Live - Gem 10th July 2022 from Venice (Trieste).

[RBrowny]

10 minutes ago, ziggyuk said:

 

I love the smaller ships, the Gem, Jade & Jewel are all similar and I go on the regularly.
For me the bigger ships have some fantastic west end shows, comedy club or Beatles in the Cavern Club, you would probably like the district brewhouse with all their beers on tap (not all big ships have this). However, I don't like the crowds of the big ships and I would never use laser tag or go carts so for me the big ships only advantage is the entertainment.

That's understandable, I hope the entertainment is enjoyable for us and there's a bit of variety. I believe it's more tailored towards Americans, so not sure what to expect from that. Some of the other ships look amazing, but I think this is a nice taster, my partner hasn't been on a cruise so I think a nice quiet introduction will go well. The brewhouse does sound right up my street.

[MagnoliaBlossom]

On 7/10/2022 at 4:02 AM, ziggyuk said:

OK so we are on the train to the port after a bad night.

It's history now but our flight was delayed and the hotel refused a late check in so we were left with no hotel and hotels.com were useless.

No harm, we managed to find a new hotel, not great but a bed for the night and all is fine today.

 

Just a bit of a panic yesterday, In the past I have found hotels.com very good but yesterday, I only needed a hotel and was happy to pay again but they did not want to help.

Oh well past history not to dwell on further, logged in the brain cells for further bookings.

About half an hour from the ports. 🍾🎉

I have found that hotels.com has episodic periods of awful customer service.  Doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason to it, but exasperatinggwhen if happens.

[ziggyuk]

5 minutes ago, MagnoliaBlossom said:

I have found that hotels.com has episodic periods of awful customer service.  Doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason to it, but exasperatinggwhen if happens.

 

I agree, they used to be really good pulling out all the stops to put thing right, these days they don't appear to care less.

[texascane]

Do you remember what time folks were able to disembark, specifically the ones carrying their own luggage? I am trying to figure out what time I'll get off the ship and make it for a flight.