terrierjohn

P4C is still a good option, very reliable and usually quite a bit cheaper than CPS.

Will new hybrid car sales also be banned by 2035 I wonder?

Probably not, but it's quite likely that the second hand value of petrol and diesel cars will by then exceed the cost of a new electric car.

Select fares do have other benefits, saver fares cannot be transferred if you find you can no longer travel on thOSE dates, and they normally don't have any OBC.

I was interested to notice that my new wheelchairs user guide gives detailed operating instructions about how to safely use it on stairs, it does require two people though. So perhaps the absence of an evacuation chair should not prevent wheelchair users from sailing, as long as there are adequate crew, and a lightweight wheelchair.

What is this seniors discount, and how does one go about receiving it?

I was very impressed with my new Samsung phone the other day, or maybe it was Google security, but I was warned that an incoming call was a Suspected scam, and enabled me to ignore and block the number. I had inadvertently given my phone number to one of those annoying ads that pop up at the foot of a news item. I thought it was a Martin Lewis article about whether to fix my energy or not, but turned out to be for some likely non existent gadget to get subscription TV channels for free, and probably illegal as well. Although I had deleted as much as I could, it probably still had my phone number with some slick seller keen to secure a sale.

There needs to be apparently available cabins to accomodate those who have booked saver fares. So even when there are available cabins showing, the cruise could be sold out.

There is little doubt that a powechair, with its shorter wheelbase, will be far more manoeuvrable than a scooter, and much more likely to cope in a partially accessible cabin. But common sense and P&O management is not something you often see. As for scooters and wheelchairs littering the corridors, this is something I rarely see nowadays, and certainly not on P&O, but we do see frequently on Princess.

Maybe, but fine restaurants will have solid polished wooden tables, whereas cruise ships probably have veneered tables or possibly laminate ones.

We have sailed mainly on Ventura, Azura's sister ship, and I find her beds are a bit too hard for me, however I always asked the steward if he can put a quilt under the bedsheet, and that makes it more comfortable.

I am not aware that P&O operate a ranked tier system for any of their passengers, even if in the lowest category inside cabin on a saver fare all passengers should be treated the same. As long as the passenger accepts the possible dining limitations, they should be treated the same in all other respects, and be able to switch dining if there is space available.

Anyone else remember Bronco toilet rolls?

It must have been crumble Sunday today, I also made Blackberry and Apple crumble for lunch. My crumble mix is 3-2-1 flour fat sugar.

According to the App only US broking platforms are able to be linked to stockperks. So unless or until that changes UK nominee account holders will have to send a new proof of ownership in every 3 months.

That's why booking through a good quality on line cruise TA is the best option, I would just ring or e-mail them and they would do all the necessary work.

Cutlery comes wrapped in a napkin which will have been handled in the galley, but so has all the crockery. We don't use salt or pepper, so no problem for us there, and so far we have not gone down with noro, maybe we have been lucky, or possibly our less fastidious life style ensures our immune system is operating at peak performance.

Carnival has had loads of bad publicity over the years, from illegally dumping polluted waste water, through paying crew way below average, to loads of noro outbreaks, missed ports etc, and yet they have survived them all and seem to have no problem in filling their cruise ships. So I doubt that this very minor UK noro outbreak is likely to have the top management in the US worried, that is of course if they have even heard about it.

I find paracetamol is a great first defense against colds, flu, upset stomach as well as headaches and general pain relief. It may well be a placebo effect, but it works for me, and is a heck of a lot cheaper than proprietary medicines.

The Thomson court case was a cruise on Thomson Spirit which from the Judges summary was well and truly destroyed. So clearly TUI thought it was important to test the case in the courts even with the risk of what a loss might do to their reputation. Of course it was probably helped by the poor view that the judiciary currently have regarding class actions.

You may well be right, BUT how many cruise lines in the UK have been sued and lost for a noro outbreak? Thomson successfully defended one in 2015.

I do agree that the way P&O is handling this mobility wheelchair and scooter issue, as well as the allocation of evacuation chairs, shows an amazing lack of understanding of the needs of their disabled passengers. It may well be part of a desire to control the number of mobility devices, but as usual P&Os heavy handed way of doing things is making things far worse. They really need to think about asking their disabled passengers to get a clearer understanding of just what their needs and requirements are, rather than going off half *****, as usual.

I seem to remember that P&O said the 1% of passengers referred to the number of confirmed cases on disembarcation and since noro normally lasts 2 days that may be correct, and of course it did not count crew.

If you read down almost to the end you will find the following, it would make more sense to have that as a mich earlier paragraph. "If you’ve filled it in previously and your circumstances have changed, please fill it in again. If your circumstances have not changed, you don't need to do anything".

Ditto.