Ocean Village - Perfect for people that 'don't do cruises' - that’s their claim. On 15 March 2005 my wife and I set off for a flight to Barbados and then on to board Ocean Village - I had heard much about the ship and its informal style of cruising. Prior to this trip we had only cruised on ships that had formal evenings, and that is not a lot of fun in the heat of the Caribbean. So, we were happy to be going on a ‘laid back’ Cruise Holiday. We travelled up to Birmingham and stayed with one of our two sons, who then took us to Birmingham International next morning. The flight was some 9 hours or so, with strong headwinds and a bit of turbulence, but the journey passed relatively quickly. Then
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