exlondoner

It is easy to decide if you consider the possible consequences of not doing so.

This seems to be the pop up restaurant on our imminent QV cruise, which, needless to say, does not go to the Med. The menu looks nice, but has anyone actually experienced it?

The obc/parking/transfer is not a Grills perk. It is associated with booking the Cunard Fare. We get the cabin bar but usually no other drinks.

That would be absolutely my ideal place, but we’ve never been there. Were the 12ins of medals miniatures? If not, rather ostentatious. If so, a hero indeed.

All interesting. I really cannot see any distinction between a tip in advance and a bribe. We’ve travelled in QG on QM2 in Q5s and Q6s (all these Qs!) a number of times. I had no idea there was a Q5 end of the restaurant. Once we were near the entrance (by far the worst), once we were next to the window, once we were in the middle, and once we were at the back of the indentation. I’m not sure what this means. Where is the Q5 end?

I think the important thing to remember is that a Cunard ship is not a suburb of New York or London or Tokyo, so what you do there is not what you do aboard. It is its own place with its own system.

I didn’t realise it went to the painters and maintenance people as well. That is good. Incidentally, I have never seen a female painter on board.

Pay the $16.5 and that is it. There is absolutely no need to give anything further. As V2 says, if they have been brilliant, you might want to give something extra to some, but, for me, that has to be something out of the ordinary, like having to bring every meal when I had Covid and never seeming to mind.

Where was that?

Afternoon Tea is tea and cakes, as served on Cunard. High Tea is a proper meal, served perhaps 5.30ish, with something like fish and chips, and bread and butter, with tea to drink.

Why the interest in High Tea?

I don’t think QM2 serves High Tea.

I always wonder why people feel they have to check on people who are ill. If something dreadful has happened, what can they actually do about it from a ship that may be thousands of miles away?

It’s not the reading indeed, but the talking. On the other hand, if my table companion spent the meal reading their phone while eating with me, I should be very offended.

And anyway, it seems to me, it is the US that is afraid of invasion. They are the ones with ridiculous immigration procedures, making everyone doing return crossings disembark in NYC, and insisting on a full inspection for those returning to the US from Halifax. But then you never know about Cunard passengers.

You are not alone. I’ve tried to institute a one in one out principle but it just doesn’t work.

Perhaps they wouldn’t have, if they had used some time in privacy earlier in the day for phone conversations.

It is very useful for checking things. 🙂

It is called hotel and dining charge in the paper brochure for this year and next.

But why do it at dinner?

Not her best angle, but whose is?

You are so quick. I’ve only just found the Cunard ship. 🙂

Clearly the immigration facilities are available at the port, as lots of passengers are ending their cruise there.

Obviously this works brilliantly for you, but it would be a nightmare for me. As for the guides, some are knowledgeable, some not, some speak brilliant English, many, particularly in Italy and Greece, poorly accented English, which is hard to understand. They are often so loud, perhaps because of the general level of hearing of the passengers, that I usually wear earplugs. They are often extremely repetitious. And, worst of all, they talk all the time. I don’t want to be talked at, I want to be left in peace to admire the scenery. I have done my homework and read the guidebooks, I don’t need their commentary. The thought of a long day on a coach with someone jabbering away is, as I said, a nightmare. I try and avoid tours of more than half a day, and tend to stick to those involving wine and lunch. Back in time for a nap.

Perhaps Cunard could get the medical centre to sort out their IT in quiet moments.