My wife and I recently took our first cruise. We travelled on Deck 5 in an outer, windowed cabin, on Fred Olsen's Balmoral to the North German ports of Bremen, Hamburg and Kiel dep Newcastle 19 November. To say it ...

Sail Date October 2018

MikeBR

4 Reviews Written

14 Helpful Votes

Vibration in Deluxe cabin 203 caused sleep deprivation

Marella Celebration

Norwegian Fjords

We are retired,we holiday at least 6 times a year and at the Glasgow cruise show in 2016 we were taken in by this cruise as it was somewhere we had wanted to go for years it sailed from a port only 90 miles from our ...

Sail Date September 2017

1anne

1 Review Written

5 Helpful Votes

Itinerary good

Marella Celebration

Norwegian Fjords

We saw everything we hoped we would see and it was lovely. However, the ship itself was very poor. Within an hour of boarding the Captain informed us that there was a "level 3 sanitation" in progress. We soon ...

Sail Date July 2017

Chris36

1 Review Written

4 Helpful Votes

Carry On Sailing Shambles

Balmoral

Baltic Sea

The worst cruise of our lives. I became sick on the second night and was confined to cabin with my husband for 48 hours, it would seem that we came off lightly, some people had longer confinement, o e lady told us ...

Sail Date July 2016

EJEFFREY

1 Review Written

14 Helpful Votes

Filthy Conditions and Poor Service

Balmoral

Norwegian Fjords

Never again. The so called "Superior Balcony Cabin" was filthy. Furniture drawers had not been cleaned out for months with residual filth including a drawer which refused to close because of soiled underwear left ...

Sail Date May 2016

Dodge ram

1 Review Written

36 Helpful Votes

Waste of &3,000

Balmoral

Norwegian Fjords

We wanted to see fjords. Do not go on this ship if you are under 70 as you will feel you are in a nursing home no disrespect meant as I admire some of the older clients for attempting the trip one lady was 101 . ...

Sail Date June 2016

Anngrace43

2 Reviews Written

17 Helpful Votes

Poor Value for Money

Balmoral

Norwegian Fjords

We have always wanted to cruise the fjords and have been looking forward to this holiday for several months. My partner has problems with his breathing and cannot walk long distances, for this reason we chose Fred ...

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Sail Date May 2016

gre20863

1 Review Written

8 Helpful Votes

Floating OAP Retreat

Marco Polo

Norwegian Fjords

Loved the idea of a cruise with my partner and to see the fjords. We are in our 30s!! We were the youngest on the ship by a couple of generations. Embrakment was quick and easy. Cabin was very basic and no different ...

Sail Date June 2015

Joseph Fraser

1 Review Written

8 Helpful Votes

Never Again

Marco Polo

Baltic Sea

The two positives about this cruise were leaving from Newcastle and the ports of call. Marco Polo sells itself on being an old but classic ship, it is old but certainly has no class! Everything about it was a ...

Sail Date June 2015