exlondoner

Actually, I think much of QA is very elegant and much prefer (most of) her decor to the much heavier look of QV. I think the MDR is peerless.

Well, if you grow up expecting to be king, and like the idea, everything else must be something of a disappointment.

A lot of that sounds like me, though I do often change into something clean for dinner, having just had a bath to avoid watching the news, which is so depressing. Incidentally, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor decamped to the SS United States, when Cunard suggested they might need slightly less luggage, so ultimately, I imagine, Cunard wasn’t for them. 😀

I’m sure you were warned.

The slow movement of K488 is pretty soothing too.

Did you book the next cruise? Don’t keep us in suspense.

See post 38 on the Northern Europe thread.

So a bright young member of the ents. staff told someone on another thread, but whether true or not, I have no idea. A string trio has been spotted since a think, but that’s not exactly a classical concert in the afternoon.

I meant to ask earlier but forgot. What is wrong with moving a sunlounger into the sun, or, indeed, into the shade, if the sun moves?

Wouldn’t it work the same if you took the ferry from Brooklyn and stayed overnight?

I agree, the distances are too great for me too. It’s not the number of passengers, who were rarely about in swarms, except leaving the theatre, it is simply that, compared with the Vistas, it is a long way to everywhere, and not always in a straight line, especially as many of my favourite places were at the very front. Oh, and I may have mentioned I loathed the Grills Lounge. 😀😀

I love referring to Civitavecchia as Rome-ish. Cunard can start calling Soton London-ish in its US material. 😀😀

Why are they the same when they are so clearly different? And no, I didn’t know that by one you meant the other.

That was the naming. Not the same thing. Launching is what happened to QE2, when she slid down a slip way to meet the water for the first time. Now they usually flood the dock.

All this fuss because a few people turn up in T-shirts and shorts in the wrong place. I totally agree this is an unpleasant sight. Nonetheless, compared to the apparent complete demise of classical concerts, this seems a very minor step towards the end of civilisation. Yet hardly anyone cares about the concerts, while minding very much about dress. Why is this, I wonder?

I didn’t think ships were launched these days.

Those benches are a lovely idea. But on our cruise I was about the only person I noticed sitting on them, because they were quite low and it took too long to elevate oneself when the lift arrived. They are also in an awkward place because you have to keep twisting round to see how some of the lifts are doing. Furthermore the feet are a bit of a hazard. My husband tripped over one, and I looked round to find him flat out on the ground, luckily without damage to himself except a slightly stiff neck. And yes, people were very good about holding the doors.

There was the added hazard of the benches in the middle of the lift wells, which had to be hurdled if a lift unexpectedly arrived on the opposite side.

That certainly wasn’t my impression. Many/most of my fellow passengers were too frail to overrun anything.

I hope so, for Cunard’s sake. And their next cruise or the one after may have lots more children on board.

Concerts?

I realise back was an inappropriate term: towards the stern would have been better. 😀

Has any classical music appeared on QA? That is far more of a worry to me than having slightly fewer Gala Nights. I haven’t heard of most of the people mentioned above, but assume it’s pop music.

Yes, near the pool at the back.

I don’t follow this. In any case I think cabin and restaurant staff usual call me by my title and name, I think, or nothing at all.