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  1. exlondoner
    Mind you, there have been other times when I’ve been desperately hot.
  2. exlondoner
    And, for some reason, the air conditioning on Cunard ships can be somewhat erratic, and there have been times when I’ve really needed a jacket in the restaurant.
  3. exlondoner
    As Grills lunch tends to finish at 2.30, I would certainly want to be on board in time for that.
  4. exlondoner
    It could get plenty cold (and windy) enough in the Atlantic on the route QM2 takes. 😀
  5. exlondoner
    Precisely my point, but, if you only get priority over other people at your time, there is nobody else other than Grills. So the priority comes from having an earlier time, not from having priority over others at the same time.
  6. exlondoner
    I’m not sure there is anything in the rubric that actually forbids the wearing of shorts with a tux, but I haven’t got the full version of ‘what to pack’ in front of me. But absurdity might preclude it.
  7. exlondoner
    That’s the way to have an intelligent conversation. 😃
  8. exlondoner
    That doesn’t entirely make sense. One of the QG perks is priority embarkation. If all of them are summoned for 12.30ish, earlier than anyone else, as seems to be the case, they don’t get priority over each other, they get priority over those boarding at later times. Surely.
  9. exlondoner
    So kind, but I wouldn’t pay §39.
  10. exlondoner
    Well, in August, they only made people wait outside when inside got very full. Then, as the first group were called for security, they started letting people in again.
  11. exlondoner
    No, I’m sure you are right, and the idea it is being done by deck is spurious, the result either of ignorance or desire to make the respondent go away. As a long time poster on here once said, ‘Cunard shoreside don’t even know they’ve got ships’. 😃
  12. exlondoner
    One caveat: if they do give you an earlier boarding time, say 1.30, the terminal may be much busier and you may have to queue for longer. On the other hand, you will probably breeze through with barely a pause after 3 pm. So, while you will get on board earlier, your son may actually have a more frustrating time queueing with an earlier checkin.
  13. exlondoner
    Very nasty, particularly for those on the stern decks. Was she an old ship? Was this common behaviour or a one off?
  14. exlondoner
    I think if Cunard is wise, they wise they might wish to grant you a special dispensation, so that your son doesn’t succumb to extreme over-excitement. I know I wouldn’t have been able to contain myself had I been lucky enough to go on a Cunard ship at that age. Have you asked them about ‘loyalty tier red’?
  15. exlondoner
    What does your mother do with all her purchases when she gets home. Distribute them among friends and relatives or display them or what?
  16. exlondoner
    Havila is another line which seems to be making considerable strides with reducing emissions and fuel economy.
  17. exlondoner
    Not if you were one of the men who mined the coal, I suspect.
  18. exlondoner
    Yes, the order of decks seems rather baffling. Anyway, they probably change it every time, just to keep everyone on their toes. 🙂
  19. exlondoner
    But I have read that the problem with tidal power is its inconsistency, with so much of the tidal movement being in the middle two hours of the tide. Does that make sense?
  20. exlondoner
    I assume also there is much potential for that 33% to increase.
  21. exlondoner
    It is so helpful to read knowledgeable and measured contributions.
  22. exlondoner
    I am sure there are many problems, but I would tend to pay attention to those who are accurate in the data they present, like chengkp75, above.
  23. exlondoner
    And I discover the English phrase ‘butterflies in the stomach’, meaning anxiety, directly translates into Italian, which must be slightly confusing when people have recently consumed the pasta.
  24. exlondoner
    Always good to look on the bright side.
  25. exlondoner
    You are going to cancel a whole month’s cruise(s) because of a slight over boarding, which is a pretty small part of the whole experience. Isn’t that a little disproportionate? However, for you, as there is scope for so much more unhappiness over minor episodes, particularly on a new ship, it may well be the right thing to do.

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