Mediterranean cruise review: Seven Seas Voyager

Anthony Torrance took a cruise on the Radisson Seven Seas Voyager from Monte Carlo to Venice. Voyager is new, launched last year, and is an all-suite, all-balcony ship.

The suites are as good as anything in a five-star hotel - with huge beds, full-sized baths and walk-in dressing-rooms (plus every conceivable gadget, from DVD players to ship-to-shore telephones). And, best of all, if you’re tired of rubbing shoulders with the other passengers on the upper decks, you can install yourself on your very own balcony, with something cool in a glass from your very own bar, and watch the world go by.

The inner man gets pretty well nourished aboard the Voyager too: there are lectures on anything from antiques to Venetian history, and the lecturers know what they are talking about. And then there’s the cuisine; it seems to be company policy that every passenger should be encouraged to throw the bathroom scales away, such is the size of the breakfast and lunch-time buffets. For gourmands, there is a choice of four restaurants, including two speciality restaurants.