The cruise was okay overall for December. Weather fair and better than UK so all good.
First the gripes.
Nobody's fault that the storm hit (second night during dinner) while we were heading south in the Bay of Biscay. It would have been helpful to have had the bridge advise us 10 minutes earlier why the ship was listing so heavily (as our cheese and wine hit the floor together with anything else not being held down). There was a lot of very serious concern and speculation about the extreme experience which none of the seasoned passengers or crew had ever experienced before. I have no doubt that the Captain and his team were facing something they had never experienced before but 3000 passengers were literally in the same boat and a few words of explanation would have helped a lot.