Ventura Review
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We booked this cruise just 4 weeks before we sailed. We have only ever sailed with P&O (twice a year for the last 7 years) so have nothing to compare it with other than comments on here and what we hear from fellow passengers !! We have sailed on Ventura once before, 4 years ago, and at that time felt a lot of the passengers were a bit "rough" and it was clearly being marketed as a very family friendly and very casual ship. (Well, more casual than the rest of the fleet)and at the lower end of the cruiser market !!! I sound like a snob !!
This time around the cruise we chose was the only one that fitted in with what we wanted to do, and I wanted a hot sun cruise round bog standard Western Med destinations. That said, we had never been to Marseilles, Algherro, Malaga or la Coruna, so we were looking forward to those ports. Gibraltar, Barcelona and Livorno were the others.
Embarkation was superb and the best we have ever had, very quick. We miss the old style sailaways with a band and a sense of occasion. No band, and we had started to leave by the time emergency drill had been done. No sense of excitement at all and over priced booze !! (Although generally P&O are very reasonable with drinks prices)
Cabin Review
Outside Twin with Balcony and Shower
Ventura B431 - Balcony cabin (standard) - starboard side. Not over looked, but overlooks C431 and D431 and others. One can become inadvertently very nosy at times !!! Good size walk in wardrobe and plenty of shelf and drawer space. Nice size TV. Usual smallish bathroom and shower but perfectly adequate. This cabin is right beside the mid ships stair well and scenic lifts. You can hear people coming and going until quite late but it is never loud enough to be an inconvenience. being mid ships half way up, there is no vibration from propellorts, no engine noise or shudder, so all in all a good cabin.