Southampton to the South Pacific Cruise Reviews

We chose this ship because of the good reputation, but it turns out that all the people who said "How wonderful" not only had not travelled on the ship, but did not know anyone who had, so the Queen Mary survives on the slipstream of reputation Our cabin 11,113 on the 11th deck was in an area that was so noisy, that it was not possible to gain a reasonable nights sleep But the real cream on ...

This was our first P&O UK cruise travelling from the UK back to New Zealand. Previously we had cruised 6 times with Princess so we are not inexperienced at cruising. Aurora is a lovely ship, well designed in terms of passenger space and you never got the feeling of being crowded. Having recently undergone a major refit we were surprised to find that during two consecutive days of force 8 and one ...

The thousand mile voyage from New Zealand to Australia across the calm Tasman Sea was unremarkable apart from an albatross sighting, the master aviators of the Southern Oceans. I have mentioned before the elegance of seabirds on the wing but the albatross is in a class of its own. They look deceptively small against the huge backdrop of the ocean but in fact can have wingspans of three metres ...