Oceania Cruises Reviews

Glad you enjoyed your trip on Insignia, we found the staff fantastic, so efficient and friendly. Seems a very happy ship. I agree about the food, it's excellent and I did love being able to eat when you feel like it and not having to queue either even in the buffet. Much better than the Berlitz guide indicates. We the buffet and loved eating outside. Have to say I liked the low key entertainment. The deputy cruise director, Sian, was a wonderful singer/pianist. She was an absolute delight and gave us a CD recording of her performance. The other cruise singer Frances was a great singer too and we loved the string quartet especially when they played during the fabulous teas! I suppose they change them regularly. Ours was a Med cruise and at least one of the entertainers just joined them for the cruise and was flying home when we docked. You mentioned the US flights, they seem to include these free but they don't offer them to anyone outside the US which makes the cruises expensive. The prices have been shot up this year, they're double what we paid last September. Our cruise agent's company had a good dollar exchange deal last year but that's obviously gone. They have few special offers, they don't need them, they get booked up so quickly. I'd love to cruise with Oceania again but at the prices they're charging in the UK at present I'm sadly looking for another line.

You say your insurers reimbursed you in full. What company was this, please? G Brown