We booked this cruise as my mother had always wanted to visit the pyramids and being very relgious also the Holy land,being 75 this year we thought it a good present. My wife and mother in law and two other relatives made it a party of six.
The flight from Edinburgh to Dalaman was uneventful, the food onboard at £15 each is not really worth it, especially on the return flight. The focus is on selling drink & perfume. Thought the aircrew to be fairly poor, people left standing in aisle for 15-20min when going to/returning from toilets as the trolleys slowly progressed through the plane.Not really customer focused.The baggage allowance was 23KG which is very good - especially for 1 week. We are normally over the normal 15-20kg with our purchases, but this allowance was excellent.
On reaching Dalaman you basically head outside where there are desks for the different tour companies, There is one specifically for Thompson Cruises. They will tell you which bus to go on which is fairly close by.
The rooms are floor 1 & 2 very basic, try and get a room with a porthole, it does make it a bit better to see the sun rise /set. Our room was 80's style. i worked offshore for 12 years and the rooms were similar although the toilets smaller. We had a double bed and the room was spacious enough. In cabin entertainment is very poor, but then it shouldn't matter.The rooms were very well maintained with nice touches - beds turned down, chocolates on the pillow etc. Plenty storage space for clothes.