Dorset cruise fan

Gators and red light District on our tree:

4 hours ago, grapau27 said:

Lol I take your comment as a joke.

I hope you or anyone else especially on here don't have to go through what I did with Covid19.

Graham.

 

It was a joke unless you want to see it as a conspiracy theory. 

First time round with this Covid we didn't know anyone who had it, it all seems a lot closer to home this time.

31 minutes ago, grapau27 said:

There was more than 20 friends and family who kept sending WhatsApp messages to Pauline asking how I was during my recent covid19 experience.

Everyone of them are now reporting 1 or more family members are covid19 positive.

Definitely a Spike in cases.

 

I didn't know you could catch it via WhatsApp 

Leaving Klasvik on Oriana 2019

20 hours ago, silversurf said:

Yes, it is indeed Torshvan. Thought it was a lovely place, people were so friendly and kind.

Here’s another picture from the same cruise, different country.

Looks like the Glens of Antrim to me. If not then somewhere in Scotland 

Ah well, we won't be on board until 2022 then as the prices for Arcadia and Aurora for next year have gone through the roof. Unless there are some last minute bargains, but we often can't go last minute as can't co-ordinate our holidays. We have been looking at some river cruises so may try one of those.

33 minutes ago, Elderflower said:

If we could superimpose a cruise ship then this would fit nicely on the ABC thread - as indeed would Brunei. When we visited this museum they had a display of Andy Warhol- said it was the first time they had managed to display all 48 images together, but they were all the same! I obviously don't understand modern art but we thought the building was better than anything displayed inside it.

16 hours ago, Elderflower said:

Two more easier ones.

Madeira?

A question for Molecrochip: do you think there is any chance of Arcadia and Aurora having any short (7-14 night) cruises scheduled in January,  February and March? In the last couple of years that has happened with Oceana and Oriana (for different reasons) and there have been some good prices. We would certainly sign up for a Canaries or Med/Iberian or Northern European cruise on either of those if they offered one.

49 minutes ago, grapau27 said:

Correct.

Loved it.

But where is your Jameson's?

13 hours ago, grapau27 said:

Cobh, beautiful 

If you book a ship's tour then the buses will be at the dockside. You will have a ticket and someone from the excursions team will check you in and direct you to the right bus. At Civitivecchia, should you wish to use public transport to get to Rome then there is a shuttle bus provided by P&O which takes you from the cruise terminal into the town of Civitivecchia where you can make your way to the train station. At other ports it depends on where the ship docks as to whether shuttle buses are needed. If the ship docks pretty centrally (Ajaccio) then there won't be a bus. If it is further out then one is provided although these ports are often quite walkable as well. And just to confuse things, if you are in a commercial port then buses are mandatory and free for all passengers (unless booked on a tour which again will meet you at the ship)

Thank you No Pager, you've explained it really well and I agree you can't keep getting compound FCC for the same reason but when it's for a different reason then they should be offering something, it's really frustrating. 

You can if they've just sold your ship!

Ok, just got off the phone to P&O and not very happy (surprise!). We have just had our Oceana cruise cancelled for the second time. First time was the repositioning so we put our FCC from that and a cancelled Aurora cruise towards a November Oceana. That was straightforward but now Oceana being sold we got the standard email saying 125% FCC so we thought well, with all we've already spent on this cancelled cruise will get FCC but no! If you've already had FCC you don't get it again so they've sold our ship and we get no compensation at all! I know from these threads that compensation in the past has varied wildly but I've read the email over and over and nowhere does it say you can't get FCC again, which would have been approx £500, which was the difference in price between cancelled cruise and new booking. The  girl I spoke to was lovely and helpful but basically we have got nothing for having our cruise  cancelled because ship was sold.

At least you can access your cruise personaliser. We rebooked a cruise  a fortnight ago and still can't access the new cruise. The original cruise has been cancelled by P&O but is still showing both on cruise personaliser and on my log in. And although we used a cancelled cruises  FCC and a cancelled deposit to pay for the new one we've only had an invoice showing the minimum deposit paid.

We really liked St.Nazaire, we found it very interesting. Loved sailing in past the ship yard, I think MSC Meraviglia was being built, it looked huge. We wanted to do a tour of the shipyard but left it til we got on board and it was fully booked. Airbus are also assembled nearby and there were various bits of aeroplanes on the docks.  They don't get many ships in and we were  made so welcome with loads of information and tourism staff available. St.Naizare has a lovely beach which we walked along and looked at the memorial to the St.Naizare raids. And there was an interesting submarine which we visited and a really good museum about ocean lines which was very well done and we thoroughly enjoyed. Ok, so it's not a pretty place and you can't get away from the enormous u boat pens but they were very interesting. We had been in La Rochelle the day before so had lots of prettiness there. 

And we were due to be there in 6 weeks, never mind, there's always next year. And in theory we still have our November cruise to look forward to 

I phoned P&O on Monday and they said our cruise was definitely cancelled despite it still showing on our account (and still showing) . We had it as a B2B so cancelled both and moved to November. I'll be keeping a close eye on the website though in case they offer a different repositioning option as would love to go through the Suez canal.

If the word on the ground is that she's there until November then I'm glad we cancelled our cruise end of October and moved it to mid November. We saw her in Weymouth bay before she moved up to you and she can still hold her own.

We have booked all types of fare: select, early saver and saver.  It depends when we book and what's on offer but we've always been happy with our cabin when it's been allocated for us.  Occasionally a select fare will come with a lot of onboard credit which is equal to the difference in price and when we've booked on launch then it's select but sometimes we just can't resist a bargain.

These 2 pictures were taken Monday evening, Azura was there as well but was just heading off to Southampton and Oceana was next to Queen Mary. Arcadia is looking pretty rusty, I assume they couldn't do much maintenance when she was coming back from Australia 

Aurora, she is my perfect ship, although agree about Crows nest from Arcadia and maybe some of Arcadia,s stylish glass sculptures, and you could add in the gin tasting as well. Also put in Cafe jardin from Oceana and put back in her beautiful library that was made into Sindhu, then she would be truly perfect.

What lovely pictures,  thank you for posting the link. We were wondering yesterday if a trip to Weymouth could be classed as essential travel (or exercise) but at least we have pictures now. Looks busy there.

30 minutes ago, AndyMichelle said:

So, port day today so quick mdr breakfast. 

I will have a ham and cheese omelette, 2 sausages, 2 bacon, fried bread and beans,  lots of tea please. 

Andy 

Yes please, lots of tea. My only criticism of MDR breakfast is never being able to catch a waiter's eye when I would like a tea top up. I do wish they would leave the pot on the table. Same issue at afternoon tea. But doesn't stop the enjoyment of a lovely breakfast, particularly as I'm vegetarian and they have some really nice veggie alternatives.