Chose this cruise for itinerary and sailing from Southampton. No complaints with embarkation, we arrived early as did most people because of the weather but the wait was not too bad and went very smoothly.

Once on board attended the emergency muster which compared to other cruise ships was pretty poor, no headcount to make sure everyone attended.

Ship - It is a large ship and I,m sure we didn't see everything, not the easiest to navigate round but it is a nice ship. There are smoking areas on deck 7,15 and up one set of stairs from deck 15 and at rear on ship at the poolside bar. If deck 7 is closed off its because of bad weather and avoids injuries with heavy doors, it's for passenger safety so don't complain just go to the other areas. There are plenty shops, bars, seating areas. We see other comments about not enough seating areas, this is because people sitting about in the same places every day, just explore the ship and find somewhere else, there is a huge seating area with glass all round on deck 16 and is nearly always empty. We understand that on a previous sailing there had been a Nora virus outbreak. One thing that the ship needs to get to grips with is the hand cleaning, there are not enough sanitiser stands on the ship as compared to others but also not enough people using them. Read more