Firstly have to say the ship, staff, food and entertainment are superb.
However the arrangements for the excursion have been pretty bad. Firstly, at Stavanger we were due on a 9.30 excursion but had a call the day before from reception saying that was overbooked and we could go later at 12.30. That was fine but could have been an issue for anybody who had other plans for the afternoon.
At Olden though the situation was worse. Our excursion was due to leave at 9.30 and proceeded ashore with plenty of time before departure. Went to the bus we were told to go to and was informed it was already full and another bus was due. There were lots of people standing in the rain. The bus was due in 10 minutes which passed and eventually turned up 20 minutes late.
It was fairly clear that not everybody was going to get on that bus either. People started to board and lo and behold everybody couldn’t get on and as expected those left off were not happy. The tour guide was quite abrupt and told people if they didn’t like it they could go back to UK!
We were some of the lucky ones who managed to get on the bus and the tour itself was good although as we left 30 minutes late but arrived back at the appointed time I’m guessing part of the tour was missed out.
Either P & O or the local tours messed up in numbers/busses.