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You seem to have a great deal of faith in them. 🙂

I have not had one either.

Why not the ship is the same temperature as it is on Winter cruises to Norway. They air con can be fierce. Most people wear what they would wear on any formal night.

I am afraid you may be too late. The recognition of P&O status stopped in 2017. You had to cruise with Princess before that date to retain your Princess status. I registered with them way back before 2010 but did not sail with them until 2016. So got in just in time. I is Elite. 🙂 after only 1 cruise. 🙂 . On the cruise we went on we were invited to the party for the top 10 most traveled passengers.

Possibly I* am juicing up with the company you describe but I am not 100% sure

Sorry but from what I have read the words ‘Barge Pole’ and ‘would not touch with’ come to mind.

If there are a lot of Caribbean they are given slightly later times eg. 12.30. On Britannia recently the amount of people around when we arrived was light. That was at about 11.50 for 12.00. Just a small queue of very naughty people. Much as it had been on Iona.

When there are 3+ in a cabin there is the usual making up of the spare bed. That has not stoped.

Yes daft Idea. 🙂

Yes

Foe that one I suspect that the formal nights were set for B318 and not changed for B318N. Or rather not changed on the personaliser until late. When the question was asked on a forum I was on it was implied that some of the form nights appeared to be port days. I said that that was wrong and predicted the change that came.

The maps were useless, speaking as a geographer. Not easy to read at all.

I think not as they are not Mini suite equivalents. Even though the cabin was about the size of the one on Britiannia. Certainly no champagne.

Formal nights tend always to be on a sea day. On very rare occasions they are on 0port days but only when one of the two sea days is the last day of the cruise on a & night cruise.

Selbourne, you mentioned the water in the room, the free tins. We were in a cabin which on Princess would have been a mini suite. Like the D deck cabins 9on Ventura. You still get the Champagne and chocolates on departure day. In this cabin we got the tins of water, on both cruises.

Our disembarkation on Crown Princess was an absolute shambles . They were late in getting the luggage off and so there’s were no porters to help. We were told by the staff on shore that we should have arranged assistance!!!! Major row time. Put us off them altogether. Never had any problem in any of our 50+ P&O disembarkations. We enjoyed Princess but it was no better than our P&O cruises.

So you are on Iona during the school summer holidays. 😈 Be afraid be very afraid. 😈 Gan Canny Dai. 😎 😎 😎

Exactly what I am saying as far as I can see, reading other lines pages and on others forum all US companies have to honour price drops before final payment. Only it is not automatic. You have to ask.

Princess have T shirts with their regular cruses on.I have one. P&O have only recently repeated the same itineraries for a season as with Iona. But tend not to with other ships , Aurora, Arcadia Ventura.

They do if they are based in the US as it is the law in that country it is not in the UK.

Why? The US companies do it because they have to, US law, not out of the goodness of their hearts. This has been the case for years.

Have your read the thread and the post you are replying to. You are missing the point completely. It is the effect on suite passengers and upper tier passengers who will not be happy. Not on the embarkation process.

So it’s a long time since you cruised John. 😊 They are now Peninsular parties. 😊. They are only for Mediterranean and above. Gan Canny Dai

For us, any differences have not impacted at all on our cruising experience at all so we are happy bunnies with lower prices.

You clearly mistake the staffing problems, which affected many cruise lines and hospitality on shore with drop in standards. We have had 10 cruises since the lockdown and we have seen the improvements cruise by cruise. The food on Aurora at Christmas was good and on Iona at Easter even better. On Britannia the standard has been maintained and sometimes bettered. Last nights dinner was slow cooked beef and was wonderful. It came with 3 veg. but unfortunately no green beans.