QV Guest Navigation Channel No. 42

[RJChatsworth]

Currently on QV going round the Iberian Peninsula. Wednesday night in Biscay the weather was horrendous. The seas were 25 feet.  The main problem however was juddering in the direction of travel and the side to side juddering throwing you off your feet in the cabin.  First time in 51 voyages on Cunard we thought it prudent to miss dinner and order room service.  Long wait but ok.  Later told our PG restaurant was deserted!

 

That was a side issue.  The navigation channel has been updated for the worse.  Three pages of blue seas with no ship on them, then a map of the world on which you’d be hard pushed to spot the ship if you didn’t know where it was, and then a page with a straight line on it with a ship icon in the front with nor reference land points.  Finally you get to the info page with speed, track etc but a blank against every line. The stat figures then appear as the page disappears so you spend time going round again with the same effect.

 

Why did Cunard change the system for something much worse?  Why fix a nav channel that doesn’t need fixing?!

 

To finish on a positive note, the cabin Wi-Fi is now great and works all the time.

[BigMac1953]

We were on the previous Canaries trip. You're right about the navidational info channel. Waste of time.

 

The internet was better than before, but still difficult to get on line in peak times. We were midships (8089) so yoiu would have expected better. The last sea days were the worst, and as I needed communication for business reasons, I upgraded to the Premium signal. It worked perfectly. 

[tiggis]

With regard to the sea conditions, I saw that Saga’s Spirit of Discovery, which left Southampton at the same time as QV, decided to shelter in Torbay for most of the first full day. The downside for passengers will be missing the first scheduled port, but maybe they think that’s a price worth paying.

[Wonky]

I noticed the first 2 “blue pages” were of Guinea basin, which is off the west of Africa…. We were only doing a trip to Rotterdam and Zeebruge!