South Pacific Cruise Reviews

We had an absolutely amazing family holiday, loved every minute, so much credit to your amazing staff for also making our holiday relaxing, special mention to Rose our room steward, she was so beautiful and helpful

Overall it was an enjoyable cruise. Didn't like that everything was in US dollars and our AU dollar was so bad that what seemed good ended up costing so much more. Some of the food was blah and the coffee was awful. Learnt to ask for English bacon.

WindStar and the Wind Spirit are the best in overall small-ship cruising in my opinion. The crew of which some were with us on the Wind Surf two years ago, remembered us and we renewed old friendships, they all made this trip very special. We met several couples from all over the world who made the trip relaxing and enjoyable. French Polynesia is truly paradise and I highly recommend that everyone put it on your "bucket list.'

Great staff and New Zealand is beautiful. Loved Picton, Napier & Akoroa and Milford Sounds. Christmas day on the ship was disappointing with no Christmas menu and no Christmas Carols or festivities (they had this all on New Years Eve) very disappointed but the staff were amazing. Too much upselling constantly on the ship and constant additional costs for everything when it was already a more expensive cruise with being a Christmas New Year Cruise. Not our favourite ship out of the other couple of cruises we have done. But wonderful staff that made it very memorable.

We really enjoyed our cruise and made some wonderful new friends. This was the 4th time we have cruised to New Zealand on the Celebrity Solstice. We did expect that being a Christmas/New Year cruise that there would have been more celebrations and traditional Christmas meals. New Year was celebrated more than Christmas. On Christmas day it was Happy Holidays and not Merry Christmas - for a cruise in Australia/New Zealand why did we have to respect the beliefs of the minority. When we are in their country that's fine, but they should respect us in our country. This was my only disappontment.

Lovely destination with lots of beautiful places to see . Cunard should be reserved for the aged as all passengers over 70 . All activities and entertainment aimed at the aged . Food average. Been on a few other cruises before, cunard definitely not for me .

Fantastic cruise. Very pleasantly surprised. Well done NCL. We will be back.

I could not believe how calm the Tasman Sea was, traveling in both directions. Sea conditions are always a lottery when on a cruise. I loved it. Happy trails everybody.

It was our 7th cruise 1st with Cunard It was very enjoyable We are Nu Vogue & Sequence Dances, It was a little disappointing that we had little opportunity to do those dances . The dance floor in the Queens room had mostly Freestyle Dances ,very repetitious . Foxtrot ,quickstep rumba, jive & cha cha. I estimated About 80% of the dances on the ship ,were Sequence dance. So we and others would have liked a bit more Sequence dances.

Best cruise yet. New Zealand is beautiful and the people are so nice.

The cruise was excellent the crew went out of their way to make it a great Christmas and new year

A lovely ship, although a bit tired and creaky. Staff and food were excellent.

Wow.....what an experience for us as 1st time cruisers. We will definitely be cruising again!

We had a lovely holiday lots of laughs,and relaxation.

We were so impressed the Ovation Christmas that we booked for next Christmas as well. Loved the crew and I am counting down the days till our next RCC cruise.

Great cruise, pity we couldn’t get to all the ports due to weather, but enjoyed it anyway 😊

Did not Visit Fiordland or Port Chalmers the Captain choose Picton because of Bad/Rough seas

This was our first cruise and we had a amazing time the staff in all areas were just great food entertainment was excellent can’t wait to go on ovation again

Overall this cruise was excellent. It was just what we needed as we had not had a break in about 18 months and all work full time. We were able to catch up on some much needed rest and just enjoy being together - lots of laughs and totally relaxed by the end of the cruise. Best thing was I did not have to cook Christmas Dinner this year!

Overall very good. The staff are attentive but photos, as expected are expensive but to have to pay $20 USD just for the digital copy and nothing else is absurd. Shore excursion is extremely overpriced in some locations.