Decent experience, though standards are dropping.

Item: Ventura
Rating: 4.4
Author: Nemo49

Ventura Cruise Review to Canaries

Nemo49

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Reviews: 2

Helpful Votes: 22

Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5

Spain Portugal And Canary Islands

Sail date: May 11, 2018

Ship: Ventura

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: B621

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Decent experience, though standards are dropping. e.g. PG tips in the cabin, also scruffier fellow guests.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

Bring decent tea. The cabin had PG tips.

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Ports of call

Southampton (London), England

4 out of 5

Barcelona, Spain

4 out of 5

Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France

5 out of 5

TUSCANY REGION, ITALY

4 out of 5

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

4 out of 5

Cartagena, Spain

4 out of 5

Gibraltar (U.K.)

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

10 Comments

chocoholic 6 years ago

Sometimes we like to dress up sometimes we choose not to. It’s our holiday and our choice ☺️but we always wash!! We take our own tea and coffee bags because that’s what we like. Already got them packed for our next one 🛳

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BreakingBass 6 years ago

Choose your cruise line carefully, research will give you a good idea. However dress code either needs to be enforced or made obvious it’s optional. However, in this app there are people upset either because dress code was enforced or because it wasn’t. Is it the fickle nature of the cruise lines or humanity?

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piratejane 6 years ago

That's a great shame to hear this. Hope you are still having a great time

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onlysail 6 years ago

Football scarves or jingoistic union jacks who cares. All cruise lines are cutting back and trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Still find more ppl dress for formal nights than on other cruise lines, just look at yanks comments about that. Maybe stick to cunard for a finer more formal cruise . I like pg tips

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onlysail 6 years ago

How dare the unwashed cruise

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kevandfi 6 years ago

I agree about standards too. Waving football scarves at sail away parties! Who wants to take a football scarf on a med cruise??

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Ray1963 6 years ago

Each to his own but I must agree I love formal nights 😆🍷

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amandasolts 6 years ago

I felt that way when we were on the azura strange i love getting me glad rags on but lots people didnt bother even on black and white night 🤔🤔

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IkeDeb 6 years ago

Nice

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Ursula01 6 years ago

Fully agree. Standards have dropped

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