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No chance, what powers your smart phone, camera etc etc

With a credit card I would also ensure I had a sufficient credit limit.

Try this topic https://boards.cruisecritic.co.uk/topic/2943580-po-arvia-formal-night/

The meeting time and place was advertised in Horizon.

Extra chips at £1 each or a kilogram of green beans for 50p

Only if the nibbles are served individually. When bar snacks were common testing revealed the presence of human urine and excrement, good riddance IMO. Or just buy a packet of crisps or nuts.

Yes, although the coast guard was contacted at about 9am. I notice on marine traffic that one of the RNLI lifeboats is returning to port. That military ship was doing 124 knots and it is a SAR helicopter, also returning to base?

See post #7

Apparently Caesar and Brutus visited Dover and Brutus asked what was that shiny new road called? A2 Brutus Caesar replied.

If a pullman is a pull or fold down bed it is a bunk with a ladder and you can't have a queen size because you need access to the pullman. Would not a cot fit in an ordinary cabin anyway?

Frustrating day yesterday. I waited in all day for a UPS delivery of items ordered Monday for express delivery, nothing arrived but tracking gave a clue to the cause of the shambles. I live in Gillingham, Kent with a ME postcode and tracking revealed the parcel was being re-routed to the correct address, why? There is another Gillingham in Dorset with a SP postcode. They had sent it to either the Southampton or Bristol distribution centres and they work overnight. The parcel arrived back in London? at 4am this morning so another wait. I think I will claim a delivery charge refund.

I keep the bags they come in, very useful for packing small loose items

I should reach Baltic tier next January but not bothered about it. I already get priority boarding with times of 12.00 to 12.30 and just turn up at 12 ish and get waved straight through to check in. What I would like is having my cabin ready. I don't use the ships laundry and the Baltic lunch is formal dress (On Arcadia) so I won't be going to that.

Arvia disembarkation last April was absolute chaos. i arrived at my group meeting place and there was nobody there except a crew member who said just get off. On arrival in the baggage hall i was met with several hundred people and two ques to exit extending back to almost the entrance. With even more passengers arriving some 'enterprising' passengers started a third queue. Of course passengers in the other queues were not happy and the stewards were hard pressed to deal with the attempted push ins etc. It took 40 minutes to leave the hall.

There appears to be an alternative, woth checking out blue cross - ship parks here and 1.5 mile walk to cruise terminal orange cross - cruise terminal, actually ferry but new cruise terminal in future. red cross - present shuttle drop off point black cross - old town When we visited Valencia a few months ago there was a free bus shuttle from the berth to the terminal, hardly used because P&O did not tell us it existed. Local number 95 bus 8 minute intervals Monday to Saturday and 18 minutes on Sundays, both 7.30am to 10.00pm Single ticket price on bus 1.5 euro. there is also a day pass for all routes

One one of my early cruises my elderly steward said he was retiring at the end of the cruise. I mentioned this to another steward and he laughed and told me the old man has been retiring at the end of every cruise for years!

Spa, Retail, Casino and entertainment staff were using the starboard side servery in the evenings and seating on the starboard side. The port side 'officers' area has the port side hot food servery within it. Why does Arcadia not have an officers mess? Perhaps because 'officers' includes a lot more crew and they won't fit in. The Spa staff etc seem to arrive in waves and if you are unlucky most of the servery queue is staff and the serving dishes are rapidly depleted. By way of explanation I spend most of my days and evenings whale watching and like to eat after 8pm

The red enclosed area is for officers and other staff grades share the one servery with passengers. Spa,Retail, Casino, Entertainment etc. This stresses the one servery if numbers of them arrive at the same time. I agree that part of the servery on Aurora was used for the Beach House but I found the buffet there a better experience than Aurora. I am cruising on Ventura next month and hope things are OK in the buffet. Iona's buffet was good and Arvia's was good except sometimes on formal nights when the lack of 4 dining rooms had part of the buffet as the Chefs Table.

The beanie hats were spitting and hissing yesterday but they are now friends and cuddled up on the chair

The repaired combi boiler just broke down again and I strained my shoulder yesterday resulting in about 2 hours sleep last night. Not happy 😒

It was not for 3 weeks in August! Red area reserved for officers Green area sometimes 'fenced off' in the evenings Blue serveries are vegan etc Yellow is hot food servery The remaining area is available to non officer crew and can stress the single hot servery, they take all the best stuff. I also wonder if the daily budget is lower in the buffet because crew are allowed to eat there and their daily budget is lower? Aurora buffet red area crew evening dining blue area Beach House

It is just the same now

That is bribery IMO ps this subject has been debated to death on several occasions

I got a very cryptic text from my doctors surgery about a shortage of GLP-1 injections for diabetics. On doing my own research apparently the licensing of the medications for weight loss has led to a rush of prescriptions and demand has outstripped supply. Normal supplies may be restored by next summer. On collecting my prescription today the Liraglutide pens were not available 😨 Luckily I have a reserve stock but I would have liked an invitation to discuss my options, especially as I had my annual diabetes review a couple of weeks ago.

I lost my Beanie hat the other day, either in Costa or Sainsbury's, I asked but it was not handed in so i bought a new one in M&S. On arriving home there it was on its usual chair 😵