We booked the 14 day cruise and this was the third time we have done this (and been cruising every year since 2007) but alas may well be the last. Paid the extra for premium seats only to have no tv on the outward flight 8/9 hours looking through that magazine was torture even with free drinks.

Transfer etc all fine and of course not the most modern ship but I still like it, room as before all clean and tidy. The food quality and service in the Orion restaurant is falling below what you expect from Thomson, not enough staff means slow service and numerous nights I paid extra for a steak because the options were poor. I don't really do shows much so cannot comment to much on that side.

Shore excursions are getting very expensive and not good value for money whilst in Whilst in St Lucia 28/02/14 we decided (group of 4) to go on the "Time at the Beach @ £26.00 per person, the trip included a sunbed and complimentary drink in the local bar. On our arrival at the beach it was not as described, it was very very crowded and we were directed to a small area between to other sets of sunbeds. Our sunbeds however were in very poor condition, old, torn and mine in particular was torn on the back rest making it very difficult to use. We were then asked for another $10 for an umbrella to which we declined these were also in very poor condition, the young man that offered us the umbrella stood there with it blowing in the wind and it looked like it had been caught in crossfire during a snipers exchange of gunfire it was actually quite comical at the time it was only fit for one thing in a skip! The group to the right of us included people from our ship (blue towels gave it away, and we spoke to the group) who had made their own way to this beach as they have prior knowledge of the beach, they had nice sunbeds with umbrellas and had paid approx a third of what we had paid Thomson including taxi, sunbed and umbrella alas but not the complimentary drink! some expensive drink that turned out to be for us. Read more