Early this year I was on a cruise for my 60th birthday. I was cruising on the Oriana for 35 days from Southampton to the Gulf of Mexico and back. The main impression of the cruise is that it was an interesting experience the British Empire and all its stupidity is alive and well and sailing on the Oriana or should I say Peninsular and Orient shipping. The trip was expensive and in my opinion not worth the £5,k it cost me. Form a cabin that did not meet what I asked for. to the gym thundering over my head form 8am each morning to the racial divisions of the crew and company, to the empty late night disco with an approved play list none of which is on my play list of favourite music and the out dated evening dress code that prohibited the use of the deck jacuzzi at 2 am and no cocktails under the Caribbean night sky.
I feel I was robbed by the cruise industry and my 60th birthday present to my self was all most a complete waste of my money and my time it was not the holiday I expected or the holiday I thought I was going to have . To make matters worse the same holiday that I paid £5k for if I now book the same trip again for 2012. I can have it for £3k and have an out side cabin possibly with a balcony ? An all because I have been sailing with them once at full price . This trip has fuelled my sense of outraged alienation from the rest of the world big time.
I wrote a 39 page log of my trip while on the journy I am toying with publishing it here with photos
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