Britannia Club ?

[JimDee363636]

@BklynBoy8 @exlondoner @Host HattieThanks for the quick replies. We'll survive!

 

Jim

[exlondoner]

27 minutes ago, JimDee363636 said:

@BklynBoy8 @exlondoner @Host HattieThanks for the quick replies. We'll survive!

 

Jim

As you can’t use the restaurant, you might even like to consider having an early lunch ashore before boarding, and missing the crowd. 

Edited June 10 by exlondoner

[Bell Boy]

1 hour ago, JimDee363636 said:

A quick Britannia Club question:

 

We'll be on QA in a Club cabin for the June 30-July 14 sailing. Can we expect the Club restaurant to be open for lunch on embarkation day?

 

Jim 

 

 

No, Britannia Club across the fleet is never open on embarkation day ,  however, oddly enough (can't they cope 🤷‍♂️)  the Main Britannia Restaurant on QA  is open for lunch on embarkation day as is the self service buffet.  

The Britannia Club Restaurant is  also used daily as an overflow for Afternoon Tea from the 'So Called Queens Room' 

Another example of QA promoting its self as a Trend Setter. 👎

 

[foodsvcmgr]

Would seem like Cunard opening the Club for embarkation lunch could be easily accomplished at little cost and would give them an additional perk to advertise.

[ew101]

7 hours ago, foodsvcmgr said:

Would seem like Cunard opening the Club for embarkation lunch could be easily accomplished at little cost and would give them an additional perk to advertise.

A guess is the venues are not open to allow a higher percentage of the staff to have a few hours of shore leave between voyages.   

[BklynBoy8]

32 minutes ago, ew101 said:

A guess is the venues are not open to allow a higher percentage of the staff to have a few hours of shore leave between voyages.   

 

As we have experienced, they use many for different tasks on the ship. One important one is in the Kings Court and Carinthia to service those boarding and get the job done before New Muster Drill (announcement of Muster Procedures) now done on the Public Announcement.

 

Past experience in the different Food Court areas, we have seen our future waiters helping in those area. We have heard that especially in NY the crew rarely get too much time for shore leave.

[exlondoner]

4 hours ago, BklynBoy8 said:

 

As we have experienced, they use many for different tasks on the ship. One important one is in the Kings Court and Carinthia to service those boarding and get the job done before New Muster Drill (announcement of Muster Procedures) now done on the Public Announcement.

 

Past experience in the different Food Court areas, we have seen our future waiters helping in those area. We have heard that especially in NY the crew rarely get too much time for shore leave.

Someone has to move all that luggage that everyone naturally wants as promptly as possible. And someone else has to sort the mountain of stores coming aboard.

[BklynBoy8]

8 hours ago, exlondoner said:

Someone has to move all that luggage that everyone naturally wants as promptly as possible. And someone else has to sort the mountain of stores coming aboard.

 

As our connection to many staff on board over the years, most of the staff are known to be assigned to their department. Housekeeping work with accepting luggage from the designated closed elevators to the cabins/suites along the hallways on the floors. While cabin steward ready the turnover for arriving passengers.

 

Deck hands accept the pallets onto the ship and shuttle them to storage and other locations on the ship.

 

Wait staff except assigned to the Grills are used to help move along the passengers during the embarkation boarding at the Food Courts. They also help with beverage deliveries to passengers.Have had many great conversations with restaurant staff over the decades and always asked where certain staff we are familiar with are. Ex. Grill waiter needed in KC on the day docking in Port of Call...  Even seen a Grill M'd assisting in Carinthia once.

 

Their assigned use maybe contained in their contracts.