Cruise P&O --- you will not regret it !!!

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Cruise P&O --- you will not regret it !!!
Reviewed By: Webb, Loughborough on 8th Feb 2010
Cruise Line: P&O Cruises	Times cruised before: 10+
Cruise Ship: Oceana	Sailed: December, 2009
Destination: Caribbean	Age: 65+

After some 10+ cruises over the years this Xmas/New Year cruise ( for 29 days ) on Oceana was our first dip in the water with P&O and we do but wonder ' what took us so long '. This cruise was excellent - the best we have done - and we are already booked on a similar cruise with Azura in December 2010 and are really looking forward to it. Important criteria for my wife and I are good food and good entertainment and Oceana really came up trumps. The food was excellent as to variation, presentation and taste. I can get quite grumpy if I don't like the food but I was as happy as a sandboy - my wife was pleased that I was satisfied and that made her enjoyment of the cruise so much better. The entertainment was also excellent with the in-house revue company the best we have seen in our years of cruising. All the facilities we enjoyed on Oceana were very good and I would recommend P&O to any one. A memorable evening was New Years Eve - a rainforest of streamers on the Lido Deck and another was ' a sailaway ' with a sister ship Ventura alongside - some 5,000+ passengers singing away and waving Union Jack flags was just like being in the Albert Hall for Last Night of the Proms. ........ Marvellous ! The flights to and from Barbados were good, comfy and complimentary drinks as well --- very nice. Boarding procedures were good and the inside cabin we had on Deck 9 was comfortable, reasonably spacious and well furnished. One little drawback was the noise that came through the ducting and the music/singing came through from the Winner's Bar on Deck 8 and Tiffany's on Deck 7 --- but nothing is perfect. Evening activity ceases in these bars at 00.45 hours so you could regard the melodies as a ' lullaby ' period with your bed-time coffee. ! We did not bother with the excursions in the Caribbean as we had done it all before on previous cruises - but on the US element of the cruise we enjoyed the trip to NASA in Cape Canaveral and the trolley ride around Key West. All in all an excellent cruise and we much look forward to more of the same with Azura at the end of this year. We do Ocean Village in June 2010 - but from then onwards it will be P&O and we will choose cruises from the rest of the fleet. I doubt that the other cruise lines will see our custom again . Happy cruising to one and all - go P&O !
Quality of Food
On Freedom Dining so we were in the Ligurian Restaurnt but we also used the Plaza Restaurant as and when the menu appealed to us
Entertainment
The in-house revue company were excellent ... but the comedians were very good .... also the singers .... and the crew pantomime was well worth watching . Can't fault any of it !
Shore Excursions
NASA .... very interesting indeed
Staff
On Freedom Dining the 'staff' are hardly ever the same. Our Cabin Steward was good
Children's Facilities
N/A .... but what bits we saw were impressive
Onboard Activities
A full programme if you wanted to get involved
Cabins
Adequate .... but a little noise problem
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Opinion: Agree Comment by mcnally, Manchester (10 Feb 10 12:57) about this REVIEW

I too am hooked on P&O, cannot fault the staff, food or entertainment (most of the time) on any of the ships I have had the pleaseure of boarding, without doubt my favourite is Orianna, such Class, even put the QE2 to shame, keep up the good work P&O and you will have my custom for many years to come.

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