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Saw Andy Abraham in April. I had not heard of him, but always enjoy a night in the Limelight Club. The four of us were all impressed. He covered a range of Nat King Cole songs along with a Motown/Soul mix. Andy has a good voice for that music. This was interspersed with interesting chat.
We would recommend.
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Done this route a couple of times. All are lovely ports within themselves. Note Seville is a 1.5-2 hour excursion from Cadiz in itself. Here are excursions I have been on from these ports.
La Coruna...to the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela
Malaga.. to Granada and the Alhambra
Alicante.... had a fun day out in Benidorm
Toulon....just enjoy the town and coast...lovely walks
Barcelona....La Sagrada de Familia. Not sure if the Nou Camp stadium redevelopment will be finished for tours.
Seville is a must if you have not been and in spring it will be very colourful and the April Fayre may be on.
You will not be short of places to go and quite a few you can easily do yourselves.
I am on this cruise next May. Not yet looked at excursions, but as with young children this time round, most likely will stay around these ports destinations. It really is an excellent itinerary.
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9 minutes ago, Gardenseat said:
It does beg the question, should large cruise ships have more moorings?
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As far as I am aware the intensity of the storm was not expected.
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1 hour ago, babs135 said:
We were on the QM2 when she snapped her ropes. It's quite a scary thing.
However, 2 or 3 days into the cruise the captain announced that the forecast for Villefranche was not looking good and he had, therefore, taken the decision to cancel and we would go instead to Alghero, Sardinia. Both these ports are tendered. Apparently he made the right call as the weather was worse than expected and a Royal Caribbean ship had tried twice unsuccessfully to dock before giving up.
Did the captain on the Britannia have no advance warning at all, or was it just a sudden totally unexpected storm?
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Fair comment Fionaboard. Reviews can vary so much it is hard to see how people are commenting on hte same ship.so I guess you take reviews with a pinch of salt.
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On reading some cruise reviews the comments written can show little resemblance to the star ratings given.
I have just had a cruise review published and the ratings shown are not always the ones I (thought) I gave. For example, I sang the praises of a port and only a 1 star rating has shown. I thought I had given a 5 star rating! This is also evident elsewhere, where only 1 star is given for service and I intended 4 stars.
Maybe it is just me being careless, but if I can point to at least 3 ratings errors in my review I guess it happens elsewhere. Of course, the review can't be amended once published.
Anyone else had a similar experience?
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