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Mark Oliver, his late night one was about the only funny one of the three appearances.

This was us queuing outside the Ocean terminal, we were here for about 40 minutes, 7 queues plus priority. And inside, this went back and forth half a dozen times, you could not sit down, this took about an hour. Glad Im in a suite next time!

I was on this too but will do a cruise review as there were some things not right. Embarkation was chaos. We did the MDR twice and the food was mediocre, loved the Beach house, Limelight club but was left very disappointed by the Epicurean. Ports of call good though.

Only Mediterranean but there were queues for suites and Caribbean tier and above. They had 27 check in desks for 4000 odd passengers. Our check in should have been 15:15 but we got on at just gone 4 after arriving at 2:50

Took an hour of standing to get to the check in desk. You couldn't sit in Ocean terminal and it was a free for all as they were ignoring the arrival times. My cruise review is underway!

Currently on Britannia and boarding was crazy, if you have any other questions feel free to ask.

I'm currently on Britannia and I could book 9 days out. They sent the email saying you could book dining six days out.

I'll let you know after Friday!

Anyone know if you can reach the ships wifi from their terminal (in our case Ocean), we have a very late boarding time and I suspect the cookery club will book up fast and wondered if I can book it while waiting to board.

Its the ship that is connected to the satellite not the phones.

Nice pics thank you, we are on her next week to France and Spain.

Do you mean booking the seats 14 weeks out 😐

Booked Premium Economy today £509 each.

My travel agent told me to ring P&O to book premium, P&O then told me to ring the travel agent. I asked P&O while I was on to them if PE was available for my January 2025 flight and she said yes. Rang the travel agent and spoke to someone different and she said she would get pricing for me from P&O. Ring P&O if you think they are fobbing you off, they cant give you pricing but can tell you if its available. The 14 week thing is for seat selection I do believe, not choosing you travel class

Yes you can, we use them all the time! We use the below which shows all the details. You can get them quite cheaply on Amazon

I have only ever booked the package with P&O so not sure sorry. Thats comforting to know, did you do Premium economy or was "Cattle class" ok

Its a gamble, we booked for Jan 2025 a year ago as it is a 60th birthday with 4 generations of people. When we booked it was all London airports, ended up with Gatwick which I hate and Norse Air which I have no experience of. In an ideal world I would have liked flights out of Birmingham on Virgin with Upper class for me and the birthday girl, ah well.

Asked if we could fly from Birmingham and got told no, then asked about upgrade to Premium for our Gatwick flight and they said there is no Premium seating. Feeling slightly deflated.

Think they will be back by now!

Was that (hopefully) both ways?

Well in all my years of having the drinks package they have let me go over or once you get to know the crew they will say you have hit 15 drinks but your partner is on say 10 and will put it on their card. Looked it up and you can go over if you pay:

Ooh Birmingham wasnt an option when I booked, wonder if they will let us change from London airport to Birmingham, that would save us a lot of hassle. We are going on a Saturday to Arvia, cant see the carrier for that?

Once you hit the 15 drink limit with the package you can carry on drinking but you have to pay for it

I'm on 27 cruises with Princess. To not have any priority boarding in Fort Lauderdale was quite annoying especially after US customs at Miami airport. Anyone that has flown to Miami will know what I mean! Would be nice to see Southampton keeping to the good old days of boarding.

We were on Caribbean Princess in December and there is no Elite priority boarding any more, was quite frustrating as it took us a good hour of queuing at Fort Lauderdale