We sailed on the Jade's inaugural cruise from Barcelona to Istanbul March 30th 2008.
Our Flight Was from Cardiff to Barcelona by KLM via Amsterdam. We gad a very short transfer time but our flight from Cardiff was delayed and we missed our connection. KLM booked us onto a later flight flying Business Class.
Pre cruise stay at the Mont Blanc Barcelona. After our experience here we could never recommend this hotel to anyone. The room was fine, comfortable bed, and decent bathroom. All rooms had an exercise bike. The complementary breakfast buffet was mostly on the poor side of average. At the price it would have been good to have freshly made tea, coffee and possibly toast brought to our table instead of the side table of thermos jugs and DIY toast, although you could order eggs and bacon cooked to order.