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7 Night Norwegian Fjords Cruise *Full Board* for 2 Adults from Southampton (£423pp) - P&O Iona - 3rd June = £846 @ Seascanner
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Good offer....Sail from Southampton 7 nights to the Norwegian Fjords
2x Adult Full board on the P&O Ventura - 3rd June 2023 in a Interior cabin
The price includes
All meals
Activities
Daily entertainment
Port fees and taxes
Gratuities are include
2x Adult Full board on the P&O Ventura - 3rd June 2023 in a Interior cabin
The price includes
All meals
Activities
Daily entertainment
Port fees and taxes
Gratuities are include
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sorted byThe Iona is big. 5200 guests and 1800 crew approx. A downside here and an important one Do not turn up early for embarkation. The terminal cannot hold that amount so you are cattle penned outside until your embarkation time comes up. We 3 hours in the queue some people we spoke to 4 hours. Arrive just a tad short of your allocated time. They stick to it rigidly.
Another thing to be mindful is that P&O now use a dreaded app for onboard bookings of meals and shows. By the time we figured out how to use it virtually everything had been booked up by in the know cruisers. So once you get onboard turn on aeroplane mode. Link into the ships guest wifi , put in your details and start booking. More detailed info on this see P&O site.
Any other info required just ask me and I will respond if I know the answer.
Now they do an arrival time and its definitely worth sticking to it as close as possible. We came back Saturday as well, we did May 6th to 13th. We had a boarding time of 3:45 and go down and made an error in getting to the dock as I went past the entrance so had to turn around so took 15 mins extra. We had onsite parking included and that took longer in the queue than previously. But that was easy just queued then someone checks over the car unload and they take your car away. Think we were finally approaching the terminal at about 3:30 and we got straight through no waiting, there was a queue of people outside waiting. We have a nearly 3 year old so had a pram so probably that helped. (edited)
The food quality was also just not up to standard.. buffet was okay (at best) and main dining room poor. Getting a drinks package is not worth it as the drinks are reasonably priced.
If I was to recommend a cruise from Southampton I would definitely recommend Sky Princess… quality of the food is much much better and the ship, much cleaner. The standard of cabins is about the same. In addition if you opt for the Princess Plus package the cost comes to about roughly the same!
Not going on P&O again, not because overall we didn’t enjoy ourselves (because overall we did) but because there’s better out there for the same price point!
Cabin I found was fine, we did have it set to pretty much the lowest setting but perfectly fine and defiantly not boiling hot.
Food again was nice, no different to any other cruises we have done before on P&O, either with Princess or MSC. My parents did Iona in Jan and just come back off Arvia and found both same in terms of food quality.
Fiver-ish for a pint, cocktails mainly £6.95, spirit and mixer, IIRC, are about £6.50, bottles of wine in the dining room start at £18 and we got a pretty decent pinot grigio for £22.
Each passenger over the age of 18 can take 1litre of alcohol aboard to drink in your cabin. That can be beer, wine, spirits etc. We last took a litre of vodka and a litre of Bacardi. You can take as many mixers as you carry
If you speak to your steward he/she will make sure that you have a full ice bucket every day (edited)
Is there some dress code or something that to be aware of? (Except overall additional payments for this or that).
Update found the link
I'm going to park on West Quay shopping centre multi storey for our trip the week after.
It is £5 per day and you pay before exit.
Few horror stories about cars being damaged, but equally lots of comments from happy users.
I'm going to risk it.
Look out for cruises that offer 3rd and 4th guests free. As these mean that kids travel for free, then, unless it's a fly cruise, then any child 2 and over will have to pay for a flight at least.
If you are looking at doing a cruise with kids then unfortunately you're probably going to have to book further in advance because there's not as many cabins that can accommodate 3 or 4 people as depending on the ship they either have sofa beds or pullmans. Pullmans are single beds that pull down from the side of the wall. Don't worry your cabin steward folds the extra beds away in the morning and then sorts them all out again in the evening, so theres nothing you need to do as a passenger in sorting this out. (edited)