Just booked our first cruise

DisneyFamily · 12 Aug 18, 04:56 PM

Well we've been researching cruises for our Florida 2020 trip, and in the process saw a 4-night trip with P&O departing Southampton and going to Bruges next August. Never been on a cruise before so seemed like the perfect opportunity to see if we like it, so have booked it this morning.

SimonB · 12 Aug 18, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by DisneyFamily

Well we've been researching cruises for our Florida 2020 trip, and in the process saw a 4-night trip with P&O departing Southampton and going to Bruge next August. Never been on a cruise before so seemed like the perfect opportunity to see if we like it, so have booked it this morning.

Just come back from our first cruise and booked onboard for another next year. Prefer it to flying at this moment in time and I work for an airline.

I do think cruising is a marmite type thing though.

katiec68 · 12 Aug 18, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by DisneyFamily

Well we've been researching cruises for our Florida 2020 trip, and in the process saw a 4-night trip with P&O departing Southampton and going to Bruges next August. Never been on a cruise before so seemed like the perfect opportunity to see if we like it, so have booked it this morning.

What ship are you booked on?

We have done a fjords cruise with P&O and are booked to the Baltics next summer.

I think my only word of caution would be that the shorter cruises 2/3/4 nights are often "party" cruises and not a true reflection of how the longer cruises actually work.

If you are on Facebook there are lots of groups associated with each ship.

You can also book a 4/5 hr ship tour of your chosen trip - the number is on the P&O website.
For �30 you get a tour and a VERY nice lunch! we make a weekend of it and have a couple of nights either side in Southampton.

Im am sure you will love it.

We loved our first one we went from a 7 nights fjords to a 15 night transatlantic and are heading out to the eastern med in November too!

x x x

DisneyFamily · 12 Aug 18, 10:43 PM

Were sailing on the Aurora. I did see the Fjords trips but as we're mainly saving for Florida I needed to keep the costs down. I will definitely get Em to check out the Facebook groups.
We're likely to do a 1 week Caribbean cruise after WDW in 2020 but not sure who with yet.

SquishTheWhale · 13 Aug 18, 08:41 AM

We have done the P&O ship visit/ tour too in Southampton, it's great fun and I agree on the yummy lunch. If you book a cruise after taking it they have special offers, and even if you book within a year they will credit the cost of the tour back to you as on board credit.

I bet you'll love the mini cruise but do keep in mind as said above it will have a different atmosphere to a longer cruise. So if you enjoy it but think it was too busy and loud then do try a longer cruise, you might like that more!

Our first cruise was 10 nights- so if we got on board and decided we didn't like it we were a bit stuck lol.

Royal Caribbean also do short taster cruises out of Southampton so you could try them too and see who you like better. We're going on a 3 nighter in October

13 Aug 18, 08:41 AM	#5
	13 Aug 18, 08:41 AM SquishTheWhale Imagineer
SquishTheWhale Imagineer Join Date: Mar 18 Location: Milton Keynes	We have done the P&O ship visit/ tour too in Southampton, it's great fun and I agree on the yummy lunch. If you book a cruise after taking it they have special offers, and even if you book within a year they will credit the cost of the tour back to you as on board credit. I bet you'll love the mini cruise but do keep in mind as said above it will have a different atmosphere to a longer cruise. So if you enjoy it but think it was too busy and loud then do try a longer cruise, you might like that more! Our first cruise was 10 nights- so if we got on board and decided we didn't like it we were a bit stuck lol. Royal Caribbean also do short taster cruises out of Southampton so you could try them too and see who you like better. We're going on a 3 nighter in October Edited at 08:42 AM.