We chose this as we'd done the Med to death and knew all the ports inside out but with a tight time window, we jumped onto this ship to see the fjords and try P&O.

Whenever we've gone out of Southampton before, it's been pretty slick getting on the Indie but this was from the Mayflower terminal. We turned up at the time we were told to arrive and, just as any doctors waiting room, we had to wait for 45 minutes clutching a coloured card until ours was called... and this was only to join the back of the never decreasing queue.

When we got on the ship, we straight away noticed a smell like BO or rotten eggs or (rather worryingly) gas. This stayed throughout the duration, especially in one of the bars that made it unusable. Read more