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Host Hattie. This of us who have the US Grills drinks package get any drinks under $12. There is still a gratuity added which we do not pay, but the sommelier gets that 15% gratuity. It is a strange system for sure IT is not like the Cunard drinks package on which NO 15% is added as it is supposedly included.

Bell Boy, that is an improvement on the Sommeliers we have had in PG, but for a different reason. The "free drink package" for the US Guests results in overly zealous Wine stewards trying to earn their 15%, which is added to all of the orders on this package. Leisurely drinks never happened. It is truly bizarre.

So grateful to you Bellboy. You reassured us tremendously. Hope to sail with you again soon.

I understand your commentary but for those of us who are aging out of the cruising demographic, who enjoy taking longer voyages, the Queen Anne is the only Queen that offered the World Cruise for 2025. Queen Victoria is doing the South America voyage, which is lovely but we have done that one. Booking a Queens Grill cabin is tough at the best of times but with a maiden world cruise it was next to impossible. I booked a Guarantee Q4 in July of 2023. Sadly, the cruises on Queen Anne are available to Southampton cruisers and the first time it arrives in the USA is January of next year. We would have loved to have been able to book a "taster" cruise before booking the World voyage. It is one thing to look at the brochures but in order to truly appreciate the atmosphere of the ship you have to actually sail on it. So many Vloggers are in love with the Queen Anne but they also give away the fact that they have never been on a Cunard ship before. I am certain that she is lovely . I believe that QA is best suited to 7-14 day voyages.

I wonder how much else will be taken away. If it is working for Cunard, they will eliminate a lot of things.

Do the points show up AFTER the charge is paid? I only ask this because my offer on my AMEX platinum states that the offer is valid for payments made after May2. Usually no points are granted until after the charge is paid. I would assume that the offer would depend on payment being made. And my points for spending on my Amex are only granted after the charge has been paid. ****Edit****That being said, Idid read the terms and conditions and it does state that this is not valid if the payment is made through a third party travel site. All of my statements say that the charge is for Cunard, not the agency. My price for booking directly my travel agency was considerably less than booking it through Cunard and subsequently transferring it, so I take that as a win.

Where do you find these rates? Please and thank you. We are Diamond so we are definitely past passengers. Sorry, I just found it.

I will be searching for your opinions. I am worried about spending 81 days onboard. We are old school Cunarders(make that OLD) and enjoy the laid back luxury that Cunard affords.

Thank you for saying what I have been thinking. I am not at all impressed with the poor excuse for chairs> We are supposed to be spending 81 days in there for the Grand Voyage and I am not impressed with what I am seeing. Cunard seems to have forgotten that those who cruise on long voyages in Queens Grill have many options available to us. The Britannia Club dining room chairs looked much better than those is the QG.

Thank you so much for this information Lesley. I mentioned to Alan that we are going to be sending our formal wear ahead to San Francisco using a luggage forwarding service and we will do the same for the return if we disembark in NYC. Doing so from Southampton would be insanely expensive. We are in QG on the Queen Anne but going back to the US in First Class would cost us more than a sheltered balcony on QM2. AND we would be able to adjust better to the time changes.

Thanks for answering the next question. I am aware that there is no luggage storage at the port, but I will not be needing that anyway.

We are sailing on the Queen Anne Maiden World Voyage. We return to Southampton on April 27. 2025 We are considering booking QM2 to return to NYC on the same day. Does anyone have any experience with the transferring of luggage between two ships?

I came over first in 1957, arriving in Quebec on April 27, 1957. We were on the Arosa Kulm, a converted troop ship, built in 1919. We were in Tourist class, with two double bunks, a crib, a sink and small toilet. There was no separation between the toilet and bed area. The trip was very rocky. Our ship was berthed beside the Queen Mary but it was dwarfed be her. It was less than 8,000 tonnes. IT was 436 ft long. Jeff Bezos' yacht Koro is 416 ft long. Think about that statistic. There were 900 passengers on our ship. It was one of only 8 ships that survived WW2 and was placed into Passenger service until 1960. In 1960 we took the "Immigrant Regret Hiraeth" sailing back to Wales on a ship called the Italia by Home Lines. It was much bigger, as it had 21,600 GRT. and was 608 feet long. I have the original brochure for that one. We had no toilet in the room but the community toilets and bathing areas were down the corridor. We were in Tourist class and were on the lowest deck. We flew back to North America three months later and my father did not live long enough to go back to Wales. We will be in Q4 on a portion of Queen Anne's maiden World voyage. We are going from San Francisco to Southampton. The amazing opportunities that I have been afforded are not lost on me. I have been blessed beyond belief. This will most likely be our last long voyage and we were conflicted when the itinerary was changed, but realize that the Middle East will be off limits for some time. We thought of taking a different cruise line and therefore a different route, but remembered that Cunard suits us best. .

And ME!!! We all love Roscoe ❤️ Missing you all.

BB, I booked my cruise through Cunard and transferred it to Costco within the 21 day period to get the pre-existing condition waiver. GO BILLS!!!!!! (Today is January 15. 2024. ) 🙂

Well, well, well, another Expos fan. Went to the second home game in 1969. Little did I know that my husband was there too but we did not meet until the end of June 1969. 🙂

That is not how it works in Grills. You have a table for the duration of your voyage. It is up to the Maitre D to determine who gets the window table, based on when the cruise was booked and loyalty to Cunard.

Dear Ross, My husband and I are much older than most people on these boards. We will be in Auckland for two days while on the Queen Anne Maiden World cruise. We have already been to Waiheke Island, although he is hell bent on returning and I can not find fault with that. Other than perhaps smuggling you onboard, if you are in the area, what would you suggest we do in Auckland? 😇 Evana

Roscoe, very interesting about the lack of entertaining lecturers. I will be interested to see if this is remedied by July when I take the Iceland cruise. AND What were those interlopers even thinking? Forcing you to get up earlier and earlier to get the seat that you so carefully preserve! A curse on their staterooms. 🙂 Enjoy.....

They have seemingly outsourced their live phone agents. Today I spoke with two agents regarding a drop in price of my booking and an increase in OBC. The first one told me I had a good price and what was my problem? Then the line disconnected. The second one went to speak to a Supervisor and never came back. I will try the live chat next. Thanks

Thanks for that information. I am trying to be patient and not put too many irons in the fire at this point. We have multiple claims because we also dealt with Covid and isolation for three weeks. I have not made the Health claim with Aon yet. I have filed for missed hotels and prepaid trips through the trip interruption and am waiting for that as well. I did not file those with Chase and it would have been useless because we were unable to return home within the claim filing deadline.

We had a Transatlantic cruise this past April. We purchased the cruise line insurance . I had two visits to the clinic onboard the ship and was sent to a hospital for treatment on one day. I paid for everything when I was billed. The total came to almost $1000. I returned home and submitted my bills to my United Health care Plan F claims department. That was on May 29. I have receipts for their arrival at the Insurance offices. I have been waiting since then for word as to how much will be reimbursed. Plan F supposedly pays 80% of foreign claims. I am waiting for this before I can file a claim with AON which insures Celebrity. I have been told that the claims are paid in the order that they are received and that they are getting to those for the month of May soon. They hope that they will resolve. this by the end of the month. Does this sound normal? As I paid for the hospital bill with my Chase Sapphire card am I better off trying to get reimbursement there? Thanks in advance.

We booked the Emerald September 29/23 on June 17. Nobody at Princess mentioned anything. That is super strange. We want an M1 and are waitlisted for one .