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8 hours ago, PurpleMoonlight said:

Exactly what do you expect your travel agent to do?

 

They have no control over the situation. Your anger should be directed at Ambassador.

I always think of the travel agent as being the agent of the cruise line, not of me.

Recently, a cruise I had booked was cancelled. I just waited for the refund to arrive. Getting angry with them doesn't make any difference, and it's not good for your health!

Cunard is the only line I've been on so far that has free fruit juice in the buffet 24 hours a day. And very tasty it is too!

Other lines turn the machines off at 11 in the morning or so.

There is a good free room service menu too. They craftily hide the menu in the desk drawer so I didn't spot it until the last night of my cruise.

16 hours ago, Victoria2 said:

Is this a pukka news site as I haven't seen any comments so far passengers were made aware of the dry docking schedule when embarking?

 

At least part of the 'info' has come from people currently on board. Whether it's accurate or not is anolhet matter ...

1 hour ago, chengkp75 said:

Was that taken after the repair?  It looks too clean to be a blade that was in use, it looks like the replacement one.

The person who posted it wrote:
 

Old prop segment can’t see much wrong from photo

I can't vouch for their reliability!

PS: Sorry for the botched syntax in my earlier post about why pax would want pix.

1 hour ago, chengkp75 said:

Be interesting if someone could get a pix of the damaged blade.

I'm not sure what a damaged blade looks like (or indeed why anyone pax would want a pix!). Could this be it?

1 hour ago, Host Hattie said:

Is there any update from those on board?

Yes, the captain announced 4 hours ago that the propeller had been fully repaired.

"During the docking period, all facilities on board remained available and passengers could also go ashore. There were free shuttle buses to the center of Cadiz. Passengers were already informed about the necessary dry dock when embarking for the cruise."

https://www.cruisereiziger.nl/2023/01/03/fotos-queen-victoria-met-passagiers-in-droogdok-in-cadiz/

It was so con urgencia that they had to book it a considerable time in advance:

https://www.lavozdigital.es/provincia/reparacion-expres-astillero-cadiz-queen-victoria-pasaje-20230103150742-ntv.html

El Queen Bictoria has also made it to the television news in Cádiz:

https://youtu.be/_qVofmdwdv8

On 11/26/2022 at 10:22 PM, Coral said:

This site should help:

 

https://www.princess.com/learn/cruise-destinations/cruise-ports-and-hotels/

It amuses me that the descriptions of the hotels on the Princess website appear to have been written by somebody who has never been to London.
 

I certainly wouldn't pay those prices for any of those hotels, but then again I'm from Yorkshire originally. You can stay at Travelodge London Central Waterloo for a fraction of the cost, and still be within easy reach of most tourist attractions (including many which Princess Cruises seem not to have heard of).

13 hours ago, TigerB said:

Can you provide more detail about what you didn't like? Ta🙂

I didn't see any point in dressing up in black tie just to sit in the buffet, with people wandering past wearing shorts and flipflops to get their hamburger and chips.

I made reservations for the Chef's Table for two nights online before boarding our cruise in September - but cancelled the second one when I discovered what it was like!

Sadly, not everyone who signed up actually attended. I had hoped to meet several people from the Roll Call, but it was not to be.

Unfortunately it clashed with the destination presentations on Copenhagen, Stockholm and Tallinn in the Silhouette Theater. We'd already had a less than amiable encounter with some people from the roll call the previous day in Bruges, so decided our time might be better spent elsewhere.

Here's an amusing explanation of its etymology: http://www.word-detective.com/2010/03/back-to-back/

Being from the North of England, I always think of low-income urban housing, lacking basic sanitation facilities.

Don't get your hopes up. I just saw the guest soprano going there when I was on Crown and her French was atrocious. I'm sure Kate Gordon will butcher Habañera in Bravo as much as she did the other Carmen aria in Encore.

Habañera?

I hate it when people get off the elevator, stand there, look me in the eye and say “where’s the bingo” (or whatever). I now either ignore them or say do you see a Celebrity name tag on me. I feel they just can’t be bothered to research the location of the events they are looking for.

I hate it when I get out of the lift, stand there, look someone in the eye and say, “Where’s the bingo?” (or whatever), and they either ignore me or say, “Do you see a Celebrity name tag on me?” :cool::halo::evilsmile:

What is the best way to watch series in the US and is it possible to watch all past episodes?

"How many whales will there be outside the ship, and what side will they be on today?" ;p

How strange that someone broke six years of silence on Cruise Critic to make this important announcement!

It's hard to get excited about an ad for a ship that's been on the Web for over two years.

We are going on Silhouette in May 18 to the Baltic’s. .. If 2 or 1.5 days do you come back to the ship in between days?

The only port of call in the Baltics on this cruise is Tallinn.

The bridges in St Petersburg are raised at night, so you won't be able to sleep under these. It's probably best to come back to the ship!

Curiously, I thought it by far the best show on the cruise we were on. In case anyone's interested, the songs were as follows:

• "Magic To Do" – Pippin
  
• "Before Your Very Eyes" – The Magic Show
  
• "Corner of the Sky" – Pippin
  
• "No Time At All" – Pippin
  
• "Day By Day" – Godspell
  
• "Popular" – Wicked
  
• "Prestidigitation" – Reluctant Pilgrim
  
• "Just Because It's Magic" – Geppetto
  
• "Defying Gravity" – Wicked
  
• "Beyond Belief" – Houdini
  
• "It'll Be Me" – Houdini
  
• "Colors of the Wind" – Pocahontas
  
• "A Little Magic" – Original Song
  
• "When You Believe" – Prince of Egypt
  

It was great to hear such unusual songs as "Prestidigitation" after a fortnight of mostly unforgettable crowd pleasers aimed at people who don't enjoy musical theatre. Sadly. many of these people are unable to spare 35 minutes of their valuable time concentrating on something they haven't seen before.

I guess it would have made more sense to quote the prices from the Princess Cruises site for:

These are currently as follows:

What sailing is that, I’ll price it in the USA for interest.

Prices from Iglu Cruise for:

are currently as follows:

Lots of good UK offers on at the moment, 3rd and 4th pax at £99. 14 night cruise from Southampton for a family of 4 end of July £2350. That’s only £590 pp

Agreed. I booked a Mediterranean cruise this week for two people at £1,287 per person. A fortnight ago, it would have been £1,729 per person.

Pax vobiscum?

Just to be clear.....Ceuta is part of Spain, not Morocco

I think we might need to point this out to Princess Cruises, too.Their description of Ceuta for shore excursions is decidedly dodgy. This bit:

actually refers not to Ceuta at all, but to Tétouan in Morocco. There is an excursion to Tétouan – I wonder if they realise there is a double barbed-wire fence separating them.

Norwegian Fjords cruise. We will be on the Sapphire for a similar cruise in June 2019.

No doubt hoping to see the Northern Lights? ;-)