Sydney (Australia) to the South Pacific Cruise Reviews

This is our 3rd time on a cruiseship, 1st time on this one. The waiters and bar staff were amazing, got on better with them than the passengers. Food was good, Cabin was ok, we asked for an Oceanview and got a porthole, a big deal breaker for me was no access to do laundry or ironing, you had to pay to have your laundry done and was very expensive especially being from NZ and everything was in ...

Overall, I like this ship with all the improvements and updates. And as long as things are going good, the crew is very helpful. However, after taking all precautions and wearing a mask every day, about 3/4 of the way into to cruise I test positive for Covid 19. I did the right thing by reporting my situation to the medical center on the ship. At this point, cruise service became basically ...

We chose this trip based on the videos, advertising and the website hype. First trip away from family at Christmas Time. We are mature age couple. We have sailed P&O before as well as Royal Caribbean. We want to be fair doing this review as sometimes a negative review is too powerful and outweighs the positives. 1. Embarkation was slow and no identification of lines to go to as we had VIP ...

Embarking. 2 hours to get on ship were greeted handouts to get wifi, photo studio information and spa deals! I dont remember any other staff with a welcome aboard hello. This was 4th cruise with P&O and will be our last. We requested early dining thinking it would be about 5.45 to 6.00 but we were booked in at 5.15 every day we did request a later sitting and was refused so we couldn't take ...

We chose this cruise because we had sailed pre Covid with Solstice and had had a wonderful time. However, this cruise was extremely disappointing and we will never choose this line again. These are some of the reasons, Mask wearing was barely encouraged for passengers and was minimal. The staff all wore them. However, Covid was spreading as a result. Two out of our party of eight ...

I wanted to go to Fiji to see the islands and to do some snorkeling. The thirteen day cruise consisted of only two days of going on the Islands, a stop in Lautoka (nothing there) Suva (dodgy and sleazy). There is no adult only pool ( as advertised) it was taken over by kids, as the barmen said it is not an enforced rule children in the Hollywood pool. Children put in life jackets in the ...

Wifi that we paid $20/ day for wasn’t working until the second day as the “wifi specialist wasn’t there.” On the second day we went to get the wifi details and apparently browsing the internet wasn’t included in what I paid (despite the package stating it was) and I had to upgrade my wifi by paying another $27 - making my total wifi bill $107 even tho I couldn’t stream movies etc AND I only had ...

We chose this cruise as it had been 2019 since our last cruise. Embarkation was great. It only took us less than 20 minutes from the time we arrived at the passenger terminal til the time that we were on the ship. Our only criticism of the boarding process was the fact that P&O did not require proof of our covid status. This means that guests could board with Covid-19. Despite the fact that ...

First of all this was supposed to be our 2nd Honeymoon vacation as 26 years ago that didn't happen, kids, work and morgages. P&O cruises cruises failed to reply back to us when contacted to make a specail occasion for our special event, that didn't happen, 2 emails, not returned. phone calls one after another was made, nothing passed through to the correct people, they will ring us back they say, ...

I did not enjoy this experience. Over crowded, badly organised from the beginning. Our first thing was the master. We had to stand around waiting for so long some of the elderly were starting to get ill. Then our first meal in the Gold Pearl, was a disaster, giving us food we didn’t order. A storm meant we missed out on Port Arthur so we were in Hobart for two days. I thought they could have ...