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Thank you, hopefully we will get lucky and be onboard early enough to dash to the Pub.

That was my understanding but when I received the allocation I thought perhaps I had mis understood.  Maybe we will head down earlier and if they turn us away just drop off the cases and walk into town.

Does anybody know whether they serve afternoon tea in the Queens Room on embarkation days?  If I miss the Pub lunch I might be be able to head there for afternoon tea.

Received our boarding time yesterday for our Aug Fjords cruise, 3.30pm. We’re Platinum Deck 6.  Never had such a late boarding time.  Disappointed as I will miss lunch in the Pub, which is always a great way to start a cruise. 

Thank you 2BA, I’ll take a look.

Hi, We’re booked on QV 321  for 6th Aug and have just received the email telling us Flaam and Geiranger have been cancelled and replaced with Skjolden and Olden.  Disappointed as have been to Flaam and Geiranger before, loved them both and were really looking forward to going back.  Haven’t been to either of the other 2 so am busy investigating now.  Can’t say I was surprised to get the email, have been looking at the Geiranger port schedule for a few weeks now and no mention of the Queen Vic being booked in!  I suppose at least Cunard haven’t waited until we’d made out full payment before notifying us.

If anyone has any thoughts on Olden and Skjolden, excursions worth taking etc. would be very grateful to hear.

To original poster  LB_NJ.  Absolutely choose a fjords cruise, if you have the time take a longer one and include Iceland.

We’ve managed to get it sorted. Rang the Cunard booking line at 8.30am this morning and got straight through. They rang the flight dept for us and we are now booked, obviously subject to any changes which may be needed, pandemic wise, along the way.  Considered booking our own flights but decided to book it with Cunard as a complete package so that if the cruise doesn’t go ahead we can cancel one booking without having multiple deposits to retrieve/lose. It may cost us a bit more but we feel more comfortable having all the arrangements in one place.

We have been able to book our tour provisionally with a small deposit and don’t need to pay the balance until 2 months before so hopefully we should have a clearer picture by then.  Won’t worry about booking Vancouver hotels until nearer the time as we can be flexible with those. Thanks for all your suggestions.  Fingers crossed all goes ahead.

Thank you for your replies. Yaldi, I will give that a go. 

Hi,  I am trying to book flights with Cunard for a cruise out of Vancouver July 22.  We have already booked the cruise but flights were unavailable at the time and we were given the phone number 0845 3560005 to call at the end of August to arrange the flights as we want to fly a few days earlier to give us time to tour a little before boarding the ship.  Have tried calling but number is unobtainable which isn’t terribly helpful. Currently in the “book a cruise” standard Cunard phone queue to try to talk to somebody but it’s  just not happening.   Does anyone have any ideas how else I may be able to do this, alternative phone numbers, email addresses that are responded to.  I know I’m not going until next year but need to tie in a tour and can’t do this without the flight details.  Thanks for any help.