Boarding: Instructed to show up at 11am, we expected a gentle progress suggested by the red “Priority” notice on our E-ticket. It seemed everybody had an 11am date and 1500 people were trying to progress through registration, border control and security. Someone took pity on us and we were probably the 300th couple to board. The Room: Sold as a “suite”, our room was twice the size of ...

Been on 4 previous P&O cruises, which were fabulous. Waterfront restaurant food on the Aria was mediocre at best. Lots of dishes were over seasoned, especially with salt. Burnt desserts, hot food was served luke warm & cold food was served luke warm. Extremely disappointed. Pantry was better than the old serve yourself, but staff would not put food on the same plate at different stations. Makes it ...