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Hi. Please don't worry about your pickup time. We were also concerned about our 11:45 pickup time from Trowell services (Derby/Notts border). We always used to be pickup up around 9:00ish. We rang to query this and it was explained that for the larger ships like Iona/Arvia the terminal at Southampton can't cope with all the coaches arriving around lunchtime. We arrived at 3:45 and were on board by 4:00 with no hassle whatsoever.

We're on Iona 10th to 17th Feb. Debra Stephenson will be performing. I though she was very good when on the tele a few years ago.

Thanks. Yes it's a Saturday. Never thought of that.

Sorry, slight thread drift. We've just received email confirmation of pickup time from Nottingham services travelling next month. Having not used Intercruises for a few years we are surprised that pickup time is not till 11:45. Does this sound about right? All our previous experiences have seen us depart roughly between 08:30 and 9:15. We are sailing on Iona and I did wonder if this is to prevent a load of coaches turning up at a similar time.

Yes, they are Presto2.

We join Britannia next Friday. Our itinerary shows that both Sundays and both Wednesdays are the formal nights with the first Sunday being listed as the Celebration night.

Thank you. We haven't had a suite before and since this is for our 30th anniversary we thought we'd splash out on one with a wake view now that there is less of a soot problem.

We've just received a bid to upgrade email. £220p.p for a Mid, Mid/Aft suite on B deck. Now we're already in an aft suite on B deck. My question is what is £440 going to give us that we don't already have? Is it just the fact that they are more midship. This is for Britannia Dec 1st. Also just done a dummy booking and it says suites are sold out.

Not surprised Brodies was half empty if Forest were on.

I believe it will be from midnight on the morning of 7th October. We fly TUI on Dec 1st and were able to book 14 weeks prior. We didn't stay up but we did book around 8o'clock the following morning and I guess only around 25% had already gone. We were sent an email a few days beforehand that stated when booking would be open.

No. We are economy. From Birmingham. 3 - 3 - 3 arrangement

Ours were available to book last Friday morning (from midnight) but couldn't be bothered to wait up till then so tried around 8am when I woke up. Fearing the worst I was pleasantly surprised at how easy the process was. I reckon less than a quarter of the seats were already taken and as someone else stated it offered the same seats for the return flight. £45pp each way.

Thanks Presto. We will do

Thanks everyone for your replies. You have put our minds at rest and we will stick with what we have booked

Thanks, I'm sure we will. I suppose the soot problem must have improved somewhat otherwise we'd have seen a lot more negative comments on these boards.