We booked this cruise on the itinerary leaving from Leith and returning to Leith, which meant we could be off the boat and home by 1200 hours. The itinerary showed four calls Toreshaven where we would dock, Lerwick where we would dock, Stonehaven where we would lie at anchor and finally Kirkwall where we would dock. We knew the boat was old so expectations were not high; in fact comfort wise we were surprised how good it was.

On Sunday morning we duly arrive at Leith no ship it is in Rosyth due to a small technical problems everyone is bussed to Rosyth ah well these things happen on board we are told that the ship will be returning to Rosyth due to the tides strange?

Off we go Due to commitments on our return date I spoke to the shore excursion people about getting off quickly upon our return no problem come back later in the week each time being given instructions what to do but to come back later eventually tried to arrange express departure only to be told this was no good as there were no busses to take us to Leith and the quickest way was to use a gold ticket eventually we got off the ship onto a bus where we were told that a bus had gone to Leith half an hour earlier, to add insult to it we were left sitting on the bus for 20 minutes as the bus could accommodate 2 more people. Read more