P & O

Advantages: Modern, Spacious Ships, Value Price
Disadvantages: Steeply Priced Food

Triangle. What a stupid concept for a TV series. I can't possibly imagine what the BBC thinking back in the early 80's; "I know, let's set a soap opera aboard a North Sea ferry…"? Ok I see a couple of problems with this; firstly it's never going to be an English 'Love Boat'. No matter how many times Kate O'Mara titivates the audience with her face-down topless sun bathing; the whole thing is still going to end up about as glamorous as the Dagenham ...
...isn't particularly well known for its calm tropical waters and bright sunshine. So regardless of how you dress it up, it's destined to be nothing more than mediocre. But then fast forward 20 years and it seems that P&O might have managed what the BBC never could; the North Sea has become civilised, thanks to a pair of the world's biggest car ferries. MINI CRUISE This is all started because we were looking for a short break somewhere that wasn't ... Read review

Advantages: Food, food, and more food
Disadvantages: posh, posh, posh

...- a cruise on the P & O Cruise ship Aurora. As many will probably know, this had a particularly virulent bug some time ago resulting in the ship not being allowed to dock at various ports for fear of infecting the locals, so armed with that knowledge and the impending festivities, I viewed the holiday with some trepidation. The price of the cruise in the brochure, for a cabin on A deck, which is what we had, is listed at £3000+ per person, but I ...
...we were each given a P & O credit card which is wonderful, I could shop till I dropped and everything went on hubby's credit card, which was registered when we first boarded. Seriously, there was one sort of general store, a beautique and a "designer shop" which charged exhorbitant prices for pretty average clothes. There was also a jewellers but daren't risk putting the odd diamond on the card, he just might have noticed when it came to settling ... Read review

Advantages: Pampering in total luxury, good food, excellent service
Disadvantages: Expensive

I never thought that I would ever be that old that the prospect of cruising would appeal to me but how wrong I was … it’s not that I’ve got old (38 and holding fast!) it’s just that I had completely the wrong idea about cruising. Chances are that you have similar misconceptions – if so read on … My first cruise was in 2000 on the Maiden Cruise Break of P&O’s then brand new ship, Aurora. The cruise was booked ...
...and I was convinced that I was going to be the youngest on the ship and wasn’t really looking forward to the whole experience. That cruise turned out to be such a success that she and I did another one last year and have just returned from another in June this year. The cruise this year was called "Renaissance and Rivieras" and called at Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Livorno (the port for Pisa and Florence), Santa Margherita, Calvi, Palma and Gibralta. ... Read review

Advantages: Great fun and loads to do
Disadvantages: weather out at sea

Pride of Hull and Pride of Rotterdam. During 2004 I have had the pleasure of 3 minicriuses with P&O from the port of Hull. The first 2 times we sailed on the Pride of Rotterdam and the third time we sailed on the Pride of Hull. P&O are the first to point out that when these ships were launched they claimed the title of the biggest ever car ferries and still keep to this day. Whilst P&O enjoy this I would not be surprised if Irish Ferries were a ...
...6 months. The Pride of Rotterdam was the first to be built at a cost of 90 million pounds, it took less than 14 months to build her, she was built at Fincantieris Marghero yard in Venice and weighs in at 59,925 Gross tons and has a length of 215.1m. Both the sisters are identical in looks and layout. They were designed especially for the Hull to Rotterdam Europoort crossing, each vessel boasts 546 passenger cabins with a total of 1376 beds be it ... Read review

Advantages: World Class Act
Disadvantages: Bay of Biscay

P&O Cruise aboard The Oriana – 11 nights. OR205 12th to 23rd May 2002 - “Canaries Collection” Southampton Madeira Tenerife La Palma Lanzarote Lisbon Vigo Southampton O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O P&O Cruises operate some of the finest ships afloat. They are tailored very much to the British and Anglophile market. The emphasis is heavily towards understated stylish good taste rather than the glitzy Vegas razzmatazz. All ...
...offering Cruises of differing lengths. Alternatively you can fly out to the ships elsewhere in the world. For example, you can join a ship for just a part of its World Cruise. O~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O GETTING THERE. Saturday evening, London Battersea Park 11th May. Midnight. Some 9,000 women in decorated bras set off to walk a marathon in aid of breast cancer. An uplifting sight, but I tore myself away and went home to ... Read review