Oriana Review

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Review for the Mediterranean Cruise on Oriana
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10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Oct 2016

Check in and disembarkation

The actual check in went very smoothly, which is more than can be said about the security area, great inconsistencies, some passengers were asked to remove their belts, others were not. When my belongings were going through X-ray I was told I had a knife in my carry-on bag, which it goes without saying I did not. They insisted I did, they emptied the contents of my bag out into trays, after putting everything through and not finding any knife they decided a mini bambi stapler (less than 3 inches long) was the culprit. When I travel this stapler is always with my office bits and pieces in my carry-on bag, over the years it has been through at least 20 different airports and 10 cruise terminals without any problems, but obviously someone at Southampton security thought I might hijack the ship with it. Security are very good at taking things out of bags, but their training hasn't got as far lesson 2, how to repack a bag.

Disembarkation was a pain, on most boats you receive a form to request a disembarkation time, but not on this cruise, in the daily events sheet it stated that you had to telephone reception to request a time, we did this within a hour of receiving the events sheet and were informed that we had already been allotted a disembarkation time of 9.30 and were told it was not possible to change it. So on disembarkation day we carried off our own luggage at 7.30.

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Cabin EB Delux Balcony

This is in a good location on deck 10, with passenger cabins below and above it was nice and quiet, well designed with useful drawer and wardrobe space, but the television was too small. Size wise the cabin appeared a little bigger than the average balcony cabin found on other ships. The beds were comfortable. Would be happy to stay in this cabin again.

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