Deep Fried Brie - Opal Restaurant - Deck 6 - Gala Deck - P&O Cruises - MS Iona - IMO: 9826548
Starter: In a Mushroom Breadcrumb Crust with Cranberry Sauce and Petit Salad. Very nice!
MS Iona was completed on 09/10/2020 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany. She was laid down on 29/05/2019, launched on 18/02/2020 and Christened by Dame Irene Hays(Hays Travel), on 16/05/2021 with her maiden voyage on the 07/08/2021. She is from the Excellence Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 184,089, has nineteen decks of which eighteen are passenger accessible, eleven of those with cabins, giving a maximum passenger capacity of 5,206 and 1,762 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä LNG engines giving a total installed power of 67.1MW(82,700hp) giving a service speed of around 17 knots.
This photo was taken on 19/11/2023 when on a 14-night cruise to the Canary Islands, Portugal and Spain, when awaiting departure from the Port of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. MS Iona had arrived here in the morning from Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, having departed from there in the early evening prior. Iona had departed from Southampton, UK, in the early evening of 11/11/2023. Next stop: Lisbon, Portugal on 21/11/2023.
The itinerary was: Southampton - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - Lisbon, Portugal - A Coruña, Spain - Southampton. This itinerary was a change from the original scheduled one to a maritime pilots strike in Portugal. It should have been Funchal first then the other three islands in order then Cadiz, Spain and an overnight stay in Lisbon. © Peter Steel 2023.
Deep Fried Brie - Opal Restaurant - Deck 6 - Gala Deck - P&O Cruises - MS Iona - IMO: 9826548
Starter: In a Mushroom Breadcrumb Crust with Cranberry Sauce and Petit Salad. Very nice!
MS Iona was completed on 09/10/2020 by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany. She was laid down on 29/05/2019, launched on 18/02/2020 and Christened by Dame Irene Hays(Hays Travel), on 16/05/2021 with her maiden voyage on the 07/08/2021. She is from the Excellence Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 184,089, has nineteen decks of which eighteen are passenger accessible, eleven of those with cabins, giving a maximum passenger capacity of 5,206 and 1,762 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä LNG engines giving a total installed power of 67.1MW(82,700hp) giving a service speed of around 17 knots.
This photo was taken on 19/11/2023 when on a 14-night cruise to the Canary Islands, Portugal and Spain, when awaiting departure from the Port of Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. MS Iona had arrived here in the morning from Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain, having departed from there in the early evening prior. Iona had departed from Southampton, UK, in the early evening of 11/11/2023. Next stop: Lisbon, Portugal on 21/11/2023.
The itinerary was: Southampton - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal - Lisbon, Portugal - A Coruña, Spain - Southampton. This itinerary was a change from the original scheduled one to a maritime pilots strike in Portugal. It should have been Funchal first then the other three islands in order then Cadiz, Spain and an overnight stay in Lisbon. © Peter Steel 2023.