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  1. They are just the same as P&O .. there was a time but not now, perhaps try and compare
  2. More upmarket, you are joking, not any longer.
  3. In my opinion as shareholder for 15 years the product has gone downhill with the offer giving passengers very cheap cruises along with high obc. As a very regular cruiser with P&O over 30 years the price being charged is encouraging the cheap Butlin type of passengers so much so that folk like my wife and myself are ditching P&O in their droves to get a quality experience from the likes of Saga. P&O used to be a style above the rest but now, no thank you and no wonder the share price is so low.
  4. Having recently moved from P&O to Saga, we have taken the step of having a standard balcony cabin rather than what had become our norm, a suite with P&O or Cunard. To be honest our early days with a suite was wonderful, excellent butler service at the drop of a hat, always lunch with champagne where said butler would pop back and recharge the glass. Sometimes we would have dinner on the balcony with the same super service. We would always have a suite/balcony party for officers and passengers we had met during the cruise plus all the other plus's of having a butler to run round for you. OH! but how time changed with cutbacks the suite experience was purely for the size of the cabin, so when we moved to Saga we thought do we really need a large space as before and from our point of view, the standard balcony cabin suits us down to the ground as the crew on board do everything you would wish for. So I guess if the butler service with Saga is as it it used to be with P&O and Cunard then WOW go for it, however if it’s just for the extra space, ummm that’s one for you to decide.
  5. In my case the offer is for specific cabins, not guaranteed
  6. Get that but those of us who booked at launch are now finding out that our recently paid for cruise price has dropped significantly, mine by £800 and no offer to refund the difference. So as a regular and loyal cruiser for more than 30 years with P&O it is clear that P&O do not regard it as unfair to drop prices after final payment date without making a refund gesture of even a FCC. Oh! of course they know exactly what they are doing as it locks in those of us who have paid, silly us. Their interest now is sell it cheap and pile it high and those of us who like and pay for quality accommodation onboard are finding the whole experience diminishing rapidly. So if we stay with P&O and this is highly doubtful beyond the already booked cruises, I would NOT recommend booking a cruise at launch and wait until final payment date for any cruise you are interested in has passed.
  7. With so many passengers occupying the top Loyalty Tier Ligurian it is about time that a new top tier be introduced for P&O's most travelled passengers who exceed 400 nights cruising within a 3 year period. So many well deserved special benefits could be introduced for this tier, not least free wifi, free room service, a free speciality dining experience, additional OBC and much more. When the current tiers were introduced we were told the names represented the size of the Seas, Ligurian being the smallest so with the introduction of the new tier, the name Marmara would be perfect as it is the smallest sea in the world. Any thoughts?
  8. Hopefully they have stopped giving priority to the conservatory mini suites as the lounge in January was packed out with no room for proper suite passengers who turned up at their allocated time and were then assigned to the main lounge to wait until the end of the very long queue of miniers to embark.
  9. Anyone had an Inside cabin amidships on B deck, it's the only cabin available for the October Med cruise, a picture would be amazing, but a description would be welcome.
  10. I heard that Meghan Markle was heading over to Barbados next month, ummm that could be interesting
  11. Yes, the pizza is great. Did you try buying fruit from the street traders there, when they saw you weren't Bajan the price was 4 times the norm, that said I wouldn't knock the Bajans as they were always super unless they wore a uniform.
  12. Oh! it's such a wonderful resort 😜, you should try it sometime
  13. Really surprised that the Barbados naming ceremony for the Arvia is being held off a beach close to Speightstown which is a nothing town. Would have been far more enticing if it was to be held further south off Holetown which is the most affluent area of Barbados and not so far from the port and indeed Bridgetown the capital.
  14. On Iona now and always wear a facemark in the lifts and other crowded places, it's just the sensible thing to do with sooo many barking and coughing folk around
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