DINING ARRANGEMENTS FOR DIABETICS

We always inform travel agent P&O when booking and have never had a problem before - in fact the reverse. This was our 7th cruise with them including 2 part world cruises. We were not the only diabetics on this cruise who had the same treatment from the resturant manager. It is so sad that he did not solve this problem and we had to go to his manager who solved it within minutes. Lets hope he learns from his errors. My husband has had diabetes over 40 years and also takes 4 injections and this is the first time we have had any problems cruising with any cruise line. Other passengers who had cruise many times were astounded at the problem we encountered as there were lots of empty places on first sitting in fact crew members were taking places on some tables.

If you were unfortunate to be diabetic you would understand. As I commented we have never had this problem with ANY cruise before and were not the only people complaining. We do enjoy cruising and have used other cruise lines. Although we sailed on the Victoria which is a small ship and catered for us extremely well we now think that the larger ships Oriana and Aurora are better at catering for us - this was the concensus of quite a few passengers on our Artemis cruise who were of the same opinion .

For a diabetic the issue of regular meals is critical. I can see why it would have spoilt the experience. I assume most cruise lines are made aware of medical and dietary problems before the cruise commences. It should have been easily resolved by the crew.

Well lets just hope that they don't jump out of the fryingpan into the fire then by leaving P&O for another cruise line that might be a lot worse in many more ways, eh? Happy cruising.