buchanan101

It’s their career. For some of them anyway. Pretty good job if you can get the following. The guy off TipsForTravellers and Emma Cruises are near permanently on cruises.

can't see anything else on Youtube

Here is a QA Balcony Cabin review...

One of the best rates anywhere I think Such good drivers in the UK of course... Roads are actually very well designed here - even things like motorway slip roads which can be very badly designed in some countries (Italy for example).

Not usually... and research says it's slightly the safer side (to do with dominant eye and dominant hand).

Yes, but you are still driving on the wrong side there...which is easier for you.. I thought I'd miss a manual but the 8 speed auto on my Alfa Romeo is superb

Liking this drone footage...

Indeed, all cabins down the sides are the same depth (ok, ones in the hull may be marginally different from ones on the super structure). Shame Vistas and QA add on depth - in a QA PG in 53 days... (not counting)

QM2 is quite easy to work out sizes as cabins (apart from the very top ones) are measured in whole or half width units. Britannia - 1 unit, PG - 1.5 units, QG5/6 - 2 units, QG4 - 3 units...

QA is 10% longer than the other Pinnacles...but takes 10% more passengers... (Also QA maybe larger than QV and QE but has almost 1000 more passengers; passenger/volume ratio is actually a little worse: 34 for QA, 36 for QE so will be just as crowded/uncrowded as QE and QV. QM2 obviously the best with a ratio of 45)

Certainly better looking than that monstrosity - with what look like afterthoughts to support the bridge and one of the ugliest backends at sea. The unbroken rows of balconies are also really quite ugly - better QA with bits (the PGs etc) sticking out further. Still think they've overdone the front superstructure on QA though - aesthetically speaking though doesn't look as bad side on: the bridge is too low... being 10% longer than other Pinnacles helps too

Thanks - but wondering if that area is publicly accessible on voyages - be great if it is

How is the blog coming along Richard? How far forward on the ship can passengers walk? Saw people on the area in front of the main superstructur

Or hire an automatic... we do have the technology - both my cars are autos, with excellent seamless shifts

Just found it on the map - it's not far from Clarkson's Farm Shop, or Stow in the Wold (recommended). Not the part of the Cotswolds I know (further west is where I have been).

We do have automatics now! And these days they are very good. Wouldn't for a moment suggest hiring a car in London though - public transport there is excellent (but not cheap)... but you may miss out on a lot of the Cotswolds without one - so many beautiful spots (previously mentioned, Bourton on the Water, Stow, Slaughters, Broadway, Chipping Camden) that aren't really reachable by public transport (I think there's a station in Moreton in the Marsh which is close-ish to Stow and Bourton on the Water). Broadway Tower (a folly) has a great view. Sudeley Castle (one of Henry VIIIs wives' I think). Roads there are WAY easier than London - good A and B roads. But you'll have a great time I am sure. Cotswolds are a lovely area. When are you going?

A TA should be able to get you some sort of perk. Mine regularly gives 5% off.

Cotswolds lovely but parts are like a theme park .. Bourton on the Water for example (though still worth a visit). Broadway likewise, Chipping Camden, Stow, the Slaughters. Cheltenham counts I guess and outside the Cotswolds you have Stratford to the north and Bath to the south which is well worth a visit (Roman Baths etc). Are you getting a hire car as not easy to get round otherwise? oh and Oxford and Blenheim before you get to the Cotswolds from London…

Cheaper than my P1 to Q5/Q6 for 7 days. £640pp starting bid…

Being longer than other Pinnacles helps.

The bridge looks too low, or the front superstructure is too high…

Sister ships supposedly, but QA is longer than the 3 Holland America ones (and will probably look better for it). More passengers obviously - 2996 v 2666 nominal (or 3353 v 3214)

And QA - 323m, Nieuw Statendam - 297m.

QV - 293m, Arcadia - 285m. the length of a bowsprit. If cruise ships had bowsprits

Has she got the welcoming committee on board?