Victoria Iberian Adventure - Notes on our Cruise

[rakkor]

Hi All - We're not long back from our Iberian Adventure cruise on Victoria - 5th to 16th November and we loved it as always.

 

This was our first cruise after getting to Platinum, and it was nice to be directed to the priority line for embarkation. Unfortunately that was as good as it got because when we got to the check-in  desks the computers started to fail, first ours, then the queue we got moved to, we were only delayed by 15 minutes or so, but it was still a bit of a faff getting moved from the front of one queue to the back of another, and then the back of a third. But we were soon back on board and although this was our first on Victoria since the refit, we had been on Elizabeth and knew what to expect with the new layout, I still miss the old Chart Room though.

 

We were in 4151 - one of the Glass Fronted balconies on deck 4 rear, These are huge balconies and will always try for one of these or the ones at the front of the ship, because of their size. . Dinner in Britannia was as good as always, and I didn't have any issues with the new menu format, I had plenty of choice, so much in fact on one night there were 5 Entrees that I really wanted to have and it was very difficult to choose just one. - I posted the menus on my blog - link below in my signature

 

I have only one complaint about the ship - The state of the gym equipment - half of it was unserviceable and the placement of the treadmills meant there was only one I could use - I'm 6'6" and the low ceiling means I hit it with my head when running, There are some machines placed under a recess in ceiling, but this is worse because if the ship pitches you get thrown forward and bang your head on the angle of the recess - I did this on the Elizabeth last year and cut myself quite badly. It's not all bad news though, the staff said the gym was about to be refitted so hopefully things will get better.

 

Everything else was great - I thought the Lido deck was going to be a pain with the new chairs and loungers taking up all the space of the sunbeds, but it was fine - The drinks were expensive, but not much more expensive than we have here in London, and the waiting staff were brilliant everywhere, from the bars and stateroom to Nick and Gideon who looked after us so very well for the whole of our voyage in the Britannia. We had eight of the nicest people for dinner that you could want on our table of 10.

 

Jim

 

 

[Ray66]

I was also on this cruise. Our embarkation went fine. We are diamond and were given a pink card to get us through priority.  On the other hand, disemarkation was a real mess and delayed because I think they hadn't unloaded all the cases on time.  I think it would help if they had announcements made over the speakers at this time as to how things are progressing.

 

Lectures and entertainment were very good, especially we thought Walk Like A Man (who we watched both performances) and Pete Matthews a comedy juggler.

 

All in all, a good cruise.

 

Just a note to point out: we were on deck 6 aft and had chosen a room with a bathroom on the left hand side but it turned out that it was actually on the right hand side (as you enter). In June we had a room on deck 6 forward on the QE and had also chosen a room with a bathroom on the left hand side but this also turned out to be on the right hand side.  I think I might remember in the distant past being discussed on here that deck plans on deck 6 are wrong.