We chose the Oceana Nautica because of the itenery we had never been to South Africa and it was on our bucket list,The fact it was going over Christmas and New Year and because of its claim to being the best ,best,best. We love good food the Nautica deffinitely told us that we would find it on board. The Cruise was expensive but we always say you get what you pay for unfortunately the Nautica proved us wrong.

Having read reviews about the entertainment onCruis Critic we felt sure they would have rectified it ,we love shows and didn't expect big Las Vagas events as on wonderful previous cruises we have had(33)to date,but having been on smaller ships k we had not been disappointed,until the Nautica. The resident singers and dancers made everything sound the same we normally never miss a show but we gave up. We thought we would try the trio in the bar area where there was a small dance area. We shouldn't have bothered. No atmosphere, people had given up,

why,because the band had no personallity no expression on their faces except boredom and gave a robotic type performance. We complained about our junior suite having such an old shower with a shower curtain............When my husband dropped his soap there was no room to bend down to pick it up,we were told nothing could be done for us. We complained about the dried up food and bad service. We were told that a lot of staff were changing at the end of the cruise not sure how that was supposed to help us.One night we had to wait two hours before being served in a speciallity Restaurant. We were told to give them another chance. The cruise Director was only interested in being on the TV the entertainment factor was minimal the saving grace was the lectures on the Politics of South Africa. Read more