River Countess became S.S. La Venezia in 2020. Click here for the updated ship review.
With dramatic Murano glass chandeliers, colorful Venetian masks, and enough marble and portrait molding to make it feel like an Old World estate, the elegant and ornate River Countess feels just right on the Po River itineraries she sails through Northern Italy. Remodeled in 2012, River Countess was then moved to Venice to be the only ship from a U.S. carrier to regularly sail this route year-round. And while the Po is often plagued by low water levels that force passengers onto buses for part of the itinerary, that moment of sailing out of Venice's Grand Canal is hard to beat.