WORLD CRUISE: 60 DAYS STARTS NOW 🌍 Auckland Embarkation 🛳️ P&O Cruises Arcadia Mini-Suite Cabin Tour

Welcome to our 3rd vlog in our World Cruise Series, where we’re sailing for 60 days on P&O Cruises ship Arcadia! Today we’re embarking onto the ship in Auckland, sailing all the way back to the UK. We’re staying in a Mini Suite as this is our Wedding AND Honeymoon, but we absolutely love the room and all the organising paid off! Enjoy the vlog! Brogan & Benji xx

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Disclaimer: This trip is not part of any contract with P&O Cruises. I’ve been working with them for many years, they are a previous brand partner of mine and through our trips, we have fallen in love with cruising. So much so, that we decided to combine our Wedding, Honeymoon and my 30th birthday all into one trip. We are doing this at our own expense and therefore, are under no obligation to make any content, but as I’m sure you can imagine, we want to document the memories and share them with you.Thank you so much for all your support. Brogan & Benji x

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– Hello. – Hello everyone. – Welcome to Embarkation Day. – We are getting on board Arcadia, P & O Cruise’s ship, where we’re gonna be spending the next 60 days on board. It’s so exciting. – I’m buzzing. I’m absolutely buzzing. – Me too. And if you’re new here. Hi, I’m Brogan.

– I’m Benji. – And we make home travel and lifestyle blogs, and we are sharing our full two month cruise where we’re getting married on board next weekend, which is so exciting. – Wow. Literally seven days away. – Yeah, which- – Crazy. – Cant’ wait.

So, so far, we flew with Emirates business class from London, and we shared that experience and we’ve also shared a full hour long vlog from our week in Auckland. So if you wanna go and check that out, then I’ll leave a link below. But today, we are obviously still in Auckland,

Getting on board and then we are moving on tomorrow to the Bay of Islands. – Yeah, no Taranga. – Tomorrow. Ah, and then the Bay of Islands. Right now we’re in the Grand by Sky City, the hotel we’ve been in for the last week. – We’ve just repacked up all of our stuff.

– Yeah, we’re done. And we’re gonna go check out, have some breakfast at our new favourite breakfast place. – Yeah. – Called Federal. – Basically killing a bit time here ’cause our embarkation time is 1:15, and it’s only 11:00 AM right now. So, we’re just waiting.

And then when we get on board, we’ll show you our room. And… – Do a little room tour. – Yeah, we have a mini suite for the next two months, which is very exciting. – So does that mean that we’ve gotta get popping back to our suite?

‘Cause we always say cabin, don’t we? – We still say cabin. – Okay. – Let’s go get on board Arcadia. But first let’s have some breakfast. – Breakfast first. – I’m hungry. – Food first, always. – The Federal menu has just switched over to lunch,

But we’re still gonna have exactly what we had yesterday, if you watch the last vlog, which is the salmon potato with egg and creme fresh. It’s amazing. But we’re also gonna try the poutine today. So every time we’ve been here, we’ve tried something different as well.

So this is the breakfast and we have the poutine as well. And it smells amazing. Very excited. Breakfast was very nice. We’re now going to ask the hotel to get us a big taxi, so we can fit all our cases in. And then we’ll be going down to the terminal building

To check in for the cruise. I can’t believe this is the first day of the trip. Well, the trip really started last week, but the first day of the cruise. We’re in the van. We had to hire a bigger car to get the stuff.

– I mean to be fair, even if we would’ve had more than two suitcases, we wouldn’t have fit it into that Prius. – No. But we’re going to Queens Wharf terminal to check in. Oh my goodness. – [Benji] That’s our first time seeing her. – Yeah, the first glimpse of Arcadia.

Right, we’ve arrived into the cruise terminal. – Yes. – And they took our suitcase immediately as we walked in so we didn’t have to try and push them on. – Yeah, really helpful. – Which is so great. And it just looks like this, it’s like a little mini terminal. – It’s really nice.

– Everyone’s already said oh my gosh, you’re getting married. – Everyone notices the white wedding dress. – The wedding dress, yeah. So we’re just waiting to check in here. And then once we finish we go through security in there, and then we should be straight on board. Okey dokey, this is it.

This is a feeling that I really can’t explain. The excitement of knowing you’re about to get on board is something else. Oh my goodness. – And then we were on! – [Brogan] We were on board! Oh my gosh. Are we ready? (door creaks) Ooh! – Oh look at that. – Oh my goodness.

It smells amazing. Wow, look at our room. Oh, wow. – Hey honey, we’re home. – [Brogan] That’s so exciting. – One door. – [Brogan] Front door. The one to your right, that’s the toilet. We’ll go in there in a minute. Yeah. – And then we have three double wardrobes. – Shelves down there, hanging, and a shelf.

– Oh wow, they’ve given us some suits and a wedding dress. – [Brogan] Life jackets are up there. – Ooh, tea robes. – [Brogan] Ooh, ’cause we’re in a mini suite. – And then a third one. – Yeah, we’ve got- – More shelves and some hangers. – [Brogan] Life jackets, a safe.

Plenty of hangers, which is great. – [Benji] Oh, and laundry bag as well for if we need, – To send it in. – but we’ll do our own laundry, won’t we? – [Brogan] Nice leather chair, coffee and tea. Nice big mirror. Lots of drawers down the side.

Oh it’s got a hair dryer in, that’s very helpful to know. But I did bring my own. – [Benji] It stops your wine glasses coming in. – [Brogan] If we have any whoopsies. Okay and then we pan around, we’ve got a sofa which turns into a bed.

And then, as we come ’round, we’ve got another desk over in the corner, which I’ll show you in a bit more detail in a second. And the bed, which is huge, we sleep so well on the P & O Cruise’s holiday, because the beds are such nice quality.

We’ve also got drawers down each side of the bed too. And again, a nice, big mirror at the back, which makes it just feel really big. We have this desk, which has got some chocolates for us, that’s so sweet. And we have lots of space to be able to put our laptops.

And you know, it’s this very different kind of trip, in comparison to our other cruise holidays. Ooh, there’s champagne in the fridge. We have more drawers under there, which is very helpful, and ’round the corner. This is what it looks like from this angle, just so you get the full effect.

We have another little cupboard down here, which is also more storage, which is very helpful. Two shelves or a shelf there, two spaces. I can’t believe this is where we’re spending 60 days. – It’s gonna be incredible, isn’t it? – Yeah. – It’s so much.

And also, it feels like there’s like separate rooms, within the room. – Yeah it’s nice. – ‘Cause we’ve got a living area, we’ve got, if you’re doing your makeup, I can be on my laptop over there or whatever. – [Brogan] Yeah. – There’s so much space that we can-

And also, that’s before we even get onto the balcony. – [Brogan] The balcony, yeah. And there’s also a table and chair here too, but I have no idea what’s in the basket. We’ll open that in a minute. Let’s go outside then and have a little look

At the view, a look at the balcony. Oh yes, this is perfect. Look how much space we have out here. It’s so good, it’s so suspicious. So we can actually sunbathe. Or we can play games, we can have breakfast out here. And look at this view of Auckland.

– It now officially feels real, real. – I feel like I’m having an out body experience. Like it just feels so bizarre that we’re getting on a cruise ship. We love cruising so much. – You just think the first time that we push away from port and start like that gentle bob. – We think we’re gonna go for a little explore. We’re can’t unpack our stuff yet ’cause we don’t have our cases. And we also have a suitcase that we sent on board in Southampton. So, when we meet our cabin steward and say hello, we’ll ask them

If they can find out where our suitcase is. – Yep. – And then, start unpacking this afternoon. So exciting. – I’ve honestly never been so excited to unpack ever. – No. We’re gonna organise it well though. I’m about to show you the bathroom next,

But this is the reality of what we actually do when we film room tours for you. – And if I’m not in them, then I’m either sat on the toilet, like with the lid down waiting, or out in the cabin or out on the balcony. – Yeah. All right, let’s take a look at the bathroom. So this is so big for a cruise ship.

I don’t think you can fully appreciate it. But, there’s loads of space when you walk in, loads of shelving space underneath, double his and her sinks. Huge mirrors, which is greatly appreciated for me to do my hair and makeup in here. These little cabinets here open up,

So you’ve got space to store all your toiletries, which I’m gonna love. Guys, this is like a really exciting day for me, that I get to fill this cabin with all my things and make it homey and get comfortable. Ah! Obviously the toilet, towel space, and then we have the bath.

And this shower curtain feels very new. It’s one of those like jet jacuzzi baths as well, which is absolutely incredible. So I’m very excited about that. But the greatest thing is that there’s actually a separate shower as well. The lovely white company products, which I did not bring any shower gel on purpose.

‘Cause I knew they had this on board and I absolutely love it. But as well as the products in the shower, they also give you a gift box. There is a body lotion and a hand wash, which is so lovely, such a nice gift.

And we’ll be using those over the next two months. Oh, I’ve just noticed there’s another one. That’s the soap there. There we go, hand wash. Perfect. What I didn’t film is when we came on, we had someone take us to our muster station where they showed us where to go in the event

Of a drill or a fire or an evacuation. And then we also have to go to a briefing at 4:00 PM. What did they say about the suitcase? – It’ll be dropped off between four and five or so. – Oh, okay. – I walked up and down. – Oh. – Silly.

– That was silly. – [Benji] The lifts are working, I just thought I’d walk. I won’t be doing that again. – I was also gonna say that Benj and I have been so lucky to go on lots of cruises with P & O Cruises. We’ve created lots of amazing content.

So I’ll leave below my other cruise vlogs. But this trip is our own and it’s our honeymoon. It’s my 30th birthday. So, we don’t have to make any content, we’re under no obligation to, but of course we want to. So we won’t be filming every single sea day

And we might not film every single stop, but we’ll always show you sort of what we’ve been up to, give you an update. And all the main places we’re going to, we’re gonna be vloggin, so you’re gonna get individual vlogs as we go along. But, I think the next thing we wanna do

Is maybe open that hamper bench, while waiting. – I agree. – And I want a drink. And we need to go, this sounds crazy, but we wanna go back outside and take a selfie with the ship. Our bags are already here. – For as long as it took to do a room tour.

We were literally just about to leave and two of her bags were turned up. – Yeah, we’ve just met our cabin steward Prakash. He’s so lovely. – He’s so sweet, isn’t he? We’re looking at our Horizon magazine. – [Brogan] We get one every day, which has the schedule. Let me show them.

– 7:00 AM ’till midnight. It has all the entertainment. Then we have a quiz. This is the film that I was talking about. Cocktail pianist, rising sun challenge, another quiz kind of thing. – [Brogan] Guess the gin. – [Benji] Guess the gin. – [Brogan] There’s so many things.

– [Benji] Oh look, tour de cycle, like a cycling class, table tennis competition. – Brilliant. – Exciting. – [Brogan] Really exciting. Oh my god, juices. – Oh my word. – Awe, they drew Bonnie. Oh no, that’s gonna make me cry. That’s so sweet. Oh I miss him so much. – That’s so, so sweet. – Oh that’s so thoughtful. Oh and lovely (indistinct), oh my gosh. There’s so many home comforts. – There’s another card in there. I’ll have to read it. – [Brogan] In case you were curious

What was in the basket, it’s basically loads of home comforts and goodies. And this is from some lovely friends that have been very sneaky and helpful, and managed to get this in our room to us. So, they know who they are. And we’re very, very grateful. They’re very sweet and thoughtful

And know us extremely well. ‘Cause we love everything in here, there’s some of our favourite things. They’ve even gone as far as putting a picture of our dog in a frame, which made me cry. – [Benji] I think we’re gonna change it out, there’s that one as well. – There’s another one.

– It was literally yesterday we were scrolling through our Instagram and said that’s one of our favourite photos. – [Brogan] That one is, yeah, yeah. That’s so sweet and kind, so thank you so, so, so much. We’re really, really, really grateful. I can’t believe there’s juice there as well. We’re fully stocked now.

– That’s the most important thing, is the juice. – [Brogan] The squash. – We got the juice. – [Brogan] Do you wanna give Bonny a pride a place somewhere? – Yeah. – Where do you wanna put her? – You’re definitely gonna want here on your side, aren’t ya?

– [Brogan] Can you put her on my side of the bed? Yes, I can look at her every day. Perfect. – Perfect, perfect, perfect. – Let us know, do you and your partner have a side of the bed? Because Benj and I do and always have.

I’m always on the left, no matter where we go, what hotel, whether it’s by a door or not, it’s always me on the left and Benj on the right. We’re waiting for one more suitcase, the one we sent on to Southampton, but the others are all here already.

They’re getting it out of a storage unit aren’t they? They said we met the deck manager. He was so lovely. – Benoy. – So Benoy had worked here for 15 years at P & O Cruises, and Prakash has worked here for 20 years, which is so amazing.

It must mean that they really love their jobs, right? – I’d assume so, yeah. – That’s very loyal. I’m really impressed. So we’re just deciding, do we want to wait for that final case? Or do we wanna go downstairs? We wanna take some selfies with the ship. Wowee, look at Arcadia.

– [Benji] It’s so nice. – [Brogan] So beautiful. Wow. – (Indistinct), that flag on the front’s just… – [Brogan] Stunning, isn’t it? They’re actually just cleaning it, so they’re doing a very good job maintaining, keeping her beautiful, but very exciting. Yay! I’ve tied my hair up in a pony.

Selfie has been secured outside. And we are now gonna go and grab some food ’cause it’s 10 past three. It’s our first little glimpse of the buffet. I have got no idea what I want to have. Ooh, potato salad. Oh yeah, I’m gonna make a little salad up. This looks so yummy.

I’ve got a prawn cocktail brioche roll, chicken and bacon tortilla wraps. This is wonderful. What a nice little first lunch on board. Lovely. They do also have loads of hot options. And this is just lunch, by the way. Guys, I’ve got to admit something to you. I left my phone in the room,

And we got off the ship, took a selfie and came back. And I was like, I won’t panic ’cause it’ll be in the room. Obviously it was. But, we forgot to bring ID, which we didn’t realise we needed. So they had to call security to check we are who we are,

Which obviously makes sense. That was fine, we got on board. We obviously apologised and now we know. So then we went for lunch and I put my hair up and I forgot I took the key card, the lanyard, off. I’m smiling because I can’t explain to you

I don’t lose things, I don’t leave things places. I’m not that kind of person. I’m the most organised person you know. And now I’ve misplaced the room keys. They’re inside, I’m assuming so, because can’t lose a lanyard can you? So Benj has gone to find our cabin steward or go to reception.

In my defence, it’s been a really, really busy few weeks, and the last week being in Auckland has been so busy. And I think coming on board, I just suddenly relaxed. Like I suddenly felt really at home and at peace, and like ah, I could breathe. And I think that’s what’s happened

Is that I’ve just relaxed, and then left my stuff everywhere. (Brogan chuckles) So I need to do better. So this is how we’re gonna unpack. We’re doing the first suitcase we packed back in the UK. – Can we just jump straight in and just kind of-

– Go for it. – Go for it, really. – [Brogan] We’ll show you it when we’re all unpacked, basically. We are taking a quick break from packing so that we can go to the globe. Oh, which is here. Cut. One down. Cut you, I win. – [PA] This is the Bridge. For exercise, for exercise, for exercise. The general emergency alarm is about to be sounded for guest familiarisation purposes only. On behalf of all of us at P & O Cruises, may wish you a warm welcome on board. – [Brogan] So we’ve done our safety drill. Now we’re back to unpacking. We’ve just come back to a little bowl of chocolates! Don’t mind if I do. – Just sortin’ out our laundry.

– Wow! – And I’m gonna take it and go and do our first load of the trip. – He’s got his wash basket. It has been many hours, and we are finally finished unpacking. So are you ready for our world cruise room tour with everything in it, showing you around

Where I’ve put everything, how we’ve organised the cabin, basically what we’ve got? So, I’m sorry there’s another ship leaving and I’m just getting used to all the noises. I love it though, I love being at sea so much. I’m really happy with how the room’s turned out.

I feel really pleased with everything we have. I know that to some it might look excessive, but for us, we wanted to have all our luxuries. This is our honeymoon and my 30th birthday. And, we just wanted to make sure that we had a lot of options and choice

And we didn’t make the room feel too cluttered. But I feel like it’s looking pretty good. So, let’s show you around. I think we’ll start in the bathroom and we’ll come through. In case you’re wondering where Benj is, he’s just popped to the gym to do a workout.

He said he was already really sweaty, he may as well go and do a workout and give me some space to do this tour. And then I’m gonna have a shower and then we’ll get ready for dinner. So, let’s do the bathroom first. And also I’m very red and sweaty,

Just not sunburned, just sweaty. All right, so bathroom wasn’t too difficult to organise. I mostly have used Ikea storage boxes to put everything along the bottom shelf. I’ve put my makeup under here because I want to do my makeup in the bathroom as the lighting is just really good and the mirror’s nice.

So, I will see how I get on with that. Some miscellaneous beauty bits, perfume, some other miscellaneous essentials, towels and face cloths, all of our sun tan lotion. And then both of us have a side each. So obviously I’ve got my skincare and haircare in there. And then my contact lenses

I’ve got in a little pot that I packed. My teeth stuff, and then Benji’s got his on the other side. In the cupboard, he’s got his own little stuff going on. I have got my own robe as well as the P & O Cruises ones, ’cause this one says “wifey.”

We’ve used a magnetic hook to hang the cruise cards right by the front door, so that I don’t forget them again. I’ve also popped a little umbrella there. This one is great because it’s one of those UV ones. Let’s do these wardrobes next. We’ll start with the first one, which is Benji’s.

So he’s got all his T-shirts and shirts hung. And we did bring a lot of our own extra hangers, as you can see, these thin plastic ones are perfect. And then, he has his shoes on that shelf and mine are below. I’ve actually divided it up and put my high heels

And evening shoes in the bottom of that part. My clothes in the middle section. Again, it looks a lot but I’ve broken it down into day dresses, and then I have evening dresses when I don’t wanna really get dressed up, if we go to the buffet or whatever.

And then these are my sort of nicer evening dresses. And then black tie as well. In these shelves, Benji has the top two and I have these two. And again, I’ve used Ikea cubby storage hole things. So that’s got my pyjamas and my underwear in. He’s got some stuff organised at the back

Of there too, which is perfect. And we’ve got our pop-up laundry bags, which we’ve already filled with our stuff from Auckland. But Benji’s already done a dark wash, which is amazing. So I’ll show you that outside in a minute. Whoever’s doing the washing can grab it

And then grab whatever we need from there. I know that this is meant to be for ties, but we are using it for that. So that’s perfect. Nothing on the desk at the moment, but this is where I’m gonna be doing a lot of my editing.

So you’ll see probably charging cameras and stuff. These drawers contain a lot of my hair stuff. So we have hairbands and scrunchies and bows and products. The second one has clips and hair brushes. And the bottom one has hair straightener, curler, hair dryer. This one has miscellaneous bits and bobs.

You can basically see loads of random things. The second one has got my swimwear. And then the bottom one has got the first aid kit, plugs, sewing kit, jewellery, spare sunglasses, plugs, spare makeup. I’ve popped our bigger, bulky day bags down the side there.

But before I forget, I’ve got the rest of my bags in this storage box under here, which I brought with me too. All of my bags, tote bags, evening bags, everything is in there. This is annoying though. This keeps doing this so I need to be careful. You get the gist.

Oh, I’ve also got a rucksack under there as well. This is what the cabin’s looking like from this angle. So, in my side table, I’ve got stuff for our wedding day in there. And then this one, I’m gonna use for my Kindle or like whatever I want by my bed.

But for now it just has my glasses. And of course, Bonnie girl in the frame. Such an amazing gift. Actually I have no idea what Benji’s got going on over here. He’s got a book and his switch and his headphones and other bits. Oh bless him, he’s using a little basket,

For some other things. We have had to run an extension need along the back because there’s no plug for me to charge my phone by my bed. And I do like to have my phone next to me. So we’ve got it in the middle, sort of just placed there.

I honestly thought that it would be long enough but it’s not, so that’s fine, we can make do. On the wall we have some paperwork, the magnetic calendar that I filled out before we left, so I know exactly where we are and what we’re doing, and Benji’s hats

Are in those little bags, so that’s handy. In here, I’ve got all of my tech and gadgets so that’s in there, and in the bottom one too. And I’ve also organised our games, some stationary, and thank you card. And in here, I’ve also got some like Disney ears

For when we get to Hong Kong and some of the souvenirs I’ve been buying. This shelf above the TV is currently got our stock, so it looks a little bit wild. But we bought some bottles and then our friends kindly gave us some as well because they know that we love squash.

So, we have plenty of squash right now and we’ve already gone through a little bit of this bottle, as you can see. It was so nice to have some of that. And then, some other sort of drinks stuff on that shelf. Right now, there is nothing on the sofa.

And as you might have noticed, I moved the chairs and Benj and I have agreed that we don’t feel we need them. And we asked the deck manager when he came and introduced himself, and he said that he might be able to find an area that they can

Put those in storage for us. I just think that it’s extra furniture that we just don’t need, because if we do want chairs, we’ve got the two that are by the desk. And it just frees up more space, to come ’round the room, if that makes sense.

So I just don’t think we need them. They are beautiful chairs. And I’m sure they’re very comfy, but knowing me and Benj, we’ll just dump stuff on them and make them messy. And I just don’t think we’ll need them. This cupboard in here now homes all of our snacks, which is absolutely wild.

So these were things we bought in Auckland, and then this is our food basket. We can slide it in and out. It fits perfectly. And we also bought our own little alarm clock, so we can change that with the time zones. And out here we have hung our washing.

We only want to do this when we’re not sailing. And already I think this has been out for like an hour, and because the sun is so intense, this is already completely dry. Benj has literally hung the washing line. And then we bought our own pegs as well.

And this one is so good too. Honestly, some of these little hacks we have have been genius. The final little thing to show you on the wall here was this that we have, just for storing some miscellaneous bits. So when we come in, if we have bits of paperwork

Or cards or things we wanna hang, I don’t know, it’s just such a handy little place. And I’ve also got a spare lanyard just hanging down there too. I am so sweaty, as you can see, and I’m desperate for a shower. So I think that’s what I’m gonna prioritise next.

And then we’ll go for some dinner. But I’m so excited to be here. I feel so unbelievably grateful, and this is really, truly a special, special trip for us. I just love cruising so much. I feel so comfortable, and just so relaxed already. We had a lovely little lunch,

And I’m sure we’ll have a great dinner as well. And I just love the fact that Benj’s been able to pop to the gym and we can go swimming and I can read my book on the balcony. I’m really looking forward to the lifestyle of cruising. It’s gonna be a completely different level

To what we are used to. The longest cruise we’ve done is 14 days, so two weeks on a med cruise. And this is gonna be two months. So yeah, I’m absolutely lovin’ our cabin, loving how we’ve organised it all. I’m gonna take some pictures and show our mums.

And then I’ll get in the shower, and we’ll get ready for some dinner. The sun has been amazing setting over the skyline. All the cruise ships have left. I think we’re the last ones. And look at this. I don’t think I’m ever gonna get used to just seeing the different ports and harbours.

I’m so happy I could actually cry. All the logistics, planning, packing, preparations, just the weight of it, of thinking about every little detail has just been so much. And now I can just like (Brogan sighs in relief). Both of us just have absolutely no regrets for choosing this over a big wedding day.

It just feels like the perfect way to kickstart our marriage and we literally get married next week. Like, it’s crazy. It feels like it’s very, very fast, but also perfect at the same time. All right, so we’ve come up to the top deck. This is well deck nine.

The lower deck, which is where the swimming pool is. Or one of them, there’s another one at the aft I think. Oh this is the gym and the spa. I don’t know if we’re gonna be able to give you a full tour today, as it is eight o’clock

And we want some dinner, but… This is the hair salon. Wow. This is where I’m gonna get my nails done next week. We were wrong, that’s not the top deck. – Yeah, there’s two more decks. – [Brogan] There’s two more. Why did I think nine was the top?

How lovely. – We can go up again, if you’d like. – [Brogan] Oh. No it’s okay up here. Oh, okay. Look at the ship. We walked to the front, but these windows are black so you can’t fully see. But, we are sailing away now, which is exciting. – It’s happening.

– Oh my goodness. This is crazy. I just, it’s fully hit me, I think, suddenly. Now we’re unpacked. I don’t think I can fully relax ’till we were all unpacked, but… – It’s all happenin’! – Happenin’! Bye Auckland. It’s been wonderful. We’ve absolutely loved you. We’re not quite leaving New Zealand yet though.

– Finished now. – [Brogan] Yeah, it’s been amazing, it’s been- – That was so last week. – [Brogan] It’s so nice seeing it all at night. We saw it from the sky tower, but this is really cool, being this close and seeing it from the ship. We’re gonna have to get used to it. ‘Cause this is the kind of views we’re gonna get everywhere we’re coming in now.

Although some ports won’t be the same. – Not like this, no. – [Brogan] No, this is really nice. – Sydney’s gonna be incredible. I wanna set an alarm. I wanna find out the rough time that we start going through Sydney Harbour. We’ll get up and we’ll watch it. – [Brogan] Of course.

This is genuinely spectacular. What an amazing way to start our trip. We’ve come back down to deck three, which is where dinner is. And they have some lovely shops in here, but they don’t open for another five minutes. We’ll have to show you those in another vlog.

But, just to give you a little overview. – [Benji] They have some really good brands in there as well, haven’t they? – [Brogan] Yeah, there’s loads of stuff in here. It’s really nice. I love it. As we were passing, I thought we’d walk through the library. This is what it looks like.

And then over here they have DVDs, if we wanna put anything in our DVD player. The screening room is by ticket only. You can get your tickets from reception. Oh okay. – Oh that’s (indistinct), so you can go in there- – [Brogan] Oh, the P & O Cruises shop. We like that.

There’s also a little Costa area, so you can get a proper Costa coffee over there, which is nice. This is the palladium, the theatre. Should we try and show them a little bit? There might be a show on, actually. They’re playing Bohemian Rhapsody. – And that means for the first time this trip

And the first time many, we’ve gone the wrong way. We need to go that way. – Oh no. Well we gave a little tour. So Arcadia can take just under 2,000 guests and about eight to 900 crew. So it’s definitely one of the smaller ships we’ve been on, which suits us really well

Because it means that we don’t have to walk too far for anything. It feels very homey. – Even already, we’ve noticed loads of people just chatting to each other. So it’s like a- – It’s very, – really village feel. – Very friendly, yeah. Oh, we’re walking into a bar area.

Oh, is this the atrium? Here we go. This is the atrium. So obviously down there is the reception just tucked underneath. And then on all the different floors, there are different bars and spaces. But you can’t appreciate it, but this is beautiful. We’ll have to show you from the ground floor,

But it’s a really lovely piece in the middle, with the lights. So with P & O Cruise’s dining, you can have two seatings. So you can have a 6:30 or an 8:30, if you’re on the specific dining times. Or you can be on freedom dining, which means you can dine at any time

Between, I think it’s six ’till 8:30. This is our first dinner menu, in the main dining restaurant. What’s it called? – Meridian. – Meridian. There are loads of different mains that I actually like the sound of and some of the desserts as well. There’s loads of good things on this menu. – Yeah.

I could easily have three full courses As in the three full- – [Brogan] Different things you like, yeah. For our starter, we both have the mushroom and blue cheese cannelloni, which looks amazing, look at that. Benji’s got a chicken Kiev with, is it like a curry sauce? – Sagaloo.

– [Brogan] With like a mango chutney I think. – Yeah and like a curry. It’s like, think it’s a sagaloo, like a curry kind of thing. – [Brogan] It looks amazing. – Yeah, I’m really excited. – [Brogan] And I have got the fillet steak with king prawns, look how amazing

This looks. – The steak is always so good on board. – Always so good. – Always so good. – [Brogan] I love it, so I’m very happy to have this. We’ve just seen our cabin host and he’s done a turn down service for us. So he’s moved the pillows

And put Benji’s pyjamas out for him. And, he’s put the pillows on the thing here and moved this that was on there, you know the decorative stuff. And he’s cleaned the bathroom, replaced the towels that we used when we had showers earlier and just tidied up in there.

And he took all our rubbish away from when we unpacked. And he also asked us when we want ice each day. So I told him after six o’clock tomorrow, ’cause our shore experience is 9:30 ’till 6:30 tomorrow. But he said that they only do a turndown service

For mini suites and suites only on this ship, in the fleet club currently. Benj has gone downstairs to try and get to the reception and events manager, because he has requested a meeting tomorrow at five to talk about our wedding day. But we are on a shore experience, as I said,

Until half six, so we can’t make that. So he’s gone to amend the time of our meeting. We’re just putting away our washing. That was great that you managed to smash that out earlier. That was well done. – Really easy as well.

– We’re allowed to hang it when we’re in port to dry. But then when we’re sailing you have to bring it all in. – Obviously, ’cause the wind will pick it up and it’ll take it on, so… – Yeah, just in case you’re wondering what the rules were with the washing,

We’re allowed to do that. The food was nice in the restaurant. – Really enjoyed my food. – Yeah, it was really nice. – Yeah, it’s been a long day so we didn’t bother with desserts, but… – No, no. – I’m sure we will probably show lots and lots of desserts throughout the trip.

– Thank you for watching this vlog. We hope you enjoyed it. Make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss the next ones. Where are we going next? – We’re going to Taranga, we’re going to (Indistinct), and then we’re doing the Bay of Islands and we’re gonna get to Russell

And maybe somewhere else as well. – Yeah, so we’ll show you that soon. So, have a lovely rest of your day and we’ll see you soon. Bye! – Love you, bye.