Costa
Costa Toscana
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Ship at a glance
Entered service
December 2021
Ship type
mega ship
For kids
good
Registry
Italy
Ship specifications are AI-curated from public sources and confirmed against Costa marketing copy. Rankquant's 3th percentile is computed independently across 5 z-qualifying Cruise Critic reviewers — see how percentiles are computed.
Life onboard
What it actually feels like to sail Costa Toscana— entertainment, food, and the crowd you'll find onboard.
Entertainment
The main theater hosts Broadway-style shows and Italian cabaret productions that lean into Costa's Mediterranean heritage, while live bands populate piano bars and pool decks throughout the day. You'll find comedy acts, dance clubs, and game shows scattered across the ship—the entertainment feels energetic and social without tipping into over-produced spectacle.
Food & dining
The main dining room serves Italian and international fare across assigned seatings, with solid execution on pasta, risotto, and Mediterranean seafood. Specialty restaurants offer extra-charge steakhouse and Italian regional cuisine; the buffet maintains good quality and variety. Overall dining feels welcoming and dependable rather than gourmet, with Italian influence evident in portions and flavor profiles.
Atmosphere
Costa Toscana caters to families and multi-generational groups seeking European charm and Italian warmth without pretense—vibrant social spaces, kids' programs during the day, evening shows for adults, but rarely raucous. The vibe is moderately upscale and community-focused, appealing to cruisers who want energy and culture more than either party scenes or luxury quietude.
The ship & service
A closer look at Costa as a line, Costa Toscana as a ship, and the service and deck quality to expect onboard.
- The line
- Costa Cruises is a mainstream European-focused line owned by Carnival Corporation, known for Italian-flavored cruising at accessible price points. It targets multi-generational families and European travelers seeking Mediterranean itineraries with Italian food, design, and hospitality at the core. Costa is mid-market rather than premium, competing with MSC for the European mainstream segment.
- The ship
- Costa Toscana is a 2021-built mega-ship and one of Costa's newest and largest vessels, sister to Costa Smeralda in the LNG-powered class. It feels expansive and modern, with multiple pools, a wide spread of bars and lounges, and Italian-design interiors themed around the regions of Italy. As a recent build, finishes and tech are current.
- Service
- Service is mainstream high-volume rather than personalized, in line with Costa's mid-market positioning and large passenger counts typical of mega-ships. Crew are warm and family-friendly, with strong Italian hospitality cues, but expect efficient rather than bespoke attention in dining rooms, bars, and at guest services.
- Decks & spaces
- As a 2021 ship, public spaces are contemporary and well-kept, with a multi-deck atrium, broad pool deck with multiple pools and whirlpools, and an outdoor promenade area. Materials lean modern Italian-design with bright finishes, themed lounges, and ample family-oriented zones. No major refurbishment needed at this age.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this ship against every other ship those same people sailed and rated. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Costa Toscana lands against every ship we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — the other ships in the same fleet, so a line's budget hull is judged against its own sisters rather than against a luxury expedition ship. Ranked against Costa (17 ships).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each ship keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 5.
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