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It has been 1.30pm at the very latest more like 2pm on both the Gem, Pearl and Bliss

Sounds like they may have been trying to catch illegals who may have boarded to take the cruise?

On NCL the cabin door sections are locked off with the fire doors closed until annnouncement is made. On Cunard at least the stateroom is already ready when you board. NCL sadly is a zoo when people board at first with people sitting everywhere with bags waiting for the cabins to open.

Boarded QM2 at 12.30pm before in Brooklyn and the cabin was ready and the key was on the mail holding thing outside..

On other lines when you board the cabin is ready for. Why on NCL is it not?

I am sorry I missed those lectures. Did the lecturers postulate that mi5 killed her as in shown the mi5/spooks tv series season 4 finale very convincingly I might add as well? I thought as an American you would love the royal family stuff

You are on the big bands cruise! That is brilliant my Father sung in the choir they assembled in 2016. Is there a choir being assembled this time round.

Are masks required onboard? Who are the guest speakers?

So Disney ships need reservations for the bars? You can't just rock up?

They where held indoors by the swimming pool as you walk in on Deck 12. Perhaps they don't have a games person onboard anymore. I could not see anything where it used to be on deck 12

My father really likes those games and they weren't on last time in August. Used to be popular though up there on deck 12

Especially if you have the drinks package........ 😡

So when do you think this wil come back then? Given that masks seem to be on the way out?

When they get removed for the staff on QM2 do you reckon?

But if the package collapsed Cunard might run into problems. They would not be able to accommidate people on the middle leg. And the UK agencies who promote the package would be faced with putting hundreds of transferring passenger into hotel in nyc for 11 nights or however many nights. That is a big expense for them?

It would be for the one or two hotels that are used by the cruiseline?

IF ncl did have to cancel the ship carrying their portion of the connecting passengers from Cunard that might mean Cunard having to refund hundreds of passengers if the second leg of the trip was fully booked with just cunard passsengers. The UK agencies would also suffer a hit and I can see them wanting compensation? UK agencies would have to what? Cancel, put people up in hotels in nyc find different cruises ouf of different cities for the 11 nights till QM2 came back? They would take a hit and want money for it

And what about the lawsuit from Cunard and UK agencies over their loss of income against the 26 night christmas sailing - which this might have driven a horse and cart through?

Do you think is it a true that one of the main UK cruise agencies takes like half that ship on them T/As? They claim they do. Cherbourg won't be bad. Would have prefered Boston, or Libson to Azores on a sunday. It is that it is on a sunday had it been any other day woudn't be that bad but Portugal sundays are very touchy things. Do they hit the azores westbound on a Sunday?

It would be brand suicide to do cancel paying customers cruises plus have a big knock on effect on hotels and even other cruise lines. Cunard does a 26 night with NCL sailing in the middle in NYC at christmas and hundreds of passenger get off for the NYC sailing and hundreds more get on QM2 for that NY carribean sailing. Housing migrants would drive a coach and horses through that package.

What does "Fully Vaccinated" mean now though? 2 doses, 3, 4?

Why have they taken Halfax off the Eastbound T/A? They removed it in 2019 and have yet to put it back

The eastbound Anthem in May 2023. We get Azores, Cherbourg and Le Harve.

But it is the azores is a Sunday. Any other day would be great but Sunday in Portgual a lot of things close though they may open for 5k people coming off a ship. I am hopeful they do.

But it is the azores on a Sunday. I would rather have Lisbon on a monday if we are not going cococay than the azores on a Sunday. Or boston or Halfax?