Ardennais

Wishing you both a wonderful cruise and looking forward to reading all about it,

I found the Medallion very easy to use on Enchanted Princess. Then again, it depends on connectivity and there were quite a few dead spots or whatever they’re called!

Sounds very much like my 80 year old mother! She’s the only one in her wide circle of friends who uses computers mainly because she worked in admin for the last 20 years of her working life and was trained in using a wide variety of software. However, she doesn’t have a smartphone (signal is very poor at home). Last year, I gave her my old iPad as she needed internet banking to verify purchases online. She has a desktop, a laptop and iPad and is fine 90% of the time. However, little things can flummox her and she then waits until one of her 6 grandchildren calls by! Last month, it was airplane mode that caused a problem. She’ll be cruising with us this month, on the ship of HER choice, without a smartphone. And that’s how it should be.

Nothing to do with affordability.

What’s unfair about it? Well, some people don’t even have a smart phone. I’m cruising this month. My mother is coming with us. She’s computer literate but doesn’t have a smart phone. Unfair to exclude those passengers.

We enjoyed Lee Mead on Iona and Joel Harper Jackson on Britannia. The food is fine, nothing special but there’s a nice atmosphere there.

Hope you have better news Avril when you return to the hospital. Thinking of you both and hope that Frank is on the mend.

Same here. I like to see children around.

Same here. No tension, not ready to take my pension! Nadolig Llawen to you all from a very wet Wales!

My eldest enjoyed her cruise with friends on Arcadia last year- late 20s. Our three had a great time on Aurora too when they were older teenagers before it became adult only.

Best wishes for a very happy retirement. I know full well that teaching is great but restrictive in terms of choosing your own holiday dates, which I’ve been able to do in my new job since leaving teaching in 2019. Not close to being ready to retire though!

Not just you.

True, but to me, there’s a difference between noise generated by human activity and ‘clanging’ noises which are mentioned in the article. Noise is expected when anchoring etc, and wouldn’t bother me.

I suppose so, but that still doesn’t make it right.

To be fair, we’ve never met anyone either who mentioned what they paid for their cruise!

The article does highlight one major issue, namely that there are dud cabins. It’s all very well moving people to a better cabin, but the underlying problem remains and some poor sod will face the same problem on the next cruise.

I don’t think they’re suitable for smart casual either, but could be ok in Brodies.

They really need to proofread their website! I really don’t know what people have against football shirts!!

Well I’ve just done some research! This is a screenshot taken just now - only mentions tracksuits. d

That seems a normal day when I think back to the time my three were teenagers! Apart from having to do everything after work. The most manic Christmas ever was when I was teaching in 4 different primary schools. I had four ‘work’ Christmas concerts in one week along with my own children’s show.

Oh no! A football shirt! How terrible. The end is nigh.

We got them yesterday too - for the first time.

One small case might work for you, Makes no different to me whether I stay somewhere one night or one month - I still need the same amount of toiletries and cosmetics and I can easily cope with a medium size case.

We don’t self-disembark these days, but we still have a medium sized case each when disembarking. So people will still have suitcases later on.

I work from home and will have a short team meeting once a week. No phone calls. I could work on a cruise but I like to have two screens on the go, sometimes 3 so probably wouldn’t do it. My youngest works remotely 3 days a week and goes into the office twice a week, but they’re quite relaxed about it. She sometimes goes into the office every day for a fortnight so that she can then visit her other half for the next 10 days or so.