Megabear2

They endeavour to keep you together. As a couple it may be across an aisle. Best to get to the check in early. The return journey is allocated onboard by P&O and is much more random with no chance to ask for a change.

One of my banks encouraged me to use the paying in machine. When I said I'd rather use the counter and surely that was better for her she told me HO looks at the machines and if a certain amount of use doesn't occur the branch is considered as at risk of closure. Couldn't understand at first then she explained it was expected the machine handled "X" transactions an hour compared to the counter person with "Y" and if the overall total wasn't "Z" it was felt the branch was under used. Seemed totally crazy to me. The change machine gives you a slip to pay into your account so you can choose to use the counter if you wish, just lose the bagging up bit.

It's getting greener for the P&O staff too! Having just had my worse wait in months to speak to them to buy my wine package i just got a guy who said Congratulations you're going to be my last ever customer! Transpires he's leaving his job and 5.00pm is finish for him. He's leaving the travel industry completely to go into catering - you've not been headhunting have you ICF.

I love those machines! My OH runs a football side and the lads all pay in cash. Strangely no one ever puts a note in and I had the dubious honour of counting and bagging it every month. The bank my OH uses doesn't have the counting machine so I take the money to my own bank and get it put in my account and then do a quick transfer to the other bank. It saves me a good hour of huffing and puffing and double checking. And for good measure I'm being good and visiting two banks to keep them open. Actually we're very lucky as every major bank has a branch open here, we only lost TSB and RBS (the latter we can use Natwest for though so not a real loss). I think we are a very rare animal now.

This one has been well repeated. My memory serves: price was dropped significantly before sailing, itinerary was changed quite a lot and less ports as a result, once sailingports were missed and there was a very long period at sea before the next stop, the ship sailed late - around 11.00pm if I recall, US immigration took until 4.30pm in the afternoon, two glasses of wine were nearly £20, the food was cold, the menu held little variety ... You get the idea. The gentleman unfortunately was unhappy with most of the cruise, I recall he wanted to get off after a week or so. This was one of the 35 night cruises. He's now very active on the Princess board so I assume he's moved to their ships for his next cruise.

Told you we knew nothing about wine ..

Nearly every day on our cruise is a port day ...

Excellent... which package as I can't see it on the list! Leaflet-Wine-Packages-23-(POC) (4)-2.pdf

I'd be very cross if it's not open on my Britannia cruise in January. Have they given a reason?

Your inside would have been the identical size. Yes, they are tight. Mind you Arvia's are even tighter yet I saw lots of babies and children going into them.

It's because your booking is for 3 so despite your not needing it the system states you must have 3 beds available. It's an oddity of the system computer says ...

The OP's cabin has fold down beds so need to use the wall space. There would be none if the beds weren't under the window?

These are pictures of the equivalent cabin on two Princess ships which are basically the same. You can see the difference in the amount of room and why P&O are saying twin beds.

That's exactly right, you've hit the nail on the head. The emailed instructions can change as well! I've had a change of Captain mean a change of arrangements put in place months before. What happens onboard is down him/her and they all have different attitudes and preferences. Basically what arrangements you make are all subject to that individual. I'm sure it will be fine and your holiday will be great.

That will be a good place to be compared with P deck, theatre or not. I've had inside room P319 - I actually liked it for convenience but Brodies is immediately above and it and not only is there noise from the pub including seats being dragged around but it gets heavy cleaning starting at 5.00am lasting a good hour. As Moley said if the beds aren't fixed you should be able to arrange the change once you place the cot. Unfortunately shoreside arrangements are often bad. Celebrity last year insisted my 35 year old friend and I had a double bed we didn't want. We ended up with literally 8 inches between the two beds as it was all the room available. I had to go sideways past the wardrobe on my righthandside as it was the only way to get out of my bed. Good job we are very close friends!

I believe you said it was an obstructed outside? There are two P deck fully obstructed cabins with fixed beds, P325 and P328. The remainder of fixed bed cabins are also on P deck and are at the front.

Have you the room number? It would be helpful to be able to see if it's one that actually can be set up as a double in which case it can be sorted straightaway. On occasion I've arrived to find the wrong bed set up, not just on P&O, and the cabin attendant changed it straightawayl

They won't be. CDC and the equivalent aren't interested. The tough guys are the Aussies and they haven’t been phased by the "covid like " illness either.

Horrible experience. As you like figures, have a look here https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/gilist.htm

Correct. Believe me you'd know only too easily if you had a gastric/noro virus. It is incredibly quick and violent.

More or less, yes. Covid is airborne whereas norovirus is by touch. Deep cleaning and sanitation processes can eradicate noro but not covid. Noro is easily passed by touch whereas we now know covid isn't. The new variant does cause s&d but it is not violent or transmitted in the same way as the noro or other sickness bugs.

Look under the deals tab?

You have to log in to your individual cruises. Each one will carry the offers for that particular cruise. I have three, they all have excursions, spa, Internet and gift offerings. For the excursions the descriptions have a red price and black Friday deal across them.

I appreciate your choices but the problems are in other places and as you tend to go into attack mode when people explain their experiences in fairness you need to understand everyone has different expectations. Andersons for instance isn't a particularly great place for a solo non alcohol drinker. Atriums on the other hand offer lots of music, dancing etc on other ships and are actually the main hub. As such they're ideal for socialising, hence their popularity.

Interesting choice of venues. Basically at night apart from the restaurants you don't use any large venues at all so you rarely encounter the things people give bad feedback on. The pool bars are not open late on a non Caribbean cruise either as the weather/sea conditions are not ideal after sunset. Explains a great deal. Really you're saying you don't see the problems so aren't really in a position to comment or tell people they're being unreasonable when they say they've experienced something different to you.