When we arrived at Barbados there was chaos with the ground agents who didn’t seem to know who was going to which hotel for the first night stay. Luggage was being put into various vans and guests were put on minibuses and after quite a while we set off for the hotel. We were concerned about the luggage as on a previous Regent cruise our luggage had been lost!

We arrived at the Accra Beach Hotel and with many other guests were herded into a smelly room and names shouted out. Ours was not but we were eventually told where our room was. The room was dirty, with no hot water, old crisps/sweets/nuts had been left in drawers and some of the lights had no bulbs in. Probably the worst hotel we have stayed in. The following morning the chaos continued with the transfer to the ship. At one point the car park was gridlocked with no buses able to move out of the car park.

Once on the ship we were relieved and were shown to our suite. Read more