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The simple answer is yes, however usually its heavily advised against on embarkation day. If the weather is as suspected, they may say no for health & safety reasons.

Mobility Scooters They must be kept in an accessible cabin or most suite cabins. This has been the rule since 2018. I'm sorry your TA gave you bad advice. Its no wonder that they are happy to refund your deposit even though P&O won't. Some American lines still allow the use of mobility scooters in standard cabins as the ADA laws basically require that if it fits, it can be used. This therefore generally applies to ships form the US based lines. Pushchairs The official line is that pushchairs must also be kept inside your cabin. I believe the captain is supposed to mention this on cruises where buggy use is expected to be high. If you're a disabled user and a pushchair is in your way to get to your cabin, alert reception from the nearest lobby phone and someone will be with you very quickly. Where reported, reception does discuss with cabin occupants and remind them of why it must be kept in the cabin. Interaction between Mobility Scooters and Pushchairs This one is simple - wheelchairs and scooters take priority over pushchairs in every instance. ADA, EU and UK law all favour in the same way.

The weather is coming from the Channel Islands and heading towards the north sea. So MSC and Ventura should be will be fine departing at some point Saturday evening. Luckily for the port, this is one of the quietest weekends of the summer with Arvia and Britannia both absent and generally only 3 ships in on each of Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

We are due some really bad weather this weekend between Saturday lunchtime and Sunday lunchtime. I understand that Iona is due in doc as planned for 0630 on Saturday but will not leave until Sunday morning - time as yet to be announced. Passengers will disembark and embark on Saturday as planned but the ship will remain docked at Ocean terminal.

Yeah, I’ve since read some of the other articles. From a Carnival perspective, I meant. The articles are limited use as they basically list every new cruise ship delivered since 2020.

So Carnival did mention that they had one affected ship. They will however be checking records for each ship. It could be that Rotterdam is the only ship in service. That would make sense if Queen Anne and Sun Princess are all being mentioned. Seems to be a problem related to ships built by Fincantieri at present. That fits with the three ships listed above. Discovery Princess was the last Royal class delivered from Fincantieri so sensible that it is checked.

Sorry you didn’t like your upgrade. The terms state that if successful you get what you get and can’t turn it down. It’s a massive gamble. But if you’re someone who parties til 3am in the Live Lounge - it’s probably not a bad cabin.

Understand that other sources that no body was injured and crew did amazing job dealing with the fire. As is usual, other ships in the area will have been put on alert in case assistance with evacuating passengers and crew was needed, but thankfully not this time.

This is very true. This is correct. The pinch point is security. The reason for the queuing is to keep the number of people in the terminal at a safe level. Security is slower than check-in typically so if not managed, you would get a build up between security and check-in. Before Iona arrived, additional security was installed in the Ocean terminal but anyone who has been through an airport will know how hit and miss it is.

Concerning however such detailed records are kept of parts used in building a ship, batches etc, thus should be easily identifiable. Parts are tested and certified before first use then retested periodically/every so many. For me this is the system working. Clearly something has changed between certification and retest. It causes a problem, it’s been caught and cruise operators can swap out the affected parts. Whether the ships continue to sail until the issue is resolved likely depends on if there is one panel or 100, is it in a public space or is it in each cabin. Finally the FT suggests it affects one Carnival ship. This likely rules out the Excel or Royal classes where multiple ships were being built at overlapping times. One off ship builds could be Rotterdam, Queen Anne or Seabourn Venture/Pursuit.

I don't believe laundry offers are available on Iona / Arvia.

Confirming what others have said, that this is a full crew refresher. I'm not aware that its the reintroduction of the old process. Its worth noting that P&O had already started pre-pandemic to no lifejackets required when attending.

So sorry for your loss.

I believe now we’re out of the pandemic, a ship has to undertake a traditional muster periodically. So so not every cruise. That was what was being proposed.

The bargains are being made in the extra cabins on the bigger ships. With the odd exception, your Arcadia’s and Aurora’s are still commanding a fairly high price. Iona and Arvia is where you £50pppn bath is are because they’ve already sold enough to cover the costs of the cruise. That 7 day cruise at £350, 6 months out, is £50 taxes and £300 profit. Once on board people spend money, which is largely profit. Hook people in and next year they’ll spend £800 on a balcony. Still £50 taxes but now £750 profit. They’ll still spend on board! General likelihood also that this years £350 bargains will be £400 or £450 next year. If you put every fare on each Iona cruise up by £10pppn next year, you’d increase revenue by £19m. About £89m across the P&O fleet.

Dividers that separate the fire zones cannot be opened. Moving from say a 1xx cabin to a 2xx cabin. Also there is a limit to the number that can be opened on any specific deck area. So the cabin steward will need permission from his manager, but can generally sort.

Rotterdam is alongside today, due in around 10am local time. As the bigger ship, its sensible that she is alongside. I do agree that this isn't good for those in wheelchairs and should have been advertised earlier - I don't know what was shown on the my.pocruises.com but as others have said, it didn't appear to show on the main website.

Not in the next 3 years. They reckon they will be having investment grade metrics in 3 years, and one of those would be the ability to pay a dividend.

Its funny what difference a year makes.... here is the thread from a year ago: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2858381-when-will-carnival-shares-be-worth-buying/ I'm also going to link to this post I made in October 22. What is interesting... 1. Josh Weinstein is very much voice of the company now. Leading from the front. 2. He has his own executive team and the market like it. 3. Prices are rising - especially on CCL where lack of availability causes issue. 4. Even Paul Ludlow has a new role. A lot of the uncertainties about where Carnival, as a corporation, see themselves have gone. They have customer booking endorsement too. The potential recessions are a worry and it won't be 100% plain sailing but the ship is now steaming forward. This has led to Carnival now have a number of analysts on their side, a three year plan to get back to investment great, record customer deposits, record bookings in Q2 let alone Q1 and this is without the China market. Late last week, one analysts raised their target price to $25 and this lead to the US stock closing at $19 and UK closing at £13. If Q3 is as good as predicted, and Q4 remains in check, £20/$28 by year end looks within possibility. I've read people elsewhere on CC question why CCL has not kept pace with RCL. The graphs look very similar, just RCL have had a 400% increase on 12 months whereas CCL and NCL have had 100% increases, That for me is key, you don't see company's sustain growth like that. I would expect RCL to peak shortly and maybe fall back 20% as other cruise stocks catch-up. A quarter or two ago RCI were posting great recovery results and CCL's weren't as good. Now the boot is on the other rudder and CCL are posting record breaking results. The market will expect RCL to match that.

There may be the odd exception. Iona/Arvia is better in this regard as most balcony cabins have sofa which converts to a bed.

And yes, I know AIS is showing destination as Valencia but I think that’s wrong based on current course/speed.

I believe it was due to be Friday Valencia Saturday at Sea Sunday Marseille Monday arrive Barcelona it actually appears that Friday Valencia Saturday Cartagena Sunday at Sea Monday arrive Barcelona

Olden still down for 19th. A few people have reported Olden not showing correctly; on the same day as sailing two fjords.

If you contact P&O they will give you provisional times, They are firmed up about a month out. They are only finalised a day or two out, dependent upon wind, pilots etc.

Having looked at the lists available on other sites, and my knowledge of Iona, it does alternate, practically always, but not always.