Ventura Reviews

Our first cruise what a holiday fantastic ship crew and staff could not do enough for you can't wait to book again what a holiday

Have been on the Ventura twice now, absolutely loved it. The crew are lovely, helpful, polite, hard working. Food is superb and plentiful, even in the serve yourself buffet where food is always available and of a high standard. Shows excellent, have paid £50+ to see similar in theatres, but they were no better. Loved walking up in a different place every morning and eating breakfast overlooking some fantastic places. Can't wait to go on our next cruise on Ventura in September..

Went on a transatlantic cruise to the caribbean and back for 28 days. Good food in the freedom dining restaurants and an excellent buffet. Select dining venues also excellent. Good choice of entertainment and activities on board and generally the entertainment was very good indeed (odd duff act) . Musical variety was great with swing, classical, pop, rock and even heavy metal. I am now a pensioner and i like rock. The ship is very nice, nice cabins etc but the theatre is too small for the number of people on board. The Havana lounge is loathed by all, especially the 'meercat pens'. Personally i find this ship too big and prefer the smaller ships.

This is the best ship in the fleet in the P&O fleet we have sailed on. This ship beats any other cruise ship! Excellent by any standard, cannot wait to go back on .

We have just returned from a new year cruise on Ventura.The first two nights the service in the Saffron dining room was bad, mostly from a couple of belligerent older waiters. The food was disappointing and served lukewarm - can they not cope with free time dining one wonders. The third and second nights there was a distinct change in attitude mostly down to the younger members of the dining staff, thank goodness. We did not let it spoil our festive break but will unfortunately think twice about P&O or Ventura in the future. Due to bad weather conditions we could not go to Amsterdam which was disappointing but we fully understood the captains decision, which a lot of passengers did not unfortunately. Another knock on effect of the bad weather was that 3000 odd passengers all had to stay inside and finding somewhere to sit other than the cabin was a challenge.

Just come back from our first cruise to the Canary Islands it was fantastic, all crew and staff were very helpful and friendly. The food was amazing, onboard entertainment was brilliant. Ventura is a very clean ship and so professional,  can't wait to go on our next cruise only with P&O

I went on this ship for the first time last year and wow! what a ship, the food was 5* along with the entertainment, and the crew was yes, 5*.  The ship was very clean all the time and i loved the indoor and outdoor swimming pool and the fact you could get right round the ship was fantastic. Yes yes yes i am going back in November 2016 for a 10 day cruise cant wait as im taking my whole family.

It was our fourth time on Ventura. Everything was 5* from first day to last. I hope to sail again on this ship. Keep up the good work.

The food, entertainment and facilities on the boat were excellent.The trip organisation on the Venura was poor to say the least! The final disembarkation took three and a half hours to get off the ship and for the coach to get away from the dock. However, 

We had a fantastic holiday aboard the Ventura, and would definitely consider P&O again. We went with our two children, both under 5, so the Night Nursery and Kids Club were a godsend! The food was great and the drinks were reasonably priced. The Staff are friendly and a credit to P&O. There were of course some niggles but nothing major, for example, it is advertised as a family cruise ship so free soft drinks would have been nice as The under 5s tend not to drink Tea and Coffee... Fruit Juice would have been fine, we're not asking for Sugary drinks like Coke or Lemonade to be included. Our Cabin was extremely well kept by our cabin steward but it did look a little tired. I.E the couch was sun bleached, the walls looked yellowy. Whilst on the subject of the cabin, we chose The Superior Deluxe Cabin for the extra space, the Sofa Bed was ideal for our 4 year old to sleep in and it was made up every night by our Cabin Steward. On the whole this was a fantastic ship that took us to some wonderful places in an extreme comfort. The on-board activities for both adult and Children are great, the entertainment was of a very high standard and the food was delicious. I would recommend P&O to anyone.