! The food was delicious, the crew was very friendly and the music and environment was great. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking to do something fun in the NYC area

My fiancé, best friend, and her fiancé all went on a Vista Yacht cruise for valentines’ day and it was such an upset. The first annoyance was the fact that no one warned us that there is a decent walk from the parking lot to the boat. My friend and I both had dresses on and heels and were not expecting to have to walk so far in the cold if we had been informed about the walk our outfits for the night would have changed to accommodate. Once we got on the boat we came to find out that we’d be seat at a large table with 10 people rather than the table for 4 that he had called/emailed the company about getting 2 weeks prior to the cruise. Lucky for us to start there was only one very nice couple that sat with us so we weren’t too crowed but if there had been ten people there would have been no elbow room at all. When we got on the boat we found out the only way to get a drink alcoholic or not was a cash bar – again never informed of the cash bar situation so we had to drink water all night. There was no wait staff coming around with water pitchers…actually there was pretty much no wait staff for anything we had to self-serve ourselves for everything. Every time my fiancé went up to get water the bar tender ignored him and when she did finally get around to him she was very rude. Once time she accidently poor two glasses of wine instead of water (no idea how she got Pinto Grigio out of water) and when he told her he wanted water not wine she poured it back into the bottle! I’m almost 95% sure that’s a health code violation. All the drinks were served in small plastic cups like we were at a frat party or something. Forget hearing any safety announcements or music because the sound system was horrible. The DJ played multiple songs over. The food was the only decent part of the night but we were herded like cattle onto the buffet line by again rude staff. The choices of food were minimal- chicken, pork, and fish which was fine and only potatoes or pasta no green veggie. There was salad offered with a role. The portions were so small and staff care fiancé dirty looks when he went up for seconds (which he was actually only able to get a roll because there wasn’t anything left). The dessert was a terrible vanilla with chocolate icing cake and coffee/tea was severed in paper cups instead of mugs and again all self-serve. I’m not sure what the point of the assigned tables were anyway because halfway through the cruise some rude drunk couple just decided to sit at our table and none of the staff did anything about it. The staff was actually too busy flirting with other passengers and being incredibly loud. The icing was put on the cake towards the end of the cruise when I decided to use the bathroom to find it not only pretty dirty but no running water to wash my hands and an offer of disinfecting wipes ….but not the kind for your hands the kind you use to wipe down our kitchen with! Overall this whole cruise was a joke and a waste of money. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyway. The only cool thing was seeing the Statue of Liberty but even at that you’re better off just making a day trip to see the Statue in person.

We took the dinner and dancing cruise out of Weehawken and it was very romantic. The staff was great and worked very hard to make sure everyone had a good time. Cruising by lady liberty at night for an up close and personal visit was the coolest! I would do this again.