P&O Southampton Cruise Reviews

The food already is much poorer with worse options for vegans veggies and gluten free folk than the Britannia a few years ago. Portions smaller in the restaurant. Just feels like they are cutting back to catch up after covid. I hope it improves but noticing little things where they are cutting corners that makes me unlikely to book again on P and O unless I see this improving in other reviews. ...

Went on 7 day cruise on Iona. Several locations within the ship had a muggy warm feel, did not feel like the air conditioning was working properly. All over the ship people were coughing and everybody called it the "dreaded a/c/ cough. After two days returning from the cruise 3 of our party of 4 tested positive for covid. This has put me off having another cruise. Not enough lifts ...

First cruise post pandemic after 20 years of cruising with P&O. Standards dropped considerably. Food in restaurants poor with menu choices cut. Self service cafeteria choices cut. Often food was cold, and for some reason you had to ask every day for marmalade at breakfast. Sometimes you were told there was non on board and had to insist on being given some. Booked glasshouse for family ...

We wanted to cruise Norwegian fjords and Iona was chosen in order to support UK business. Meals were usually taken in the Pearl restaurant where all our meals were excellent and staff courteous and couldn’t do enough for us ; all of the staff were lovely. Coral dining room was tried for breakfast once during the cruise and NEVER again. I had to ask for hot water for my decaf tea and ...

We've been on a few P & O cruises and wanted to try Britannia when it first sailed. As Iona was another new one we also wanted to sail on it. But was quite disappointed. After boarding at Southampton we were led straight to the atrium but there was no wow factor about it. Not even any memorable photos whilst boarding. There wasn't even any sail away celebrations at any of the ports we left. I ...

We are a recently retired couple who enjoy cruising and have cruised on many of the major cruise lines. We picked this one as it was just before the Summer peak period ( We didn't know it was half term in England ) and we were looking for a bit of sun and relaxation. First the pros. The ship is still beautiful despite being 7 years old. Our stateroom was kept immaculately clean . Our attendant ...

Having cruised 5 times, twice on the Britannia this was a bit disappointing, to cut a long story short, in summary it was short staffed and the staff worked so hard to please but a loosing battle, we had to leave and miss desert many times to get to the entertainment. The booking of restaurants and entertainment through there app ruined the experience. The entertainment in the dome was a ...

Long review, which i'm also emailing to P&O. We have cruised 12 times on Tui and Royal Caribbean previously and never had a complaint but this cruise was different. Eight of us went on this cruise, 3 who hadn't been on a ship before. Gripe number 1. On the morning of the Celebration night, tuxedos and fancy dresses ready, one of our party, browsing the P&O app saw that our booking for ...

I like to think we are regular cruisers (1-2 a year) and have sampled Royal Carribean, P & O, Cunard and Princess. Before COVID I liked the eccentric touches of turn down with chocolates, paying additional for superior dining experiences but overall the freedom to tailor your holiday as you go. We did a British isles tour with princess in September 2021 which masks aside was relatively normal. The ...

We went on this cruise as it was our anniversary and my daughters 30th. We went a Costa cruise before and it was a WOW factor, unfortunately I can't say the same for P&O Cruise. They give u an app that u must book restaurants and entertainment. Our app stopped working after the first day, went to reception 3 times to ask different stewards to help us but no one could help. We took the non ...