31/03/2016 Hurrah,The Library opened this evening!

There are 2 things I look forward to on a ship-sunbathing in the nude on the balcony and sitting in the library surrounded by dictionaries! Now, on this particular cruise sunbathing in the altogether will be limited to the short span of time the sun will actually shine on me, as the floor above overhangs over my cabin.This I was fully aware of when booking the cruise. What I was not expecting was the books and dictionaries being off limits. Norovirus is blamed for it,the spread of it by unwashed hands and by golly the ship, any and every ship,is full of those.So the first few days have been very disappointing from this respect.And to cap it all, the TV system on Ventura is abominable."Loading" is slow,slow,slow.The remote control is temperamental-now it works,now it does not.I have moments I am sorely tempted to chuck it out of the window,with the TV set to follow! Ventura, your system needs upgrading and bringing into he 21st century. And to add insult to injury-my account was frozen on Monday,I was denied access even to the free films on TV, and all because the ship was too slow to credit my account with £250 of "on board credit",this is money given to me, a frequent traveller, by The P & O as a kind of reward for booking the cruise. I had also added £40 cash into the account and started to use it-sea sickness tables, 250 minutes of internet time, etc., then STOP. The whole experience was very unpleasant.