Having broken the back of the laundry after Xmas & New Year cruising in the Med onboard Arcadia (Cruise J218) we can now reflect on the cruise .... at our dispassionate leisure. It is nice to get back to simple fare like mince and tatties, beef hotpots and the like, although the food on board was excellent too - despite the hi-falutin' names given to some of the courses.
(Our previous (and first) cruise on Arcadia (J202) in April/May 2012 was not a particularly pleasurable experience for us. However, we are very pleased to report that our initial misgivings of a repeat cruise aboard Arcadia were largely dispelled.)
We're both getting on in years. My wife is disabled and 95% confined to a wheelchair so it is always a welcome break for me not to have to shop, cook and look after the household maintenance and fiscal admin and, instead, getting some sea air, visual stimulation and gastronomic pampering a la P&O style.
Our cabin (A125) is a disabled access cabin with oceans of space. Well appointed but without the usual sofa and settee which detracted somewhat from being able to relax within the cabin. (This is true of ALL the the cabins for the disabled).
The bathroom was a well-equipped fully functioning wet room.
The balcony was extra large providing good views and more facility to move the loungers around to follow the sun.
There is a long wall in the cabin which could benefit from having 2 or 3 strategically placed hand-grips along it for those disabled people who have some limited ability to move around under their own steam.