Poole Boy

If people pay these charges then they will continue and spread to other items , if people  don’t pay then they will disappear, simple business logic. Example being speciality restaurants, food is perfectly acceptable in MDR , people are happy to pay again for Dinner or lunch in a speciality restaurant, so QA has more chargeable restaurants, bean counters are happy

15 minutes ago, buchanan101 said:

Though £8k for P2 for 14 days is good value (PG seems to be roughly £5.5k a week when cruises are put on sale.. in my very limited experience…)

 

what are PG cabins like as in one in 7 weeks? 

In my opinion long and narrow , from what I have seen similar to a balcony just longer, I feel the bathroom is very cramped but the shower is a big plus, also lacking in wardrobe space I will post some pictures later

Price for the maiden is the same as the next 2 week cruise we paid £4k each for P2 for 7 days the next cruise to the Canaries was also £4k each in the same cabin , for  2 weeks, so we have paid a significant premium to be on the cruise , to add to some other comments regarding speed of service, you are not alone, Princess grills was just as bad, for both food and drink, to forever to get even the basics.

Grills Checkin has started 

14 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

Two thoughts.

Firstly, aren’t airlines that lose luggage supposed to reimburse for essentials? A visit to M and S would supply those at a reasonable price. 
Secondly the ship might help and be able to supply something suitable perhaps.

 

Or John Lewis, who have a surprisingly good range of formal suits available at the moment.

15 minutes ago, LifeonMars said:

Megabear this link may help of an inside.

 

Looks a bit tight either side of the bed, first impression ( from the video) it is not as wide as the insides on QE or QV. but same bathrooms as the balcony cabins so a big plus there, will need to wait a couple of weeks to see one in real life

6 hours ago, Solent Richard said:

Up with the lark and  here's a little taster for those Grills folk who prefer stern suites.....

 

 

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*****

 

 

Q5 Queen Suites I believe.

 

 

My home for 4 days in October

55 minutes ago, buchanan101 said:

Here is a QA Balcony Cabin review...

 

 

Any chance we can see an standard outside or inside cabin ?

7 minutes ago, Solent Richard said:

Well from the outside, she looks like a Cunard ship

Getting real now, finally the countdown can begin

7 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

Mind you, on some cruises, by the time they have let in Grills, Diamond, Plats, and possibly BC, there are only a few people left behind. The only reason I can see for keeping people outside is if the terminal itself was very crowded even though the check ins weren’t busy.

It could be that the security lanes were busy, security check and searches is usually the bottleneck, rather than checkin.

Boarding times are assigned to ensure a smooth flow of people through the terminal, I'm sure your hotel will hold you bags for a couple of hours and you could go to West Quay for lunch and then go to the port.  The risk is if you go to the port early they may keep you waiting outside until there is space inside the terminal building. In any event boarding does not usually start until 12:30, so the terminal will already be busy.

Still moored at the shipyard, not started her voyage to Southampton

2 hours ago, bluemarble said:

I see Cunard have updated the QA 2025 world voyage itinerary on the Cunard website. The itinerary posted there varies slightly from what's been communicated via email.

 

The online itinerary has QA in Durban on 7 April 2025 instead of Port Elizabeth on 8 April 2025 and it has QA in Tenerife instead of Las Palmas on 23 April 2025. The online itinerary also omits Dakar on 20 April 2025.

 

I recall we had a discussion earlier about Dakar not showing up online on QA's 2026 world voyage itinerary. Perhaps the same thing is going on with Dakar on what's listed for QA's 2025 revised world voyage itinerary as well. There's still the discrepancies between Port Elizabeth on 8 April versus Durban on 7 April and Las Palmas versus Tenerife though.

 

For those of you on the revised voyage, may I ask what are you seeing in My Cunard?

UK website  shows Dakar as April 20th

Queen Elizabeth visit to a very damp Kiriwina Feb 2020 

Alotau PNG from Queen Elizabeth Feb / March 2020

Some Pictures from Conflict Islands PNG, Feb 2020, just before the world changed

Credit Card, no need for cash

2 minutes ago, Victoria2 said:

Fortuitously, we didn't book the initial Maiden. I think I'd have been a teeny  bit peeved with how things have turned out.

Given the premium we are paying to be on the maiden "teeny bit peeved" is an understatement, especially as Cunard started to release details on the naming ceremony after the balance due date for the maiden voyage.

So far Cunards focus appears to be all about the naming ceremony, the maiden voyage appear to be an afterthought.

All Cunard questions, as no one has been on QA

3 hours ago, bazzaw said:

We are about to do our 10th Cunard cruise - having sailed with them in Australian, American and European waters. They , like most other cruise lines , serve up what I call "Western hotel food" . There was one Scandinavian cruise where they seemed to serve  up a lot of pickled type herrings and raw fish at the breakfast buffet (which I enjoyed) - but for the rest of the time, I would never have been able to guess where we were in the World by the food being served. So now we are about to embark on a QE cruise around Japan and am wondering if there will be any Japanese food?? I am hoping so 😞

Menus in the MDR will be very similar to the menus on any Australian cruise, there will be more Japanese items in the lido for all meals and occasionally Japanese items on the menu in the MDR, otherwise you will not see much change

I done 2 transatlantic in January, one was force 9 gales and 20 foot seas for the first 4 days the other was a mill pond.   Being south will give a good chance of better weather, but it is any body's guess what the weather will be doing in 2 years time