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I always use nan online TA i have tried high street TA’s but I have found in general I knew far more about P&O than they did.

Not at the moment my wife did tell me but…………. 🙂

Yes and one of those will be the captain whom we have never heard of so he may not know the way! However there will be plenty of cruisers who have been on this cruise before so he could always ask. 🙂

Well, we will look forward to that. The served meal has always been the best. There will of course be a large number of higher tier passengers on that cruise.

Hi southerner, I would also say that either of the two stern dining rooms are best as we have found the two smaller ones to be quite tight for my scooter which is narrower than a wheelchair. I love Iona because of the accessability. It has put me off some of the smaller ships although we are booked on Arcadia next year.

I am in to the Jam Shed as well. 😁 we have a bottle of the Malbec for tomorrow.

Hi Sandancer, we now use the Baggage Handling Company for our large luggage sp when we travel down to Southampton we travel light.

You are lucky we had it flat calm for 3 weeks on Iona. The storm we should have had the captain raced ahead of. Keep safe.

Correct no lunch as peoples arrival times are so varied.

In my 60+ cruises I have never known a P&O meet and mingle. If you look at the Roll call pages you will see why.

We are sorted on Iona in March 26 2 cruises BtoB. Happy Days Dai

We are, its hot hot hot. :)

As we are on Iona, I have just seen this and I can only say I am shocked!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Not been on Arcadia recently but when we were on there were very few people using the buffet at all. 20 tops.

Sorry this is standard practice for late bookings. Ever since I have been cruising. But I agree If I could book late I would not book select. Booking at that time would not give you the cabin you wanted as the popular cabins would all be gone.

Spot on. Love Iona, for exactly the same reasons. We are on Arvia in May and Iona next week.

Sorry they dont they want to attract them in the school holidays and the figures show that they are. However for the rest of the cruises they ave to attract older cruisers as that is where their bread and butter is, P&O has an identity of a cruise line concentrating on cruises ex Southampton for most of the year with a fly cruise element of one ship ball year round and a 2 ship season of 5 months in the Caribbean. Linked are the world/long cruises in Jan/Feb/ March which are adult only. They are not a cruise line for with brash activity based attractions and never have been.

Odd as P&O’s bookings are up again for next year on top of the best quarter for over 10 years.

Another report says Carnival had a profit of 1.2B over the above quarter, much better than expected.

For those who think P&O and other lines are not doing well. This is from an article in Cruise Industry News, “On the European front, occupancy came in better than anticipated for Costa and AIDA, with both brands hitting 119 percent occupancy in August. Not to be outdone, P&O Cruises achieved its highest occupancy in over a decade,” said Josh Weinstein, president and CEO, on the company’s third quarter earnings call. Overall Carnival Corps had 109% occupancy for the 3rd quarter.

As you board you will be met by a member of staff. They are there to direct you to your muster station and the buffet or priority lunch. Just inform them that you are Caribbean (it will be on your boarding pass) making sure the Caribbean member goes first. And “Bob’s your Uncle”

Simple don’t buy any package. Much easier and usually cheaper

It is in the evening. But not for breakfast. It’s open to all. But keep that to yourself.

On Ventura the Bay Tree is open for breakfast. It is usually quieter as some people fid it difficult to find ????? The good thing is that it is open until 10.00 on a sea day. This was the case March 22.

Hi, go now and do it, opened up this morning sometime. 😎 Gan Canny Dai