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Arvia Cruise Review

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 15

Overall rating:

2.5 out of 5
Arvia

Eastern Caribbean Islands

Sail date: December 23, 2023

Ship: Arvia

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 10 months ago

Review summary

No overall best review the only thing we had a break

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Slow to get service and very crowded food cold and people handling food when making selection

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
Poor activities and very amerture

Entertainment

2 out of 5
The trapeze artists very entertaining

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Some staff very good other indifferent ling wait times . Room steward fantastic.

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
Dust and dirt in some places, toilets not always clean. Ships layout not good

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5
Vey small balcony room bed against the balcony doors ie approx 6ins settee in the middle of room after the bathroom, no cupboards draws, on shaver sockets, width of room approx 2feet wider than bed,

Ship tip

Do not book this ship standards have fallen this ship is aimed at families, not the normal p and o standard others have described it as Benidorm at sea.

Ports of call

Tortola, British Virgin Islands

1 out of 5
Cancelled due to late incoming flight two days in Antigua

Basseterre, St. Kitts

2 out of 5

Fort-De-France, Martinique

3 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

5 out of 5

La Romana, Dominican Republic

1 out of 5

St. John's, Antigua

2 out of 5

Castries, St. Lucia

5 out of 5
Good tour trip to pitons

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
All worked very well slight problem told the staff the wheelchair person could not manage a high step onto us told no problem when at bus large step and no auxiliary step wait in the sun to find alternative eventually taxi found.
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7 Comments

Didee18     8 months ago

We loved the Arvia last April but I can now totally understand why you'd be underwhelmed. It was our very first cruise and we had a lovely balcony room. We were blown away by cruising itself and so were delighted. However we went again during November, this time on Arvia's Sister-Ship, Iona and definitely noticed what you're talking about. It put us off for a while (but not too long! lol). We're going on an adults only ship this May and so will see how that goes (it's with P&O again btw)

Cruise1st     9 months ago

Can't resist any longer, read this on the 12th when it was posted and didn't understand it. Read it several times since and "nope" still don't. Perhaps it's me, please explain

Gwbigdog     10 months ago

Oops sorry 😞 thanks

Ruby13     10 months ago

Nice itinerary

javawoody     10 months ago

Appreciate the comment

cruising2004     10 months ago

Sorry you were disappointed with your cruise.

karlgrgurich     10 months ago

That sure doesn’t sound good

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