We paid around £500 per person for our 7-night ‘Autumn Fjordland’ cruise. This is a cheap cruise. We generally cruise in a large party of 7 and we were only able to coordinate leave to be available to go away in the last week of September. Due to this and a number of other considerations, this Magellan cruise was our only option. As we usually go with P&O, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity we felt some degree of trepidation about our first CMV holiday. We were prepared for it to fall short of our usual expectations and it did - but not by that much!

Check-in/embarkation was good, quick – probably better than I’d had before.

I found the cabin to be pretty spacious and well appointed. My only complaints here would be that the TV signal was unreliable for the majority of the cruise and I wasn’t a fan of there being a separate room key card (in addition to the cruise card). Read more