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Marella go there regularly on their 14 night fly cruises. I think I also saw MSC in 2025 calling.

The 24 night Aurora Caribbean and 35 night Ventura cruises in 2024 and 2025 are visiting Guadeloupe. Prior to pandemic when the itineraries changed every year Azura called there. Unfortunately the itineraries don't appear to change for variety since 2019.

How far in advance do they go? I'm aware from the Cunard forum that people are piecing together 2026 itineraries but most ports I look at for P&O ships have the usual blanks.

I have one of these on my Cunard voyage in January 2025. It advertises as "overnight" and offers the following: 26 Jan 2025 - 27 Jan 2025 Arrives Early morning Departs Early evening That seems a definite guide to having a full overnight, whereas yours looks a lot like any time after 00:01 would technically be correct.

Thanks for the info. It has been confirmed by both P&O and Cunard that there will be no step test on any of our cruises save the one all passengers take on leaving the ship. We did in fact receive a confirmation from higher up the chain that this was mistakenly told to us as only those who use walking sticks full time and have notified of needing one to one assistance would be asked to do this if thought necessary by crew. As I have stated on the forms the nature and circumstances of the illnesses my husband has the medical advisers were at a loss as to why we were told such an individual requirement had been told to us. I repeat for your benefit that taking a step test was not the problem, it was being singled out that caused the upset. My husband is extremely sensitive about his illnesses and mentally he gets very stressed at even having to mention them. His main illness is totally invisible and as a consequence he did not want me to mention it but me being me thought it wise to do so. For the stress and upset it has caused I am seriously considering never mentioning it again, particularly as at one point they were insisting we had assistance at the airport as well. Ironically in an emergency I'd rely very much on him for assistance as I'm pretty useless on stairs myself.

Sorry to revive an older thread. I am looking to book one of the Caribbean 35 night cruises in 20245 - either January or March. My travel agent has offered a special deal on a sheltered balcony with all grades tte same price. As transatlantic in winter will be involved this seems a good option? Regarding position and deck are there any preferences to bear in mind when choosing? I am very familiar with the Queen but have never sailed in a sheltered balcony. I will be accompanied by my husband who has never sailed on Queen Mary 2, his only Cunard trip being on Queen Elizabeth and in September next year on Queen Anne. Budget is a consideration in our choice - we have also been offered an obstructed view with automatic upgrade to the top grade sheltered. Thank you.

I'd say yes you will need to. Certainly they made us do one for each cruise despite our submitting the old paper version and reading Terrierjohn's post he too has filled them in on line a second time. Incidentally a highly regarded travel agent many on here use just booked a couple of Cunard and P&O cruises for me and they insisted I gave them details over the phone at time of booking despite my saying I'd do them myself online. I was told they would not make the booking without my stating one to one assistance minimum with the occasional use walking stick.

I ended up filling in 3 forms for each cruise! After a lot of discussions and argument I received this: Good morning X Thank you for your email. We have received the On Board Needs questionnaire for Mr X, and this has been recorded against the above booking. Should any requirements change prior to sailing please do let us know. We look forward to welcoming you on board. Kind regards Megan Guest Support Representative Accessibility" Your guess is as good as mine.

Rc had cruises departing Barbados a while back. The Americans hated them, didn't like the airport and immigration rules apparently. It was during the pandemic but they were very unpopular on the forum over there.

Never mind Arvia, it's been that way since Ventura and then Azura and Britannia! Airport Expansion is planned into the Concorde Experience, perhaps P&O could fly everyone home on that!

That's pretty standard then.

Munich airport reopened 6.00am this morning and playing catch up. My friends live in the centre and today are going to the Christmas market and ice skating. If that was the UK with an inch of snow it would be shut for a week!

Assuming it's based on the technical issue the compensation will be £520pp, so certainly not to be sniffed at.

How delayed were the TUI flights? Assumedly some were weather related but for them all to be delayed seems rather odd.

Is this visiting the gardens before the visit to the village where most of the scenes are shot? If so that from my recollection is where the bumpy and hilly ground was. However I did the tour back in 2017 so it may have changed. I do recall the actual place where filming takes place as being very small - one street - and although the buildings etc were recognisable the signs had not been put out for our trip. Regarding the beach, if you mean the one where the shack is it is lovely but be aware the shack is dismantled when they aren't filming.

Excellent.

From Antigua Airport site: https://vcbia.com/?s=&r=&airline=&flight_number=Maleth 2023-12-02 20:00 Maleth-Aero DB1106 Manchester Airport cancelled

They're scheduled back in at just before 2.00am. I hope no one is relying on public transport in this weather.

The 12.00 Maleth flight to Antigua is currently shown as boarding. The flight in is due 15.35 from Barbados. If this is correct another plane was supposedly available.

The contract with Thomas Cook was in place. Don't forget they went out of business in September 2019. The pandemic came along then so no cruises so very hard to plan in fairness.

Thank you for the information. As one of the people affected by TUI flight problems over the past few years (and also the broken entertainment system) I was simply pointing out that no matter which airline technical issues happen. These P&O charters very rarely leave on time regardless of which airline although last year's flights truly were a nightmare regardless of which airport was the source. As has been mentioned throughout this thread both Virgin and BA had no aircraft to offer to P&O this year for charters. In your reply to Zap you mentioned higher cost and choice. Are you advocating that P&O stop the charters and get passengers to add on flights? Interestingly going forward to 2025/26 Cunard are moving Queen Elizabeth to a winter Caribbean season. There will presumably therefore be more pressure on air services to that reason to meet the demand and it will be interesting to see what arrangements are being put in place for these cruises. Meantime we have Princess considering chartering to fly people to their Mediterranean based ships due to the difficulties they are having getting their guests to thr region. It is going to be an interesting time with fly cruises, particularly if the new aircraft deliveries don't start rolling through.

There is a worldwide shortage of aircraft due to delays in deliveries. On several occasions last year there were very long delays for P&O passengers, these being TUI flights. I believe one Christmas flight from Manchester had a 12 hour delay last year so delays of this length have occurred. One Glasgow flight failed to arrive in Barbados on the Friday at the same time and the passengers were returned overnight to the ship. Unfortunately it happens. Maleth are going to unfortunately be a little more open to a long delay if an aircraft goes technical, purely down to them having less aircraft to call upon at short notice. However they did thankfully source the aircraft and passengers did make it to Barbados. The real gamble on all these flights whatever operator is the Saturday flights getting into the Caribbean in reasonable time as the ship's schedule will be impacted. A couple of years back Britannia waited a day extra in Barbados for late aircraft arrivals which led to the loss of the first port of call. To their credit P&O laid on excursions, and gave everyone some OBC by way of compensation. Travelling a long distance to join a ship is a risk and passengers need to accept that.

Appreciate you were on Britannia a while back but do you recall seeing the North Macedonian and Indian white wines on the Glass House menu? We tried them last year unsure what to expect and really liked them.

No, it's a standard UK charter. If I book a package holiday with TUI, Jet2, BA or Virgin my luggage is automatically included at 20kgs or 23kgs. Realistically no one would book a fly cruise on a charter if the luggage isn't included, this is not a put together package using scheduled flights. Some TUI package holidays now use Easyjet flights and are listed as hand luggage only but any "true" package has the luggage included. I have started using BA to create flight plus hotel packages as it includes 23kg of luggage automatically. Yesterday booked for Amsterdam next May where doing it this way saved over £350 on the individual prices and although I doubt we'll need it two 23kg allowances.

This will be year 4 of the online form for us. Also last year everything went electronic, no more stamp in your passport on exit.