Yorkshire Voyagers

Update for Rhapsody from a friend on board Captain is Kenneth Moeller from Denmark - recently promoted from Staff Captain

What a lovely thought and definitely more special than WJ!! I’ve learned something - To be honest, I didn’t realise Chops was open for lunch on boarding day and I was there for 4 weeks, ha ha. Although I didn’t do the consecutive cruisers lunch either Back again on the 22nd for 6 weeks, so might give it a try

Island lady, is the embarkation lunch in Chops something you’ve personally arranged - in November there was a consecutive cruisers lunch in the MDR

Island lady, that’s just what happened on the Voyager in November, I’ve never seen as much food wasted. Hope things will improve in January.

Sorry, getting my ships mixed - it was Vision that used Giovanni’s, Brilliance was in Chops

On Brilliance in the summer, Chops was for suites, Giovanni’s for Pinnacles

I was on that same cruise, in fact for 3 cruises in November. Have sailed from PR for over 10 years (always November and then January & February) and have never seen anything as bad as I experienced this year. The staff in the Windjammer and at the Cafe Promenade needed medals.

I think you’ll be in fantasy land for a long time wishing for Whispering Angel 😂😂

John, you could have said that about me being solo on my recent Voyager cruises but I can assure you I would give every point back if I could still have my husband back sat at the side of me. Most of those points were earned by both of us.

Looking where your cabin is located, I can’t imagine it would be as bad as where I was straight across the back. I had a JS on Jewel last year on the side on deck 10 and never had a problem

Just done 2 weeks on the Brilliance (exactly the same as Radiance) with an aft cabin - I wasn't thinking at the time of booking and totally forgot about the open area at the back of the Windjammer. Absolutely horrendous noise every night as they scraped and pulled the chairs to clean - now on my “never book this cabin” list. I’m a light sleeper and sometimes it was 4am before things settled down

The photo was dated 18 July

I’ll try and find it - I think it may have been in a private group chat

Seen a photo on Facebook showing Captain Toni Calne on the Rhapsody at the Top Tier party

I flew independently on BA to Cyprus to join the Jewel last year

A lot of the Harwich sailings went to Scandinavia and the Baltic

Yes, you can get luggage tags at the port, it was very well organised recently - yes you can wait in the pool area not sure exactly what you mean by “beachware”, but bathing suits in any dining room, would be a “no”

Travelerchris Just travelled with Royal Caribbean from Ravenna for 2 cruises The journey to and from Venice for people using the transfers was almost 3 hours each way. I stayed in Ravenna pre-cruise and had to pre-book a taxi at the hotel to take me to the port the next morning as there are very few taxis based there. On departure day, the only taxis that were at the port were those that had been pre-booked (which I’d done) to collect people going back to Venice/Bologna mainly. There’s no way I would risk trying to do a round trip visit to Venice

Left the Brilliance on Sunday, 10th July - Capt Juan Luis Caranti replaced Capt Frank Martinsen on 26th June Carol

A friend is on the Jewel at the moment, looks like the Captain is Trond Holm

Alec, how’s the food this cruise, it was truly awful on the 12 night recently - never experienced anything as bad and you know how long I’ve been cruising with Royal Carol

I did the following 12 night cruise - sailed on the Vision many times and had no problem with the ship and the staff were excellent, although obviously the numbers were depleted. The food, however, was another matter - it was the worst I can remember in any main dining room. I put this on the post-cruise survey but had already taken this up with the staff on board

Just left the Vision - the Captain is Diego Lombardic