Marella Spirit Review
Magic of the Fjords - first cruise, booked another!
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This is my first post on your forum, so hopefully it's interesting enough for all of you that have already experienced cruise holidays.
We'd not really considered that cruise holidays were for us, and I was actually looking online at ferry crossings to Scandinavia with the intention of taking the car over and spending a week driving around the sights. After seeing how expensive they were, I gave up! After that, I started to get "placed" adverts on other websites I visited, and that's when I saw the Thomson Cruises. One click led to another, and we'd booked our first cruise - Magic of the Fjords on the Thomson Spirit, August 2012.
We really didn't know what to expect from the cruise, so this forum proved very useful in giving us some background information. It has to be said that you can't really find very much from the Thomson website, and you feel "in the dark" about some of the deeper mysteries of cruises. So thank you to all the people who have left their most useful hints and tips.
Cabin Review
Fantastic location, right at the front with a view over the bow of the ship. The blinds were closed in the evening (we were told to keep them closed overnight for "navigational" reasons. The cabin was spacious and very clean - room service was superb.
A third bed was put in (under the window) for my son - it was a simple camp-style bed and rather creaky, but sufficient for 6 nights.
Access was almost directly onto the Promenade deck, making it feel very special, though the doors were closed in heavy/windy conditions.
The only gripe is that being at the bow of the ship seemed to exaggerate the motion of the ship, and it felt like you were on a rocking horse whilst crossing the North Sea.