Who has booked / is booking on Iona ?

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Who has booked / is booking on Iona ?

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I am underwhelmed by Iona's Maiden season cruises so I won't be going on her.

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I am on in July - just to see what she is like

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I've booked Christmas cruise 2020 with the family but tempted to try her in July - friends trying to persuade me to join them.
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We have 2 Canary islands cruises booked for Feb 21 and 22, we generally dont book 7 night cruises, and have done the Fjords several times already.
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We have booked a fiords cruise. But very disappointed at the fact there is only 1 formal night on the 7 night cruise. P&O say it’s a new thing on Iona. Only 1 formal night per 7 day cruise

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Gort60 wrote: 18 Feb 2020, 16:55
We have booked a fiords cruise. But very disappointed at the fact there is only 1 formal night on the 7 night cruise. P&O say it’s a new thing on Iona. Only 1 formal night per 7 day cruise
TBH we are quite happy with that, we have 3 on our April 14nt Canary cruise, on Ventura, and that's more than enough for me.
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We're waiting to see what other valued opinions are.
Haven't graduated to Britannia yet but have enjoyed Azura and Ventura.
Still secretly prefer the smaller ships
Empty vessels .. and all that

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No me. I don't like broom cupboards.


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We have - not my choice. We were supposed to go on an Oceana cruise next week - if only - but we had to cancel back in November when the balance was due as we didn't know at that point if John would be able to travel or even get insurance. So the choice was to cancel completely or transfer to another cruise. I was for cancelling but John wanted to save his deposit so we looked at something for September this year. The only thing really that fitted was an Iona cruise to France/Spain. We had both said we weren't interested in Iona, never been on Britannia and now have a cruise on the new Saga Spirit of Discovery in April. Anyway, John was curious to see the new ship so we transferred to Iona from Oceana. Now having read Mervyn's review of Spirit of Discovery I'm even less looking forward to Iona. Once we've been on the Spirit cruise I'm thinking I might persuade John to lose the Iona trip and book another on SOD but we'll see.

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Our next cruise on P&O will be in 2022, when we plan to take our daughter and granddaughters (the latters' first cruise) for 7 nights to the Fjords. If the present itinerary pattern is repeated that is likely to mean Iona or her sister.

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The cruises listed for her so far have not been to our liking, however I really look forward to finding something that gives me an excuse to book Iona


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I have booked for half term in May 2021. One question though - trip to Bergen is not included, do you know if it's possible to travel there as a day trip? Thanks!

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elisafoppa wrote: 04 Aug 2020, 23:35
I have booked for half term in May 2021. One question though - trip to Bergen is not included, do you know if it's possible to travel there as a day trip? Thanks!
We docked ( Oriana ) right on the doorstep so walking to the town centre and the Old Town was a breeze ... literally.

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Manoverboard wrote: 05 Aug 2020, 11:15
elisafoppa wrote: 04 Aug 2020, 23:35
I have booked for half term in May 2021. One question though - trip to Bergen is not included, do you know if it's possible to travel there as a day trip? Thanks!
We docked ( Oriana ) right on the doorstep so walking to the town centre and the Old Town was a breeze ... literally.

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I think the poster was asking about Bergen because it's no longer on all itineraries as a port of call.
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elisafoppa wrote: 04 Aug 2020, 23:35
I have booked for half term in May 2021. One question though - trip to Bergen is not included, do you know if it's possible to travel there as a day trip? Thanks!
I think that under the current circumstances nobody knows anything about itineraries/excursions at the moment, for any ship/cruise

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towny44 wrote: 05 Aug 2020, 11:30
Manoverboard wrote: 05 Aug 2020, 11:15
elisafoppa wrote: 04 Aug 2020, 23:35
I have booked for half term in May 2021. One question though - trip to Bergen is not included, do you know if it's possible to travel there as a day trip? Thanks!
We docked ( Oriana ) right on the doorstep so walking to the town centre and the Old Town was a breeze ... literally.

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I think the poster was asking about Bergen because it's no longer on all itineraries as a port of call.
My response was just in case it will be :angel:
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We are hoping to sail in November on the Canaries cruise. We've booked a conservatory suite and are both really hoping it will go ahead.

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GymnasticGeorge77 wrote: 09 Aug 2020, 10:56
We are hoping to sail in November on the Canaries cruise. We've booked a conservatory suite and are both really hoping it will go ahead.
It is not possible for any of us to know at this time but good luck.

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Re-reading this thread I'd posted in February that we'd booked on Iona for September and that I really wasn't keen, John wanted to try a new ship. When Covid happened we had the opportinity to change this if we wished and, rather unfairly I said to John that I wasn't going on this ship even if cruising was happening by then - little did we know that by August no-one would know when cruising would commence again. We actually had two cruises booked with P&O; the Iona one this September and also one on Aurora, last month to Norway and Iceland. So we changed both. We now have Arcadia to the Fjords next July and Arcadia again to the Canaries in March/April 2022. We had booked one of the Conservatory Mini Suites on Iona so I'll be interested to hear what they are like when anyone eventually get to go on Iona. My thoughts were that it was probably going to be a lot smaller than the Mini Suites on either Aurora or Arcadia.

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So now P&O have now suspended all sailings until 12th November 2020. I am keeping everything crossed that our Canaries cruise will still go ahead on 14th November. However, the P&O website is now showing all cabin grades for this cruise as full. I am very unsure what to make of that! Has anyone any thoughts?

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GymnasticGeorge77 wrote: 12 Aug 2020, 08:27
So now P&O have now suspended all sailings until 12th November 2020. I am keeping everything crossed that our Canaries cruise will still go ahead on 14th November. However, the P&O website is now showing all cabin grades for this cruise as full. I am very unsure what to make of that! Has anyone any thoughts?
They have no intention of selling any more available cabins on this cruise ... would be my assessment.
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