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From memory when we did this trip 2016 (roundtrip Southampton), those disembarking in Quebec got off the ship on the 2nd day enabling them to have a day in Quebec and overnight on the ship before disembarking.  therefore those embarking did so on day 2 before we departed.  

thanks for your updates, we have a friend travelling on his own to Cape Town and some family members going as far as Sydney on board so nice to read whats going on.  Enjoy your trip.

Never been able to check in on line or drop luggage the night before on the past 4 caribean cruises

20 hours ago, fizzy1 said:

Looking at the list of movies on board QM2 up to Aug 4th . Something like 28 films listed. Obviously not all of these will be shown in  Illuminations  during a weeks TA but are all of these available to watch on the tv in your stateroom ?   

Where did you find the list?  We are on board from Sunday to Aug 4th.

9 hours ago, frankp01 said:

I'd like to put in a plug for the Chef's Galley in the evening. It serves a variety of pastas... I think there were 5 or 6 styles of pasta made on board and 4 or 5 sauces, along with garlic bread. Ceasar salads are available as a starter. All three of us raved about our dishes. It's white table cloth, with waiter service, but no surcharge. I'm sorry it took so long for us to have tried it. 

We only discovered this towards the end of our trip on QM2 in March.  We were booking a table for the alternative restaurant and spotted table cloths on the tables and asked if they were an over spill for the alternative dining.  They advised that it was the pasta and pizza restaurant and in the evening it is waiter service with no cover charge.  When we went there the tables were nearly all occupied.  I believe it may be a recent addition to the dining options for evenings as we have never come across it before when on QM2.  We will definitely be going again when on QM2 in a weeks' time.  

Thanks for all your updates. We are on Q.V. on 6 October sailing back to Southampton on 5 November. Am getting really excited.

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stupid question! Im on a scheduled flight from London to Rome for V830 and just noticed this in the voyage personliser

AIRPORT TO PORT TRANSFER

YOU WILL BE MET AT THE AIRPORT AFTER PASSPORT CONTROL, INSIDE THE CUSTOM AREA NEAR THE LUGGAGE BELTS FOR YOUR TRANSFER TO THE CRUISE PORT. YOU WILL BE TRANSFERED BY SHARED VEHICLE FROM AIRPORT TO PORT. YOUR TRANSFER IS VALID ON YOUR DAY OF ARRIVAL, AND IS NON-TRANSFERABLE AND NON-REFUNDABLE. SHOULD YOU REQUIRE ANY ASSISTANCE WITH YOUR TRANSFER DURING YOUR STAY, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE ON 0039 340 46 66 212. PLEASE ENSURE YOUR FLIGHT DETAILS ARE COMMUNICATED TO US TO ENSURE YOU ARE MET FOR YOUR TRANSFER

Do i need to call the number to arrange a tranfser or am i just worrying unecessarily -surely Cunard will have passed on the details etc

This is my 12th cruise but only ever done 1 fly cruise & that was a charter flight so sorry for not being aufait with what you do!

We are also on this voyage, flying out from LHR on 6th October. I think our flight is a charter flight, can't find it on BA's website. Are you flying BA? Our flight is 7.35 am so an early start for us, but we are staying at Heathrow the night before.

We were due to be sailing with Emerald on Sunday, Amsterdam to Frankfurt but they cancelled the trip on Wednesday due to the low water levels. We had received notification from them last Saturday advising of the concern regarding levels and that they had changed the boat and would update us further on Wednesday which they did. We are disappointed as this would have been our first river cruise. We were offered a full refund or a future cruise certificate with 5% off our next booking. We decided to go for the full refund. Fortunately we were able to cancel our Heathrow hotel at no cost to us and we had no pre or post cruise tours booked.

We were due to be sailing with Emerald this Sunday, Amsterdam to Frankfurt but it was cancelled on Wednesday. We had received notification last Saturday that water levels were low and that they had swapped boats and that they would give us a further update on Wednesday, which they did. Although very disappointing as it was to be our first river cruise, it has not caused us any problems as we did not have any pre or post things booked. We were able to cancel our hotel at Heathrow for Saturday at no cost to us.

We flew out of LGW in March to Barbados; our flight was at 11.35 am. We were on a Thomson charter flight. In previous years we have been on a flight at 9.30 am from LGW.

We booked our 2015 WC with a TA who we had got to know quite well. They were really helpful; we had long discussions on where the best stateroom would be for us; and they rang us regularly to inquire if we needed any help with things. For us it was good to know that there was someone we could talk any issues through.

So we have our e tickets and our check in time is 3pm!! It’s the latest we have ever had! And have a 3 year old to occupy for the day until our check in time!

Can you request an earlier check in time? Thanks

What would you go if you were boarding a plane?

We are on Azura in two weeks time in the Caribbean and we have 4 formal and 10 smart casual for our 14 night cruise.

thanks, have added to my favorites to ensure I get my daily dose of cruising.

Thanks for the updates. We have friends on board so it is good to keep up-to-date with what is going on.

Good luck with all of that.... but don't hold your breath.

Yes, indeed good luck with getting money out of P&O. We are currently in dispute with them regarding a cancelled cruise on Adonia in 2019. 3 weeks before they announced the sale, we swapped our Azura cruise to Adonia, both out in the caribbean at the same time. Following the announcement we asked our TA to get us back to our original booking on Azura (after all we had only swapped from one ship to another in the fleet! sailing on exactly the same dates!). Well, they are having none of it, whilst we can go back on Azura, it will cost us the current price, not the price we agreed when we booked it earlier this year. We have written to Paul Ludlow twice now, even copied in David Dingle. He doesn't even have the courtesy to reply to us, our replies come from someone in Guest Relations. Our saga continues, are we are still waiting for our £900 deposit to be refunded.

I hope that those who will now miss out on their Oriana cruise are more successful.

Sorry to go off topic, but we are considering doing a back to back with a fly cruise. As well as the 10% will they give us anything off the price for the fact that we wont be using the flights for the 2nd cruise. Not sure if this makes sense. Thanks

You should get a reduction for the flight you are not using. We are on a B2B in caribbean next year and have a deduction for the flights we are not using. Hope this helps.

We booked a caribbean cruise on Adonia just 4 weeks ago; we were already booked on Azura but decided to swap to Adonia as we enjoyed her when on board in August. Now really frustrated and annoyed; particularly as our TA had no end of problems, with P&O requesting a deposit of £900 as they said it was a new booking; all we were doing was swapping from one ship to another. In fact we almost didn't bother as they just kept coming back requesting more money; but in the end our TA beat them down. Wish he hadn't been so successful now as we will have to rebook (again back onto Azura); probably at an additional cost to us. Feel really let down by P&O.

On our World Cruise in 2015 on QM2 I used the ships salon. They cut and coloured my hair throughout the 4 months we were on board, however, I did take my own colour. They agreed to use it as it was a brand that they used . Do take into account that it can be quite pricey; but I didn't want to spend my time ashore looking for a hairdresser so was happy to pay the prices. They will try to sell you all sorts of treatments, just be firm and decline. In the months prior to our trip I had a "hair" kitty and put money aside to pay for my hair. Hubby also had his done on board a couple of times. I used a girl called Maureen who has been on QM2 for 10 years, she was good and I bumped into her again last year when we were on board.

We visited New York on QM2 last September and were there for the day before heading up to Canada. We had booked a ship transfer to Manhatten and were advised to disembark at 7.30 am to enable us to go through immigration. We went through easily and in time to make our trip at 8.00 am. There were people who were doing their own thing and they also had no problems getting through immigration. I would suggest that you disembark as early as possible to avoid the queues once those who are getting off the ship start their disembarkation process. As you are in transit you shouldn't experience too many problems, I think the later you get off the longer you will take to clear immigration. As regards your return to New York from the Caribbean, you will have to go through the immigration process again so you won't necessarily gain anything by leaving your trip to your second visit to NY.

Currently on board QM2. We had force 10 gale last night, decision made ethis morning to bypass Wellington. Due to arrive in Auckland tomorrow afternoon, giving us an extra afternoon and evening in port.

We head off on QM2 on Saturday for the world voyage and have been trying to access the VP all day without any success to book some final tours. We have not received our pre-cruise booklet yet, received a letter from Cunard 2 days before Christmas advising that it had been delayed in printing, but that it was on its way. However, nothing yet received (TA has also chased on our behalf) and we are trying to finalise a couple of tours. VP has been slow (when able to access it) and at times unavailable. CUNARD GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, if you are going to do away with pre-cruise booklets and expect people to access the VP you need to ensure that it works and is FIT FOR PURPOSE, as it currently is not. Have given up trying to book the final tours and may well look elsewhere, if you want my money get the VP working!!

One very frustrated Cunard Customer.

Sailed in and out of Fort Lauderdale a few times and never had a problem, our problem has been at Miami airport on arrival from UK.

Picked my mother up from arcadia this morning. Work had already begun on stripping the ship before she got off. Had carpet on the floor in her cabin when she went for breakfast, by the time she got back it was gone. Over 1,000 workmen on board. All pax had to disembark earlier than usual, she came off at 7.30 am, many pax sitting around waiting for coaches/taxis/lifts etc when we arrived at 9.00 am. Coaches hadn't turned up when we left so some pax were in for a wait. Don't know why P&O didn't get the coaches to arrive earlier when they knew pax were being disembarked early.

We have always used Princess flights, Heathrow to Miami direct, overnight in the Intercontinental Hotel Miami, you then get taken by coach to Fort Lauderdale at about 1.00 pm. Only down side is that your flight back to the UK is late afternoon/early evening. Princess do lay on trips (at a cost) before the flights home. One year we went to a shopping mall -spent about 5hours there which gave us time to have a wander round and a nice long lunch. The mall has a cinema and some people went in there for a few hours. They then take you to the airport where you have about 3 hours to wait for your flight. When we were out there last Novenber they didn't do this trip so we opted for the trip to the Everglades which was a morning trip, only problem was that they then took us to the airport and we had about 6 hours to kick our heels there. We did fly out to Fort Lauderdale one year -booking our flights independently. We had to go via Atlanta, we stayed at Fort Lauderdale for a few days before the cruise and flew back from FLL again via Atlanta.