We rushed around and got a cobbled together meal of what was left – very disappointing;

•	The food generally in The Pantry was of very poor quality, lacked taste and the staff generally were very disengaged and  unfriendly;

•	We attended a couple of the demonstrations in the Marquee which were very interesting and informative;

•	The couple of paid sessions we did manage to get in to were extremely good and very informative;

•	Dinner on the Saturday at Salt was extremely good and the highlight of our cruise;

•	The next morning we knew we had to queue to make a dinner booking for Dragon Lady that evening so we left our cabin on deck 9 at 7:45 to go down to the Monkey Bar only to find the queue already up the stairs from deck 8 and starting to wrap around deck 9.•	We waited for the best part of an hour to book a table all the while not knowing if we would even get a table given the volume of people in the queue before us;

•	We did manage to get a table at The Waterfront for breakfast on Sunday and whilst the meals arrived quickly the service was surly and unfriendly;

•	Again on Sunday we attended several presentations which were all excellent;

•	What was also a bit frustrating was the number of times the Cruise Director  was on the ships PA system telling people about food and wine sessions that had been unavailable to book since the Friday night;

•	Dinner at Dragon Lady was also very good;

•	The disembarkation process was extremely smooth – we were off, as requested, in a very early group as we both had to go to work that day.

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A very mixed experience

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