Windsurfboy

Qm2 putting foot down , we are arriving in Southampton early at 9.30 pm Saturday, but it's not leaving till after midnight Sunday, early Monday morning Captain said for essential maintenance. Just overtaken Victoria

All we can do is keep letting Saga know , that the library is a facility which guests think is as important as the other things they promise. Must be cheaper than daily crafting workshops and more widely used if there. Note I'm not saying get rid of crafting, but I think problem isn't just money. Anyway it's Saga's problem to solve

Thanks

Can you use your Wi-Fi allowance on more than one device

I would believe the people on board. It's too late for your sailing on Sunday. However if when you get on board, and no books, then an immediate email to Nigel.blanks@saga.co.uk telling him of your phone call and assurance, and your immense disappointment. This would help others. One benefit of free WiFi on board

All we can do is keep complaining to Nigel.blanks@saga.co.uk. Yes it is the digital age, but digital books and especially tablets are very hard to read in bright sunshine. The more emails he gets the more likely to possibly react. Saga advertise a full library as one of the key facilities on board.

I thought all of Cunard was a luxury line 🤔 comparable to luxury hotels. If the argument is that only QG is luxury and can be compared to luxury hotels and rest of ship is mass market, anyone who says that must prepare to be shot down in flames. By the way I agree with you Cunard service is better than most US or UK top end hotels. However when you compare it to top end resorts in say Indian ocean, for a similiar cost, then the relatively low staff to guest ratio becomes apparent when you look at level of service. You can wait for ages for service on grills deck.

Why when Cunard service is discussed we end up talking about great QG service, when 95% of ship isn't QG. Both grills only equate to 10% of ship.

Cunard has taken a very similiar approach with minimum of rough half the difference , based on their equivalent of select the Cunard fare

We'll never agree on tipping. All I can say there is no correlation between expected tipping levels and service, if there was , then service in USA would be best in world. Quality of service is mainly culture , and of course staffing numbers. Some cultures are good at service , some not, some are excellent Some companies good at service some not, again some excellent. Cunard is good, but not exceptional. So to me service not as good as Cunard , couldn't be classified as good , it would be acceptable, but again what is acceptable depends on what you pay. . Cunard operates on the margins of staff to passengers ratio for good service. Of course it's better than many cheaper lines, but not up with luxury lines. And nowhere near luxury hotels .

The interesting thing is a upgrade is equivalent to a saver fare , ie no choice in cabin. So yes the minimum bid of 50% of difference looks good. However thats difference between two select fares. You could have bought the higher grade cabin as a saver fare, so the difference between lower grade cabin as select and higher grade as Saver will be less. The upgrade might not be the bargain they might want you to think.

Have you brought this to attention of hotel manager.

This looks like a passenger book swapping collection. Is a properly curated selection of book available, as per the picture on Saga website.

I ticked no upgrade but got email

As you have no choice on upgraded cabin it's like going fton cunard fare to a saver fare. Thus someone booking a Cunard fare and choosing their cabin, could have booked a higher grade cabin using a saver fare for not much more in the first place. Interesting to see if anyone can show statistics for Select price plus upgrade minimum bid vs saver fare for the higher grade. Is their a significant saving? Yes I know there are no saver fares in grills,

I had a similiar offer on Cunard over half the orginal price difference. They are clearly not leaving room for cheeky bids. I wonder if cabins remain unsold minimums will come down at last minute. Better for them than the old practice emails with real bargins a few weeks before sailing

The order in which you book them matters. I'd booked a 32 day cruise, then later noticed there was a 5 day cruise just before it. Did the sums , 10% off the 32 day cruise eould mean 5 day cruise almost free. Rang up was told would only get the 10% off the 5 day cruise as that was second one I'd booked. Spoilt that plan.

My out take is Cunard want to get people to bid early and higher, rather than offer last minute bargins a few weeks before sailing. If it works good business.

You're right it's more like half I'm not in UK so Cunard won't show prices took off a travel agent in Euros , Grand duplex 24000 Euro pp , say £21500. So that's £13000 more than we paid. So the £6600 minimum bid per person on my email for q5 to q1 is more like half price difference. Not a snip , certainly no room for cheeky bid. A few years ago offered a Q2 in Q.V. for £2000 pp upgrade from Q5 that is type of price difference expect as a starting point, not £6600pp.

These seem much more reasonable minimums , compared to my minimum quotes to upgrade from a Q5 which we're almost the full difference no discount.

We have become Saganaughts But have one P&O bargain. A rear suite on Arvia huge balcony , 14 days med for £6000 at launch. Saga standard cabin similiar cruise same time with 30% off £7000, Saga suite (which my wife insists on) £14k. Savings either minimum £1000 , or £8000 So we will have plenty to upgrade speciality dining every night, and very nice wine. P&O entertainment used to be excellent best weve had. we will hopefully enjoy it. But I think we will be Saga from now on , especially for longer cruises.

How do these compare to the normal fare difference, my minimums were 2/3rds of normal fare difference, so not a bargain.

This has spread to Cunard as well. Have received offer for a June cruise, minimum bid was very high , much more than half the of normal price difference. So Cunard don't want cheeky bids. What are minimums on P&O like.

What are the minimum bids others are seeing compared to normal difference , was my high minimum an anomaly or are Cunard pricing cheeky bids out.

My email arrived for my June cruise , note seems too late for earlier April 7th cruise to be included in bidding. I was thinking of putting in a cheeky bid for upgrade from Q5 to Q1, but the minimum bid is £6650 per person. So no thank you. OK this is a bit less than the £9200 a person full difference. But looks like Cunard dont want any sort of cheeky bids. Anyone prepared to bid £6650 pp to upgrade would most likely have been willing to pay full price. Seems an odd strategy.