P&O Britannia Embarkation Day Process - First Impressions Of The Ship & People Are Moaning Already! 

Hey guys, this is the 1st of many P&O Britannia vlogs to come, so make sure you keep an eye out for all the ship & food vlogs coming out

Yeah, lovely to see you on a cruise again, enjoy x

So good to see you guys back cruising again providing so much info as usual, great as always👍

Absolutely brilliant, full of information as always and your fun personalities thrown in aswell! Thanks for taking the time to film all these when you're away. Loved the Bottom shaking Kevin 😂 looking forward to the rest

Great to see u cruising again, have a great time, look forward to watching vlogs x

Greetings from Australia. Great to see you on another cruise. Also, I love that you both are always looking at the positive side of things. It's always wonderful to see people enjoying themselves. Another informative video.

Brilliant video guys. That price is amazing..... I had to rewind to make sure I heard right 🤣. Looking forward to seeing more content. Safe travels.

Enjoyed the start of your next cruise. Kev and Stacey. Great price for 2 people! Some great information too for the folks who are going or thinking about it. Loved the thought process in the start. Board the ship and go straight to the buffet! Hopefully it will improve and the elevators less full. Hate to walk up 9 decks to get to the buffet! Looks like a nice ship and fun time! Thanks for bringing us along.

Hi guys, once again great volg! We’re travelling on the Britannia in September to Norway! Looking forward to the rest of your volgs and your pros and cons of your time spent on the ship. Paul n Sharon

Brilliant blog. Love watching them xx

Named your channel on my first P&O booking hope they take note! Love your content. By far the best. 😊

We stepped on Brittania next September so this video has helped us a lot.

We went on Britannia back in 2015 and will be going on her again in October this year. Thanks for sharing, it was interesting to note the changes since 2015. We thought the layout was a bit strange too, we much prefer the Iona and Arvia but we are lucky to be on any cruise! Can't wait to watch the rest of your Britannia vlogs x

You tell 'am Stacey. I can't wait to cruise.

We boarded iona last Saturday...again in the school holidays. Terminal staff were being very strict with boarding times....consequently very slick boarding process....20 mins from walking into terminal to getting onboard. Moral of the story...if people stick to boarding times there shouldn't be long queues in the terminal.

Love Britannia. We were on B305 14 nights around Caribbean 10 to 24th March. ♥️

Hey, came on to see what youse two are up to and you’ve got 4 vids on Britannia. I’m so pleased ( how sad am I 😂) as I’m on Britannia in 8 days time. 14 nights up in Scandinavia and the Baltic. So glad your doing a review as the ones I’ve seen have been a bit old. I have a balcony cabin so look forward to watching. Never been with P&O, only MSC and Celebrity. Hope it’s a nice ship as 14 nights is a long one !!!

Hi guy's. I'm new to your channel and I have to say. You are both so fun to watch. I did subscribe so looking forward to more of your adventures.

Great video! We've been considering cruising but are a bit on the fence!

Love your videos! We are going on this ship in September.

Stacey, you have cut your hair! Love the layers, it really suits you. Just over an hour to board? After our 4.5 hour wait during covid, just over an hour would be a breeze. There again we needed covid tests at the terminal and our results got lost, which also meant we had to go queue again for retesting. I was having a right ole moan and then mother nature gave me a bump to reality. A fellow cruiser got out of her car, the P&O employees was taking it to park it up. The lady fell on the floor and literally died. Paramedics couldn't save her. Stopped me moaning about queueing for hours. Hope you have a great time on Britannia. We went on Azura to the carribean and loved it.

We were on this cruise too and it was our 20th with P&O, all in school holidays and we've never experienced an embarkation like it before! It's one of the first times P&O have used this new process of queuing outside the cruise terminal, so that's probably why you heard a bit of moaning.

Hi, you sound like you are from my neck of the woods, North Staffs! We are back on Britannia in July for our second time, this will be our 5 th cruise with P&O always had a great time. We always opt for Select fare as we like to choose cabin, dining and take free coach travel as we are getting older it’s much easier for us, but as you say saver fare can be a bargain . X

Great vlog yet again , we met you onboard and you are such a bubbly couple. Informative as always and always smiling ,looking forward to your future vlogs . As we told you when we met ,you helped us decide to book our first ever cruise to Norway, and have followed you ever since . Jan & Ray from Southampton

Oriental is used when you book select. You would have booked saver. Select gives you your room extra money to use on board and other extras. We had saver.

Just to let you know that P&o tell ALL guests which room they are in (if they haven’t chosen one themselves) which has the deck letter with it. E.g. a214 is A deck. Also, most people do research before they book and board. You choose your preferred dining method before you click “book” so you’ve selected freedom dining rather than club dining, where you eat at the same table and same time each day. You probably didn’t read the screen thoroughly enough whilst making your booking, which is understandable-it’s exciting! I hope you enjoy your cruise!

Hi , it just shows how big these ships are, we were on this cruise, and I said to my wife , I wonder if there's any youtube bloggers on board , as before the cruise we watched so many to learn the do's and don't , so we are looking forward for your other videos, trying to spot ourselves in the background

Thanks for the video

I can’t wait to see if the buffet gets better. We did a PO Azura earlier in the year, and we were disappointed with it. Not a great selection and not that tasty. We had only done MSC before, and based on everyone’s comments, was expecting it to be much better than them. But actually MSC had way more choice for our tastes. But that being said, there were some aspects of P&O that we loved. I’m not really sure we can compare them. So, we will just do which ever has a good price, and an itinerary we like!

Tempted to try Brittania next year to Norway 🇳🇴 🎉

Hi guys enjoy

We have just got off the Arvia today but as a couple our favourite P&O ship is Britannia. We are not great lovers of the new ‘website’ for booking breakfast, dinner and any shows, it seemed very hit and miss on Arvia and there were a few things we actually missed out on through the confusion of the ‘My Holiday’ website. Anyway, hope you enjoyed Britannia and we booked our next holiday on Ventura for July 2024 to the Canaries.

Did you know you can ask for more of anything in the main dining rooms? You could have had 2 steaks or two puddings. They will always try and accommodate. Thanks for taking us with you

Love the dance moves

I feel sad for you that the buffet was a bit lame, you were so excited for it!

Hi guys thanks for uploading, great info, over the last year think we have followed you onto Iona, then Virtuosa, and now Britannia (we board end April) lol, we have done about 30 cruises over the years but only started vlogging them about a year ago😂 cheers Nigel @TravelswiththeRussells

I LOVE your videos and we’re going on Britannia in May (first ever cruise) and when we were booking you know how there’s the saver fare or the select fare? Well whichever one we picked it asked if we wanted freedom dining or set dining, and because we’re travelling with a 97 year old we’ve gone with the 6.30 booking 😂 I’ve seen from other cruisers that you can ask for more than one starter/main/ dessert if you want!

Trying to decide between, Britannia or Iona to do the Fjords next year, so all your info is really helping. I have been on Arvia and Britannia looks very old fashioned in comparison..wanting to go to Flam and Iona doesn't go there! so lots of weighing up going on.

This should have been our first ship but covid got in the way. Now booked to be on it in July 24 to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Not a big fan of P&O but can’t wait to get on this ship!

Britannia is like marmite people either love it or hate it . But for the price you paid you can’t go wrong £139 a night with food and entertainment and ports . You would pay more than that for a hotel . Hope you had a good time and enjoyed it .

on the ship in Sept..thank you for the vids..Fantastic !!!!!!

Hello Kev & Stacey As we spoke on board about embarkment and the buffet i will still leave you a comment I will have to agree with you, the amount of people moaning about the length of time it took to board, turn up on time not 2/3 hrs before, that's the answer. Take it your car was safe in West quay carpark, will look at that myself on our next cruise. We used the buffet lunch times only and it wasn't that good, have cruised with P&O many times and that was not one of there better ones. The P&O my holiday app was down at peak times for the main restaurant's in the evenings day 1 & 2, so you had to queue to get a hand buzzer and then wait over 1 hour to get a table wasn't a problem for us, we sat in the bar. Kev, you looked disappointed with your 1 scope of ice cream just as i did with my cheese and biscuits 2 small bits of cheese 3 biscuits 1 grape and a slice of carrot. We booked 9 months in advance inside cabin, they picked the deck and cabin number near the time, £700 per couple so you got a very good deal. great vlog looking forward to the others regards Shaun

Having done Britannia 3 times,. When kev was disappointed with the buffet it made my day, I think p&o buffets are the worst at sea. The annoying part is the speciality restaurants are some of the best at sea. So they can do food they just choose not to and the late night buffet is a shambles, think I uploaded a video on this. But definitely looking forward to the rest of the series , Rotterdam is amazing.

Helpful & informative as always. Thanks for sharing. We are considering using the same parking as you. Could you tell me how far in advance you call to spk to someone about parking and also the name of the road you pick up an Uber? Thanks in advance and have a fab cruise! Look forward to watching the rest of the series .

Another well informed vlog , but have to be honest didn’t like look of that ship compared to your MSC ones ,I was telling hubby how good they look , but he watched this with me and think he wasn’t too keen it looked so busy and sounded a bit confusing around info lol , let’s hope you enjoy as much as your others , that first meal didn’t look enough for you to either 😂😂😂❤

We have recently got off the Iona as a recommendation from yourselves after watching your videos. We found it to be very similar during half term holidays that a lot of the older generation moaned quite a bit about times and waiting. In terms of the main restaurant slight opal and pearl. Where are you used to be able to book a time it was the same for us where you had to join a virtual queue instead I don’t know if this was because it was half term and full or whether it’s what they’ve changed you instead

We cruised on Azura in march and we're very disappointed with the food in main dining rooms. But it was a cheap cruise so I suppose you get what you pay for. Hope Arvia in September is better

Ive cruised with P&O a few times .This is may partnets first cruise. We both have walking difficalties. Not too sure if the P & O app on board will be kind to us...we start on 5th May Norway.xx

I don't think i could cope on a full cruise, everywhere being full all the time would drive me crazy 😂

Kev mate, WHERE do you two check the prices once you've booked?? great vids btw, really enjoying em

Hi guys, we are going on our 1st cruise on Britannia next year to the Fyords. What time of year did you go in this video? Great informative videos for new cruisers. Cheers

Have never cruised before and are looking at booking for later in 2024. Still not sure if the crowds is my thing as it appears busy everywhere. Love the vid though. I've now subsribed.

I was on the cruise too

Going on Iona next year for my 70th birthday. Hope the food is better. Portions look a bit stingy. Love you videos.

Hi guys i am goin on the brittania in may first cruise ..black tie nights does it have to be a black tie 😮.if u have a drinks package and you book an xtra restaurant do u pay xtra for youre drink or is it included with ure meal 😊

Hi guys looking forward to seeing more content from you as I love watching the both of you. Can you pay for the car park up front or do you pay when you get at the west quay car park. Also what money do msc take is it euros or sterling around Europe xxx

Hiya, we’re going on the Iona a week today, very excited. Could I ask how much your Uber cost as we will be doing a similar journey. Thanks Julie 😌

When booking shows etc, do they check your names before entering and can you sit where you want or are you allocated seats? We were on princess ship going around Australia in April and they had a similar booking system but we never bothered after the 2nd day as nobody was checking as you walked in, so seemed pointless 🤔

So is the restaurant like the virtuoso where you can order more than one dish or is it just a three course meal? I'm sure you'll cover it in the food video but so far I'm underwhelmed compared to your MSc cruises 😂

Hi. I hope you answer this 🤞🏻. My Mother & Aunt both 83 are going on this ship in a weeks time. We have very much persuaded them to try this ship as they went on a Tui Marella cruise in May & had an awful time. We have told them this ship is much nicer & bigger! So we are hoping that is the case so I’m guessing,this is my question,is this ship going to be bigger for them & if so is it going to be nicer?? Please hopefully say yes 🤞🏻 as we are worried about them as they had such a bad time on their 1st ever cruise in May!! I’ve said the Med should be calmer than the Canary Islands cruise they did!! Sorry for long message.

Hi guys, where did you park? enjoy your Cruise!

Hi, I'm going on a 2024 january cruise on the Britannia ship, can you tell me if the sauna is included or cost extra, no info on website.

12 days til ventura xx

What happens about booking freedom dining and shows if you havn't got a smart phone, can you just go down and queue as you used to before covid ?

Do you know which terminal Royal Caribbean uses in South Hampton?

They keep some of the obstructed view cabins back for covid people who are in inside cabins. We had are worst cruise in December on Britannia never again with P&O. We’ve done 7 different lines in the past 19 cruises in all. We both got covid I was in the cabins for 7 days my hubby 11 days . Food was horrible most of the time especially the buffet. Desserts horrible , Pay restaurants good but all gone up to what they used to be. Wifi terrible the app is hopeless. Not cruising this year at all, it’s put us off . Maybe next year but only with Celebrity, Holland America or Azamara.

Off peak only for me. ❤

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Take photos of the magazine. Sorted.

I have autism and love p&o Aurora because it's a small ship and not to busy for me. Have you been on Aurora.

We did a two-week Caribbean cruise on the Britannia and she is a very confusing ship to navigate, and the fellow passengers were a bit stuck up, we called them 'wish I was a Cunarder' , our favourite company is MSC but Celebrity an excellent company to cruise with, take care.

Some cruisers like to moan, don't they! I'm in a number of FB groups for cruising and although most people are helpful some are really rude on there and moany. It's a privilege to be able to afford to travel, I say some things need to go over your head.