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“The Thomson destiny disaster cruise. We decided to...”

written by michael manning on 25/10/2010

The Thomson destiny disaster cruise. We decided to book one of the deluxe balcony suites, on the island escape after booking 10 months in advance we were looking very much forward to the cruise for 8 and a half months. 1st thing that went wrong was a thomson agent phoned saying our ship had been recalled for refubishment and we had the choice to change to the destiny (sailing the same time we had booked off work) or our money back, hobsons choice really. We were promised priority checkin by thomson and that we wouldnt have to queue to board the ship on our arrival because of the luxury cabin we had booked, At the port side we were told to queue like the rest as theres no priority checkin by this white suited arrogant crews officer. (didnt go down well as we had just waited for our lugage for an hour at palma airport.) On arrival at our suite 1st impressions were ok apart from the sellotape holding the wall light shades together as they were both broke in half,and the balcony french doors wouldnt shut properly so at sea this constantly whistled, on rough sea days the wardrobe and fridge cupboard doors kept opening and banging shut. not designed for a ship. also the radio was faulty. on the plus side our housekeeper was exellent (helen) and kept it ship shape and bristol fashion. seven seas dinning was a very rushed affair although the waiters were very pleasant. The food served was poor quality, badly cooked and weired concoctions. (melon with mint?) and there wasnt much choice, The lido cafe and grill was very poor, cold and transport cafe food, no tea or coffee making facillities at the lido grill, have to walk to other end to get one, and afternoon cream tea was very disapointing every day it was exactly the same weired plain scones butter biscuits and plain buns. on the up side we'd like to thank thomson for helping us to lose weight. we cannot blame thomson for the dull weather,but on the only sunny day we would have liked to go in the pool but low and behold the crew had decided to paint it, so we sat on the sun beds sipping mocktails with the wonderful added extra of paint fumes wafting in the air. Blakes bar apart from the fact that the whole evening long every single night the same act was on elena along with the shabby leather thread burn seats and square boxes covered in sticky back plastic peeling off in short morose act and atmosphere. cancan/oklahoma lounge the entertainment at best was amateurish maplins style, apart from one act the Comedian Buster who had us laughing on and off the stage, was a scream in the casino losing money together and singing to the carpenters. (Thanks Buster!)



We found the same thing repeated every night with the same people i.e zeal in oklahoma and top harmony in the clipper bar all week was all the same every day, apart from the first night the sail away party on the top lido deck party atmosphere loads of singing and dancing up there, didnt do it any other night! Almost every day we docked late in the ports we visited ie friday over an hour late so we had to dock outside the inner port in the industrial part of the port of barcelona, so our view was concrete silos, fork lift trucks, huge containers and workmen moving them about, we also had to pay extra to actually get to barcelona 10 euros in a taxi or queue (again. all weve ever seamed to do ) for 30 mins to get on a bus, The ship at best was dogged old and well past its sailed by date. after surviving the week we were told to leave our cases outside our cabins at 8'45 before we disembark and they would be taken off for us. At 9.30 on dock side we found our luggage,. One of our brand new cases had been smashed to bits. the bottom leg had been broke off. were the handle holder conects to the case snapped off and when you pull the handle up it came completely out of its sockets, therefore i had to carry this everywhere as i could not wheel it, if we'd have known they were going to throw them off the 8th deck, we would have carried them off ourselves, and when we told the white suited arrogant crew officer what had happened his responce was, "what do you want me to do about it,"! all in all our experience of this cruise was dire we would never book with thomson again not even for a day trip to blackpool. If you like carry on maplins style cruises at the same time paying top dosh, then this is the cruise for you. we feel cheated and conned which is not how you should feel after an holiday. Marks out of 10.......1