We had 12 in the balloon but it was still spacious enough and the others were all English speaking, Australians and American. It was Kapadokya Balloons and from what I learned there is a huge difference between the companies. There was a bright blue balloon that was also doing the extra things we were doing so many did not come down low. I have not researched the balloon companies but would not hesitate to use this company again. We may also have lucked out with a GREAT pilot and this luck of the draw.

I am definitely planning on doing a post cruise trip from the July 2012 Black Sea cruise and with those interested and if the numbers work out okay we will do our own balloon and see if we can get this pilot again.