Saturday 7th August was a day we have been looking forward to. The start of our 7 day Scottish trip on Iona's maiden voyage.

We went to the terminal and after leaving out luggage joined the covid test queue. This was the start of a few queues we encountered that day. The test wait was about 20 mind and we were then directed to the terminal upper floor for the health screening. Whilst this was no big deal it was duplication of effort as we already had done this on line.

After this we were directed to a seating area to await the covid results. We have done 2 other cruise's this year, and P&O was by far the slowest. My results took about 45 mins, and my wife's over an hour. Read more