After looking forward to this trip for some time, and having the itinerary changed due to the hurricane we decided to go ahead with the trip as to put it off until things had recovered would have been too costly (having to pay the air fare again).

Our flights with Virgin were good apart from not having seats together with my husband. Embarking ok, but as we were late arriving the safety drill was already happening so we went straight to the restaurant for our 6.30pm meal, not very good at all, not much choice the food not really hot, plates cold, we hoped this would improve, in fact it got no better at all. Quite often the meat was tough and undercooked, sent back several meals as they were inedible. When at one point we complained we were told "there are always chips" not what you expect to be told when you are on a cruise ship.

Hand sanitisation should be compulsory not just letting people go into the restaurants ignoring the dispensers and walking past the crew who were trying to spray hands. Read more