terrierjohn

The only way is up now, but it may be quite a few years before they get anywhere near the 2019 highs.

The pool on Britannia on our fjords cruise in August 2017 was full to bursting, and the temps where in the mid 20s.

Re the pole we have had 2 accessible cabins on Iona one port side mid fwd on deck 15, and 1 starboard side mid aft on deck 12, neither had the pole. However both had the bathroom on the left as you enter the cabin, which we choose for the left sided shower controls because my wife has severe right side weakness following her stroke. So possibly it is only the cabins with the bathroom on the right that have the pole.

So not an app problem, but one caused by the staff not being correctly trained to manage the restaurant under the app system, and being permitted to operate their own workarounds to overcome the reluctance of passengers to use the app, thus leading to even longer wait times for those passengers correctly using the app. But in Paul Ludlowland I imagine that 99.9% of passengers still believe that the dining arrangements are perfect.😗

What you are describing is not a problem with the app, but they can probably be attributed to the pre booking system where many tables are being held for future time slots, rather than be allocated to the next people in the virtual queue. I know that the 2 new ships are much bigger, and therefore will need a more organised MDR system to ensure everyone is to be able to dine without enduring long queues. However pre booking is, IMO, not the best way to achieve this, all that happens is that too many tables are left unoccupied for unnecessary lengths of time, and passengers who have not been able to pre book are subjected to long queues. If the virtual queue system was the only option, no pre booking, no walk ups and no pagers, and if everyone only joined the virtual queue when they were ready, then I feel that this would result in much shorter wait times, with no need to physically queue at all, until your table was ready.

But the virtual queue was still available, and on our 2 cruises despite all the bookable slots being full, we were still able to dine between 6:00 & 7:00 with hardly any wait or long queues.

As my old Mum used to say, "a little bit of dirt never hurt anyone".

FOMO rules!!!!

You are never going to get that level of honesty from any salesman, what you are advocating would leave the poor salesman out of a job, remember the phrase "Buyer beware".

It was certainly being offered in the Daily Mail this week, but this offer ends tomorrow, so you need to move fast. It seems that my last post was removed because I named a TA, so I hope this survives.

Tried again and it is now letting me amend dining bookings, does the medallion app often play tricks on you?

Not really, I get that screen but the continue button is faded blue and does not function.

We had a similar experience at a sidewalk cafe in the cathedral square in Cadiz, we sat down at a table for 4 at the same time as two men, but since it was the only vacant table in sight we agreed to share it. But the cafe owner was very concerned as this table only had one number on his computer and he didn't seem able or willing to work out how he could cope with two sets of customers on one account. Modern technology has a lot to answer for!!!

Is there a way to amend the time on pre booked dining reservations on the app, there is an edit function, but this only seems to allow you to add further guests, there appears to be no facility to amend the time.

Some very good prices on Princess for this Sept US and Canada 24 night cruise are being offered at the moment.

Why are we still debating this, Moley gave a comprehensive report on what happened in this case in post 33. The 2 ladies were deemed not to be capable of safely making their way around the ship, as a consequence they were asked to disembark, but were fully compensated. All of which seemed to be within the travel terms and conditions for passengers with disabilities, if I proved unable to safely care for my wife, who is physically disabled, I would expect P&O would refuse to let us sail.

That reminded me of our early experience with a high street TA, only used them once and over the 2 weeks it took for us to decide on a booking we eventually knew far more about cruising than they did, and probably ever would.. We did then use a small independent TA who had a special cruise advisor for a couple of years, until we eventually found the online cruise specialist that many of us now use.

I generally fill them in if I receive the request. However I doubt that I answer each question the same way every time. But I never do the feefo reviews, maybe I should?

From memory I think I paid £75 for the behind the scenes tour in 2018, so it may well be more now.

I doubt it, there was always a limit on the number of children permitted on each cruise. I don't imagine that P&O are turning away anyone just to make a cruise less crowded with less frustration for passengers, profit is king.

At least 99% of passengers thought cabin noise was within acceptable limits.😁

Sensible I suppose on cruises of 14 nts, fresh semi skinned is only good for about 10 days, whereas filtered will last for 2 to 3 weeks if kept chilled and unopened.

Well I am sure you know what my son's would have told me to do, 😉

TBH the buffet and Quays coffee is not any better than using the Nescafe that is provided in your cabin along with milk sugar and a kettle.

Why would anyone with even half a brain take a risk like that, and pay for the privilege as well?