Hobson1754

You’ve convinced me - think I’ll be sticking to Freedom dining. Also, having read another post which was detailing the positives of P & O, I’m feeling much more settled about our cruise in January so thank you all.

Well that’s given me food for thought. I do fancy the concept of Freedom dining always having done fixed in the past. The only drawback I can see is, because you don’t have same waiter every night, they don’t get to know your preferences - in my case I can’t stand food which is just warm!  Also, these waiters in Freedom dining room must really miss out on tipping now as P & O have scrapped automatic tipping.

Thanks everyone. I was starting to rethink this cruise from reviews I’ve seen about Brittania.  I’ve never been on P&O (only Celebrity, Holland America & RCL), but this forum seems to give a more balanced view. I appreciate the balconies are small & that won’t bother us greatly, however we’ve opted for Freedom dining and again reviews have stated that the service often isn’t as good and food is not always hot enough.  Think I’m going to contact them to maybe switch to fixed dining, although we will be trying some speciality restaurants.

I’ve seen somewhere - think it was on one of the reviews, that Brittania is going in for a refit at the end of the summer. Does anyone have anymore Information i.e. what is the nature of the refit. I suspect, from a lot of negative comments, it may be to do with installing central staircase! Would be very interested as we’re booked on Brittania at beginning of January ‘20.