terrierjohn

If you want to tip bar staff you can, but it is not necessary to tip each time you receive a drink, a little cash at the end of the cruise any bar waiter will always be appreciated, but again not needed.

If on the big beasts you may want to book the Olive Grove and some of the speciality restaurants.

We have mainly cruised with P&O since 2011, but all our cruises from then until 2018 are counting towards our Elite status on Princess. I hope you're not being short changed Dai. But not as easy to check the P&O ones because of the change from Portunus to Peninsular, however I am reasonably sure that some of our early Princess cruises did contribute to our Peninsular status but dont know just when it stopped.

I did not hear the dambusters at the Euro final, however I did hear the Great Escape which also has WWII connections, but is more usually associated with a team performing a great escape.

P&O may take any pre 2017/18 Princess cruising into account, get a printout from Princess with the dates showing and e-mail to their customer service.

Many passengers seem to like the idea of a drinks package so they know their drink costs are covered, and are not caught out at the end of the cruise. Whilst this might be an issue on some american lines, with high prices and then a gratuity on top, but not on P&O, at least not for the average drinker.

I have always liked to think that the close ties the 4 UK countries have rise above petty differences, and that we have far more in common than any differences that define us. Clearly I seem to be wrong.

But neighbours are often only rivals when playing each other, I normally support close friendly neighbours when they are playing someone else.

I would give them a ring and use the cruisemummy review to emphasise your disappointment. Hopefully they will be able to find you a better cabin.

Looking at the possible English managers who could replace Souuthgate, with the exception of Eddie Howe I cannot see anyone, and I doubt he would want to leave Newcastle. I think we need to ensure that there are enough quality assistants to Southgate to ensure there can be someone in place to takeover when he either wants to retire, or fails miserably enough to needs sacking.

We were on her in May and she looked fine to us, the MDR food was very good, much better than P&Os Iona in March, and nothing wrong with the buffet breakfasts, although Princess chefs dont really know how to cook english back bacon.

This is a Flycruise so the disembarkation would normally be in line with the return flight time. I would guess that the op would be able to leave all their luggage in the hand luggage location and be free to utilise the ships services until they are ready to disembark.

My laptop was born in 2010 and it has always been plugged in, mainly because the battery always needed charging fairly regularly, and it still says the battery is in excellent condition. However I now use my phone or tablet for most on-line activity, the laptop now only gets used for MS office activity.

But lots of restaurant customers in the UK order veggie dishes. There are loads of vegetarian dishes among the mediterranean countries, and very tasty they are as well. So I don't believe the idea for a veggie restaurant was I'll conceived, just not well presented as an alternative option by P&O.

But they have eventually seen the light. However there have been lots of favourable reports about the food in Green &Co and if P&O had sold the idea of a meat free experience with delicious tasting vegetarian options, then it might have been more successful. But we all know that P&O don't really handle customer service very well.

If, as @9265359 states, EES will not affect most P&O cruises or any sailings out of the UK, then we have no need to be concerned on this part of the forum. For other EU holidays the airport or ferry port wIll deal with the EES process, and ETIAS when it comes in will operate similar to the US ESTA, and will be linked to your passport and should not really cause us any problems.

Will ships passengers have to do the biometrics at the first or all ports or will the EU allow the manual system to continue, with cruise ships confirming all passengers and crew have returned from shore visits.

My GP says that 150/80 is OK for over 80s, if only mine would stay below that!

Were these Intercruises or Eaveway coaches, the latter still arrive around 1:00 - 2;00 pm.

Unfortunately the intercruise coaches now all seem to have later arrival times, the northern ones don't arrive until 3:00pm, which is too late for the embarkation lunch.

If we do reach the final I think we would have a better chance of winning against France, but I think Spain's name is already on the trophy.

I agree that seems a bit extreme. We always end up throwing them away, as they go out of date before we need them, I suppose I should be happy about that, but being a tight Yorkshireman, I don't like waste.

We always have immodium in our general travel medicines, just in case they are needed, and 99% of the times they have been needed are non Noro related.

No they are not from Yorkshire, but I guess if they only had one main, the choice was made because they felt half the 10 oz fillet was enough, I know it would be for me.

A poster on another forum said he and his wife shared a 10oz lava steak on Aurora recently, only paying one supplement, but no idea if they could have had a second main course as well. We will maybe have to wait for @TigerB 's next cruise to find that out.😉