Long enough to experience cruises to ensure we'd enjoy them. The cleaning and catering crew worked tirelessly to ensure we had clean cabins and good food.

Cruise crew did great job in organising on-board activities, tours were organised efficiently though some of the tenders used were not suitable to the level of mobility of some of the paxs. Watching paxs using walkers to board a vessel through a hatch was quite concerning for their safety. Also made disembarking a very slow process as those with mobility problems tried to exit for the mobile paxs, should have been staggered to allow more fluid disembarkation.

My real disappointments of the cruise was the way I witnessed some of the officers taking to the junior crew. In particular one blond officer who publicly delivered what can only be classed as a tirade of verbal abuse at a staff member who was marshalling paxs for tours. It was not a good look. Read more