exlondoner

Wow. How long are you going for? I would say take all your lovely dresses, but minimise shoes. If you happen to have silver sandals, they would go with all the dresses.

I’m sure, but not at 7 pm, I suspect.

Who knows? And I thought I had read fairly recently people saying they were charged only $20, but again who knows?

The only reason they made holes in your pocket was because you put them in your pocket. If you did that, they probably made you jingle as well.

Which in itself was a bit of a shame. The old keys were so much harder to lose, or degrade. But on the other hand you couldn’t take out library books with them.

Gosh, nobody agrees with me 100%, least of all those who know me well, so thank you for your kind thought. Incidentally, would you really want your travelling companions to find you on all occasions? Though I suppose if you didn’t, you would just turn the pestilential thing off.

Yet you specifically said how ‘great Cunard had been sorting your vegan requests’. This seems rather contradictory.

Plans change, so you leave a note, or trust their ability to find you. Part of the reluctance is that it does impinge. Counterintuitively, it seems to hold stuff up. Anyone who embarked at Southampton, while Covid was still taken seriously, will remember how much longer the queue took when you were behind someone who had all their docs. on their phone, but could never quite find them, compared to being behind someone brandishing an easily accessible sheaf of paper docs. Strange how this market research never lights on me, who has never done any of the things you mention, despite being youngish for Cunard. Why on earth do people want to look at family photos, when they’ll be back in a fortnight?

But this isn’t Celebrity, so wouldn’t have any effect on Cunard?

Still info that should be confidential and that there is no pressing need to pass on. I would hate it, if I were the person concerned.

Quite, nobody would want the restaurant to have to deal with a passenger with anaphylactic shock at the first meal. Still less would the passenger want to run such a risk.

The really horrendous bit about this is that they told a passenger what ought to be confidential info about a stranger’s health. That is shocking. Even when a ship has had to alter course to evacuate someone, I have never known them give specific details.

Certainly, at least sometimes, Cunard shoreside manage to communicate with the ship. I have known (and overheard) people approached at lunch by the m d’h on the first day, and detailed discussions ensuing and notes being made. So, while shoreside may not have communicated details, they have certainly communicated the need for attention.

It does of course depend on what side of the ship, and the weather. I have not been in November, but on a Christmas cruise, it grew gloomy very early. It just doesn’t work for me. Even on a Med. cruise in October, it was gloomy quite early. So now we spend our hard earned cash on expensive cabins in peak season. 😀

Why not just tell each other when you part? Or leave a note in the cabin? And the Vistas, at any rate, are so small, it is pretty easy to find someone.

Agree. Absolutely hideous.

Still said $25 on their website yesterday. But what would you expect if it’s only a couple of years?

Don’t know about milk, but for the mildish allergies, get them to show the next days’ menus the night before, then you can choose what you want, and, if necessary, they will make the necessary adjustments. They do this a lot, and in fact, as they know about the allergies, will probably automatically offer you the menus. This is one of the things they are pretty good at handling.

It I‘d have to properly dressed far too early, and I would have to have my cabin g+t to early, and end up drinking too much, and it just wouldn’t fit. What I would prefer to do is wander about the ship, but I can’t do that until I’m properly dressed.

The last couple of times a disembarkation time was specified on the Southampton Landing Arrangements document. In our case this was 8.10, I think. We went to breakfast about 7.15, leaving the cabin tidy for the butler, then came back to clean our teeth and go to the loo. Then we waited in our cabin until the moment of doom and left.

I think it is just the way it is worded. If you order gin and scotch, you will get 2 bottles, if you order red wine and white wine you will be entitled to four bottles. If gin and wine, three bottles. It’s academic anyway, because, as soon as you get near the bottom of the gin, they will usually bring you another bottle.

Yes, I don’t like the dark evenings much. I usually spend 5.30 to 7.30 on the balcony with a book and a g+t, enjoying the sun. I’ve never worked out what else to do with the time.

Goodness, there’s a thought!

You remember that the Covid interrupted world cruise, which in theory said good bye to its passengers in Australia, actually sailed back with a couple of hundred of people who couldn’t fly. This is often part of the reason people book these trips. I’m sure they wouldn’t wish to part with their passengers again.

I don’t think the distance to the lift makes a difference either way, unless you have serious mobility issues. Indeed one can argue the further from the lifts the better, for a bit of extra exercise. But there is not too much of a walk to the lift from any of the Q4s.