Lee & Jan cruise Norway, Denmark and the Med on Sky Princess Aug/Sept 2024

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Lee & Jan cruise Norway, Denmark and the Med on Sky Princess Aug/Sept 2024.
As with our other flip/photo postcard videos this one is here on YouTube for others who may be considering this or similar cruises particularly on Sky Princess or for those just interested in the ports visited. This is our flip/photo experience, it’s different and I hope you enjoy it..
I’ll start off for those that can’t be bothered to read my full write up of our 22 nights on Sky Princes, to be brief she’s one of the best cruise ships we’ve sailed on and this was our third time on her, yes it was at full capacity and seating was a challenge at night but the positives outweigh any negatives, to be honest I don’t think anyone was disappointed with her?
The ports visited for this 22 night cruise beginning on 24th Aug 2024 was as follows.
Southampton, Kristiansand, Oslo, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Skagen, , Southampton, Vigo, Cadiz, Malaga, Ajaccio, Marseille, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Southampton.
Embarkation. We arrived on time and were directed to a car park were we waited our turn to be seen to and our car checked for storing by the car park staff, pretty straight forward and no problems. Our luggage was taken care of closer to the ship.
Once aboard the International Cafe was very busy but we managed to get seats by sharing a table with an American couple who we chatted with, coffee and free snacks from the large displays were well received unlike P&O’s measly offerings recently. Lol.
We had a port side balcony cabin on deck 12 and were quite happy with it, the air conditioning was probably the best we have ever experienced on ship and the TV was really big and linked into the ship’s smart system, hope you are reading this P&O with your ultra small basic steam driven TVs on Ventura and Azura. Lol.
So what about dinning? Well the breakfast buffet was very good with the exception of the sausages, very busy and it could be difficult to find a table, lunch again very busy but with a good quality selection of food on offer, iced tea or lemonade always available free, did you read that P&O? Free. Lol. The evening buffet meal was similar to lunch but with a lot more choices added, yep much better than P&O that I use for comparison.
The main dining rooms. Three on offer and all great, the menu had great choices and the food was some of the best we’ve had at sea, I’d say even better than Cunard but much much better than P&O who have made so many cut backs on their mdr evening menu saving money on food and ink, I suppose you get what you pay for. Lol.
Speciality restaurants are available but can be expensive but as the food and service was so good in the mdr we saw no need to use them. Pizzas, burgers, dirty fries, hot dogs, ice cream etc all available at no cost around the very busy mid ship pool and yes there were problems here and I’m sure you know what they were.
Entertainment for us was hit or miss, we all have different tastes. I’ll leave it at that.
Formal nights were well attended with most wearing a suit or dinner jacket or evening dress but there were many who simply made no effort to dress up at all.
Princess excursions or extortions as we call them. Absolutely ridiculously highly inflated prices, we didn’t do any but don’t think we missed out on anything when visiting the ports but Princess did manage to sting passengers for courtesy bus charges from the ship into some of the cities visited or even just out of the port, we chose to walk where possible, not that we’re tight we just don’t like being taken for a ride, pun intended.
Ports visited on this cruise. Well do your research, look at these photos, make your own plans, don’t forget to make a mental note of back on board time and enjoy.
Negatives. Few really, lack of seating has been mentioned, soot at the rear of the ship, not many shops on board, items in shops at highly inflated prices and bar drinks expensive. Towards the end of the cruise many passengers had a hacking cough myself included when I got home and then there was a very small number of passengers who thought they were at Butlins or similarly on a P&O booze cruise. Lol.
Don’t get me wrong we love P&O cruises, got two booked, Iona and Ventura.
Disembarkation. Just as with any other cruise ship perhaps even better, no hassle really.