Black Watch Review

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trixmax2000
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Jul 2015
Cabin: Deluxe Suite

We could not dock at the Faroes as the Braemar was in and no room for us, pilot not able to manage to get us in, rough sea, so another day at sea organized. We have had 5 Balmoral cruises (very good) 1 Bouddica (ok) but would not recommend or go on the Black Watch, avoid deck 7 lido deck. We had a large deluxe junior suite. Woken at 1am by deck crew pulling chairs along and then most of the other days at 5.30 onwards by deck hands banging, washing the deck down, others complained about them talking loud, we reported it twice. Moved cabin to equivalent as strong smell of diesel in bedroom, this seemed to be all round the ship. Restaurant like a canteen, and never had any moans before, but waiters not as quick and friendly as the Balmoral, never offered tea or coffee with dessert at lunch time, food good but breakfast often cold, good variety. Brenda Collins comedienne was fantastic and the male singer, team shows were good, dancers seem snobby. Special thanks to Chandra the Mater D who got us into the Orchid Room for dinner. Quizzes good with Olly, Jonny and Liam, not as good in the day with the dance team (one in particular). Met some nice people, but seemed a lot of snobs on board. Back on Balmoral Sept and trying Braemar in October. Never saw our cabin maid in 2nd cabin, name tag was not even in room. On other cruises they have gone out of their way to meet you."

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Deluxe Suite

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The cabin was a good size with a separate sleeping area, the minus side was the noise above it owing to deck hands cleaning and moving chairs etc one morning at 2am the rest at 6am, with them also talking to each other, a number of other passengers complained about them,

Had to move cabins at 2am one night owing to the strong smell of diesel fumes coming into the cabin we were given cabin 7012 on the port side which had the same layout but we still had the same problem with the deckhands plus this only had one plug with was in the bedroom

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