jayne3031

I've cruised in an inside cabin and several times in an obstructed view as I'm with the "I'm only in the cabin to sleep" brigade, but the thought of being confined to one of those  cabins for weeks if a pandemic broke out while I was on board means that I am going to save and if I can't afford a balcony, then I'm not going.  

Saying that - I will keep looking for the deal.  They are out there and if I've learnt nothing else over the last few months, I've learnt that you have to grab opportunities while you can. 

Yes - my son and I have been cruising for about 5 years. He's 12 now. He loves the kids clubs on Princess, Movies under the Stars and the cookies. We've been on a few Royal Caribbean too and he likes their kids clubs slightly more as they do more sports activities, but prefers Princess (I think it's the cookies and chocolate on the pillow actually!)

So yes, I am sure your family will enjoy it.

Yes, they had one when we were there last April. They also had long queues to get on it. We walked straight past and bought a 24 hour pass for the local boats which covered the whole of Venice.

Does anyone know if this "limit for the age range" is different (hopefully lower) on princess than on other lines? We are a bit concerned when we saw that the limit for 4-8 year olds on our April 1st cruise was reached. That is our kids' age range, but we'd picked princess hoping for a less crowded kids club, knowing that it is Easter week. We WANT there to be other kids - just a sane number so our kids are not overwhelmed or turned away from the club.

Well I don't know the limits on various lines, but I can say that a Princess cruise I went on at half term the other year was easily the most crowded and busy ship that I have ever been on. To the point that you couldnt even see your child in the pool because there were so many in there. You had to be there on time to get into the kids clubs too as they full if you went later. I heard a couple of older guests mutter that they would never go on a cruise at half-term again and I wondered why anyone who didn't have kids (or who were a teacher) would go at this time. Baffles me. I'm looking forward to cheaper holidays when my son is older.:)

Have to agree with previous post - as long as the ship docks on time and you can get off, then you will have no problem in getting to the train. However, if you have to also buy tickets then you might be pushing it as you will probably not be the only ones wanting to do this.

Thank you for your review. We are going on the Majestic on Sunday and really looking forward to it.

Hi - the easiest way is probably a National Express coach. Depending on traffic its a couple of hours drive. This will take you to the main bus station and then you can get a taxi to the cruise terminal.

http://www.nationalexpress.com/airports.aspx

You could go by train, but I think you will always need to change trains which is a pain when you have luggage

https://www.londontoolkit.com/travel/heathrow_southampton.htm

We were in Le Havre in October and took the shuttle into town but there were plenty of people walking and no one at the port seemed to have an issue with this.

There is a shopping centre which was quite walkable, and the town which was a quite a bit further.

It was you old post I had seen. Thinking on it security could be an issue, lots of probs with migrants as well - and being British may not help at present either!

 

It does seem to be reported as 2.5kms to the city centre, but I thought that would be the centre of town, so it might only be half that into the start of the town. Maybe we should not be too mean though and get a shuttle bus. Just a bit put off because it is our debut on a larger ship (MSC who seem to charge a fair bit for shuttles) and we are used to Fred Olsen where shuttles are free if you book on full fare, rather than guarantee rates.

 

Thanks for the reply though, It is much appreciated.

 

Barbara

Love the pic. Can't wait til next Sunday when we will be sailing from Rome :D:D

Majestic Princess arriving in Trieste!

 

 

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We have just come off the Navigator. Movies were shown in both the main theatre and on deck. There isn't a small cinema and all movies on the tv are pay-per-view at about $12 each!!!

Totally agree that Princess is much better in this area.

It's odd, but language doesn't seem to matter to kids as much as it does adults! They seem to understand what's going on even with a language barrier!

Very true! DS is English and last year I found him with his friends from AO quite happily chatting away with some Italian boys. Now the only Italian my son knows is Gelato so I assumed his friends spoke English but no. It just didn't seem to matter!

That duty free store was still in the terminal last October.

Good to know. I am on Brilliance on Thursday and was thinking about buying some on Barcelona before we boarded but that will be much easier. :)

What a nightmare! And I thought holidays were supposed to de-stress you.

I've only ever cruised out of Southampton (I'm in the UK) and even then I driven down the night before - just to be sure. I don't think I could cope with the stress of a flight!

I hope you get it all sorted out with Delta - good luck!!!:eek:

Games have probably changed since this picture was taken.

I was on the Emerald in May and I can't say that I looked too closely at the actual machines to see what was there, but I don't think it has changed much!

I can see mine for a cruise on 24/5 when I log on. It's listed as OBC. But it has only just appeared so if you are not sailing just yet, you may not see it.