Our first cruise and what an excellent choice we made! We found the whole experienced exceeded our expectations and found the ship, stateroom and staff to be all exceptional. We had booked a Guarantee Balcony A7 stateroom and were amazed to be upgraded to a A3 on Deck 7.

We ate in the Britannia, first sitting and would probably try second sitting next time as we didn't have enough time getting back from ports on some of the days and missed out on afternoon tea as well. We did get to the early shows though. The food was fabulous in the Britannia and equally so in the Lido where we had most of our other meals including a couple in the evenings. We always told our waiter or our other table guests that we wouldn't be eating in the Britannia so as to not keep them waiting for their food. Most evenings in the Lido had a theme like Indian, British, Italian, Carvery etc and you help yourself so can eat what you like. Very tempting!

We only had lunch once in Britannia and were directed to a table next to the kitchen door in a practically empty restaurant. We quickly insisted that we wanted to be on a table by a window and were given one. (The view was over containers in the port when the other side of the ship had a better view, but we didn't make another fuss) Read more