We have been looking at doing a cruise for a while now and went with the Thomson Dream as it had the best itinerary and the fewest sea days of all the cruises we looked at.

We have stayed in a number of Thomson Platinum hotels worldwide and as a result thought we knew what to expect, suffice to say we were massively underwhelmed by the Dream. I think Thomson are potentially damaging their ‘Platinum’ brand by describing this as such, the ship and its facilities were basically a floating 3* hotel.

The cabin we stayed in was fine as it was as I had anticipated, small but comfortable and thanks to our room steward Yudi, spotless at all times! The major problem with the cabin was the cardboard thin walls, we could literally hear everything from our neighbours; TV on, drawers opening and closing, conversations etc. etc., not so much a problem during the day as we tended to stay out the room but when your neighbours get up at 6am, put the TV on and then proceed to open every drawer in the room to get ready it means you have an unwelcome wakeup call every day! Read more