Fine turn out for the book this is. 29/08/2016

P & O Oceana, when in the American territorial waters on 1 March 2016, failed the US unannounced health inspection. They gave a hygiene score of 82 out of 100, four marks below the 86 required pass. Officials found 48 violations: dirty cooking utensils,food prepared in hazardous conditions, live and dead insects found in food preparation area,sick staff suffering from acute gastroenteritis working in the kitchen. There was a human hair inside the ice-cream compartment. The swimming pool and whirlpool spa had to be shut down, they had not been properly disinfected. The 2,272 capacity Oceana was still allowed to sail subject to certain conditions. My little Oceana,with the best desserts at sea and food equal to that of Oceania,Celebrity,Silversea ships and certainly better than on any Cunard vessel. Little Oceana,where I had spent the most wonderful last Christmas and New Year. How disappointing. How unacceptable. How worrying. How utterly stomach - churning.