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I have to say that I understand the reasoning behind serving dinners à la carte rather than buffet style (to reduce the risk of spreading Covid), but I still prefer the buffet dinners- I like getting a little bit of a few items. On two occasions on Pursuit there were buffet dinners - a Nordic buffet (the medium rare roast lamb was amazing) and the White Night dinner which was held inside due to the cool weather and the fact that we were at sea. On the latter occasion, we were served by the staff rather than helping ourselves.

And if you allowed every guest to attend, the logistics of doing it for a very large group would be impossible.

As countless other people have explained, it is not the guests who are the best of the best. It refers to the food and wine.

I am the same. We avoid crowded buses. I always use the the gym during cruises, but this year, I have given the gym a wide berth, as gyms can be high risk in terms of spreading Covid. I do endless laps around the jogging track instead.

I did ask at Guest Relations and the fellow said they he wasn’t aware of any outbreaks. He rang Windows and was told that it was the decision of the maître d ‘. This begs the question of why the maître d’ made this decision, so I still don’t have a satisfactory answer.

I was on Quest a month ago and they had smart TVs where you can check your onboard account, watch various films etc. I am on Pursuit now and the TVs are old style - no menu, just channel selections where you just have to take what comes. So it clearly depends on what ship you are on. I think Journey is the same as Auest, but it appears that the two latest additions to the fleet are somehow mired in the past when it comes to TV.

We are on Pursuit right now on the second of two sea days before arriving in Copenhagen tomorrow. There has been no mention of Covid throughout the entire trip (unlike on our Norway Intensive cruise on Quest starting on 25 July). Curiously, for the first time since day 1, staff have been serving diners at the buffet in Windows instead of guests helping themselves. I wonder whether there is something that they aren’t telling us, e.g. a small Covid outbreak.

We are on the same cruise as well, assuming we are taking about the Norway cruise. I have to say that it is stressful to face the prospect of not being able to board the ship and having our travel plans turned upside down. We are flying from Paris on 24 July, so will have to take a rapid antigen test at Charles de Gaulle on the morning of our booked flight to Dublin.

We are taking our first cruise for two and a half years next month. One of the things we loved was boarding in the middle of the day and eating lunch at Windows. Can passengers now only board in the afternoon due to Covid precautions, thereby necessitating feeding ourselves before boarding?