We wanted to visit both Vietnam and Cambodia so decided to book this cruise itinerary and tag a 3 day trip to Siem Reap (for Angkor) beforehand. We flew in and out of Singapore which is always an excellent experience. After our excellent trip to Cambodia, we then stayed a night in Singapore and had great fun exploring again, having last visited 6 years ago. On the day of embarkation, we took a short taxi ride to the cruise port at around 3 pm. Embarkation was smooth, with no hold-ups. It was well organised and we were on board on deck 4 within about 15 minutes.

Sail away was a low key affair - scheduled for 8 pm. We watched from the pool deck before dinner but most people seemed to have chosen to eat instead and there was no real event happening, no live music etc.

The ship itself was clean and well maintained everywhere. Some public areas had noticeably been refurbished recently e.g. new carpets, seat coverings etc. We have sailed on all the other ships in this class so it felt very familiar to us. Read more