First the landing arrangements arrive, which is slightly depressing, and then one comes back from breakfast to find the luggage mat is in the bed, and one knows it will soon be over, which is considerably more depressing.
None of us think the ship is going to sink, and it probably won’t. But shipping companies are bound to plan on the basis it might. Imagine if it did, and there were too many wheelchair users for the crew to find and evacuate. Imagine the gripping headlines: ‘Disabled passengers abandoned and left to drown by heartless cruise line.’
I too much prefer cold toast and butter, but I would just like the bread to be thicker and have more character. The stuff you usually get for toast is very feeble.
I once asked for thick toast at breakfast in the QG, and was surprised when our lovely waiter looked less than enthusiastic. That very day we went on the Ship’s Tour, and I discovered just how many flights of stairs the unfortunate waiter had to trek down to get it. I have never asked for it again, though I must say the toast is one of the least good things in QG.
.But don’t they sometimes do this simply to avoid arriving early. As, for instance, between Cherbourg and Southampton, as another ship may be using the space or some such.
I think there are a number of people who go on Cunard just to complain about the food, when they have inventoried the rust patches. Cruet monitoring needs a higher level of sophistication of course.