yes!yes!yes!

Mum has spent months on the Dawn and she kept pointing out all the original stuff. Most of it was quite obvious, especially the room carpet and stair well carpets. Vista just has different carpet and cushion covers

Nor me, I have done lots of "foreign cruises"

I know, thats the over the counter individual packet price. Its available whenever the pool bar is open. I dont think there was a duty free shop on board

the entertainment staff were good. excellent turn out at all activities and trivias and gameshows. the cruise director was okay, he did the job, but not much personality.

you won't go hungry. they do penny pinch a lot tho. if you want a burger its $6.50 and $8.50 extra on the lunch menu (altho the laSt lunch in the buffet had an included burger bar) $10.50 for a hotdog in the dining room. there is a burger place somewhere near the pool but you have to pay there too. thankfully I'm not really into burgers but I know alot of people are.

we have really enjoyed our cruise. its always great to travel with mum and eat lots. p&o is not anywhere near as good as msc, royal Caribbean or princess. but they don't come here and do return cruises so we made the most of it. I'm off in 2 weeks time to Europe for 8 weeks and will be booking a cruise for while I'm there. so I suppose I can't post on here as its not Australia / new Zealand. if anyone has any questions about this cruise, I will check in here over the next few days.

we had breakfast in the buffet for the first time this morning. it was the same stuff as the dining room menu. we have pulled into fremantle. we can start getting off from 7.30am

we had dinner in Angelo's last night. it was quite good

cigarettes are $15 a packet of 25, Winfield or rothmans. thats bar price. I don't think they have them in the duty free shop

waiting for the perfect match show to start in the lounge. we call it the Vista lounge because it's just like a princess Vista lounge. there is such a good turn out for all the events and every one joins in. have only seen one wheel chair and a few crutches. not one walker frame.

we had the buffet for lunch today. the Indian station was good. I also had a beef burrito made to order from the Mexican station. both were good. the food is very average, but the hot food is nice and hot. mum had roast beef which she said was like leather. lots of cakes but no flavour. we are still enjoying ourselves. lots of trivia, gameshows and dances.

today's events

we did many trivias and the celebrity heads game show during the day and saw the first half of the George Michael impersonator show. (we had dinner booking so left early ) show was disappointing in that the first 3 songs I didn't recognize (the audience didn't either) and then the next two weren't big hits. it annoys me when you go see a cover singer and they sing all the b songs. dinner in the Asian restaurant was poor. there was a deck party last night as it was a warm night. we only caught the beginning and had an early night

we just had the dimsum. we enjoyed it, but we also said if it was at a restaurant on land we would never go back. we are booked in there for dinner tonight. everyone says its the better of the included dinner dining rooms. we had 4 dishes. $30

as its only 3 nights, I won't bother. mum usually sits on it. seems like only royal Caribbean gives every inside room a 3 seater sofa and a high back padded chair

yes. looks like that but not strong enough to sit on and I'm not big

I have just noticed that there is no chair what so ever in the room. what I thought was a chair under the dressing table is in fact a small coffee table

mum isn't going to bingo. she said the line had hundreds of people waiting to buy the cards. and she went really early. she will try again this afternoon. the casino keeps her distracted in the mean time. we have been doing ok with trivia so far. but haven't won.

we are going to have the yum cha/dim sum for lunch. you have to pay per item but mum and I love dim sum so will give it a go. mum is at bingo so I had a quick look in the buffet to see what the menus are at each food station. they are more or less all different dishes from yesterday. ie the chicken Tikka is now lamb Rogan Josh.

for those that like to know. there is one Australian plug and one American plug in there area below the TV. with 4 USB plugs in same area. nothing by the bed

there is a big wine menu in the dining room but I forgot to take a photo of it

here's a few

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we had to book dinner times when we got onboard. the times we wanted were not available. we went 45 minutes earlier than our timeslot and they said not a problem and let us into the almost empty dining room. food was basic, mums pie was good, my brisket was awful. I ordered a bottle of wine and they told me I could take the rest of the bottle back to my room and take it to dinner tomorrow.

although this cruise is quite rowdy every one is very friendly and we have met lots of nice people. this morning we did see a family wandering around insde deck 7 in their pajamas and slippers.