A Summer of Cruising!

[C at Sea]

First post since coming back home from a summer of cruising! 1st on Aurora 2nd August. Lovely time!:) Renewed our vows for our 25th. It was great! Captain Paul Brown was fantastic and so lovely to talk to. Our friends came with us (1st time cruisers who are now hooked!) and everything went swimmingly! Unfortunately cant say same for 2nd cruise on Oceana for week 22nd August. :( Couldnt call at Falmouth cos of winds. No-ones fault and meant more time in Dublin. Late getting to Bilbao and instead of the usual P&O organisation i.e. trips being offloaded in a staggered format, it was just announced that everyone was free to go ashore! so the whole ship was getting off at once! result - mayhem! We had booked a tour and only just made the coach! food was nowhere near as good as Aurora cruise and the whole atmosphere onboard was a bit "casual". Have sailed on Oceana before and enjoyed it but felt standards had definitely dropped. Been on week long cruises too so not that either. On Oceana again in Jan for Panama cruise. Hope things have improved!

[Pontius Navigator]

First post since coming back home from a summer of cruising! 1st on Aurora 2nd August. Lovely time!:) Renewed our vows for our 25th. It was great! Captain Paul Brown was fantastic and so lovely to talk to. Our friends came with us (1st time cruisers who are now hooked!) and everything went swimmingly! Unfortunately cant say same for 2nd cruise on Oceana for week 22nd August. :( Couldnt call at Falmouth cos of winds. No-ones fault and meant more time in Dublin. Late getting to Bilbao and instead of the usual P&O organisation i.e. trips being offloaded in a staggered format, it was just announced that everyone was free to go ashore! so the whole ship was getting off at once! result - mayhem! We had booked a tour and only just made the coach! food was nowhere near as good as Aurora cruise and the whole atmosphere onboard was a bit "casual". Have sailed on Oceana before and enjoyed it but felt standards had definitely dropped. Been on week long cruises too so not that either. On Oceana again in Jan for Panama cruise. Hope things have improved!

 

C, thanks for that post. We were on her in July and it was one of our best cruises yet. We had planned to be on your cruise but cancelled in June. Glad we did now. We are on her again in November so like you, fingers crossed.

[LibraLass41]

I was also booked on that cruise E921 along with the following one on E922 which I did go on to Norway and Fjords which was superb! I also cancelled your cruise.

 

On our dining table were two couples from your cruise the week before who were doing a back-toback and they enjoyed it, obviously a shame you never made Falmouth but you did get longer in Dublin. Anyway our 7n cruise was great, we had Henry Cooper the boxer on as the after dinner speaker, and Bobby Davro for comedy entertainment. The food was hot and tasty (and as good as any other ship in the fleet) And out only problem we had was the force 10 storms on the way home, but Oceana handled it well despite loosing her satellite dome.:eek: