thornegirl

We had cabin 14741 on Arvia at Easter, , there are only 8 of these cabins. Absolutely fabulous cabin, large balcony and very quiet location.

I’m sorry I completely disagree we watched the children throwing water over the top , significant amounts landing on the middle two balconies from deck 11 down. Staff were on the deck 11 and deck 10 with mop and buckets. That was not spray.

That's what they were doing, some just splashed on the glass but the majority went over the top. There were lots of people on their balconies waiting for the sailaway, who saw it all happening.

I’m sorry but you are incorrect, the ‘kids’ were splashing the water from the infinity pool while we were moored up in Southampton before we left port. They were told off by other passengers but continued to do it while saying sorry! I did say earlier that an officer narrowly missed a drenching that day but we didn’t see any more water pouring from the pool after embarkation day.

There were no porters there to take your baggage over to the hole in the wall when we were on Arvia at Easter. Also had to search all over for a trolly to put luggage on. We are using P4Cruises next time.

Yes the Quays is open on embarkation day. Had the fish and chips

We were in 14741 on Arvia at Easter and saw the overflow from the pool when kids were throwing water. Deck 14, 12 balconies didn’t get soaked . Deck 11,10 and 9 did . It’s mainly the centre 2 balconies directly under the pool that got soaked. There was an officer on one of the balconies looking up at the problem who just missed a drenching. This was on the first day, I think that the kids in the pool were told off by other passengers I heard them shouting for them to stop doing it. Never happened again after that.

You can email P&O customer services and they will give you a list of the timings for the cruise. I do that for each cruise that I do.

My son and soon to be daughter in law were on Iona on 29th April, and she had 3 months and 2 days . Was told she just made the requirements. we applied to renew our passports online and had them back within 2 weeks.

Yes and since he parted ways with P&O the food in Sindhu is nowhere near as good.

Going to the Norwegian Fjords

We were on the Arvia Easter cruise and they scrutinised our passports. They didn’t expire until 28/04/24, which included a 6 month extension. I asked if they would be ok for our August cruise on Aurora they replied no they wouldn’t. I called the passport office and asked them the same question, replied not valid . I then sent passport applications off on the 19th April and received my new passport on 7th May, superb I was so worried about not getting the passport back in time but can now pay the balance on time.

We were on Arvia on the Easter cruise in a super deluxe cabin aft on deck 14 and there were children throwing water over the edge. That was when we were in port at La Coruna, the worst affected balconys were the centre balconys from deck 11 to down deck 9. There was an officer on the balcony of deck 10 who got soaked by the water. Never saw water being thrown over after that.

No sorry I don’t know where the drop off point was for either the port or P&O shuttles.

We were in Marseilles yesterday, the P&O shuttle was £5 per person each way. Don’t know how much the children’s prices were. We were told it was a 30 minute transfer to the centre. Lots of people walking off along the road but not sure where they went to. There were 2 other ships in with us MSC Seaside and a Costa ship would imagine 15000 passengers in total. we didn’t get off had a relaxing day onboard.

We’re also on Arvia at the moment. To put it in context we have cruised on Iona twice, once on the maiden (which was only half capacity) and once last August with all the family. Not sure how many on the August cruise but quite full. We loved Iona, but we wouldn’t go on Arvia again Don’t like the 6th street diner. The Olive Grove is ok but very limited choice and the menu never changes . We’ve had a light lunch in Green and co with 3 starters which we shared they were very nice and ate in there 1 evening but didn’t enjoy the mains at all. Had breakfast in MDR a few times but the food is never hot, so tried the keel and cow for breakfast, that was excellent. Bacon and egg bap was £2.50 and it was hot. keel and cow for dinner a couple of times. Would recommend that. Sindhu once, never again, chefs table once , if I wanted to share a table for 6 I would have asked for a shared table. There was about 2” between the tables. The staff are lovely as usual but are very busy. You can’t seem to get a rapport with them. Some we recognise from other ships and they say hello. we have lots of OBC so we are using that in the pay for restaurants, In my opinion the entertainment has been poor, don’t do the headliners , wish the 4 tunes were onboard or Tom Ball who we saw on Iona in August, or Paul Ruck as Eric Clapton. They were all excellent. None of what we have seen comes anywhere near as good as those I’ve mentioned. Everyone has their own opinions but our experience on Arvia is we won’t travel on her again, we have to go in school holidays as our daughter is a teacher and we look after the grandkids term time. We are enjoying our cruise but are being selective what we are doing.

Yes might try that.

We’re on Arvia at the moment. Agree that booking restaurants is a nightmare. Couldn’t get in either of the MDRs last night about 6.46. 125 in queue for merrdian and 95 for Zenith! 6th street diner is fully booked as well as the olive grove. The best food we have had is at the vegetarian restaurant lovely flavours and well presented. Spoke to one of the officers who said there are 5900 onboard which includes 800 children. We were on Iona last August and I’m sure it wasn’t this busy on there Hopefully with better weather coming up it won’t feel as crowded with more on the open decks.

It's also the Southampton marathon on the 2nd April, so it will be extremely busy. Ive checked with P4C and they've got no availability for parking for the Arvia cruise.

Oh that's brilliant, thanks for checking.

Thanks for the information, wonder if the Quays is open. If not, buffet it is then to the Glass House for drinks.

Sorry forgot to say on Arvia

Does anyone know which restaurants are open on embarkation day? We don't do the Peninsular club lunch (the last one on Iona was awful). We normally go in the Glass House but that wasn't open at all in August on Iona.

We have seen sunbed hoggers have 2 in the sun then 2 in the shade, depending on what their requirements were!

This is the information I have re shuttles hope it works PO_Shuttle_Information.pdf