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I spoke with the hotel manager on Solstice and he stated the original intent was to put it on deck 4 as per the original releases. He stated that the week before my cruise the engineers came aboard and believed the best location was deck three. Got the impression there was some mechanical reason.

With the increasing numbers wanting select dining why would they have ever considered putting it on deck 4, beggars belief.

Well since the official Celebrity poster has not seen fit to put us out of our misery and tell us which deck and which side Luminae will be, on both M and S class, I can only surmise that head office have not made a final decision yet.

Or maybe the good folks in Miami are just having too many laughs reading all our posts.:rolleyes:

Further update, my laptop is now running about like a spring chicken, response times excellent, no keyboard lag and Firefox no longer freezing regularly, as yet. :)

This I assume is down to Flashplayer no longer being so heavily used to run the adverts, in the past when things got bad I regularly needed to stop flashplayer in order to breathe life back into the laptop, why I did not use adblock before I will never know.;)

Another factor that may need to be considered is that currently Select has 2 entries, 1 port and 1 starboard. Generally there are lines--sometimes long and sometimes not--at both entries. Luminae will need an entrance which means one of the Select entrances will be eliminated. There is traffic there all night from the beginning of dining until near the end. That should be fun.

 

Meanwhile, Traditional dining one deck down, has 2 entrances. Traffic there is for about 20 minutes total each night--10 minutes or so before early dining and 10 minutes before late.

 

Sounds like a no-brainer to switch Select and Traditional decks.

Where is the like button when you need it?:cool:

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Originally Posted by waterbug123

What it may do is drive away the people who insist that things must always remain exactly as they were when THEY began cruising on X. The whole cruise industry is changing and there are zillions of people out there who don't know that "THIS is the way it is SUPPOSED to be..." and they will be more than happy to take the place of all the people who are convinced that X is shooting themselves in the foot.

Ex. Remember all the people who said Oasis/Allure would never make it? That RC would never be able to fill those ships and that it was the beginning of the end for Royal because "people won't want to be on a ship that big blah blah blah." Funny thing, they keep filling them AND charging a premium for them. Likely the same will happen as Royal tweaks their new Dynamic Dining concept and X tweaks their new suite dining concept.

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Very well said and may I add that while this forum is entertaining and sometimes informational it only represents a very small portion of the cruising public.

Of course the extra zillions might not be able to afford to cruise so your hypothesis could fail, along with Celebrity's sales.:confused:

As select diners, we have already been assigned seats downstairs mingled in with the traditional diners when select was full and they had empty tables downstairs.

 

Whenever we are seated at the railing in select and look down, we see tables with empty spaces below us, as well as entire empty tables.

 

They can always switch the traditional and select dining areas for future cruises if it becomes necessary.

With the increasing popularity of Select dining I believe it will be essential that Celebrity re-align their seating arrangements especially if Luminae is taken from the upper tier of S class ships.

As a select user this is my main concern, and all the facts and figures of total dining available tables is IMO meaningless.

Thanks again Brian malwarebytes found several files with embedded sizlsearch "pups" in them, however Norton's root checker found nothing, I am beginning to wonder why I continue to pay them?

Anyway I am now an advert free zone, which begs the question why would advertisers want to use such invasive style adverts when I was quite happy to put up with the fairly benign ones, and in fact they could sometimes be useful in finding special offers.

I don't see any adverts as I have Adblock installed.

 

Brian

Thanks for the tip Brian, that has improved things. However I must have some sort of virus on the laptop since I am still getting frustrating new tabs opening via "sizlsearch" when I open up threads, but my Norton AV does not seem able to find and get rid of it.

Has anyone else noticed a sudden increase in messy adverts popping up all over the place and new pages opening on CC, or is it just my PC thats acting up???

I think the kettle socket is european style, so if you need extra sockets you could take an adaptor.

Very helpful answer, but your good at those.

 

 

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The OP said she loved RCI and had done 10 cruises with them, do you honestly believe they would enjoy P&O.

don't

For those who do like a few drinks then a free drinks package must seem like a great idea. Like Richsea my wife does not drink and is w/c bound, so I don't drink too much either, don't want to be drunk in charge of a wheelchair.

BUT one thing I did notice on my last X cruise was just how much drink prices had escalated, and I wonder if those of us still paying for our drinks might just be subsidising those on drinks packages

Dont know about ya'll, but it takes a lot lower % of my take home pay to pay for a cruise now then it did in 1987!

Isn't this what we all desire, improving living standards.;)

Never had one of these cabins but always assumed they would be noisy in the morning with a lot of passengers heading for the buffet, that corridor can also be very windy if the doors to the observation area are left open.

Interesting that Britannia cruise are logged in at Southampton from 28th March nothing before

 

http://cruisesouthampton.com/pages/cruise-list--5

 

I wonder which terminal ???

 

 

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This is a better website for cruise ship data and includes the berth as well, unfortunately it is not complete for 2015 as yet, Britannia is missing as well as Celebrity and Anthem OTS, plus maybe others.

http://www.southamptonvts.co.uk/Live_Information/Shipping_Movements_and_Cruise_Ship_Schedule/Cruise_Ship_Schedule/

As already pointed out by Mysticalmother, Superior Deluxe Cabins do not all have sofa beds. They all have 2 seater sofas, but only those with one or two asterisks in the ships deck plans fold out to form a bed. This is an important distinction, although P&O won't let you book 3 people in a Superior Deluxe that only has a sofa. When we went on Azura, we deliberately chose a 3 berth Superior Deluxe that was flanked either side by 2 berth superior deluxe cabins as we have been irritated on several cruises by young children crashing around next to us. The plan failed spectacularly. The 2 berth cabin was occupied by the Grandma and Grandad with the daughters and grandchildren in the cheaper inside cabins along the corridor. The cabin next to us, although a 2 berth, became home to 4 adults and 4 young kids for most daylight hours!

My original post did state that all 3 or 4 berth de luxe balcony cabins had sofa beds I assumed the op would be capable of reading and understanding a brochure deck plan.

One point not made yet is that in a standard balcony cabin all the extra beds are pullman type, pull down from ceiling, and when in use the standard beds have to be set up as singles. Therefore the de-luxe cabins are the only ones that would meet your needs, and all 3 or 4 berth de-luxe cabins do have a sofa bed.

There are some de-luxe cabins on E deck and these have fully covered balconies although I am not certain how big the balconies are.

Most balconies on Britannia are about 70% of the depth of those on Azura/Ventura, other than C deck, chairs need to be sideways if you want to put your feet out. The aft ones are bigger but I have seen no dimensions, and they are also part covered and part open, similar to C deck on Grand Class.

The main obstructed balconies, on E deck I believe, have some of the lifeboat showing above balcony level, it varies dependant on which lifeboat.

Not sure if any have steel balcony fronts, but I imagine some very forward ones probably do.

But if you check more carefully on Cruise News here on CC, you will spot this statement from the CLIA:-

A spokesman of P&O Cruises told Cruise Critic, "CLIA [Cruise Lines International Association] acknowledges and respects the verdict […] and its member lines have chosen to voluntarily refrain from bringing ships above 96,000 tons to Venice until a new navigational route becomes operational." They also added, "we are looking forward to welcoming a final decision by the Italian government on the alternative route for big ships in Venice."

Oh I didnt know that we could end up on seperate flights. That would be a non starter as Mum is in a wheelchair and needs assistance from one of us with one or two of the others carrying the wheelchair pushers' hand luggage. (she hates having to reply on airport/port disabled asssistance.

 

Kevin, I cannot envisage any cruise line not being accomodating with flight preferences for a wheelchair customer, even P&O's customer service would surely not risk the sort of backlash this would create in the media.

I have kind of the same question re 8141 on Summit. Does anyone have a stern shot of the ship? Thanks.

Millenium and Summit are identical, so the above photo should suffice.

Late getting to the table and slow eaters.

 

You can't book a table for 2 in the MDR, only request in hope .....

If you choose anytime dining you can always have a table for 2, as long as you are prepared to wait if they are busy.

Three or four years ago I cracked a tooth on a piece of fried bread on P&O, left a huge slabsided hole, after filling, which has needed several lots of remedial work which, despite our NHS, has cost me several hundred dollars in dental bills.

Never considered claiming against P&O, nor blaming them for the fried bread being so hard, maybe I should have.:rolleyes:

I hope people realize that there is no guarantee to a discount once on the ship. And discounts on one ship at whatever time of the year do not equate to discounts being offered at other times of the year and on other ships in the fleet.

 

I agree entirely but since we also enjoy most of the offerings in the MDR then, in our case, if the ship is not offering an acceptable discount we won't be dining in the speciality restaurant.