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We go to warner regularly amongst many other types of holiday. I suppose I am in the P&O,Royal,NCL,Celebrity, TUI. BA,Haven, John Fowler, Hilton..... ...oh, can't be bothered Crowd. Isn't it tedious when folk think they can pigeon hole you into a particular " crowd " so,, what demographic am I in. I will in future try and avoid straying into an inappropriate Crowd.

Very brave of you to admit to being one of the Warner crowd. Don't tell anyone, but we have had 3 this year and another in August. I suspect you are platinum, so get 15% off your OBC...oops..bill. We tend to book Warners fairly late so Sometimes miss out on our preferred dining times. We never book P&O early as deals often get better. We were on Arvia last month and booked everything that was available 14 days before sailing. That's the game, but cancel if you change your mind . Book loads when you board, then relax...all done.

Great to see that you are cruising again and enjoying your time on board.

I pay extra to ensure we sit together on flights £50 a seat. DW logs back on and pays £50 to sit somewhere else.

I know that background. I attended some EU technical committee meetings. I got expenses back from Dti. I showed DW the form. It said status at meeting ' principle UK expert ' she said she didn't know the country was in that much of mess. I remember that when folk tell me how important they are....wrong demographic Gromit. 🤣

Very kind of you MB, but I associate you with the toffs, not commoners like what we are.🤣🤣

Perhaps P&O should do demographic analysis of their guests and apply that, through an algorithm to their guests. That way they could avoid us ' Warners holidays crowd ' being seated with civilised folk, who are Cunard Queens Grill, of first class people.

Don't worry. Many threads end up singing the praises of Saga. They also have examples of the high cost of Saga.

A Warner break is about £100-150 pppn. About the same as a balcony cabin on P&O. I don't know how that compares to a cheap inside cabin. I'm not in that demographic. 🤣

A bit like some of the formal wear you see.🤣

As part of the ' Warners holiday crowd'. We chat to some of the other folk. It may surprise you to learn that many can speak properly and many are regular cruisers. Not many dinner jackets though.....A bit like Celebrity, RC and NCL.

Nor as expensive as they will be.

That is unlikely to happen. We booked a cruise on Friday. I had to phone Southampton as the high tech website didn't know Britannia was cruising that year. A real person took the booking. I was prepared to join a queue but a real Lady answered the phone promptly. Sometimes the old ways are the best...speaking demographically. 🤣

Some may think that drawers and doors on cupboards are evil things. I don't have time to open drawers and cupboards.......tooo busy ,busy,busy.🤣. I would say I am partial to a nice cupboard..but I am retired and have lots of time.

Seems like there are folk who are expert on our demographics, know what we think, eat, drink and can tell us where we deserve to take our holidays. I'm impressed they know my opinions and likes.......before I do.🤣

Crickey, never thought of us as demographics. We cruise on P&O,Rc,X and NCL, take short breaks at warners. Eat at harvester, Toby carvery, Spoons and Gordon Ramsey, drive a hot hatch and took an escorted tour to Provence. We must be a nightmare for you clever pigeon hole fillers.🤣

We have heard many, many times how superior Saga are. We have also heard that they are 2 ,or 3 times more expensive. As you point out the thread is about prebooking on P&O.

Nice Post.We are prepared to be a bit flexible and generally get to eat about the time that suits us. We were a bit late getting into the MDR and wanted to be in the 710 by 8.15. We got in the MDR and asked what we could order to be out in 70 minutes...Order what ever you want. We will get you out on Time.

We are old time cruisers, but not dead yet. We enjoyed Arvia and Iona and have just booked our 9th cruise on Britannia. We have never been on Aurora, or Arcadia and have no intention of doing so. We went to a Chain restaurant on Saturday and booked on line. I can't imagine phoning to book a table.

We got back from Arvia a couple of weeks ago..So many places to eat..We only ate in the MDR 3 times. Not ,grim, pub like or joyless by any stretch of imagination. In fact probably 3 of the best meals we had eaten in MDR's on various P&O ships. Folk onboard seemed happy. Perhaps they don't know about the cheese wheel days🤣

We tend to book the 10.30 shows, so aren't to bothered if we eat at 6.00, or 8.00. We won't go hungry. After we have got ready we pop down to the club house of somewhere until we are pinged. TBH, I don't get too concerned about folk who won't, or can't, or refuse....or..

On Arvia we booked some restaurants on line before the cruise and some on board. Same with entertainment. On a 14 night cruise we only ate in the MDR 3 times. Join queue at 6.00, pinged at 7.30. If we wanted to eat before 6.00 we could book. We booked some things on board with the app, on the day. Including 710. The app worked fine and the booking system was fine. As good as the old days ?....we don't live there anymore.

We did an RC fly cruuse from Civitaveccia. Flight to Rome, train into Rome, train to Civitaveccia taxi to hotel, hotel, taxi to ship. Next time we will budget for a taxi from Rome to Civi. About €100, or so.

The prawns were nice.

We hope you both get well very soon a breakfast wrap at the beach may help. Best wishes, Gail & John🙏