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Hi, when you arrive at the terminal follow the CPS parking signs and you will be directed into a lane - there will be porters and trollies so you just have to unload your luggage and hand it over - the next time you see it will be at your cabin door. Just make sure everything you hand over to them is labelled and don't forget to keep hold of your cruise paperwork/passports etc. Double check you've not left anything and relax into your holiday 🙂 They will then take your car and park it for you. At the end of your cruise you have a couple of options, if you have kids the first one probably won't be an option - you can simply leave your cabin in the morning (usually about 7am) but you have to be able to get ALL of your luggage off yourself in one go. The easier option is pack you cases the day before and leave them outside your cabin door, they then get collected and laid out in the arrivals hall in deck order, you find your cases, stack them on a trolley and once outside follow the signs for CPS, they will direct you to your car in the car park! It's all easier then my instructions might suggest! You can keep a smaller case/bag to put in last minute nightwear/toiletries etc and carry that off with you. Enjoy your cruise and remember it's addictive 😎

I'm not veggie or vegan but really did enjoy some of those meals!

Just goes to show that it's all a matter of taste (pun intended!) as we enjoyed all of our meals in the MDR on the same cruise. I think the apple crumble was the last or next to last night and we loved it.

While we're talking food, my friend and I had a little thing going and at either lunch or dinner chose something we would normally disregard - I have to say we were ALWAYS pleasantly surprised and enjoyed some foods that were new to us - I have discovered that I really like lentils 🙂

I have to say Andy the pieces of cheese aren't huge - you get three 'slithers', two crackers and a digestive, a carrot stick, a celery stick, two dates and a dried apricot - you can always ask for two plates though! I love the cheese plate.

We commented that the food in the MDR was always hot and well presented and wondered how they managed to serve it so hot when at the local Wetherspoons it has to travel 6 foot from kitchen to table and arrives cold!!

We got back from the Aurora Baltic cruise on Thursday and I have to say we thoroughly enjoyed our meals in the MDR. I would agree the choice isn't as great as it used to be but I only struggled to choose something I fancied on the last night, but by that time I was so full I probably just wasn't hungry 😁 I wouldn't rate any of the meals (lunch or dinner) lower than 8/10 indeed most were 10/10 and I'm back on the diet already 😲

We got these too, popcorn is lovely 😊

Thanks for that information, it's a shame really that it's just a sofa - it looks a perfect cabin if you wanted someone to share, almost two rooms if you like.

You really shouldn't be giving the gorgeous doggy alcohol Angel 😊 (just kidding)

It sounds a bit strange that people are saying Celebrity and RC don't have queues but P&O do - I was trying to fathom how that was possible if it is the same staff at the terminal, or would each cruise line have their own boarding 'rules?'

Are the port staff employed by the port or by each individual cruise line?

Thank you LouCD, am I correct in assuming the sofa transforms into a bed?

There has to be some sort of system otherwise it would be a free for all. If you thought you had a nice early check in time of 2pm, for instance, and everyone arrived at 1pm you probably wouldn’t get on till 4pm and everyone would be complaining! We usually arrive half an hour or so early to allow for traffic and/or parking delays and have never had a problem.

Thank you Britboys and molecrochip for your help.

I've just seen a video of cabin 17219 on Iona - it has a layout that looks like its two rooms - does anyone know if there are any other cabins with this layout?

We had one a couple of years ago while on holiday in New York - It was for a missing child - the alarm scared the life out of us but we thought it was a great idea, Neither of our phones got it today 😲 ps - LOVED your blogs and your smiley daughters are adorable! Are you still speaking to your MIL ??

I was on a long cruise on Aurora once and they did an offer of £25 for a cut and blow dry - the young girl did an excellent job, it was one of my best ever haircuts. On another occasion I had my nails done and the girl who did them said that although she did hairdressing she very rarely did anything other than wash and blow dry as everyone had their haircut before they went on holiday. She said she was quite ‘rusty’ at cutting!

We are extremely important Caribbean tier people and have a boarding time of 12.30, it also says priority boarding. We happen to have friends travelling with us but they’re in the lowest of the low tier yet they still have a 12.30 arrival time! Their boarding pass doesn’t say priority boarding though 🤪🤪 I never really worry too much as we always get on eventually 😊🍷

No it's not provided anymore - just shampoo, shower gel and hand soap. Sometimes, if you ask your cabin steward nicely, he/she manages to find one from somewhere 😉

Jean, we have a cabin in that area in a few weeks - do you get much noise from the theatre (after the 10.30 performance?)

I've seen another UK based cruise line recently offer a 120 day world cruise - I wonder what their passengers do?

We've seen severely disabled people on long cruises, I hate to think how much they have to pay in insurance.

I think it's bad they won't insure something that happened 18 years ago 😲 My friends Dad wanted to go to his nieces wedding in New York a few years ago and they wanted £5000 to insure him for 3 days because he'd had a stroke some years before - scandalous

There are lots of passengers who do the World Cruise year after year and I imagine due to the average age of them there must be lots with 'declarable' medical conditions. Hopefully someone will come along soon and tell us who they use for these very long trips. Have you tried UK Insurance Ltd through the Nationwide Flex Plus account?