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Norwegian Fjords Cruise *Full Board* 7 Nights Cruise for 2 Adults from Southampton (£470pp) - P&O Iona - 20th April 2024
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Sail from Southampton 7 nights to the Norwegian Fjords
2x Adults Full board on the P&O Iona - 20th April 2024 in a Interior cabin
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2x Adults Full board on the P&O Iona - 20th April 2024 in a Interior cabin
The price includes
- All meals
- Activities
- Daily entertainment
- Port fees and taxes
- Gratuities are include
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sorted byI'm not a fan of crowded places. Going for shopping and there's a ton of folk around getting in the way.. I generally aim to miss rush hours to avoid people. I'm not anti people! But I like to try and live a quiet life.
I went on this exact cruise, albeit during the summer holidays when all the kids were off and the ship was at capacity! But in all honesty.. beyond there being the odd queue here and there you aren't hanging about and there's not too many folk getting up in your face.
You visit a web page on your phone when you board and get access to free WiFi purely to access said page. Book your restaurant visits in advance and it'll give you a 15 minute heads up when your slot is ready to go.. we done it when we were dressed and ready to leave the cabin and generally by the time we'd walked up and had a drink nearby, our table was ready.
Same applies to the various shows on the ship, book them as soon as you have access to book them. If you want to try the 710 club which is free, do it asap! Fills up pretty fast as it's only small! And I'd strongly recommend paying the cover charge to go to the Limelight club at least once and preferably at the start of the cruise so you can book again if you love it.. but be assured you won't feel overcrowding anywhere other than perhaps coming out of a show or if you haven't booked in advance.
Just go for it! I was sceptical and thought at 40 I was pretty young for a cruise, but everyone's polite enough and the staff are almost waiting on you hand and foot!
One suggestion if you do go.. if you're buying a drinks package, don't go all in for the alcohol! Honestly! There's no way you'll drink enough to warrant the price of it! Go for the non alcoholic package and it's easy enough to have a wee drink in your room then just order drinks when you're around the ship. You can take a full litre per adult and as much juice and mixers as you like! Also if you're taking children and buy any drinks package, they get theirs included free.
Best holiday I've ever had and Norway is absolutely gorgeous!
Plenty of food choice, we paid the bit extra to go in a couple of the restaurants (it was literally a few quid extra) but them seem to sell out.
Entertainment was a bit limited in that there wasn't all that much to do on a cruise day.
Some of the fjord places were amazing, you can book tours outside of P&O (the facebook page is a good place to start) and there are also booths just off the ship. If you pay with P&O or go direct, you're often on the same bus so no massive need to worry about missing the ship or anything (it'll have to wait).
A couple of the stops were a bit meh, the last one there wasn't a great deal to do, so we took a bus trip. It did its best but there wasn't a lot to see. Also the custard is terrible.
I'd definitely recommend going, it's nice just to sit out and watch the scenery.
The ship itself isn't extortianate, usual pub prices. A nice bottle of wine is about £20 with dinner.
I had a window room on the 3rd floor, parents had an inside room. Major difference aside from the window was there room was a lot smaller, it was literally just a bed whereas we had a sitting area. You can happily spend most of the day outside the room.
You'd be hard pressed to get a deal like that anywhere in the UK, let alone abroad.
After watching countless cruise videos, I only want to try Royal Caribbean and Cunard (booked on QM2 next year). I don't like the look of Marella, MSC appears to provide great value but having everything said in 7 languages would get annoying and I'd never go on Virgin as it looks way over the top and 'in your face'.
It was our first cruise and we went with a Conservatory mini-suite and I'd definitely recommend it if there are decent prices.
If you're sceptical about going on a cruise.. this is the ideal intro! What you pay is all you ever need to pay and I've never before or since eaten anywhere near as good when I've gone out for food.
Also.. take a wee doggy bag and grab bits from the buffet if you want to avoid Norway's prices
Taxis are fairly prevalent, if you're just vaguely going local.
Oops, meant as a reply to Piranha_Plant (edited)
Value compared to other things - like, what a holiday might cost on land etc. Then also value compared to normal pricing for this type of thing.
So it can be both good and poor value at the same time.
On the latter basis, it is not great value if you consider that last year there are deals posted for the same journey in the £700-800 range.
MSc for me, expensive really, not cheap, freezing from me (edited)
Royal Caribbean - best ships
P&O - great all-rounder, especially like the West-end type shows (not this Cirque Du Soleil stuff)
NCL - felt as though the Spanish/Italians didn't know what a queue is
Tui - using them the most of late as fantastic VFM (with drinks included). Best for families as least snobby people
Celebrity - no complaints, great A/C !
I think the food is great on all them tbh.