P&O Cruises - Southampton to Guernsey on board the BRITANNIA - 4 July 2015 – 6 July 2015 by Alex Naughton My mum and me have just come back from a weekend cruise on board the Britannia from Southampton to Guernsey. I am in my mid thirties and we are both first time cruisers. Boarding the BRITANNIA in Southampton - © by Alex Naughton BRITANNIA in La Rochelle - source Wikipedia We travelled down to Southampton by train and got a taxi to the Ocean Terminal where the ship sailed from. On our e-ticket we had been given an arrival time of 1230 to turn up at the cruise terminal. This in fact was misleading as many passengers seemed to ignore this and just turn up when they felt like it. So the terminal was very crowded. There were not enough seats in the terminal to handle the full complement of passengers. BRITANNIA Main Lobby, the Great Chandellier - © by Alex Naughton For those first time cruisers like us it might help if I go through the embarkation proces
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