Having cruised with other companies, and after reading reviews about P&O I booked a transatlantic cruise on Britannia. I paid £3,358 for a friend and I.
Firstly let’s start with our cabin! Dust everywhere, a small table covered in ring marks, the bathroom stunk like a dirty old urinal, to the point I was sick due to the smell. We reported everything to reception, again, and again. When they ...
Birthday cruise. Boarded coach from Manchester Airport to Southampton. Best to be said for coach station was disorganised chaos. Eventually board coach for a pleasant journey to Southampton.
Embarkation was easy and efficient.
Found cabin which was a nice sized balcony cabin. Was quite clean (seals around shower where dirty and mouldy but cabin steward cleaned these once pointed ...
This was our 19th cruise having previously sailed with several lines including Celebrity, NCL and Disney. We have also sailed on P&O Ventura and Aurora, this time we were looking for a “replacement” holiday as we could no longer go to Disneyworld due to a back injury. The timings for a cruise on Arvia were perfect and P&O cruises are great value so we decided to take the plunge.
Boarding
We ...
After cruising on Azura in January (excellent), I was excited to be on the PandO latest and she didn't disappoint. I didn't notice the more than 5,000 other passengers (we were fully loaded) but I'm glad I learnt from my January experience to pre-book EVERYTHING we wanted to do as soon as bookings opened. I am a planner by nature so this was great for me! We were worried about our cabin as we ...
We are a pair of sisters in our 20s, and this was our first-time cruising in several years. We had a very pleasant two-week break cruising from Southampton to Spain.
Room
We had a Standard Balcony cabin on deck 9. Originally, we were placed in a room on deck 8, which after looking at deck plans, we realised was directly on the promenade and overlooked the whirlpools and sunbeds. ...
We have cruised on many different lines as well as P&O. We noticed a distinct drop in both quality and service on this cruise compared to previous pre Covid P&O cruises. I appreciate they lost money over the Covid period and need to try to regain some of that back. But they are moving too drastically and it has adversely affected our enjoyment to the point whereby we will probably be looking ...
After enjoying our first P&O cruise on Iona in 2022 we were keen to see how Arvia would compare.
Ship: The ship is really nicely laid out and designed with a good flow. The main moans from other passengers were about the number of sunbeds which were at a premium on the sea days. It was entertaining watching the towels on sunbeds from our balcony.
All the crew we met were friendly and ...
Boarding was messy. No porters so had to drop our cases ourselves then queue up outside the terminal in the cold for 30mins.
Cabins are only surface cleaned once a day now and no evening turndown. Our cabin had handprints on the walls, the telephone was filthy and I don’t want to think about the carpet.
I have to say that there were a lot more grossly overweight, tattooed passengers who ...
I wanted to be away at Christmas as I had lost my wife 2 years earlier during that time.
We had traveled with P & O and been loyal to their brand for over 20 Years.
The standard of Food and of entertainment was abysmal and I will never travel with them again. There were so many other things wrong and so many thing’s missing when compared to previous experiences.
It not acceptable to ...
I decided to book this cruise as a surprise for my father who was turning 70 years old on this cruise.
Embarkation- Everybody got too the mayflower terminal at the same time but surprisingly the queue went down very rapid and we where on the ship within the hour,; staff where very helpful not any issues at all
Main dinning room- the food was very good on quality and quantity our waiters ...