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Oceana Cruise Review to Europe

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 6
Helpful Votes: 79

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5
Oceana

Greece, Turkey and Malta

Sail date: January 05, 2020

Ship: Oceana

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

Started, very poorly, food and service, awesome, entertainment not our thing, but people seemed to rate it highly

Embarkation

1 out of 5
Probably the worst ever, waited over an hour to get to the desk, then told 'we have printer problems, you have to queue over there to get your cards printed so we then waited another hour and 15 mins, when we get to the ship, our cards don't work, so we go and queue again at staff reception. Total time to get on board 3 hours 25 minutes

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Best breakfast on the Seas, great service and good choice

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Not our thing, but plenty going on

Entertainment

2 out of 5
Went to one show, a very unfunny Irish comedian. ( the woman at the side of me almost died laughing,) personal choice?

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Top class, especially in the dining rooms

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Very clean and always being cleaned

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Inside cabin, tea making facilities, small t.v. and shower, but, clean and quiet

Ship tip

Best breakfast on the Seas in the dining room on deck 5

Ports of call

Southampton (London), England

5 out of 5
No excursions

Vigo, Spain

5 out of 5
Walked 200m outside to tourist info and they told us about the white hop on, hop off bus that goes at 10.30 and 12.30 90 mins for 7.50 euros each bargain

Malaga, Spain

5 out of 5
Got the shuttle bus into town, £4 each way if you are on the select fare, free if not, nice city to walk round

Barcelona, Spain

5 out of 5
Hop on hop off 25 euros each for 3 routes

Valencia, Spain

5 out of 5
First visit, beautiful city, hop on, hop of stops outside terminal 14 euro's, 2 routes, 90 mins each, bargain and strongly recommend

Cadiz (Spain)

5 out of 5
Hop on hop off 20 euros each, average, would just walk it

Lisbon, Portugal

5 out of 5
Nice city, weather got worse through the day, hop on, hop off ( use the yellow bus) we used city explorer bus 22 euros, sound system did not work on 3 of the 4 buses we were on

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Brilliant
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1 Comment

BreakingBass    4 years ago

Sorry about the embarkation debacle, although isn’t that mainly down to the port authority who supply the check in, rather than P&O?