terrierjohn

The weather is appalling and rather spoiling the spectacle.

We did a similar trip, and actually found the Rockies to be far more spectacular than mainland Alaska. Although the Glaciers and the calving was exceptional.

With only 5.5 million population and huge oil reserves, it's easy for them to be generous.

Are you sure you dont live in Iceland?😉😎

As far as PR is concerned P&O has a hide like an elephants.

It could along with sufficient battery storage to provide the necessary back up

That's fine for land based users, but what about cruise ships, what would be the battery size needed to cover a transatlantic or Pacific crossing, which would be the minimum needed to make them viable.

It would be nice if the Mods left a message on the forum advising why a thread, or post, had been pulled, otherwise how do we learn.

Unless someone decides to build a nuclear powered cruise ship I imagine emission free ships will need to be electric. But can you imagine the size of the batteries needed for a ship as big as Iona?

17 deg here at present with expected high of 19, but no sun until later this evening. However it certainly feels warmer than June was, and quite pleasant when the sun is out, unfortunately not too often.

I doubt the crew listen to his broadcasts, and they are primarily intended for the passengers anyway, and only regular cruisers will have heard them before. He was certainly more entertaining and noticeable than many of the other Captains we have sailed with.

Possibly a scammer trying to hook you in!

Eavesway have now stopped offering coach travel òn some of the P&O ships definitely stopped Iona cruises because numbers are not enough, although they are still offering Aurora cruises.

I would hope that is correct, as we also have a cruise sailing in January.

I think they rolled up the Portunus points into the starting points for the new Peninsular loyalty scheme. So the history only started in 2012.