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See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammie_Dodgers

 

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Oh, right. THOSE Jammie Dodgers...

I hope they provide a pack of Jammie Dodgers to go with my cuppa.

"Jammie Dodgers"?

http://www.marinelink.com/news/extensive-queen-blohm410423.aspx

According to MarineLink, refit is scheduled to be complete and QM2 is planned to leave dry dock a week from Friday, on 17th June, to reposition to the cruise terminal and complete provisioning for embarking passengers on 21st.

Looks like an awful lot of work to be finished on time!! Do they work through the night?

Yes, Cunard have said the work is scheduled to be continued around the clock, 24/7. Mind you, around 2,500 workers are engaged in the project, so much can be accomplished in relatively short period of time.

We are sailing TA on QM2 in June and look forward to the formal nights. I've got it easy: planning to pack my tux with a spare shirt or two. My Mrs. is sorting out dresses. Besides fancy dresses (as she might wear to a formal wedding or other posh event) looks as though sparkly, glitzy tops with a long black skirt or dress slacks may be in order, from pics I've seen of the B&W ball.

We sail on the Connie next Saturday and received the same call (we also have a Sky Suite). Checked out the menus in Ocean Liners and Tuscan, looking forward to the fine dining!

Well, I'll be! She sure had a long life with many iterations --- wow.

Well, I'll be! She sure had a long life with many iterations --- wow.

It was the Emerald Seas, operated by Admiral Cruises (later acquired by RCI, I believe), on a 4-day Bahamas cruise out of Miami in 1990. Made calls at Nassau, Freeport and an out island (can't remember the name). Got me hooked for sure.

The Emerald Seas was no cruise ship - it was a liner, I believe built during WWII as a troop ship, and significantly spruced up :D before entering cruise service. She was later renamed the Ocean Explorer I and has since been scrapped, I understand.

Here's a link:

http://www.ssmaritime.com/oceanexplorer2.htm

It was the Emerald Seas, operated by Admiral Cruises (later acquired by RCI, I believe), on a 4-day Bahamas cruise out of Miami in 1990. Made calls at Nassau, Freeport and an out island (can't remember the name). Got me hooked for sure.

The Emerald Seas was no cruise ship - it was a liner, I believe built during WWII as a troop ship, and significantly spruced up :D before entering cruise service. She was later renamed the Ocean Explorer I and has since been scrapped, I understand.

Here's a link:

http://www.ssmaritime.com/oceanexplorer2.htm

Received a call today from my T/A that our documents have arrived and, lo and behold, we have received our preferred traditional dining assignment. Why we were waitlisted for 10+ months is something I will probably never know, but it appears at long last that all is well.

My wife and I are sailing on 7/13 ms Westerdam to Alaska/Glacier Bay from Seattle. I have two sisters who made their individual reservations for the same cruise through their own travel agencies. All of us requested traditional/fixed dining together. Though my wife and I made our reservations more than 2 weeks before my sisters (in July, 2007), we have been waitlisted for traditional while my two sisters have been confirmed for dining together at main seating table. My travel agency has proved utterly useless in getting any resolution from Holland America, as naturally, I first turned to her and had her put in our request to dine with my sisters. She tells me the cruise line is forcing AYW on us, which I find completely ridiculous given that my sisters have been able to secure a table at main seating. Now, after additional fruitless attempts to resolve our dining arrangements (both through the T/A and through HA directly), I am resigned to having to try sorting things out once aboard ship. The last thing I want to do is spend valuable cruise time making daily dinner reservations or hoping to walk up any old time and find an open table. I think the whole AYW program is flawed from the get go, not to mention redundant (since passengers who desire an open seating AYW experience have always had the option of flopping upstairs for a meal on Lido). Hoping it turns out OK, but not expecting it to. Maybe I will be pleasantly surprised. I should think the fact that we have been waitlisted for traditional should serve as proof that more passengers want that style of dining. If we had been waitlisted for AYW while being forced to accept a traditional dining assignment, it would have proved the opposite point.