We chose this cruise as was on bucket list to cruise Cunard thinking it would be the best of the best. Embarkation painless, quick and very efficient. Cabin was clean but little shower pressure with antiquated shower curtain. Smallest bathroom we have had, no ventilation and no shaving mirror. The excursions left much to be desired, booked a lunch on a Mississippi steam ship to find when we arrived qm2 customers had been allocated lunch on an old steel tub next door. Grey power rose and demanded to be taken back to the ship as the tub was not what we had booked. We were told we would receive a full refund. Back at the ship a line at the excursion bookings where staff turned up 45 mins late to the advertised opening time. The staff were rude and unhelpful telling us our refund would be credited to our ship account. We had all paid prior to sailing and wanted refund back into our original accounts. When refund was credited it was only 50%. Next a message from our invisible captain on loudspeaker to announce we would not be able to call in at Darwin because of the cyclone. We accepted this as it was a force mature spending a few more days at sea and everyone looking forward to docking at Bali. Once again an announcement from the captain saying we would not be docking in Bali as it was a public holiday and Cunard staff had been unable to get to Darwin to start the visa process. Totally unacceptable as Cunard cruise organisers should have known it was a public holiday in Bali. After 9 days at sea we docked at Singapore where ot took two hours to disembark from the ship and get visas stamped. Queue after queue with many more frail passengers having to also stand in line, myself included. Passengers were extremely disillusioned with Cunard by now. It also took another hour of queuing to get back on board. Compensation for 9 days at sea was a bottle of wine. Most of the activities on the ship incurred a fee ave $35. We had also been looking forward to a stop at Brunei which were notified of cancellation a very while to departure date. Other passengers did not receive any notification and only found out when they tried to book an excursion at the office.

The shops were pathetic and overpriced, we purchased very nice jewellery on a holland America cruise with far better pricing. Wine was extortionate in cost as was the wi fi which regularly dropped out and usage monitoring was not accurate.

The food in the buffet was regularly dried up and unappetising. It was like a cattle market at lunchtimes and frequently there was not enough seating.The service in the Britannia restaurant was good, but the menu not enough choice. Read more