Luxury Cruising With A Difference

Story and Photos by Lillian Africano Atrium Special to AllThingsCruise Almost everything I had loved on Hapag-Lloyd’s EUROPA, I found on its sister, Europa 2. And some of the things I didn’t love, have gone away on this sleek and very modern new ship. Yes, the luxury is there, the elements that earned EUROPA the highest possible marks in Douglas Ward’s Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising and Cruise Ships, often referred to as “the cruise industry bible.