Windsurfboy

We used the butler most lunchtimes, quite often ordered just a starter and occasionally a desert off the main menu, had it mainly on the balcony. Saves the bother of going to MDR especialy if you dont want full meal . Very relaxing. We are on Arvia next and to avoid chaos of bigger ship will use butler most lunchtimes.

Completely agree, the lower the more stable. Wish they'd have some midships suites on D , view is fine. Why you have to pay more to wobble ?

What would definitely put me off , it the idea that allocating times is somehow unfair on some people, so everyone come when they want and join a 6000 people queue

The idea of choose your own boarding time sounds nice BUT The majority of people would like to get on early. It is impossible to board 5000 people at once at 12pm without chaos so everyone can't get the times they want. Therefore times must be allocated . Every cruise line has a pecking order. MSC Yacht club get on first...

Going round in circles again. Nearly everyone would like to get on first, but 6000 people at 12pm won't work. It would be overcrowded chaos. Hence they give you a time. If getting on first means so much, then wait till you are Liguirian or book a suite.

Everyone is different, we avoid stopovers like the plague you are either dashing with a short connection time or adding 3 or 4 hours to journey... Even if it means flying BA, who in my opinion aren't that bad (but would never fly out of Gatwick on old planes) .

As the man who mentioned thousands I've only asked Cunard on one route, that was business to Capetown. The difference for the two of us was nearly £2K. OK we wanted the direct non stop flight and the preferred Cunard was via Dubai and yes was not that much more expensive. But for the direct non stop BA it was. We were going 3 months earlier risk therefore zero.

You're right Absoltely Nothing to lose , as it's automated cost them nothing. Must work better than old wait list system which relied on people , which I've been on, but no one's ever rung me , even when QG cabin i wanted appeared online, shortly after final payment time.

That is a fair point, but it applies equally to the seen workers. One either believes in tipping and auto gratuities should provide the bed rock from which you can tip extra if you want. Or you don't believe in tipping and tip no one

It's a matter of culture @ratfinger is from USA, where tipping over and above included/auto gratuities is de rigeur ,so tipping before is a natural next step. Completely different to British or European approach

Monkey shoulder is a blend of 3 single malts. A rather strange concept. So not a single malt fine for cocktails otherwise see what single malt are available, butler can go off the list my wife drinks armanagnac

I've always had bottles of Glenfidich, replaced when empty, so 3 in 2 weeks.

Can't talk about kids club. But if you take analogy with speciality restaurants. They can book for you, but if they are fully booked butler has no special privilege to conjure up a space

Ideally that might be best but it's not going to happen, if they can make a bit more money they will. I do think £8,50 is too cheap, the Epicurean breakfast should be more than £8.50 better than the MDR. My biggest objection would be not about letting others in, but that the exclusive suite breakfast should be worth at least £20 extra, better ingredients more dishes not available elsewhere, all cooked to order with the ability to tailor it to individual. If its only worth an extra £8.50 then it doesn't live up to promise My other concern is that this policy doesn't impact me. I liked it in Aurora when you got to know regular breakfast neighbours, and you also had same waiters every day. This can be achieved by reserving an area solely for Suite passengers, this should of course be best tables with best views. Any non suite demand needs extra staff.

Just come to this thread. Our first and up till this June only P&O suite on Aurora only 10 suites and we had same table most mornings, just because most guests are creatures of habit. Since then Cunard QG fixed table, Saga no different to anyone else. I have no objection to others non suite having breakfast in Epicurean, as long as I don't have to queue can turn up when I like and get a good table. Not as every restaurants has one or two the table from hell, only view is into kitchen. Solution is very simple, Arvia has 25 suites, so they reserve 25 tables in the best position by windows for the suites passengers. If anyone else wants these answer is NO even if they are empty.

What I can't understand is given restaurants like glass house are bigger on the bigger ships , I would have thought they'd have more extensive menus than smaller ships. However it seems other way round.??

Thank you for glass house menu , looks good, but for only once per cruise

I was not suggesting any difference in the offering between guarantee and select your cabin except the ability to select cabin. Exactly as it is now for Saga . None of the OBC complications.. You would have the incentive to book early at the best price and at maximum discount for say the first two weeks of opening , only for select your cabin as is now. Prices would then rise by only say 5 or 10% and stay fixed. Remove the element of make your mind up today or price goes up, you have two weks to think it over. Guarantee cabins would be introduced depending on the speed of sales. That would be the only element of fluid pricing. Fluid pricing is a complication that is of no benefit to passengers. A very simple system

But it's still a lot of work for at most 5% of sales. As someone said earlier the best system , publish prices open to all that will hold for say first week or two irrespective of how many bookings at that price. Let people book online, much simpler lower cost system. Even better just have one price for select , one for guarantee cabins, don't change it.

There will be between 60000 and 75000 cabins to sell for a year for the two ships . So 3000 pre registering is at most 5% of what they would like to sell. It seems an awful lot of flaf to sell what would be two average weeks of sales .

Agree if you can't get at least 30% discount, don't book early.

I think as substantial property has to be actually SOLD at full price , for it to be used as a basis for comparison

Sad to hear that even with preregistering the 35% discount disappears on some cabins. I still have to wonder has anyone ever paid full price , zero % discount. The consumer protection act states that a substantial proportion (undefined) must be sold at full price for it to be used as comparison. I wonder if this holds true for Saga.

The dress code for men says a DJ/Tux or dark suit. You will see it makes no mention at all of the colour of the DJ/Tux so feel free to express yourself in a colour of your choice. The only criteria is elegance. The other criteria for elegance is learn to tie a bow tie, the pre-tied ones are too perfect and often knot far to small.

I think this proves you can't make a general comparison of Oceania vs Cunard. Cunard is not one uniform experience. The OP question was Oceania vs Brittania Club which is a valid question So you have 4 comparisons Oceania vs Brittania Oceania vs BC Oceania vs PG Oceania vs QG. You might get a different answer for each. Whilst say Oceania vs Saga is one question Oceania vs P&O is one question. Oceania vs MSC must be two (Yacht club, and standard)