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I haven't found that yet. I think we will need to rely on @SummmerInKefalonia to provide those details as well as details for QE 2024 Alaska and beyond. He/she's found a more complete source for the future Cunard itineraries than I have.

I'll create a new 2025 thread including more detail about the QA and QV 2025 world cruise itineraries and copy what @SummmerInKefalonia has provided for the QM2 2025 itineraries.

Since we've listed a summary of the QA 2025 world cruise, I'll do the same for the QV 2025 world cruise (South America Circumnavigation). Here's what I'm seeing. QV 2025 South America Circumnavigation January 9-March 28, 2025: Southampton, Praia da Vitoria, Port Canaveral, Fort Lauderdale, Grand Turk, Bridgetown, Fortaleza, Salvador, Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Puerto Madryn, Ushuaia, Cape Horn, Punta Arenas, Amalia Glacier, PIO X Glacier, Puerto Montt, San Antonio, Coquimbo, Arica, Callao, Manta, Panama Canal, Oranjestad, Nassau, Fort Lauderdale, Port Canaveral, Bermuda, Ponta Delgada, Southampton I'm also seeing segments from/to Hamburg before and after that itinerary. January 4-9, 2025: Hamburg, Amsterdam/Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Southampton March 28-30, 2025: Southampton, Hamburg

Just as an aside, it doesn't look like Cunard is planning a "3 Queens" meeting in Southampton in January 2025 as they had been planning for QA, QV and QM2 in January 2024 before Queen Anne's deployment was delayed. I'm seeing the two ships that are doing 2025 world voyages (QA and QV) together in Southampton for the start of their world voyages on January 9th, but as we know QM2 will be in Southampton on January 11th. Does that agree with what you are seeing @SummmerInKefalonia?

Unusual but not unprecedented overall. During several of her first few years (2004, 2005 and 2008) QM2 spent most of the first quarter of the year in the Caribbean rather than doing world voyages. All the other years (except 2020 and 2021 of course) she has done voyages that could be considered at least partial world voyages. It looks like the plan for 2025 is to have QA and QV doing world voyages while QM2 and QE will be doing regional voyages.

I've managed to find some of the 2025 itineraries including the 2025 Queen Anne world cruise which you have detailed for us. I'm also seeing the 2025 Queen Victoria world cruise. It looks like QV will be doing a circumnavigation of South America once again in 2025. I haven't been able to find everything Queen Mary 2 will be doing in early 2025 yet. Apparently she won't be doing a full world world cruise. All I've found so far for QM2 (after January 11) are a Caribbean cruise from Southampton (via New York) departing early March, a Mediterranean cruise from Southampton departing mid-April and a westbound crossing departing late April. Can you give us an idea of what QM2 will be doing in January and February 2025?

Yes, I'm afraid you will have to call Cunard to verify the upgrade option that has been selected for your booking. There is nowhere to see that setting for yourself online via My Cunard.

QV is in Philipsburg, St Maarten today. Here's a good view of QV as seen on PTZtv's "Port St Maarten" webcam at "portstmaartenwebcam.com".

Thanks. Now I wish I could find those itineraries. Once again I'm stymied and unfortunately you can't tell us where to look. Is Queen Anne going to make an appearance in the US, during her world cruise or otherwise?

That location apparently also goes by the name Priory Wharf jetty, Birkenhead. Making sure I have the location identified precisely. 😀

That is indeed an interesting new perspective on a well known port. At first I thought it might be the crowd at St. Nazaire for the launch of QM2. But that turned out to be a dead end. Then I remembered another event where large crowds gathered to watch a Cunard ship (actually three Cunard ships). That was the Three Queens meeting in Liverpool to celebrate Cunard's 175th anniversary in May 2015. From your previous posting history, we know you were on QE for that event. But I was having trouble proving that shot is actually from Liverpool because I couldn't find any images showing that ramp descending to water level along the Liverpool waterfront. I was doubting my identification. Then I found this page from the Liverpool Echo which clinched the deal. 25 pictures that recall the Three Queens celebrations a year on Take a look at picture 11. That's an excellent match and its caption reads: "Cunard 175th celebrations on the River Mersey. Crowds line the Wirral waterfront" Further research along the Wirral waterfront helped narrow down the precise location. I believe what we are seeing here is the Monks Ferry slipway in Birkenhead.

I don't see a limit mentioned in the latest daily programmes I have from November-December 2022 on QM2, but the daily programmes I have from earlier years mention the watercolour art classes are limited to 25 guests. First come, first served I suppose if the limit should happen to be exceeded.

We're at the 24-hour mark for this contribution from @sfred so I'll go ahead and identify it now. The triangular structure to the right of center and to the left of the bridge was the key to identifying this one. I think this is Aomori, Japan. That same triangular structure was also the key to identifying this port the first time around. That's the Aomori Prefecture Tourist Center seen mostly side-on in this earlier view.

To elaborate on what @ballroom-cruisers has said, your only two options for purchasing the internet plans are as follows: 1) Purchase individual 24-hour segments on the days you need them at the higher price per day (e.g. $24 per day for the Essential package). After each purchase, you have a exactly 24 hours to use the internet from the time of purchase. 2) Purchase the full voyage package for all the remaining days of your voyage at the time of purchase for the lower price per day (e.g. $18 per day for the Essential package). You can only purchase 10 days at that lower price when there are 10 days remaining in your voyage. One detail I do not know about is what @TheOldBear mentioned in his latest reply. How does the new plan work for longer voyages which have individual segments (such as a 14-night round trip transatlantic crossing purchased as a single voyage)? Do we get separate CWC internet credits for each segment? When we purchase a full voyage package, do we commit to purchasing it for the full 14 day round trip at the beginning of the voyage or do we purchase separate 7 day packages at the beginning of each segment? The implication I get is that such a voyage now only gets one CWC benefit to cover the whole voyage and the full voyage package needs to be purchased for all segments when purchased at the beginning of the voyage. Is that how it works?

You can still peruse most deals/discounts via the "Special offers" link on the Cunard US website and you can peruse all the various itineraries via the voyage "Search" function without a login. But you can't see pricing that shows possible past passenger discounts unless you actually start a mock booking and get as far as the page where you enter your Cunard World Club number. So yes, the process to see past passenger discounts applied to fares is cumbersome at best. By the way, that same cumbersome process of starting a mock booking and entering your Cunard World Club number is how you see any Future Cruise Credit you might have with Cunard on the Cunard US website as well.

You are correct. The old internet pricing was based on total minutes used which could be spread out across the entire voyage. Here is the old pricing and the corresponding credits for each CWC level. 30 minutes = $15 120 minutes (Gold package) = $45 240 minutes (Platinum package) = $80 480 minutes (Diamond package) = $135 960 minutes = $220 1,920 minutes = $330 Now the pricing is based on entire days. That works out well for those who use the internet a lot and not so well for those who only use the internet for a few minutes a day. Note if you use the internet for an hour a day on a 7-night voyage, you will come out ahead with the new full voyage package at the Essential plan level. Under the old system you would have purchased the 480 minute plan for $135 to allow an hour usage each day for 7 days. Under the new plan and new pricing, you would purchase the Essential plan for 7 days at $18 per day = $126 and have no restriction on how long you can be on the internet each day.

@TheOldBear can confirm, but perhaps what he is saying is that one of them may have purchased a 'full voyage' package which exceeded the value of that individual's CWC credit hoping the other's credit would kick in to cover the excess. Unfortunately it does not work that way. As Diamond members, on our recent 13-night Caribbean cruise our strategy was for me to purchase 24 hour Essential plans to cover the first 3 sea days (3 x $20 = $60 leaving $75 credit remining for me). Then with 9 days remaining, my wife purchased the full voyage Essential package (9 x $15 = $135) using up her entire credit. Then with 5 days remaining, I also purchased the full voyage Essential package (5 x $15 = $75) using up my remaining credit so that we could both use the internet at the same time those last 5 days. Now with the internet package price increases I will need to redo the math for our next voyage to optimize the use of our CWC credits.

Absolutely agree about the lost Cunard World Club login that used to show your past voyage history and Cunard World Club status. Not sure I'm quite following the point about not being able to sign in to browse though. Perhaps you could clarify that for me. If you mean browsing voyages on sale, I can see how that might help to see past passenger discounts up front when those are available.

Not meaning to cause contention here, but I've noticed Cunard have raised the prices of their internet packages. For the Essential plan, the price used to be $15 per day if purchased for all the remaining days of the voyage. That's increasing to $18 per day. When purchased 24 hours at a time, the Essential plan was $20 per day. That's increasing to $24 per day. For the Premium plan, the price used to be $20 per day if purchased for the all the remaining days of the voyage. That's increasing to $24 per day. When purchased 24 hours at a time, the Premium plan was $30 per day. That's increasing to $36 per day. What I'm not seeing is any change to the complimentary internet credits for Gold, Platinum and Diamond Cunard World Club members. Those credits still appear to be $45 for Gold, $80 for Platinum and $135 for Diamond members. Unfortunately that would mean those credits won't go quite as far as they used to. For example, Diamond members used to be able to purchase the Essential plan for the last 9 nights of their voyage (9 days x $15 per day = $135). Now the $135 credit will only get Diamond members the Essential plan for the last 7 nights for free (7 days x $18 = $126). As another example, when paying for individual 24 hour blocks of time, Platinum members used to be able get 4 days of the Essential plan (4 days x $20 = $80). Now the $80 credit will only get Platinum members 3 days of the Essential plan for free when buying 24 hours at a time (3 days x $24 = $72).

I'm seeing MSC Meraviglia scheduled to be in New York starting April 20 and reports are she will be operating out of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.

Good to see another contribution. I'll defer identifying this one for now to give others (especially those in the UK) a chance at it. I believe I identified this one after a bit of a struggle the first time around.

I note the article states "The Brooklyn relief center will operate until the start of cruise season this spring." For QM2, the start of the season is April 30th at the end of her world cruise.

This may be a good time to post updated lists of the ports/cruise-by locations we've seen on this thread and Cunard ports we haven't seen yet. As always, I'd like to encourage everyone to contribute photos you may have showing any of the unseen ports or different perspectives of ports we have seen already. Where in the World 2023-01-21.txt Cunard ports not seen yet 2023-01-21.txt

There is no sign-in functionality on the Cunard US website other than to "Manage my booking" which of course only applies if you have already booked a cruise. Unfortunately there is no functionality any more to view your past booking history online. You will need to phone Cunard US customer service to obtain that history. There is no ability to sign in before booking a cruise on the Cunard US website. If you book a cruise on the Cunard US website, you supply your full name, address, date of birth, phone number, email address, etc. along with your existing Cunard World Club number during the booking process.

Yes, there are gala evenings with no themes. That's especially true of the four night cruises to Hamburg where they generally try to schedule gala evenings on both sea days of a short cruise. Sometimes one of those two evenings will have a theme, other times not. And sometimes one or both of those gala evenings might be designated "optional" on those short cruises. The next day after those gala evenings will be disembarkation day for some/many passengers, so I suppose that's why they may want to keep those gala evenings a bit more low-key by not designating a theme and/or designating them as optional.