rakkor

It was 33 today, not sure what that is in old money, with plenty of humidity. The tiles surrounding the pool are scorching hot and need to be traversed with caution in bare feet

we're on a two villa holiday. We received an a email from the holiday company informing us of a late cancellation, so, being off work and the cancellation butting up against our existing booking we decided it was too good to miss and we're here for a month. Firstly at Filip, which is beyond Coral Bay near Agios Georgios. Next up is Katerina near Yeriskipou on the 2nd July. So either side of Paphos.

We're back in Cyprus for the first time since 2019 after having our Villa holiday cancelled repeatedly over Covid. It's very nice to be uncomfortably hot when you have a cool swimming pool at the end of your sunbed. The pool had the added bonus of hydrotherapy recuperation on the broken pelvis, my right leg is feeling stronger every day

I think BBC World, Sky News International, MSNBC & CNBC Business and Sport 24 are the live stations - Used to have FOX as well but I haven't seen that on QE since the restart - 5 days quarantine in March means you see far too much TV

Sorry Roscoe, you can keep applying for Shareholder benefit as long as you hold the shares, over many years assuming that Carnival keep allowing it

There are USB ports on all of the TVs on all three Queens. I generally take a thumb drive with several films and maybe a TV series to watch if we are at a loss. A word of caution though, you need to be pretty dexterous to slot them in place a the TVs are usually flush mounted on the walls.

100 Carnival shares currently cost GBP675 ish in today's depressed market, In the last 12 months I've had a 7 night cruise, two twelve night ones and I've a 14 night one upcoming I've had or will have had 550 USD in OBC which seems like a pretty good ROI to me. Plus I've still got the shares as a long term investment if the market picks up again.

I used to swear by bar soap until Jane introduced me to bath/body buffs now a squeeze of liquid soap on one lathers up nicely in the shower.

WHen we were on the crossing part of our 2019 Carribean cruise, two of our table mates who were on a back to back had a split package as she didn't drink. So it's definitely possible.

We are doing this in September with a couple of days in a hotel for my Birthday, How is it getting a cab from the port to the hotel & and more importantly from the airport to the ship ? I''ve booked 4 suitcases on EayJet to accomdate Jane's shoe collection.

Here's a montage of some of my partners outfits from our 2016 cruise, some of which are still going strong Some of Jane's outfits

I made it, albeit with a couple of cheats (bought lemon curd and packet jelly and 100s &1000s instead of mixed peel) for a BBQ at friends and it wasn't too hard. It was tasty though!

Oh yes! Jane poo-pooed them when I first used them, but came around when she saw how quickly they allow me to pack and unpack my case.

Nice

A bit of shameless self publication, but, have a look at my blog - I've posted scans of the daily programme there. Here - https://blog.rakkor.uk/blog/daily-programme/ I may even get around to scanning our March Norway cruise one soon Out of interest, which cruise ?

Barcelona to Rome 10 nights The cheapest Veranda room is £320 per night which equates to £8960 for 14 nights for Jane and myself - PG on QE Barcelona-Barcelona was £7600 for us again in August

If you are comparing Oceania with Britannia then you aren't being fair. A comparable cruise to our upcoming 14 night Barcelona Cruise in August on Oceania is more expensive than our PG Fare for 10 nights, so maybe you need to use that as the minimum comparison and the PG Menu has in addition to the daily menu this adds 8 starters and 9 Entrees to the menu. PG Menus inncluding A La Carte options

@Pear Carr was it $250?

The Essentials package I had in March was fine while in our PG stateroom and around the ship, but once we were transferred into the quarantine cabin when I caught Covid then we had very patchy reception and it was almost unusable. It's not surprising that being closed up in a metal box, which the state room is, reduces your WiFi reception though

Also Britannia menu limited? I wouldn't call a choice of 8 starters/salad/soups, 5 entrees and 5 desserts as well as cheese and crackers and an "always available" choice of steak, salmon and chicken etc limited. Link: Cunard Menus from our cruises 23rd_AUG_Dinner.pdf

I see from your signature that you sailed on QM2 in 2017, but in your review state that : "Dress code: about 80% of men were wearing tuxedos on formal nights and most men were wearing jackets the rest of the time. This is definitely not for us. We come to a cruise to relax, not being forced to put a jacket and a tie." Did you not notice there was a dress code on your previous sailing ?

I too have shares held in a HL ISA - I just sent off a print off of the account summary PDF with the client number redacted to. 14 days should be $250 I think that if you cruise then the shareholder OBC offers a nice yield on the investment

I wouldn't stream, rather download my required playlists to my phone in spotify, that way you have them available when not on line, essentials would be fine for this if somewhere like the Commodore Club with good WiFi coverage.

I've never had a waiter serve me across the table, and if they were unable to serve me from the right for some reason they always apologised for coming in on the wrong side (or left for a left handed waiter). I too have only had wooden coat hangers in the stateroom, Pre-covid all toiletries were provided it's only since covid that they have been restricted which I assumed was on hygiene grounds.

There was liquid hand soap in a pump dispenser by the basin in our QE cabin in March, most other items are available on request, ear buds is one I can think of.