Hi, I have never had to consider cancelling a Cunard cruise and was wondering if I could pick your brains before I approach Cunard.

The time has passed for losing the deposit so am trying to figure out what my options are.  Can I transfer the deposit to another cruise and what are the ramifications of that?

Any help will be appreciated greatly!

Thanks for the sailaway and see you next time!

Thanks for the info!

different types of tenders?  I see the usual orange, but are the others a newer kind?

Nice

PP?

Yes, seeing a bit of movement on the Equinox.

That is good news and thank you for sharing!  It will be great to hear from her soon.  

Yes, has anyone heard from Kathi?  I keep checking the blog and CC and have messaged via her blog, but heard nothing.  I hope she is ok.

was funny I heard the princess theme, while the camera was showing the apex, but the SKY did not appear on the screen so was trying to figure out 

Has anyone heard from Kathi?  I keep checking her blog and FB, but have not heard anything?  I really miss her!

Checking in for the first time in a long time.  Will check back closer to sailing time.

On 1/12/2024 at 6:36 AM, The-Inside-Cabin said:

A TASTE OF TAMARIND (POST #11) 8 JAN 24

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We enjoy a day at sea with a Taste of Tamarind in the evening

COFFEE CHAT

Executive Housekeeper Shiv was the guest at Coffee Chat.  He introduced all his principal assistants.  Shiv mentioned that due to the variation in crewmembers’ contract lengths it was impossible to handpick a world cruise housekeeping team as they had in the past.

Shiv was described by Kimberly as a man who “knows how to get things” like Red from the movie Shawshank Redemption Shiv introduced his management team

A TASTE OF TAMARIND

Throughout the cruise, there will be about thirty special pop-up dinners in the Pinnacle Grill.   Here is the list

The first pop-up of the cruise, A Taste of Tamarind, was held this evening, and we joined our fellow Californians Alan and Sharon in the Pinnacle Grill.

Alan, Sharon, Judy and Pete

Here is the menu

The food was all delicious – especially the steak which I highly recommend

WASABI & SOY CRUSTED BEEF TENDERLOIN

FRIED RICE

CHINESE FIVE SPICE BABY BACK RIBS

DRAGON ROLL

WORLD STAGE

Dave and Dawn Meyer performed on the World Stage this evening.  Dave plays the Xylosynth, a combination of a Xylophone and a synthesizer, while Dawn dances alongside in darkness while twirling an illuminated cape and wands.

Dave Meyer playing the Xylosynth Dawn Meyer dancing with her illuminated cape

Dave performed a variety of songs including Teenage Wasteland, Saint Thomas and the Orange Blossom Special.

The food and entertainment look great!  Judy, I love that top!

Thank you Pete for your wonderful blog!  You are such a value!

When you use the Diamond benefit for the Lido events, do you pay the extra above the benefit?

On 12/4/2023 at 6:10 PM, sfred said:

 

Welcome home to Australia, @alibabacruisers!  Glad you had a nice voyage.

 

Mrs sfred and I were also lucky to get off QE in Barcelona after 36 nights as healthy as when we stepped on.  We didn't notice as many health issues amongst the passengers during our voyage.  We took the usual precautions in ports and on the ship, and also maintained anti-malaria precautions of insect repellent and preventative doses of gin and tonic (🙂).  Perhaps the G&Ts worked on covid too?

 

Where/when is your next Cunard adventure?  Disembarking and returning to home life seems a little easier when there's a future voyage to look forward to.

Thanks sfred!  I also was healthy for the cruise but husband had a little bit of cough towards the end, but was ok. That is interesting about the anti-malarial precautions vs insect repellent.  Still have never tried G&T, but maybe next cruise.

We have booked QV for 2025 South America and also QM2 2025 Fjords, both for my hopefully impending retirement 😉  How about you?  What is coming up for you?

We are happy to be home after 8 days in Barcelona and 34 days on QE.  There was quite a bit of coughing most of the cruise with people still not covering their coughs, not using the hand sanitizer and blaming everyone else.  Early on we almost were not going to be allowed without masks at one port (forgot which one) because of covid cases, but then they changed their minds...hmmm.  Luckily, we did not get sick and are still ok.  

I hope you are doing well woorimbeachlady.

Sunrise in Adelaide with port and a bit of Adelaide in the picture.  At least the sun has appeared.

Glad you took action again and got a result you could deal with.  Thank you for letting us know your process.  

Nice capture of QE and you are always right on top of getting great shots!  Thank you!

We ate just waiting for the ship to dock to venture out for the day.

Thank you Bill and Mary Ann, for your detailed, informative blog!  I love falling into a routine reading about your travels and truly appreciate all of the work you do to bring it all alive for us all!

I am glad to hear you arrived home safely.  It was good to hearing about packing tips as well.  Have a nice holiday!

Yes, when you go to get the internet the page comes up and show the words Premium package and then Essential last and then a price of 36, which I incorrectly assumed was the essential price. You actually have to click on either Premium or Essential and if you select Essential it will then show $24 as the price.

When I addressed this at the Pursers Desk, the look on the lady's face told me ths has caught out many people.  They need that page to actually say select one, in my opinion, especially those of us who are technically challenged/inexperienced.

We had the issue a few nights ago.  I have to have AC at night to be cooler and it had stopped working.  Our room steward was there and we told him and he could tell by my explanation that it needed to be fixed now, so used our telephone and called an engineer directly.  Within 10 minutes, the engineer arrived and looked at it, then removed two screws, open the "flaps", replaced the screws and said to give it 20 minutes.  I said Ok, and started monitoring my time.  By 20 minutes, we started to feel cooler air. That is our experience.  I hope you get yours fixed asap because that is definitely a problem.

Sfred.....Exactly!  When this cuurent allotment runs out shortly, I am going to check it out.

Thank you for this info!!!

I also got caught out with me thinking essentials was 24 and getting charged 36 on most of my cruise!  I thought 36 for essential was high, but the way the process goes makes it unclear. On my next allotment,  I will check carefully and heaven forbid if I see that the process steers me to premuim vs essential......to the pursers desk I will go.  I will report back.

After reading this thread (CC is great!) and not knowing if we would receive a copy at home in Melbourne, I chose to pick up a copy at the Voyage Sales area.

Glad a picture was provided of the current issue so I could make sure.