I am just back from a cruise on the Marco Polo with my partner, to Edinburgh, Norwegian Fjords & Lerwick, its was cheap as chips £599. But once on the ship prices rise, a bottle of water 750mls in the cabin was £2.20p, ( so take your own) tours are very expensive. We tended to do our own thing at the destinations. At one stop, Flam, the tour from the boat, The Flamsbana Mountain Railway was £59, We did the trip for £34 booking from the station a 100 yds from the ship. We did however take one coach trip at Geirager Fjord, up the Eagles Road, £41. a full coach load of people 3 hours for £41, was expensive but the only way to the top of Mount Dalsnibba for the view over the Fjord with the Marco Polo moored up.

The service at the Waldorf Restaurant was quite unbelievable too, ladies not served first, plates cleared, before other people had finished their course. Some people had there sweet, while others were still on their main course. Wine was from £13 to £30 a bottle, but water was free, the only trouble was the wine waiter, started clearing the glasses of water before we had finished with them.

In the Waldorf Restaurant one evening, we had roast beef but we were not asked how we would like it, one slice or I should say door step was well done (some of the ladies could not cut through theirs) the next slice I had was red raw, I could not eat it. My partner could eat none of hers because it was raw, and she likes beef well done. The waiter just shrugged when we told him about it. Pudding described as Mousse, was a small chocolate cup cake, Cheesecake was a sponge slice with no taste at all. The Chef who was Indian (even his Curry was not up to much) he must have had very little knowledge about the English language when writing the menu, the same as most of the crew, mostly from the Eastern Block countries. One day at breakfast one of our friends on the table, turned her head to talk to her mum, her half eaten omelette was taken away by the waiter without even asking. Read more