A child's review of Britannia
When I got on Britannia, it felt like a modern hotel, that could move as fast as a car on a track. I liked my cabin a lot, but having 2 TVs was the best because Dadi didn’t want to move from watching the rugby, so I watched the Lego movie on the other TV. Yippee!!
So far I’ve only been to the kids’ club once, they do a variety of different activities: I’m on the way there now and will write more later.........
Later that same day.......I’m back! That was fun. I played on the PS4 most of the time but there are more exciting things on other nights like Connect 4 quiz. That is a quiz where if you get a point, you get a disk and place it in the grid.
I went to the gym with Dadi, you are allowed in with your parents but not allowed to do the weights. I cycled 10k on the bike playing Angry Birds. The running machines, the bikes and rowing machines all looked out at the sea.
There are 5 swimming pools: 2 family, 1 spa, 1 adult and a teens’ pool. I’m only allowed in the family pools but they were just as fun. I’d like to go back on board in three years when I can go in the teen pool at the back of the ship.
I had dinner in the Oriental restaurant every night with all of the people who came with us, all 14 were there: It was really nice meeting up and talking about our day. The food was good on the adults menu but sometimes I had the kids menu. Some nights we went to the theatre, my favourite show was Once Upon a Time because it had loads of funny things in it.
My favourite restaurant was Sindhu, that was one of the specialist chefs called Atul. I had onion bhaji, chicken Korma and lamb samosa – I enjoyed every mouthful – Yum!
Despite all the fun on the ship, we did get off to some nice places but my favourite was Guernsey because we had breakfast at a café on a terrace looking back at Britannia. We also had to get a tender to and from the ship.
On the last day, we met the captain who showed us the spotter in the bridge who looks our for whales and dolphins. He showed us the levers which are used to turn the ship. There are 3 steering wheels, 2 little ones which the captain had control of. He told us about the flags, each one meant a different thing, and you can send messages with the flags. He doesn’t use them all, all of the time, but he uses the one which says ‘diver over board’ quite a lot.
He showed us the sword which the queen presented, and that was very cool. We also saw all the badges for the other P&O ships which they got when the ships were docked together with Britannia. Captain Brown said that Britannia was the biggest of all the P&O group, and I think that she is the best ship ever!
A few notes about the writer and his review from his mummy!
- Rhys (aged 10) stayed in a deluxe balcony cabin, travelling to Guernsey, La Coruna, Bilbao and La Rochelle. He travelled on P&O’s newest cruise ship with his parents, grandparents and family friends in August. - Rhys’ Dadi is welsh, and only watched one game of rugby, whereas Rhys watched several free movies in the cabin over the week! - Rhys did lots of activities in kids’ club… but the memories of the PS4s still linger.
