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Side-by-side creator consensus from cruise reviewers across YouTube.

63% Bacon Score™

Costa Fascinosa

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61% Bacon Score™

Costa Smeralda

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Dead Heat

The Bacon Verdict

Too close to call

Costa Fascinosa and Costa Smeralda have nearly identical BaconScores — 63% vs 61%. The decision comes down to your priorities.

The Bacon Story

Data-driven recap

Across 177 creator reviews, Costa Fascinosa and Costa Smeralda post nearly identical BaconScores — 63% for Costa Fascinosa, 61% for Costa Smeralda. Costa Fascinosa edges ahead on crowd capacity and Pool Deck. Costa Fascinosa sentiment is cooling off while Costa Smeralda is trending up, so the gap may widen in the months ahead. Coverage spans 51 distinct cruise channels — read the full breakdown for each ship below.

Recommend

of 30 reviews

of cruise creators recommend Costa Fascinosa

30 videos12 channels3% warn againstHigh data density

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Going soggyCreator enthusiasm has dropped sharply • Divided opinion

TIE

Dead heat

Recommend

of 147 reviews

of cruise creators recommend Costa Smeralda

147 videos39 channels5% warn againstDeveloping data

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Getting crispierCreator enthusiasm has grown substantially • Divided opinion

Side-by-side facts

The specs

Costa Fascinosa	Specification	Costa Smeralda
Costa Cruises	Cruise line	Costa Cruises
30 videos	Creator reviews	147 videos
12	Distinct creators	39

Costa Fascinosa

Cruise line: Costa Cruises
Creator reviews: 30 videos
Distinct creators: 12

Costa Smeralda

Cruise line: Costa Cruises
Creator reviews: 147 videos
Distinct creators: 39

Topic Scoreboard

How they really compare

Costa Fascinosa

Topic

Costa Smeralda

Where creators agree

Both rate Main Dining highly

Costa Fascinosa:
4 Happy Bacon
5 mentions
Main DiningBoth like it
Costa Smeralda:
3½ Happy Bacon
18 mentions
Costa Fascinosa:
4 Happy Bacon
7 mentions
SuitesBoth like it
Costa Smeralda:
3½ Happy Bacon
10 mentions
Costa Fascinosa:
3½ Happy Bacon
5 mentions
Balcony CabinsBoth like it
Costa Smeralda:
3 Happy Bacon
33 mentions

Where creators diverge

Biggest gap: crowd capacity

Costa Fascinosa:
2½ Happy Bacon
2 mentions
crowd capacity0.48 gap
Costa Smeralda:
Meh
17 mentions
Costa Fascinosa:
3½ Happy Bacon
7 mentions
Pool Deck0.37 gap
Costa Smeralda:
1½ Happy Bacon
24 mentions
Costa Fascinosa:
3 Happy Bacon
3 mentions
itinerary route0.37 gap
Costa Smeralda:
1½ Happy Bacon
15 mentions

How to read the Trip Bacon Score

Happy Bacon — creators loved this aspect

Sad Bacon — creators took issue with this

Meh — no strong opinion either way

Scale: 0–5 strips in half-step increments. 0 = “meh”, 5 = “bacon bliss”. Aggregated from creator-review sentiment, weighted by channel expertise.

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Standout creator quotes

Positive · Costa Fascinosa

“everywhere you look on a Costa ship you'll see a lot of design a lot of opulence and a lot of Glamour”

— Planet Cruise · expert

Positive · Costa Smeralda

“please never ever Cruise without travel insurance it makes me feel unwell”

— Emma Cruises · authority

Critical · Costa Fascinosa

“10 teenage girls they got drugged on a European cruise”

— Crusin with keith · expert

Critical · Costa Smeralda

“And a Costa Cruises passenger has died after falling from the Costa Smeralda while the ship was docked in Civitavecchia, that's the port for Rome.”

— Cruise News Today · authority

Drill Deeper

See the full creator breakdown

Each detail page has the full creator panel, topic heatmap, monthly trends, audience breakdown, and verbatim quotes — far more than fits in this comparison.

Costa CruisesCosta Fascinosa63% BaconScoreSee full ship breakdown

Costa CruisesCosta Smeralda61% BaconScoreSee full ship breakdown

Watch creators on each ship

Costa Fascinosa

0:29

Así es uno de los gemelos del Costa Concordia - #CostaFascinosa #Crucero

Oggi A Bordo ⚓️ · 1.0M views · 3 years ago

8:49Tips

🚨CANCELLED: Cruise Line Pulls Plug on Entire Season!

🏅The Travel Scouts · 132K views · 1 years ago

Mixed

Costa Smeralda

25:58Review

I Survived a Week on Cruise Critic's WORST RATED Cruise Line

🏅Emma Cruises · 1.4M views · 3 years ago

Critical

38:14

Costa Smeralda Full Video Tour 4K

Cruise Passion · 1.2M views · 5 years ago

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Scores aggregate every cruise creator review we've indexed for each entity, weighted by creator expertise and capped per channel so no single voice dominates. Read the full methodology →

Costa FascinosavsCosta Smeralda

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The specs