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Nice but disappointed

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Marsbar13
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Aug 2019
Cabin: Balcony Stateroom

We’ve sailed with p & o on several occasions now, and I choose P & O because I loved the attentiveness of staff, the cabin cleanliness and the quality of the entertainment. Unfortunately, for us, it didn’t match to our expectations. Our room was spotless, as was the whole ship. The attentiveness of staff was very lacking. We could go int9 a bar and not be served for over half an hour. If we went to the bar to request a drink, we were told to sit down and someone would come and take our order. Mostly, they didn’t. The entertainment was disappointing too. On previous P & O Cruises we have always found the theatre shows to be outstanding and so much entertainment on in the Horizon magazine that we have been virtually running from one venue to another time catch the great acts. Sadly, not on this cruise. I’m not sure if it was the fault of the entertainment crew or not but why would you put Whitney House n soundalike in one theatre and Diva’s in the other on the same night?! Again one night with a magician in one place and a mind reader in another?! It didn’t make sense to us. The resident band Pulse, thought they were better than they obviously were. One thing for everyone to bear in mind when booking a cruise to the Norweigan Fjords is that there cannot be any sail away parties on top deck as it’s against Norwegian policies to have music on deck at any of the Norwegian ports. This is something that’s not made aware to you when you book the cruise. Also, you cannot use plastic Britannia flags at a ‘sail on’ anymore and neither do they give them out (because of the harmful effects on the enviroment). We had a sail on party in the Atrium instead but it’s no where near the same. I’m not trying to sway anyone’s mind here, this is just a view of hw we found our cruise. I was shocked how different this cruise was to m last one with Pn& O but I’m not sure entirely what.m

Cabin Review

Balcony Stateroom

Cabin JC

Excellent,

. Very clean. Warm and friendly cabin steward. Exceklent

Port Reviews

Bergen

Our xcursuoj was cancelled and n this port as a storm was due to hit the uk and we had to leave Bergen early. We had a wander but although a busy port, not much to do with limited time.

Olden

No excursion booked. A really beautiful port where you can wander out on your own. My daughter did a local tour to a glacier which would have cost over £40 on the ship but she paid just £7.00. There are many bexcursiins to do in the port without paying p & o pruces

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