LittleFish1976

I thought Cunard made a distinction between a collared shirt and a 'knitted collared shirt' the latter being not up to snuff. A polo shirt is a t-shirt, after all. It's made from an interlock fabric.

I had a similar issue with Cunard voyages having been recorded across two regions and different WC numbers. I recently rang my local Cunard call centre who provided me with an email address for the local Cunard loyalty team who I have emailed with the details of the request to amalgamate the list onto what is my own region's WC number. Ring your local Cunard call centre and they will give you the correct email address to correspond with so they can take care of it for you.

That's not what slappers are in Victoria 🤭

If I were able to be overseas for 5 months I think I could compromise. 😉

Cunard's drink package is a bargain compared to that!

Agree. I'm spending 18 nights on board Cunard from next week and require an international flight to get to the ship. I'll take one large suitcase and one small duffle bag which will slip over the handle of the suitcase for moving around the airport etc. I'll also take a decent-sized carry-on bag on the plane. I usually use the carry-on for a spare set of clothes and pjs (in case the checked luggage doesn't arrive) as well as my pillow! although the last international trip I did which was to South America then on to Antarctica I didn't take the pillow due to luggage restrictions, and survived so it won't be coming to Japan. I like to have options to wear; get so sick of the same clothes if I try to travel really light, washing clothes every night and re-wearing all the time. And for Cunard I'll be taking 4 evening dresses which will add to the weight if not the bulk of it all but I get pleasure from being able to get dressed up. And I never manage to reduce the shoes very much!

I believe this is where the tour I've booked on is going - looks fascinating. Hoping for a clear day!

I will certainly give it a shot then, Mic, if you would like me to. I've had trouble posting photos in the past to cruise critic threads (although have once or twice succeeded) so let's see how it goes. Hopefully, I'll be on a shared table for dinner so I won't want to be taking too many photos of meals and I'll only be using my iphone as a camera so they won't be anything special! Is there anything in particular you're interested in that you'd want information on or a photo of? No promises, but if I know what you'd like to hear about it might help.

I'm doing a B2B so it's Tokyo, Aomori, Akita, Busan, Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Tokyo, Busan, Sasebo, Beppo, Shimizu. I'll have a couple of days in Tokyo pre and post-cruise. Hoping to find the cherry blossom still intact when we get to Aomori where it will still be quite a lot cooler than Tokyo. I've been to Japan once before and loved it but not cruised there before.

That explanation you've shown is for the drinks package that passengers pay for - not the gratis one some of you are receiving in the US. The cost of the drinks package varies according to length of voyage but tends to be around $72 USD per day.

The price of a cabin on those two lines is comparable, in my very limited experience. The experience of food and beverage on board is totally different in terms of quality. If you want to pay a Princess price, you'll get a Princess experience, which suits some people wonderfully but it does not equate to a Cunard experience. In my opinion and experience.

I've booked a tour which includes the cable car - it looks terrifying for those of us with a fear of heights. Then down to the lake for a look at Fuji from a boat (hopefully).

Is this Diamond Princess? I'll be on board Queen Elizabeth next week for 18 nights around Japan so I'd be happy to check in with you folks if you want some vicarious travel!

I don't fancy my chances of a safe landing if I'm hurtling down a chute onto a raft! For one, I'd either bounce off into the drink or, if the raft isn't inflatable, hurt myself. What an awful option. If I have to evacuate the ship I want it to be on a Japan cruise with lots of co-operative Japanese passengers who are used to calmly following instructions and working to the benefit of the group as per their amazing evacuation from that burning aircraft not too long ago.

So per capita we must be almost top? I won't do the maths but I'm sure someone would be happy to. On a quick look we are higher per capita than the UK with their 68? million people.

I just received an extra 200 euro (euro!) OBC for a cruise I transferred to them through being a member. I don't mind having an extra $330-odd dollars (AUD) to spend on that cruise which is in local waters.

Well, that's nice! I've just referred a friend and have a $50 credit waiting for my next booking so pretty pleased with that. And I don't buy raffle tickets so view the membership fee as a nice opportunity to win a cruise every month - someone has to win it, after all!

Since when are the Scots so puritanical as regards consumption of alcohol! Actually BigMac I take breakfast in my cabin so I'm not at the mercy of those of a judgemental bent (whether or not I consume alcohol with breakfast).

Ah, you've never been a new mother. Same with the triple re-heated cup of tea.

Yes, it does include soft drinks as well as specialty tea and coffee. The package price is inclusive of the 15% gratuity which would otherwise be charged on the listed menu price of each drink. As such, the package is better value than people give it credit for. As someone who has bottled water with each meal as well as a glass of wine with each meal, and maybe even two with dinner if I have a dessert wine as well, and the odd soft drink and non-alcoholic cocktail as well as a couple of alcoholic cocktails during the day, I find it reasonable value. I also like being able to try out drinks I'm not sure I'll like and feel okay about not finishing them.

You'd surely change out of your outdoor footwear, if you've been out on an excursion in such weather as requires heavy jumpers and presumably coats or jackets and hats. A quick trip to your cabin to dispose of the outerwear and change the footwear would be appropriate.

I had a brief encounter with a different cruise line not so long ago that uses the large above the pool screens and found they played very loud movies on them even during the day. Put a new spin on spending a port day enjoying the spa and pool area largely to myself (almost alone but for the company of a mega-decibel film of questionable quality!). If Cunard plan to do it differently, so much the better. I hope that's the case.

Can this price be correct?! 'Full-day rentals at $349 on sea days and $249 on port days...' for the Seabourn Retreat areas? You'd be right to expect constant deliveries of food and drinks to your sun lounge for that amount of money. And I'd rather not have a screen outside or have to be sitting near anyone else viewing a large screen. That's one of the issues I have with the new Queen Anne - the outdoors super-screen over the pool area. A noisy intrusion.

As for smaller ships; I had thought I would find them all claustrophobic but having recently been on a Ponant ship with around 150 other passengers I can safely say that the experience was wonderful and extremely well suited to the type of trip I was on (Antarctic Expedition). I think the design of the ship makes a huge difference. I had lunch on a Silver Seas ship a few years ago which I think was Silver Spirit at around 600 pax capacity. I toured the ship and decided I would find that very claustrophobic.

I also had it in my mind as a classic Groucho Marx line. Loved their films.