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P&O Ventura: 10 Things To Love & 10 Things To HATE

Tom Cruisetube
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👁️ 817 views📅 4 months ago⏱️ 14:52
What This Creator Said
Creator Had Mixed FeelingsFull Ship Review🥈Expert Creator
Northern_europe · Fall · 4 nightsFrom SouthamptonVeteran Cruiser

Source: Our analysis of the creator's lived experience, based on what they said in this video.

Creator's Key Takeaways

Ventura is the kind of ship that isn't really anybody's favorite, but nobody really has a terrible time on board either.

I love the traditional crew style MDRs. I'm a big fan of, well, myself.

I hate the buffet. ship buffets generally and Ventura's buffet specifically.

I love these seats near Tamarind. Everyone, by which I mean me, loves being on a ship and just gazing out to sea.

Creator's Tips & Advice

If you ever find yourself designing a cruise ship and you realize you've forgotten something, do it again with whatever that thing is properly incorporated into the design.
Don't just bolt it on and hope that nobody notices the convoluted design.

Questions This Creator Answers

QWhat are 10 things to love and 10 things to hate about P&O Ventura?

Topics Covered

Ship Condition1½ Sad BaconCrowd Capacity2½ Sad BaconService Crew2½ Happy Bacon

Port Highlights

Rotterdam
How to read the Trip Bacon Score
Happy Bacon — creators loved this aspect
Sad Bacon — creators took issue with this
Meh — no strong opinion either way

Scale: 0–5 strips in half-step increments. 0 = “meh”, 5 = “bacon bliss”. Aggregated from creator-review sentiment, weighted by channel expertise.

YouTube Video Description

Ventura. A ship so spectacularly middle-of-the-road it should come with hazard lights. Nobody’s favourite… but nobody’s worst nightmare either. In this video, I put P&O’s beige battlecruiser through its paces and reveal ten things I genuinely loved onboard… and ten things that made me question every life choice that led me to the North Sea in November. From the spaces that shouldn’t work but somehow do, to the things that really shouldn’t exist on a functional cruise ship in 2026… it’s all here. The good, the bad, and the absolutely what-the-hell-is-that. If you’ve sailed Ventura before, get ready to nod along, or argue in the comments and I'll tell you why you are wrong. If you haven’t… well… consider this your public service announcement. Here, ladies and gentlemen… WE GO!