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I managed to book some yesterday on CP but that now shows 'Coming Soon". Haven't had an email to say they will be honoured so hope the bookings are OK - should be as I have paid for them

I managed to book some on Monday evening for our July cruise but it wasn't pretty with many failed attempts, they are still showing as booked so hopefully they are not cancelled.

I agree, but the earlier you can register with the TA the more likely you are to get the cabin you want

I wish they would make them available to browse now to allow us time before the 16th to decide which (if any) we want to do.

Be aware that it is a long transfer from Toulon to Saint Tropez - it was about 2.5 hours along the coast road but quicker coming back on the motorway.

P&O have fly-cruises to Eastern Med on Azura from April to November

Only if they stop selling Alcohol

Have been looking at Caribbean for 25/26 and think that the launch prices are a bit too high, and a 10% deposit is a lot for cruises up to 2 and a half years away. They used to be 5% at launch. But looking at availabilty it seems from trying a few dummy bookings that there are not a lot of cabins available to book online (unless they are holding cabins back). The 22 night TA in October 2025 on Arvia in particular does not have too many cabins available to book online .

Maybe worth talking to this company to see if any of their tours would be possible. Caribbean IslandTours.pdf

To add to Gettingwarmer's list we have been to San Juan and just looked back on the photos and that looks Ok to walk around with a wheelchair. Dominica - Roseau town is a bit run down and I imagine would be difficult with the state of the kerbs and pavements. It is a nice island if you can get out of town, there is a good botanical gardens not far out of town that overlooks the port that is good if you can get a taxi to take you up there. St Maarten - it is about 15-20 mins walk into town. There is also a boat that runs from the ship to town but not sure how practical that would be. Willemstad Curacao - As Gettingwarmer says this would be a good one to just walk around the port, easy walk into the town with pretty coloured buildings. Ochos Rios - echo what Gettingwarmer says, even if you can dock it is not a very nice place to walk around. If you can use taxis - In most of the Caribbean ports there will be taxi drivers who will take you around for a tour, they usually tout for business as soon as you are off the ship.

They used to go to more of these - we also have been to Mayreau and Princess Cays for similar days, but sadly no longer.

And me, I have been 15 times and it has always been from Gatwick

We went to Ochos Rios, (which is near to Dunns River Falls, famous for the Dr No movie) in 2007 on Arcadia. This was a standard 2 week fly cruise, P&O had much more varied Caribbean cruises back then. This was the itinerary then

Thanks for your solution, I'd never of thought of that

We are in a minority but would like it if club dining was available on these 2 ships or at least the option for same table same time every night

Scheduled to leave at 21:00 on the Saturday if all the planes are in, if not they wait for the planes. These are the times P&O gave me for our cruise in Feb - we are Fri-Fri.

We are on Arvia Feb 2024 flying from Gatwick We have Tui flight details on the CP saying TUI 12 out at 10:35 and TUI 13 Home

Ours shows the same, so we should be OK

We have our details for next Feb, we are on TUI12 and TUI13 from Gatwick. Won't be keen to fly if that is changed to a Maleth Aero flight. But I guess they won't tell us until after we have paid our Balance in November and they have our money.

Thanks, was it the same for Sindhu ?

Does anyone know when Epicurean switches it's Menu from A to B on a 2 week cruise, we want to go twice but once on each menu

I would happily go back to when there were no speciality restaurants when the MDR food was far superior to now and we had proper wine waiters and silver service, although I am probably in a minority. Dinner then was a far better experience than it is now.

Isn't there a limit on the amount of alcoholic drinks you can have on the package ?

Nor sure about outside the terminal, I did ours sat outside of the security bit waiting to get hand luggage checked. They told us there would be a short delay so I did it them then. We were in the first lot through after the suites and Baltics though. Worth trying outside the terminal though.

Best tip I had from here was to book 710 from the terminal before you board. You don't need to wait to get your cruise card on board for the 6 character code, it is the same as the last 6 characters of your boarding pass. We did this when we were on Arvia. The sessions do get filled very quickly as the venue is quite small. If you cannot get a booking they do have a queue outside the venue 30 mins before show times where you can get tickets that are available from the no-shows.