Book bug

 Are you due to dock in Stockholm on 23rd? Usually I would look on each ports cruise schedule or cruise mapper and they give exact times. For Britannia however there isn't any times for the ship

Excellent , well worth the phone call

BLC says have to book direct and be a select fare. Amount of obc you receive differs with cabin grade and duration of cruise. There's some other terms and conditions as always with these things

P&O are back on BLC for extra on board credit 🙂

I got the email too so have signed up. Bit different this time not mentioning power up points in the title! 

On 8/3/2021 at 6:55 AM, upwarduk said:

I’ve started taking a screen shot at the end of the webinars, in case I don’t get awarded the points.

Good idea

We watched the webinar on the original day but didn't get the 'Thank you for watching....' within the July newsletter so joined through the newsletter and watched it again just in case!

Also got the thank you for registering both times but nothing else

14 hours ago, cruisin from florida said:

We were on that with you! It was a great trip and would love to do it again.

We were on it too, loved the cruise,  but also loved PEI but I'm a 'Anne of Green Gables' fan. Shame it missed Halifax due to the weather. Also would love to do it again

6 minutes ago, Fouremco said:

Strange that RCI would choose that routing. Good thing you made the cruise!

Yes it got a bit stressful when we didn't have an allocated seat, but thankfully we weren't on the list to not make the flight - checking in all the way back in Heathrow hours before definitely helped us. Excellent cruise too- snowbird migration to fort Lauderdale 

We booked it through rci and that's what was arranged for us , but if we did it again would push to go via Montreal.  

We and others were very close to missing our rci cruise from Quebec city in October 2019. We flew from Heathrow via Chicago O'hare to Quebec city with only an hour and a half in between. That fortunately went okay, then the flight to Quebec was overbooked and the last people checked in to the flight didn't get on. What didn't help was everyone was flying in for cruises including NCL plus there was only one flight a day. We did have an overnight on the ship in Quebec , joining the next day, but the people for the ncl ship were joining the ship that day and leaving Quebec the next day. Next availability for flights was 2 days later🙄

Also excited to hear of cruises restarting but agree with what others have written in regards to crew not being vaccinated. I can’t believe they will not be getting off the ship in between cruises as that would be appalling. But they need to ensure rigorous testing of crew 

Loved them! Can still buy them but now called candy sticks and don't have the pink tip🤣

Don't know if Iona is sold out for those weeks but if not they're restricting options for their customers.  Not everyone wants to spend a week onboard when it is still unknown how it will pan out. It's only been 4 days on sale haven't exactly given people a chance to book, also going to be lots of other options with cunard, celebrity,  princess and disney cruise lines doing uk cruises

We have done a ship excursion from Olden to Geiranger which was offered on one cruise. Don't know if that's one of the potential ports

Our last cruise was on Adventure of the Seas Oct 7-20 2019 Snowbird Migration from Quebec City to Fort Lauderdale,  great cruise though missed Halifax due to weather

Molde, Norway

On 1/16/2021 at 2:08 AM, Ashland said:

This shouldn't be based on loyalty it should be all cabins ready upon boarding.

Be careful what you wish for! P&O UK took this from surveys and now boarding doesn't even start until 1pm and most now don't board until 3.30pm, that's from southampton uk. Would rather be able to get on board and begin my cruise adventure and access cabin at 1pm

On 10/2/2020 at 10:58 PM, upwarduk said:

Downsmead

The newsletter came on30/09/20 and I have just had the invitation to take part in the Galapagos Power Up points at 10 pm, 02/10/20( date format is UK).

Interesting, I had a different email but for only 20 PUP.  Had to click to watch video on Galapagos adventures then take quiz by 6 Oct if perfect score get the 20 PUP

Have now received full refund to credit card for our may 20 QM2 cruise, requested week after cunard cancelled. Also last month got refund for excursion we cancelled prior to cruise being cancelled,  as knew cruise was not going to happen but waiting for cunard to cancel

On 5/4/2020 at 5:58 PM, Snit13 said:

Doesn't Cunard just sail from GB to NY?  Have been trying for years to figure out a way to sail rt/TA without a flight.  Would be great for those of us who want to get a rail pass and travel around Europe but who aren't excited about flying.

QM2 also sails onto/from  Hamburg Germany pre and post some of its transatlantics so that might work for you

Yes the view from candie gardens and Victoria tower is great; only thing is if someone has the key you have to wait for them to return before you can go up as it is signed out and there is only one key- this happened to us last August 

We have a 100% record (4/4 )also of getting into Guernsey by tender , we are going again late may so hoping it continues!  The bus 91/92 round the island trip is now £5 if you stay on the whole round trip, but if you get off or any single trip on other buses is £1. Sometimes the shops do open for a short time when the cruise ships are in , there is also castle cornet within a short walk as someone else mentioned as well as other attractions. 

On 9/20/2019 at 2:12 AM, bluemarble said:

I've noticed most of QM2's westbound crossings for November 2019 through October 2020 are showing 6:30pm departure times from Southampton in the itinerary details listed on the Cunard website. That's instead of 4:30pm or 5:00pm which has been the more usual departure time for westbound crossings. The only exception I'm seeing is for the August 14th 2020 "Journey of Genealogy" crossing which is showing an unusual 9:00pm departure time which we've discussed in another thread. Perhaps this is a real adjustment to the departure times or perhaps this is a glitch.

 

The reason I say this could be a glitch is that the Southampton VTS cruise schedule is still showing 4:30pm departure times for all of QM2's remaining westbound crossings on it's schedule (through the end of this year). Plus the listed departure times on the Cunard website go back to 5:00pm starting with December 2020 westbound crossings. And it seems odd for Cunard to start routinely scheduling sail aways during early sitting in Britannia.

 

Just throwing this out there in case anyone has any insight about this. I wouldn't want to start planning an extended independent excursion for my upcoming day in Southampton on November 19th only to find out Cunard's listed 6:30pm departure time is actually going to be 4:30pm. For what it's worth, I'm not seeing any of Cunard's shore excursions offered in Voyage Personaliser for November 19th scheduled to return back to the ship after 3:30pm.

It is Cowes week and the 14th is the night of the fireworks which usually start about 21.00-21.30 so I assume it's so you see them coming down Southampton water

Hope you had a great cruise, was wondering if you were able to buy many Christmas ornaments and where you bought them? Am heading to the area on a cruise in Oct🙂