Well that is us ashore and making our way home from Ventura. We had an amazing holiday, met great people, and stunning port calls. Value for money was excellent but where do you start with Ventura? She is clearly a Marmite ship with many loyal followers which is good, however and for us we was not impressed at all. Cleanliness is well well below acceptable standards never mind what you expect ...
Aurora. Jan 17. 21 nights
Our first time on Aurora, we booked not realising that this was the first leg of a world cruise (not that it made a huge amount of difference to us) and celebrating 180 years of the P and O company/cruise line
Another very competitively priced cruise
Embarkation at Southampton was slightly better than 12 months ago, however we arrived at our given time and ...
We chose this cruise to visit new locations e.g The Gambia, Cape Verdi, and Tenerife.
Shortly before joining the ship but after having the Yellow Fever vaccination we were told that the Gambia visit had been cancelled.
The communication from P&O was terrible, I had notified them 6 months earlier that we wished to disembark early in Gran Canaria and had received an email confirming this. On ...
I am afraid I have to join other reviews in criticising Aurora, this was our fourth cruise on this ship and we noticed a drop in standards since the last cruise at Christmas 2012. Luckily Captain Turnbull remained the same, just as funny and entertaining as ever, but the entertainment officer was not the usual standard.
Our problems started with the flight from Manchester to Cape Town with a ...
Good food , excellent service, comfortable cabin .
So why let yourselves down on relatively small items that spoil the cruise.
Why ask for table preference and give the opposite to that requested I've been on P&O cruises many times and it always happens. You ask for a table for either two or six and are given one of either four or eight and have to fight to get near what you want.
Wi Fi is ...