Britannia Review
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We chose this cruise as it was the only short 2-night getaway we could find in April, and it was the first time cruising with P&O. We were a party of 11 people and we all had an amazing time, It was so amazing I’m going back on the ship next year with a group of friends for a while week this time.
Firstly embarkation was an absolute BREEZE. We got there, dropped off our luggage, waited in a very fast moving line with loads and loads of assistants both at the desks checking us in and also guiding us to different parts of the queue where there was less people. Everyone was incredibly polite and happy, and was completely seamless, exceptional in fact. The whole thing from walking inside the terminal to getting on the ship took about 30-40 minutes, including the waiting security, everything. Quite simply, exceptional.
The ship itself was incredible, super modern, fantastic architecture with so many amazing beautiful bars to sit in. The service and the food in the restaurant was amazing. On the formal night we’d never heard of anything on the menu, so I just plumped for a random meal for each of the starter, main course and dessert (as I’m absolutely not a fussy eater) and it turned out to be exquisite. Everyone else I was with had different things and they loved it too, so big thumbs up on the food front. Service as well was quick, efficient, polite and all the waiters were very chatty and pleasant.
Cabin Review
The cabin was absolutely lovely, beautifully finished, very modern and didn’t have any problems with the size. A lot of reviews said they were too small, but I didn’t feel they were any different to any other cruise line, no issues with space at all for us.
My only complaint in the bunk beds, which I had to sleep in as I was in a 4-bed cabin. Unlike all other cruises I’ve been on where the pillow of the beds are at the window (ie if you walk into your cabin the beds are alongside the cabin walls of the next rooms), on this ship the beds were horizontally across the room which meant the beds couldn’t be that long and my feet were hanging off the edge, I’m only 5’10! The other drawback of this is that the bunk beds are nowhere near the air conditioning unit which meant it got very warm at night. This was just in April with typical cold, British weather, so I would have dreaded to sleep on one of them in 2018’s summer! Apart from that the cabins were lovely and so modern.