The itinerary and time of year were our reasons for choosing this cruise. It allowed us to stay in Singapore for a few days and the stay in Sydney at the end of the cruise before going to Hong Kong and back to U.K. The chaos in Singapore due to poor organisation and management for embarking was shambolic. It took two hours despite being allocated a specific time time to arrive.

The luggage eventually arrived at 11.00 pm despite being left on the quayside at 2.15.

There was three tender docking, Bali, Yorkers knob and Airlie beach. All took a minimum of 40 mins and in some case up to 2 hrs. This reduced the time ashore because of the time it took due to small tendars. The time in dock was very short. This ended up being a problem and the ship sailed later than scheduled due to the tendering process but did not help guests. Read more