We chose this cruise as our daughter wanted to visit Venice and Rome and was finding the cost very high for flights and hotels and we suggested a cruise as we'd been to these destinations before and really enjoyed them, we stayed in a hotel at the airport the night before as they are early flights and it gives you an extra evening of holiday, the flight was very short which is great couple of hours and you're in the sun, and the transfer from airport to ship is very quick too. The ship was smaller than ones we've been on before but size isn't everything on a cruise as it just means more people to queue behind. The entertainment was okay, we've seen much better on other P&O ships,but it was nice to see the odd show, the comedians were good and the musicians were good too. The food was good, sometimes it was cold and had to be sent back which was frustrating, but overall it wasn't too bad at all. The cabin was nice, we always have a balcony or outside which was really nice with the destinations, our daughter had an inside cabin but for the time they spent in it, it wasn't worth paying the extra for more space. We paid extra on the Black tie nights to eat in the nicer restaurants, which was nice but so many people could just walk through and it did make us feel like we were in a corridor, not nice really, although the food was great. We never do excursions as they are far too much money when you can always find your own way about, as long as you remember to get back to the ship with plenty of time as it will leave without you.