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  1. We travelled from Wetherby Services 4 times now. The coach always comes from up Newcastle way, can't remember exactly. Usual time of pick up for us is 7am but back at first pick up I think it is 5am. Usually have 1 quick stop and one longer one, but that varies, and sometimes there have been a few other pick ups on the way, but only once in the 4 times we were on the coach. The time we had a few other pick ups we arrived about 2.30/2.45. When no other pick ups, it has been between 1pm and 1.30. Comfort wise okay, other than some of the seats give me a bit of backache. Once at the port it is quite quick to be onboard the ship, and they deal with the baggage from the coach too which is a plus.
  2. Just read your post after I wrote my one above where I was wondering about what makes the 'atmosphere' different between Iona and Arvia I am sure you are correct here. We are older(in our 70's), though have a way to go yet in our cruising hopefully, but we do like a quieter atmosphere for sure, like your parents. As someone said, it is good there are options for all tastes these days.
  3. We are just off Iona, our first on P&O, so not been on Arvia obviously, though I have been looking at her for the Med cruises. We chatted to a gentleman onboard who takes up to 5 P&O cruises a year(sigh, good for him) and though he sailed on Arvia, he much prefers Iona for the atmosphere. Seems a few agree with him. I wonder what it actually is about Arvia that makes some passengers feel that way.
  4. It was a couple sitting close to us who mentioned it. I think quite a few other diners were asking for thick toast by the end of the cruise as word got round. Maybe it should have become a menu staple. Yes, the grills toast is pretty poor.
  5. I understand, plus all to personal taste. We have been in the Grills a few times also but we still enjoyed the odd Lido breakfast, toast was better, until I found you could ask for thick bread in the Grills, and it was thick. Anyway, what I mentioned wasn't on topic so back to that.
  6. Oh wow, sorry you had that experience, we were very lucky then. Trotting down to the nearest public toilet one, twice or three times a night, as my husband(and others) would need to do would not be my idea of fun. I must add here that we had an amazing cruise, and as we only went to the dining room about 5 or 6 times the noise/vibrations was not a huge issue overall and did not affect our enjoyment. Off topic and a first world issue though, I was, shall I say, amused and slightly concerned, by the size and quality of the muffins every day at breakfast time in the Lido buffet. What have they done to them? The double chocolate ones were about 1 and half inches deep and looked very strange, tiny all round. They removed the whole tray of them and replaced them with a different kind early on during breakfast. The blueberry ones were not much better, small, with hardly a blueberry in sight and didn't seem fluffy like a muffin should. Either they changed the recipe or bought a less quality muffin mix. However, they were perfect in the Chart Room for morning coffee, just like before, so good. They must make them elsewhere for there. I guess Cunard must be looking after our weight and health😂
  7. Yes, I agree about the toilet flush problem, and some smell issues around the ship We had a couple of times we couldn't flush the toilet, once for over an hour. We were on deck 6 and quite a few passengers were out reporting it to the stewards who said it was being worked on. So grateful to those members of crew! It was our first experience of that problem on our many Cunard cruises but we have had it happen on other cruise lines. So it can be an issue.
  8. Of course, but there is noise and NOISE. We only noticed the bad noise/vibrations in the back of Britannia lower dining room.
  9. We were on that cruise and the noise and some juddering at the back of the dining room some evenings was pretty bad. There was lots of talk about it. It was very similar last year at the same time as we always ate in that part of the dining room, and I know they had to do some work in dry dock, was it a pod? I had expected it to be much improved this year, but it was only a little better. Some passengers said to us that they believed it was never the same since they added the rooms etc. on the back, causing all the noise(not just the wake or other normal noise) I have no idea as we had never eaten in that part of the dining room before last year and this.
  10. I would have thought there would be special coach groups, but it sounds like it is a bit of a free for all disembarking and trying to collect bags. If we were younger we would do self disembarkation. Might have to cut down drastically on bag weight🤣
  11. How does disembarkation work for those on coach transfers? It will be our first time with P&O, and having used coaches before with other cruise lines we get a time to be on the coach as they want to be on their way on time, which has been 9am on our precious cruises.
  12. It is so annoying. I hope you have already got through, or will do very soon. These companies need to take on more call centre folk. I guess they just don't care enough about their customers.
  13. Try messaging on their Facebook page. Had a pretty quick reply that way.
  14. We chatted to one of the ladies decorating. She loved it. Just a seasonal job I think she said. They had their company's(I presume) name on their tops so no missing them around the ship. Personally I get far too stressed decorating our 1 Christmas tree so would need a do nothing cruise to get over this job🤣
  15. We were on QV last November, disembarking on 24th November. The decorating team from the USA were onboard and spent the whole cruise putting up the trees and decorations. It was interesting to watch them. On disembarkation day they were flying to the Caribbean to begin on QM2. It could be any which way though this year of course. QV looked fantastic, they do a great job.
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