Bazrat

11 minutes ago, grapau27 said:

It is if you get to the cabin to take your medication on embarkation day and you need water to take your medication with.

On Royal Caribbean I get 

A bottle of champagne in an ice bucket and 2 glasses.

6 bottles of water.

2 bottles of soft drinks.

1 bottle of Corona.

A plate of cookies or chocolate strawberries 

waiting in our cabin on embarkation.

On Princess we have a Mini bar set up plus bottled water.

 

You lost me there was no facilities onboard to take your medication, than you give us a breakdown on the perks your getting on other lines, but fail to mention if the various cruises are like for like.

Just now, davecttr said:

Nah, we have been there far too long

I think this debate will run

I found the runner bean debate far more interesting 

2 hours ago, Megabear2 said:

Green bean supplies didn't get through on Arvia, replaced in May with broad beans which looked suspiciously like runner beans.  Clearly Mr Ludlow needs a reprimand and a lesson in agricultural bean fair rather than bean counting.

Hope your right about runner beens my favourite 

19 minutes ago, Jazzytelly said:

Also on Princess to get the benefit the passenger has to be military or ex military and you have to show proof.  On P & O they use the Defence Discount Card which as I understand it also includes civilians that work for the MOD , imo they should use the same criteria as Princess . 
interestingly it seems on Princess in the USA , if both passengers in a cabin are military they can both get the OBC on P & O you can’t I don’t think.

You can also get into the theme parks for free on various days

10 hours ago, david63 said:

Bear in mind that the report on the Princess forum is from the US. There are many differences between how Princess operate in the US and how they operate in the UK.

There is a great difference in the benefits, my son who served was injured whilst on duty, would have been allowed various perks, if he was stateside one being a free cruise, so you cannot accurately compare the benefits 

13 minutes ago, Scorpio41 said:

All these pictures of food. All I’ve got is a ham salad for tea. ☹️ 😂

When I was a lad you was lucky to get ham in your ham salad

We are doing the repo in October on Arvia

After doing a search I could find no further information on the case of the two ladies, I feel sorry for them because reading the scant information they did everything by the book.

Nothing changes on here does it, now the great pre prepared food debate does anyone actually believe that they don’t prepare the food daily, if they do what is your favourite tipple I certainly need the out of body experience your having.

53 minutes ago, daiB said:

There are on Arcadia. as the front is more like a show lounge.

Only been on Arcadia once soon to be twice so will try to sit on the front row, Britannia the four times we have been on i have never noticed waiters or places to put drinks down

Lobster to much effort, we prefer a good steak any day.

The package is of no use to me because my wife is teetotal and doesn’t drink coffee, if one person would be allowed to buy it I would.

8 hours ago, davecttr said:

Mangetout Rodney, Mangetout

I always thought that was some sort of disease 

46 minutes ago, daiB said:

I sent in my email on a Friday and got my confirmation on Monday morning. However I never apply until the finalo payment has been made to P&O.

We don't till the 90 days before as past, it just seemed the last time they had problems with the information which we had supplied 

25 minutes ago, Megabear2 said:

Welcome back.  Hope your wife is fully recovered and you had a good cruise in May. 

Thankyou she is better but the fun part is explaining to the insurance company once the offending organ was removed no chance of a recurrence but still they charged me £80 extra, the cruise around the med was great less so for me, as soon I got back had to have a tooth removed it got grumpy on the second day, i had to drink warm beer to kill the pain.

1 hour ago, davecttr said:

They are more strict nowadays, wait until the 90 day period starts.

Yes they made us jump through the hoops to get ours, even though I explained this was the third time I had requested the obc, I think at one stage they was demanding dna testing to prove I owned them.

1 minute ago, SeaJane said:

Ventura has small tables that fold out of the arms of the seats.

Sorry never been on Ventura because something happened a few years ago that stopped us going on her.

1 minute ago, zap99 said:

I feel the same way about green beans. The more the merrier.

My preference is runner beans but you never get them, probably too working class for p&o

I paid just over £600 for our shares and have recouped most of it through the obc happy days.

No waiters in the theatre or any tables to put your drinks down.

Alas if I only knew that they was cutting back on cheese selections I would never have gone on our cruise in may, or paid for our transatlantic in October, but saying that hopefully they continue to put cheese on the pizza otherwise I will never cruise with p&o again.

The ability not to judge others by there grammar shows a certain amount of class, obviously lacking by some on here but who cares really.

56 minutes ago, Leomins said:

Well it seems they are listening as this is in the latest leaflet I received from P&O.

 

I didn’t have any issues using the ‘app’ on Iona though.

Me neither but it will be easier for those who repeatedly moan about there inability or refusal to use something which is reasonably simple.

1 minute ago, Megabear2 said:

Thank you for that information.  I note the hope we can expect improvements in time which appears to be an acknowledgment that many of the things we have been discussing here are facts rather than us just being nitpicking.  

 

Is there an order for addressing the issues, ie the supply issue is presumably more urgent than say finding and training staff.  The new menus onboard are clearly quite contentious for instance, are the passengers being listened to - there is a repeated reference in reviews of the lack of choice and quality.  Whilst appreciating all lines are adjusting menus to save food costs, P&O really do appear to be at the bottom of the pile at present, words like bland, repetitive, tough and stale make uncomfortable reading on the review pages and social media. It's not a pretty picture.  The customers would I'm sure appreciate honesty and possibly a proper statement by Paul Ludlow or someone high up to let them know how things are going to improve and most importantly by when.

Got to say we are not reading the same things, someone just returned from Arvia and had nothing but praise for food entertainment etc, someone on our last cruise complained the cabin was dirty all cruise entertainment was terrible and there was only curry on in the buffet, when asked did he enjoy the cruise yes his doing it again this year