Fionboard Posted May 25, 2023 #101 Share Posted May 25, 2023 No pre booking required on Arcadia. Have heard no complaints about full venues. Unlike Iona and Arvia. The venues seem to cope with the amount of pax on board, as they always have done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaefell Posted May 25, 2023 #102 Share Posted May 25, 2023 Certainly for the current cruise the speciality restaurants were not bookable until on board,strange how the first night was seemingly still pretty full as soon as we got on board. Booking with the app can be challenging as it sometimes isn't working. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amajaa Posted May 25, 2023 #103 Share Posted May 25, 2023 I can see it says about no pre booking but what about when onboard booking before a meal that day. When we were on Ventura recently we still had to book the MDR, you could book 1/4 hour before it opened. So does no pre-booking mean before you board or no booking needed full stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecttr Posted May 25, 2023 #104 Share Posted May 25, 2023 2 hours ago, tring said: That is wrong for Arcadia as we will be on her in two weeks and we have an email telling us speciality dining will not be pre bookable, or is that list showing what can be booked on your phone once you are on the ship? Well IMO the P&O website does at times seem to have a somewhat tenuous connection with the reality aboard ship. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardennais Posted May 25, 2023 #105 Share Posted May 25, 2023 6 hours ago, Selbourne said: Any chance that you could provide a link to that information please? I’ve ploughed through dozens of pages of the FAQs on the P&O website and cannot find it. My understanding is that Arvia is the only ship where freedom dining can be pre-booked (and then only prior to 6.30pm) and entertainment is only pre-bookable on Arvia and Iona (other than the Limelight Club which is pre-bookable on Britannia but always has been). It’s certainly very confusing so it would be good to see what the official line is! Entertainment was also pre-bookable on Britannia last month - for the first week anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amajaa Posted May 25, 2023 #106 Share Posted May 25, 2023 5 hours ago, Fionboard said: No pre booking required on Arcadia. Have heard no complaints about full venues. Unlike Iona and Arvia. The venues seem to cope with the amount of pax on board, as they always have done. Thanks. So if we want to eat when the MDR opens which I assume is 6 o’clock we don’t have to go onto the app any more and book it before we go? I need to eat early for medical reasons so don’t want to get there and have to wait an hour or so for a table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippa04 Posted May 25, 2023 #107 Share Posted May 25, 2023 Is it just Freedom Dining on Arcadia now? I can't seem to find an option for first or second sitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsmt47471015 Posted May 25, 2023 #108 Share Posted May 25, 2023 On 5/21/2023 at 9:09 AM, Fionboard said: As I said, it is a "pop up", not permanent fixture, that is why. Could you confirm if the "pop up glasshouse" has the same varieties of wine that the "proper" Glasshouse has on other ships please? Been a while since we were on her and memory is not what it was !😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jh1809 Posted May 25, 2023 #109 Share Posted May 25, 2023 2 hours ago, Pippa04 said: Is it just Freedom Dining on Arcadia now? I can't seem to find an option for first or second sitting. No. I was able to choose first sitting for my cruise on her in August. Was your booking Saver, as I think you may have to book Select to be able to choose your sitting? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pippa04 Posted May 25, 2023 #110 Share Posted May 25, 2023 43 minutes ago, jh1809 said: No. I was able to choose first sitting for my cruise on her in August. Was your booking Saver, as I think you may have to book Select to be able to choose your sitting? It was a Select booking made some time ago and I chose Freedom dining. In view of some of the delays I've seen reported I thought I'd try changing it to fixed. Thanks for the info, I'll try phoning as it doesn't seem to be fixable online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seapals2 Posted May 26, 2023 #111 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Are you able to use tenders now for todays stop in Corsica? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzytelly Posted May 26, 2023 #112 Share Posted May 26, 2023 17 hours ago, amajaa said: Thanks. So if we want to eat when the MDR opens which I assume is 6 o’clock we don’t have to go onto the app any more and book it before we go? I need to eat early for medical reasons so don’t want to get there and have to wait an hour or so for a table. I have been trying to find the same out. No pre booking to me means before the cruise but do we have to go onto myholiday and book for the MDR specifically for the evening meal before we go. Also does the Freedom dining open at 6 or 5.30 as on the two big ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionboard Posted May 26, 2023 #113 Share Posted May 26, 2023 23 minutes ago, seapals2 said: Are you able to use tenders now for todays stop in Corsica? No tenders, we are docked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionboard Posted May 26, 2023 #114 Share Posted May 26, 2023 17 hours ago, amajaa said: Thanks. So if we want to eat when the MDR opens which I assume is 6 o’clock we don’t have to go onto the app any more and book it before we go? I need to eat early for medical reasons so don’t want to get there and have to wait an hour or so for a table. Freedom MDR opens at 6. Queues start at 5.30 onwards. If you want early dining better to have fixed at 6.30. No queues for fixed dining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tring Posted May 26, 2023 #115 Share Posted May 26, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Fionboard said: Freedom MDR opens at 6. Queues start at 5.30 onwards. If you want early dining better to have fixed at 6.30. No queues for fixed dining. Does that mean you need to queue before 6pm if you want a table for two, or can you just turn up soon after 6pm and find there is availability? When we were on Aurora about 6 months ago, there were table for two available until about 6.30pm. Edited May 26, 2023 by tring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionboard Posted May 26, 2023 #116 Share Posted May 26, 2023 1 hour ago, tring said: Does that mean you need to queue before 6pm if you want a table for two, or can you just turn up soon after 6pm and find there is availability? When we were on Aurora about 6 months ago, there were table for two available until about 6.30pm. Not many tables for two. Maybe that's why they are queueing so they don't have to share and talk to anyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindylooellalouise Posted May 27, 2023 #117 Share Posted May 27, 2023 Hi any one onboard Arcadia now can you please tell me if the photographers are on board thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionboard Posted May 27, 2023 #118 Share Posted May 27, 2023 23 minutes ago, lindylooellalouise said: Hi any one onboard Arcadia now can you please tell me if the photographers are on board thanks No, thank goodness. None on Aurora last month either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindylooellalouise Posted May 27, 2023 #119 Share Posted May 27, 2023 Just now, Fionboard said: No, thank goodness. None on Aurora last month either. Hi Fionboard thanks for replying but I’m disappointed we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary last month onboard Queen Victoria and wanted a special photo but no photographer onboard, but I was hoping we could pretend it was our special day onboard Arcadia so we could have a photo taken together, never mind I’m sure there will be other opportunities. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionboard Posted May 27, 2023 #120 Share Posted May 27, 2023 2 hours ago, lindylooellalouise said: Hi Fionboard thanks for replying but I’m disappointed we celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary last month onboard Queen Victoria and wanted a special photo but no photographer onboard, but I was hoping we could pretend it was our special day onboard Arcadia so we could have a photo taken together, never mind I’m sure there will be other opportunities. Ask someone to take some pics of you with your phone. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindylooellalouise Posted May 27, 2023 #121 Share Posted May 27, 2023 25 minutes ago, Fionboard said: Ask someone to take some pics of you with your phone. Yes will do but there just not quite as good as one taken by a professional photographer 🫣 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jh1809 Posted May 27, 2023 #122 Share Posted May 27, 2023 I haven't seen a photographer on a cruise since before Covid. I imagine that, now that most people have smartphones and take their own photos, P&O no longer found that providing ship photographers was sufficiently profitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydee6969 Posted May 27, 2023 #123 Share Posted May 27, 2023 21 minutes ago, jh1809 said: I haven't seen a photographer on a cruise since before Covid. I imagine that, now that most people have smartphones and take their own photos, P&O no longer found that providing ship photographers was sufficiently profitable. They had photographers on Azura on the repositioning cruise this March, with the usual set pieces for formal nights around the atrium. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewWestwardbound Posted May 27, 2023 #124 Share Posted May 27, 2023 46 minutes ago, jh1809 said: I haven't seen a photographer on a cruise since before Covid. Not P&O, but there were photographers on Celebrity Silhouette last year sailing out of Southampton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionboard Posted May 27, 2023 #125 Share Posted May 27, 2023 1 hour ago, jh1809 said: I haven't seen a photographer on a cruise since before Covid. I imagine that, now that most people have smartphones and take their own photos, P&O no longer found that providing ship photographers was sufficiently profitable. Photographers were franchise and they all lost their jobs with covid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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