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Did you have to get a visa for Sri Lanka (in transit or other)?

Thanks Lissie!

I am sorry to invade this thread but saw Lissie here and wondered if I could ask you a question about your Cunard cruise Barc-Aust.? We, and others doing a similar cruise to you last year. I wanted to ask you because you were on that cruise and would have valuable info about the actual visas you needed. Is the below your experience an Aust/NZ traveller. Egypt - Cunard says they do it onboard at no charge. Oman - onboard no charge. Sri Lanka - know that port was cancelled, but what did you do...transit or regular or none? Jakarta and Bali - ? None needed? I thank you in advance for any help you could give.

You are amazing with this kind of information gathering and I applaud you John!!

We also got the Suica card before our cruise in 2019 and we chose a hotel in Yokohama for several weeks before the cruise. We also got a SIM card as well and both the SIM and the Suica card arrived within days of ordering and was very easy to activate and use.

I checked our eligibility and it said our cruise was not eligible. For several weeks it has shown nearly sold out except for 1 QG but today not the QG is gone and only 1 OV available. This will be our first Cunard cruise since 2019 so we are beyond excited! We also have booked the 2025 QV to South America because we have never been, number one. Number two, we have never done a full WC AND number 3, we have not been on QV. How thrilling!!! We did a 74-night in 2015 and that was so great!

Thank you for your informative recap! Love to hear your enthusiasm too!

So happy to hear from you Kathi! Sending you lots of love and prayers for your continued healing and that you get your strength back so you can cruise like you love to do! I miss you!

Oh Roy, thank you for showing Kathi's update! I am so glad to hear from her and hope she is able to travel when she is ready!

LOL, I used to work in the library filing the books and pulling them to the front edge, so when I went to the library on QE, found myself just "straightening" ..........lol

I suffer the dreaded motion sickness so have learned over the years, that I have to take meds (used to be Avomine until they discontinued it in Australia, but now have to settle for phenergan) starting a few days prior and then into the cruise, 1 tablet before bedtime each night. I initially tried the wrist bands, and ginger from the dining room, both of which did nothing for me. I also realized that the fresh air and ginger ale helped a lot as well. Cabin position for me is important too, so will not choose far forward or far aft.

When do you receive these upgrade offers? (how much time before your cruise)?

Thank you so much for your review and all those gorgeous pictures of QE! We love QE too.

I haven't been checking this board for awhile and was wondering why no sailaways from FLL? Miss those "parties". What a great and informative post. Prayers to all. Has anyone heard from Kathi? I check her blog and FB routinely, but have not seen any new posts for awhile.

Wow, isn't that interesting? Thank you for letting me know that.

We are looking at some luggage forwarding companies because we want to send one suitcase from Australia to Barcelona for our cruise so we don't have to carry it. So expensive. Has anyone tried Luggage Free? I have checked online with Luggage Forward which was around 800AUD! Ouch Luggage free comes in cheaper, but have never heard about them. Anyone have any other ideas?

Which ticket did you buy via get your guide? So many choices and some sound the same, etc...... We are thinking of doing the HOHO bus to get to Knossos.

Love seeing the pictures of what a specialty restaurant has on offer. We love the vegetables too, although not into seafood. I keep thinking maybe one day I will try some but haven't got there yet.

Thank you for sharing! We like to have the times so have a little more idea of how we can plan our time at a port.

Richard, I love the way your map looks and seems easy to see all on one page. Would like something like that for Barcelona where we are going to be pre-cruise for about a week.

Thank you for the update! I am glad to hear no injuries and people are safe.

I love your enthusiasm and love it when people ask for tips and hints!

Glad it worked out for you Roy!

Fingers crossed for you.

I am sending my thoughts and prayers to you Les. I have appreciated your posts for years, so thank you!