This is our second cruise, we previously did a 4 night cruise on Queen Mary 2 to Hamburg and back. We chose to travel Britannia Club this time as it offers a second a la carte dining menu in the evenings in addition to the main Britannia daily menu. We are a younger couple so we were already expecting the majority of other passengers to be much older than us although there were other couples around our age onboard as well. We chose an A1 grade room with a larger balcony towards the centre of the ship, it was almost perfectly located for everything onboard.

Boarding

We arrived before baggage check in opened as we travelled South from the Midlands by train, there is a direct service from the East Midlands to Southampton each day so it seemed the perfect service to use, the only downside is arrival into Southampton is just before 1100. We waited outside the terminal for a few minutes and then baggage and check in opened, we joined the priority queue, which seemed rather like the "Speedy Boarding Pass" sketch from Come Fly With Me, everybody was priority! Once checked in we spent about 30 minutes in the terminal and we began boarding the ship not long after 1200. We made our way to our room and everything was all set up to recieve us. We went for a quick bite of lunch in the Golden Lion and returned to our cabin around 1400, our steward had kindly moved our cases into our cabin for us. Read more