Topic: Island Escape refit Nov 2010?

Stability is obviously within safety guidelines but of course you can't do much about the rolling. If the toilets are fixed and the cabins refurbished, leaks fixed etc there should be no reason why the ship can't go on for years. It should be possible to do a decent job on the cabins and the bathrooms would cost most, heck, you can even change the decor by applying panels to the walls. 10mm for each wall and the cabins would look good. Decent mattresses are expensive but if you are buyin 1500 of them I reckon you could get a decent discount.

In our local paper tonight in Blackpool a couple are busy suing Thomsons after their nightmare voyage, the dreaded norovirus was to blame yet again. There are photographs of the damp peeling cabin.

What I find hard to understand is that they booked this as a dream cruise! and they say that it cost them £2,500 for the Canaries. Looks like a possible insurance scam to me as you can go on RCI/P&O and Fred for less than that and get the level of service you expect rather than a rust bucket like Island Escape.

Still as they say different strokes etc.