The Ventura is a fantastic no-fly Grand Class ship based for much of her year, including summer 2024, running a mix of cruises from short 4 day cruises to two week cruises. The ports range from Spain, to Portugal and the Canaries. The ship will be in and out from Southampton on a regular basis, and to make the routes change and excite, some may add ports in France or Morocco. This video is a taster of the ports and the ship – a what, where, and how. There are two exceptions, see the last paragraph.
NEW TO CRUISING?
If you turn up at your time in Southampton, pass your bags to the crew and queue to check in, you should be on the ship almost as quick as your luggage. You cabin staff, and waiters are busy moving you bags to your cabin and there will be an announcement when your rooms are ready. If you are new to cruising, we are hear to help with a chat site that sees 200 new cruisers join a week, and many are new to cruising. We have port guides of most posts helping you decide whether to explore or take an excursion. And we produce cruise crime thrillers for your holiday reading, load the Kindle up before you go, but they are on Apple Books, Google Play, and Amazon as paperback, audiobook, and Kindle.
CHAT ROOMS for your cruise.
Doris Visits tries to make cruising easier. If we don’t have a port guide then just ask in the chat group. Someone will have been and done it. There are also event rooms within the chat group where you can safely meet people who will be on your cruise and you can arrange a meet up. Chat Here Chat Group
CRUISES by NUMBER and date, with ports and links
The Ventura is a no-fly ship. Not that any ship can fly, but let’s not give Disney an idea. The short cruises are up to a week, and the longer two week cruises go as far as the Canary Islands. They normally alternate so that you can book two together and make a longer cruise. Joining two cruises together is known as a ‘Back to Back’. All P&O ships have names that end in the letter ‘A’, just as all Fred Olsen ships start with the letter ‘B’. All Ventura cruises have a number starting with N. (Cunard’s Queen Victoria has the letter V).
PORT GUIDES
You do not need an excursion at every port. Some are a very enjoyable wander around. Please follow, join, subscribe to out Port Guide channel on YouTube where we have port guides from cruises we have taken all over the world. Many to exciting ports like New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro, on the Ventura!
SAFE LINKS
The P&O Direct links go direct to that cruise on the unsponsored P&O site, as opposed to the sponsored results when using a web browser. We are NOT on any commission and take no fees, this site is supported by our cruise thriller novels which are great books to read at home to be in a virtual cruise, or as a holiday read. Please, please, review them. Click here. The links to the chat site are Facebook links to the Ventura chat group site we host and let the cruisers ask, answer and chat. The Event Chat rooms are within the chat group.
CHECK
While we have listed the cruises, please check with the P&O web site as things may change. We offer this as assistance, but it is a guide and details can change.
VENTURA CRUISE ITINERARY 2024
N433, The Christmas cruise – 12 nights, Southampton, UK, 17 Dec 2024 – Madeira, La Palma, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Lisbon P&O direct link Chat GroupChat room (see Events)
What happens next? – the Grand Cruise
VENTURA CRUISE ITINERARY 2024
N502, 4 nights, Southampton, UK, 7 Feb 2025 – Amsterdam and back P&O direct link Chat Group Chat room (see Events)
We will be completing this during the summer.
What to pack? Dress code?
When you book a cruise you sign and engage in a contract. You have been given the terms. There may be a few who feel they can avoid the dress code, but it is clear and most cruisers do dress. Our stance is, knowing that all P&O ships have a formal night twice a week, and on that night some areas of the ship enforce the dress code, why not pack something that allows you to use the whole of the ship you have paid to enjoy. Ladies take an over shoulder wrap for the theatre or lounge if the air conditioning is on. Our full; dress and packing tips are Here
