Our first cruise with P & O from Southampton and our last.

Our holiday started with the last 10 miles taking one and a half hours, and talking to other passengers this seems to be the norm.

We have always done fly cruises in the past, so three days of very indifferent weather there and back did not go down at all well, and the second night we had a bad storm going through the Bay of Biscay, with 100mph winds - not for the faint hearted. Never again. The return being just the opposite - calm - but you never know. Read more