P&O IONA Norwegian Fjords Cruise | Embarkation Day, 1st Day at Sea, Celebration Night & Chefs Table 

My husband has wanted to go on a cruise for ages, and me being emetophobic, I always said no because of the fear of being sick. Your experience with the patches throughout this vlog series has won me over, and we've now booked for June. Can't wait. Thank you so much!

Thanks for all the hard work and great video, possibley saved our family a lot of time , one of the best Iona videos!

Great series of videos on the IONA. Thank you so much!

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series before we go on thos cruise in September.

We loved iona so much last year.. Were back on in September...Been on different cruise lines....Love getting on at Southampton.... Great vlog...xx

Fab vlog. I, like you find as much information as I can about the ship prior to boarding. We always book an inside cabin, a balcony cabin is almost twice as much, the money saved allows us to take a cruise twice a year, the cruising bug got us too. Looking forward to seeing the rest of your vlogs.

I could listen to you all day! You speak so well and so naturally. Thank you so much for your videos. I'm elbow deep in research mode at the minute. Our honeymoon cruise (with our 9 year old) to Egypt and Jerusalem just got changed beyond recognition (for obvious reasons). We are not a fan of the new itinerary and have actually visited 3 of the 4 ports before. So we are looking to see which cruises from the UK sail in and around our original date and this is the frontrunner! I am worried about all the cancelled port days which seem to be a common occurrence with this ship. But so far I am very impressed with your videos and will watch the rest of them before deciding what to do :)

This popped up on my suggested and I really enjoyed it, natural presenting style capturing the excitement of embarkation perfectly. Thanks for sharing

V informative and clear. Like your easy relaxed style. Thank you for your help.

I’m on a trip with P&O for the first time at the end of this month and found your observations and advice very helpful. Thanks.

We have booked to go on the Iona in June and it will be our first cruise and are looking forward to it , we are finding your information really useful and you have answered so many questions we had. thank you.

We've just watched the first video. Great advice for our trip next year! Thanks😊

Wonderful vlog. We have never cruised but considering it and doing lots of research. Really helpful, thanks x

Hi we are on Iona September..Watch a lot of blogs..found your so helpful..you answered a lot of questions that I couldn't find answers for on other blogs.Thank you x

We went on a similar cruise in July this year. The one thing which really irritated us was that we had to decide where to eat and when and booked everything (well) in advance. We didn't find that relaxing as we wanted to wait and see what we fancy nearer the time. As a result, we had to join the queue for dinner, be it in one of the 4 dining rooms or in a speciality restaurant, which took absolutely ages. The longest wait was 45 minutes. For some reason, Aqua was always full. It wasn't the best of experience and throughout the cruise, we wished it were the old fixed time dining. The 710 Club was fully booked for the whole week by 8 pm on embarkation day! Celebration Night at the Chef Table was very good though. I was glad we booked it in advance. But the queues, for the free drinks and getting to the table, were long. We love dressing up on cruises. We wore our kilts and coatees and got some very nice comments. We were by no means alone! I agree that the food in MDR and the Horizon Buffet, was rather hit and miss. Olive Grove and Cows & Keel were great, as was Epicurean. We liked the ship and loved the Norwegian fjords, but not so keen on how P&O orgnaised things. Perhaps now that we are back to sailing at capacity, which is wonderful, and in such an enormous ship, this is how things will pan out. Smaller ships may be a better option in future. 🤔 I look forward to finding out your thoughts of the rest of the cruise and the excursions.

Hey, New subscribers here. Romana you have such beautiful energy. This was a great vlog. We are hoping to go next year so im starting to take notes. super grateful to you, Thank you.

Hi excellent vlog, me and my wife were on the same sailing as you guys, overall we decided whilst driving back home that cruising is not for us, we had a conservatory suite on deck 9 which was beautiful, however with all our excursions and events being cancelled due to landslides and wether conditions and missing out on Stravanger, just left us disappointed as it was our first cruise too. Like you said thiers lots to do on the ship and you feel very looked after. 👍

Now you can only take litre of Wine and Champagne and soft drinks and snacks, but no beer or spirits, but can order bottle of spirits for cabin from room service’ 10:26

Romana and euan fantastic videos best ever and I watch alot if vlogs Been on iona three times did the same cruise to Norway as you My daughter and son in law are going on iona to Norway in May I have downloaded all you vids and forwarded them on will be so helpful to them Evans dad might give them to take me with them 😂 A big huge thank you to you both I have subscribed x

Love your videos! I’m also gluten free so the food tips are especially helpful. Feel so bad for you with the weather, though! What time of year did you travel? I’m going at the end of June.

Excellent

thank you fantastic blog i enjoyed your cruise

Im.doing this in 62 day's, also heading down from Scotland, staying the night before in Southampton

im going on this cruise tomorrow!

On iona this sat 2nd doing fjords be interesting !! We usually do the Caribbean . Something different

Uh oh....the cruise bug captures another 2 people 😄 Glad to hear you're enjoying your first cruise. Hardly surprising given a ship as amazing as Iona Hi fellow Edinburgh folk 👋 Southampton offers so many great opportunities to set sail from, but tricky to get to from up here. We did a Logan Air flight last year from Edinburgh direct to Southampton Airport. Just over an hour flight time and a bit pricey, but travelled down on the day, so saved on hotel accommodation overnight. Anyway, may be worth looking into. How was your train journey can we ask? And would you recommend it?

Going on iona in august. Very nervous with the sea sickness issue. Can you please give some information on travelling on iona with kids what is allowed and not and how was the reaction of the staff towards kids We will be doing the iona cruise with a 16 month old

My mum is coming with us and is in a separate room. When we book tables for dinner can we book for all of us or does she have to book separately and request to sit with us?

Do you have to book your time slot for free restaurants as well? Or only ones with extra charge?

Loved your video but I don’t see any option to subscribe to your channel for some very strange reason.I am hoping to do the same cruise next year 🙏

Are the movies free to watch in the room?

P&O treat their customers with contempt. See Maleth Aero Scandal.

You didn’t mention that when booking while you queue to get on the ship that you have to connect to the ship Wi-Fi first.

My mother in law wants to know where your dress was from on celebration night ❤

Can you let me know about covid injections?

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"you can go" 😢

Great as an audio. I got tired looking at your face for such a long time. Thank you anyway