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Here's a provisional list: https://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/Live_Information/Shipping_Movements_and_Cruise_Ship_Schedule/Cruise_Ship_Schedule/ - the berth numbers for each terminal are listed near the top of the page.

Then it's the same answer, as SWR's strike is also the day before you travel. I would expect the route from London to Southampton (and beyond) to be a priority for SWR.

Assuming that you've booked a direct train from Southampton Central to Gatwick Airport, your train is operated by Southern. The strike there is on 7 May, so I think you should be fine for 8 May. I think that the worst that is likely to happen from this industrial action is that you'll have to take a different direct train from the one you've booked, if your booked train is cancelled for some reason. And because South Western Railway's strike is also on the previous day (ie 7 May), on the day that you travel you will also have a backup route of going to London and coming back out again using SWR trains.

You can simply buy the Oyster and set the Young Visitor Discount at the same time at any Tube station. There's no need to take the Tube to Piccadilly Circus before doing it, because by definition you will have passed through a Tube station already. So you may as well just do this when you take your first Tube journey. I know what you mean about this discount being hard to find. For some reason, TfL does not like to make a big deal out of it, as noted on some local transport blogs.

Thank you for the kind words - but I'm posting again just to make sure there's no confusion. The only video that I could see concerned the 11-15 Zip Oyster photocard. That is not the same as the Young Visitor Discount, which is also for (and only for) this age group. Getting a photocard will probably not be practicable for you. To set the Young Visitor Discount, you need to get an ordinary Oyster. (A Visitor Oyster will also work, but I personally find it hard to see any real benefit in a Visitor Oyster, for any age.) Then find a member of staff at a Tube station, a London Overground* station, one of the listed Elizabeth Line stations, or a TfL Visitor Centre. Ask to have the Young Visitor Discount set on the Oyster. The child must be present. The staff member will then use one of the ticket machines to set the discount onto that Oyster. The process should take only 2-3 minutes. If you're here for 8 days, then this will definitely be worth doing. * NB The London Overground is a set of TfL lines. They are shown in hollow orange on Tube maps. The London Overground is different from National Rail, and National Rail stations will not be able to set the Young Visitor Discount.

This depends on your credit card company, not on TfL, which simply charges the sterling price. Typically, a credit card will charge a foreign exchange conversion fee in the order of 2.5% to 3.0%. But because this is a simple percentage, you end up paying the same whether you spend (say) $100 buying an Oyster or spend $25 on each of 4 days' travel. If your credit card company charges a per-transaction fee for foreign exchange transactions, then the calculation is different. A single $100 purchase will be only one transaction, but TfL will send a separate charge to your credit card for each day's travel, ie four transactions. It's not hard to get a credit card that doesn't charge forex fees, though, in which case it shouldn't matter which route you go down so far as fees are concerned. But if you buy an Oyster, you will now of course have to pay the non-refundable price of the card.

1. Yes, exactly right. 2. Correct. Every passenger who needs to pay must use a separate card (or device). If two people each use a separate card, it doesn't matter if the two cards are billed to the same account by the bank. It doesn't have to be a credit card. A debit card should also work, particularly if it's a Mastercard or Visa. Does the child have one of them? If not, then one option would be for an adult who has an extra card to let the child use it. If they don't already have one (which your post suggests), then they could get a supplementary card on their own card account issued in another adult's name. I expect that there's still time before July to get one issued, although this is probably not a use case that the credit card company would be happy about. But if you buy an Oyster, then the child can have the Young Visitor Discount set on it by Tube station staff. See here for further details. This basically gives the child a 50% discount, and if you do enough travel it could offset the cost of buying an Oyster. 3. Yes.

"Where you're from, does water really fall from the sky?"

Assuming a normal arrival and disembarkation time, on most days that would basically give you the luxury of lots of time to get to Heathrow by whichever of the options is most appealing to you.

There's usually a train every 30 minutes and it takes about an hour and a quarter. So basically, whenever you like during the morning or around lunchtime, so long as it departs after you get out of bed and arrives before check-in closes for your cruise.

Well, I believe that John Bull isn't one for big cities, anyway, so Brussels would get marked down for that reason. But he is right about the comparison in this case.

I have zero personal knowledge, but I did have a look at the best airliner seat maps currently on the web. The Copa page shows two variants of the 737 Max 9: Variant 1 Variant 2 Both variants are described as having Collins Aerospace Diamond seats that convert into 84-inch fully flat beds. It would be worth comparing these two variants to the seat maps for the actual flights under consideration to check whether one of these is actually the relevant configuration.

For anyone else who has an old Oyster and is wondering about this: Whether you can get your deposit back depends on when you "bought" your Oyster. If you got it when the deposit was refundable, in most cases the deposit should remain refundable indefinitely.

The second closure will be from 2100 on Friday 10 May to 0600 on Monday 13 May.

Very important: Virgin Atlantic's "Premium" is not business class. It's premium economy. Business class is branded "Upper Class" (which is an old joke dating right back to the founding of the airline). As a generalisation, price will tend to rise as you get closer to the date of departure. But you do not necessarily get the lowest price if you book as soon as booking opens. This is not a first come, first served industry; despite the generalisation, there are occasions when the best prices end up being those available just before departure. You can never tell (until the aircraft has departed).