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    Hampshire, UK
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    Cunard
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    New York

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  1. MSC UK website reads on Yacht club page “where privacy meets luxury”. I can imagine some passengers at breakfast or dinner seeing the filming and narration with them in the background an invasion of privacy. interesting that they disembarked early because they could not film and continuing was pointless, as they were effectively “working”. It was not a vacation for them.
  2. When I was in Rome at Christmas, taxis were showing as 125 euro for the trip between Rome airport and Civitavecchia port.
  3. Used the offer too this week to pay off some of the balance for a cruise in June. £150 back was a nice bonus, have also used when the offer appeared some months ago.
  4. In the recent past we have seen a fair number of people dressing the part for Gala night when it is roaring 20s, both men and ladies. As well as the flapper dresses, lots of accessories too including ladies headbands, gloves and cigarette holder (no cigarette of course). Amazon sell a 1920s accessories set quite cheaply. Always found less uptake for Masquerade Gala night, usually a few wearing masks though.
  5. Now in view off the Isle of Wight, on cam.
  6. Since the OP has not clarified, we can only speculate. You have missed my point which was the advice of the NCL agent on what would happen after final payment had been made. In the UK of course, which appears to differ from US.
  7. Agree, different arrangements in different locations. Quoting experience in UK which is where I though OP was based.
  8. Not necessarily, NCL agent said at that the time when I called if the price dropped further closer to the departure date and after final payment was made to call again and they would look into OBC and/or cabin upgrade. Of course upgrade would depend on how full the ship was.
  9. I am also in UK, spotted a lower price before final payment was due and telephoned them. We had booked direct with NCL. Very helpful agent who was able to verify the price had dropped and that we would get the new price, without cancellation or losing deposit. Even better we kept the same balcony cabin number. We are on the cruise now! The reduction to us was £1,000 so not insignificant. My advice would be to try calling again.
  10. Onboard Prima now and we were at Ibiza yesterday, beautiful island. A little tip, much cheaper to use the public bus to go into town than the organised shuttle at $20 each return. A few unhappy passengers as we waited for the shuttle and public bus was exactly the same but €6 return each.
  11. Currently on Prima, our first NCL cruise and we are platinum (12 cruises) on Cunard. So the other way round to the question put by the OP. We are both aged early 50s. We sailed on QM2 to the Norwegian fjords in August, so quite recently. Very different experiences, if you sail on Cunard during the holidays and from Southampton there will be younger passengers and a few children. There are some fine public spaces on QM2 and the ship does not close after 10pm although we have seen this on other Cunard ships in low season where we most definitely the youngest of all passengers. The most obvious difference is the lack of choice of restaurants on Cunard, although the food is amazing with different menus every night. The buffet also serves great food and room service is free. Cunard passengers love to dress up and wear their finest especially on Gala nights. Expect 2 Gala nights on a 7 night cruise when about 90% of men will be wearing black tie and tuxedo and ladies their finest dresses. Other nights are less formal, but passengers still dress smart for dinner. The highlight for most is of course the afternoon tea, served in the Queens room by waiters wearing white gloves. We have loved all of our cruises on Cunard but are looking for a bit more, NCL and Celebrity are our now go to cruise lines. I recommend everyone should do a Cunard cruise at least once, especially on QM2. It is very traditional and is a fine cruise ship, but the experience is a bit like comparing apples and pears.
  12. We did it all on our own when on Constellation in June. Took the ships tender to the shore, avoided the queue (and cost) for the cable car and made it to the top walking up the steps. About a 10 minute walk to the bus transportation hub where the buses stop and caught a local bus to Oia for less than €2 each. Takes about 20 minutes each way and stops right in the centre of Oia. Repeated to get back to the ship, including a bottle of water, we did the trip to Oia for less than €10 for the 2 of us.
  13. I have self disembarked several times at 7:15am and it is very quiet once off the ship, most still having breakfast onboard From memory few taxis are waiting around the port at that time so best to book in advance. it is a small airport so won’t take long to reach check in desks, all being well you will be in the departure lounge by 8am. if you are arriving on 23 September, there are 3 other ships also arriving that day so will definitely be busy later on in the morning, but as it is a Saturday you won’t have the commuter traffic to contend with.
  14. Not the case in June, guests in the Solarium pool and hot tubs had drinks from the pool bar.
  15. @GLYNAGP Slightly off topic, on the app there is mention of the service charges, do you pay these upfront so they don’t appear on your onboard account and therefore you have zero balance?
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