ShipboardSteve

In Bright Lights Society for late night disco if there are three couples on the floor you have a chance to move two or three steps in one direction or the other but not to or from the tiny stage. Any more people than that and all you can do is more or less stand in one spot and wiggle to the music so it is way smaller than the Yacht Club floor. The floor in the Queens Room is an unusual crescent shape, but it is fine for ballroom and Latin dancing, provided you are there at those times when they play decent appropriate music. The problem is they won't announce any specific dance, so all 'styles' are welcome - so if you want to do a waltz or foxtrot you have to negotiate a bunch of people doing Night Club Two-step, modern jive, general disco dancing, and a few trying to move around with waltz or foxtrot - Latin is a little easier unless the floor is very packed. So you can dance but takes a bit more effort than on the other Cunard ships.

HH or Myles, do you know the names of the two ballroom dance instructors, please. Usually that would be printed on the daily programme, but I didn't see that on the copies you posted. Thanks.

From what I have seen and experience on many Cunard voyages over quite a number of years, and including this year, is that the majority of people on Cunard cruises know what smart attire means, and know what is appropriate for a Gala night in terms of dress too. But a small minority are intent on trying to push the limits to try to test whether they can wear the more casual end of smart they can get away with, and try to spoil the overall intent that most people enjoy dressing well to make for a nice atmosphere among like-minded passengers. As such that is a shame because it remains the case that most people do enjoy dressing up for evenings beyond the 'anything goes' casual during the day on holiday.

Does anyone know why the Cunard Feefo reviews stopped being updated about two months ago? More recent reviews would be useful to read for anyone planning on booking with Cunard.

I suppose people on board must be enjoying themselves so much they have no time to post comments here. I had thought that out of almost 3000 passengers on board, a few more may have posted about the current voyage. It seems out of character after so much has been posted from all the voyages up to now. Or perhaps the new group of QA passengers aren't on CC as much as in the past?

Can anyone on board at the moment comment on how this voyage is going? There seems to have been very few posts about this cruise, which is unusual given how much has been posted on every voyage until now. How is the dining, the entertainment, the first, and now second, port of call?

I think it is when you do the online check-in process - which becomes 'live' 21 days before embarkation. It is part of the preparatory stuff that culminates in the boarding passes being available to download.

Perhaps it is all due to cost saving since you only have to paint one line for the legs instead of two!

Cunard should employ you as "one's" MD support agent!

A Wudu facility is a special 'cleansing' room before going to pray! Perhaps this was essential in the modern world of passenger flights!!

Now if only they could hand out those over ear sound muffs for those who want to watch and enjoy the loud sounds of the events on the screen and leave those who prefer a quieter atmosphere some peace - or even have quiet music as an option instead of the football or tennis?

The cabins that become free you are welcome to book, and enjoy the excellent service that Queen Anne offers.

I had hoped the dining would have been sorted out as a matter of highest priority by the managers. Clearly it is not, and we are now cancelling all our existing bookings on Queen Anne - when I go on a cruise I certainly don't want this kind of hassle every evening. It would totally ruin my holiday.

The QA Queens Room dance floor is not much different in area to that on QM2, but it is a very different shape and the room is not a ballroom. The way in which music is played is also very different, and the recorded music in between 'live acts and music' is deliberately managed to not be dance music.

People are not saying there is 'no' ballroom dancing, but it is becoming ever clearer that Queen Anne and Queen Victoria are driving ballroom dancing down by design and by top down management from head office, and making it less of a focus on those two ships. On QM2 and QE it seems there will still be more focus on the ballroom used for ballroom dancing a significant fraction of the time. Of course whether ballroom dancers wish to travel to those two ships if they don't generally have what may are perceived as attractive itineraries or focus on fly-cruises time will tell. Service levels are being driven down as is become more and more clear from the posts on various forums.