Mad4WDW

Its easy HL will handle it all for you. Just use the messaging service in the app to send them a secure message asking them to request the benefit for you. They will send you a message back confirming its done. I just copy paste the last message II send. this is what I send, just replace the **'s with your details Hi I need you to claim the carnival shareholder benefit for me again please. The details are :- Cruise Departing Date *********** Booking Reference ********** Cruise Operator is P & O Cruises U.K. Cruise No. is ****** Ship is ******* Departing From ********* Booked in my name so lead name ******** Could you let me know this is all ok Thanks!

Yep all fair comments I think

Agreed. You only had to listen in any area of the ship to the amount of people coughing to figure out the percentage infected was very very high. Hope you get better soon

I'm criticising P & O in this instance because that's who we travelled with and its the forum Im on 🙂 It doesn't make it ok imho just because other companies are doing the same

Hi All We got back from Ventura yesterday, didn't have internet on the ship so couldn't update. To clarify, the mask wearing was REQUIRED not requested. The reason given was because of "the high amount of your fellow passengers who had tested positive for covid" I'd say from what I saw 100% complied. The odd person forgot when getting up and moving but nothing deliberate. Not having mandatory testing contributed to the increased cases and tightening of the protocols IMHO. This one was our 11th or 12th cruise since the restart, the first one that didn't have required testing and the one with the most covid onboard. I'd say there were 100's of people with covid onboard. There were lots of people coughing in the terminal before we boarded a lot of them must've been covid. At check in we were not asked for our vaccine certificates, we were not asked if we'd done a test, people were packed in there. So yeah not great at all. It seems to me that P & O have looked at what's a barrier to booking a cruise. They concluded that tests were putting people off so scrapped them where they could. And they figured that if cases rise onboard they'd introduce their "enhanced protocols" all to the detriment of our enjoyment but not their bottom line.

We’ve been told within the last hour that we need to wear masks because of the high number of covid cases onboard. Happy days 🙂

After the fiasco we’ve had with having to transfer or cancel and rebook to get a better price than the launch day prices on 7 or so cruises we’re not going to book anything on launch day this year. I understand how fluid pricing works blah blah blah but surely they should be offering some sort of price promise for launch day or launch week bookings 🤷‍♂️

Yep more expense but less expensive than the pcr test we had to do in February for the same cruise, a bit of an annoyance though 😒

Its got to be observed either in person or over a zoom call. The issued certificate says on it that it was observed

We caught the train from Blankenberg station to get to Bruges I can't remember exactly how much it was but approx 12 Euro like Waju said sounds about right. We brought our tickets in the station the trains run every hour I think, we'd just missed one so had a walk to the beach for a look before the train came. When you leave the train station in Bruges there is a free shuttle that has multiple stops around the city. For Amsterdam we caught the train from Rotterdam station. We walked to the station from where the ship was docked, it was about 45 minutes walk into the city from the ship. There were taxis parked outside the terminal building when we got off the ship, Id take a taxi next time.

Im surprised as well, it seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot a bit. Id imagine most people wont bother getting off even with free tests.

Hi, We've had the same email for our November and December Britannia cruises. We've used Prenetics (Project Screen) before for a few Princess cruises, much easier than the previous PCR requirements. don't know about you but I wont getting off the ship in St Vincent where they want us to test again before going ashore and want us to do an organised trip.

That's per cabin not per person, do you 5 each is excessive?

This is a screenshot from the spreadsheet I made to check. You don't have to drink huge amounts to break even or be better off with the drinks package IMHO. A glass of wine with lunch, a drink at sail away, 2 glasses of wine with dinner and a couple drinks in the live lounge after dinner.

Hi, Thanks for the comprehensive reply, I'm going to read it through again so it sinks in 🙂 I think this is something ive done previously without realising this is what you were talking about! Best Greg

Hi I'm curious, what do you mean by "switch and upgrade"?

We're on the same cruise, we've had no email either