Cabin Review

We knew our cabin was not going to be luxurious or come with a balcony but we did look at the pictures on the site and it showed two layouts a room with two single beds that form a sort of L shape with some space for a chair and the other shows two beds parallel with room for a chair; at the end of one bed a cabinet with a TV at the other a chair by a cabinet.

Our beds were parallel to each other with a cabinet between them at the end of my bed was the wardrobe and at the foot of the other was the toilet/ shower room. There was not enough space for both of us to be in between the beds at the same time and if we both sat on our beds our legs/ knees knocked together.

The TV was on a shelf above the foot of one of the beds; to view it we both had to sit on my bed.

The TV was old and outdated. Channel 1 & 2 often showed 'no signal', Channel 3 showed a rerun of 'Some Mothers do have them", 'Stephen Fry in America' and a nature programme amongst other things but by the end of the week I couldn't watch them a third time.

If you turned the volume up too high on channel 3 there was a buzzing noise.

The walls of the room were so thin I could hear the conversations of the couple in the next room.

There were six hangers in one wardrobe the sort you would expect to find, wooden and detachable from the rail, in the other wardrobe was half a dozen plastic hangers obviously left by previous occupants. For two persons on a seven day trip there was not enough storage or hangers.

There was no place to put our suitcase unless we stood it up in the wardrobe, standing it up would have messed up our clothes so we had to put it by the doors of the wardrobe making the room even more cramp.

No tea & coffee facilities but you would have to be a miracle worker to find a place to put the kettle/ cups.

The beds were hard and uncomfortable and one of the beds sagged in the middle; the pillows were thin and gave no comfort or support.

The towels were thin and rough, if I had known this I would have brought towels from home.

Portholes - To view out the portholes we had to stand but it was hardly worth it as each day we arrived at a port all we could see was the wall of the quay, later on the ship would rise but that meant the port staff could look down into our cabin, so a lot of the time we

kept the curtains closed.

We were on deck 4 - and from the noise we had to endure we assume that the engine room was directly below us. Every night was a disturbed sleep due to the banging. On the last night I went to bed at 00:15 but was still awake at 06:00 because of the noise.