MattyBarlow

Southampton is going to be crowded with big ships in 2015, as well as Britannia, Royal Princess and Anthem of the seas are all based there in 2015.

Royal Princess based in Southampton???

The problem is that even with their fly cruises for this year, many ports are still visited during a normal 14/17 southampton cruise. Why not base the ship in Crete (Like OV used to be) and this gives you access to places that Southampton cruises cant offer. This, i believe, would sell much better.

Are you sure that doesn't refer to their bunkering barge Britannia ??

On the cruise schedule?????

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OV3 is what went through my mind too.

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What the schedule does show is Oceana arriving in Feb but not making another appearance until November. Theres your Fly cruise ship for 2015.

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And that relates to the subject at hand how?

Just info in relation to cruising on RCI with a child in nappies.

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We cruised twice with our son last year. In May he was 14 months and that was with P&O. In September we went on Indy. P&O were far superior in every aspect for us. Indy even set sail with 25 cots but 40 babies needing cots. This wasn't resolved for 3 days until they could buy more in Gibraltar.

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You pour possible poopy or pee water on the deck? Ew

So your telling me that all adults and toilet trained children don't take a pee in the pool???????

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Be interesting what they do with the 3 large ships in Winter 2015/16. Certainly can't see all 3 in the Caribbean.

I've heard there will be an announcement on 12 th Feb.

Peninsula and Orient. I think most cruisers know that?

It was on Meridian news( currently in their website. All ships will get the flag in the hull and the buff funnel is replaced by a blue funnel with the half sun in. I like it.

At its peak there were 12 ships either docked or at Anchor.

Ah I see. This is caused by the previous owners of the TC planes. On the ex JML planes it is 3 seats. On the Ex MyTravel planes it is 2 seats.

We have done lots of cruises with P&O but have never attended or liked any of the sailaway parties. Nothing wrong with having a party if thats what you like and nothing wrong in being proud of your country but to play the theme from the Dambusters and wave Union Flag at a German cruise ship is the height of bad manners and is embarrassing and P&O and the Cruise Director should be ashamed to allow it to happen.

This happened on Ventura in 2009 in Antigua. The Germans on Mein Schiff joined in and started waving white flags. Then each ship greeted each other with a round of applause. Quite touching actually.

I think it's very unfair to mention names of staff on a public forum. Especially when they cannot reply.How would you feel if it was you or a member of your family or a close friend who was being publicly criticised?

If you have problems with a cruise member of staff then raise it on board and fill in the post cruise survey and if you wish to follow up with a letter then write privately to the cruise company.

They can reply by improving. He clearly doesn't.

Seconded. If it was a cabin steward or a bartender then no, but a cruise director is probably the most high profile person on the ship besides the captain (on some ships more than the captain), and is therefore subject to criticism. We should be allowed to discuss someone who plays a pivotal role in the cruise experience.

I agree. The CD is listed as a Senior Officer. If they do not perform then they should accept public criticism.

The only P&O CDs I ever hear good things about are Neil Oliver and Leon De St. Croix, but I don't know if the latter is even still with P&O. Like many others, I thought Hughie was a terrible cruise director, especially on a ship like Ventura which needs a CD who is friendly and energetic, not someone who leaves everything to

 

It is a shame really, since there were some fantastic entertainment staff on Ventura, some of which would make perfect cruise directors.

I believe Leon is currently with Cunard.

Last year on Oceana we had Nigel as our CD and he was rubbish.

Nigel Travis

Hughie is terrible. Been on two cruises with him as CD. His Wife is deputy cruise director and she is just as useless. They make sure they are there at the Captains Gala and get interviewed for the TV show but thats about it. THey dont really get involved in the sailaways and leave all the durty work to the rest of the Ents crew. I have yet to come across a decent P&O CD. Joff Eaton (former P&O) on RCI is fantastic.

It is the airlines that set the weight not the cruise ships. And 23 kilos is standard. We have always had that restriction in Australia.

Not strictly true in P&Os case. They charter the plane and crew. This means they own the freight capacity of the flight. On the outbound flight P&O will sell freight capacity as their is demand to get produce to Barbados. This demand does not really exist on the inbound flight. This is why there isn't really a weight restriction on the way home. The outbound flight has a defined luggage volume so they know how much freight weight they can sell.

She's made it to Europe.

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