Windsurfboy

Cruise mapper has it half way between Canaries and La Corona , still a bit South of Gibraltar but further west of course. Still in relatively smooth waters but getting worse .

I will take your lead and get the butler to book further ahead. I liked dinner outside in speciality restaurants. quite fancy asking butler to book quite a few for when we get to Carribean, not till day 10 to day 20. See if he can book outside tables

Very much agree with everyone Saga 100% right to wait it out, of course there's the safety, but expect ships could weather it. But no one pays good money to spend 3 days sick as a dog and frightened to death. Sun is shining in Falmouth so SoA passengers can enjoy Falmouth but don't travel to far. We went out for lunch, but had to take a few detours due to fallen trees, 4 miles to Falmouth became 10. Came back in time for my wife to go to hairdressers ready for SoD on Tuesday, got home and just after 2pm electric reappeared, 4 hours early, well done western power. 😁 Keeping a good eye on waves for next Tuesday and Wednesday, look much calmer , once you get South of Spain calm all the wsy to Carribean, fingers crossed it stays that way

No electricity power lines down in our village .Wonder if the SoA can spare a cup of tea, just 10 minutes away.

Apart from the huge description, it was fair to say this was unscheduled.

Don't know, on our last cruise, Butler booked all 3 speciality restaurants for us on our first day, which would assume he was not constrained. But ship was half full so don't think anyone was worried about rules. The question is does it matter, with 40 suites , ie 8% of passengers it won't stop other people getting their allocated share. On any length cruise once everyone has used the allocated guaranteed minimum sitting there are spare seats. . By guaranteed I mean on a 1 week cruise 1 guaranteed speciality seat, 3 guaranteed on a 2 week cruise, 4 on a 3 week cruise, 6 on my 30 day cruise. There will always be spare tables over the guaranteed minimum that's the way the numbers work, so more than enough to give suites a few extra. So why worry. On the other hand if someone went over the top and tried to book for every day expect butler would politely say not allowed.

Let's be serious, there's no way you can tell a griller a non griller ( apart from the coating of cooking oil on the griller😁). No one is really suggesting they would be crass enough to interrogate fellow passengers. My solution is CCTV and facial recognition, coupled with ejector seats.

Blue sky and windy here in Falmouth, but hope everyone is back on board by 2pm when it's should be pouring down and even windier

Looking at wave forecasts we should be fine for next Wednesday but glad were not crossing bay of Biscay this week .FINGERS CROSSED

Great blog thanks. Great photos, how come mine are always at a angle

Before they took it off the internet a week ago, there were 157 standard cabins and 3 deluxe available for sale and 30 singles. This had the week before gone up from 134 to 157 Standard cabins , but all space in deluxe and suites disappeared, so lots of lucky people got upgrades. Anyway unless there were lots of guarantee cabins awaiting allocation this points to circa 344 empty spaces. So two thirds full. Can but wait and see. At two thirds full should be no trouble getting into speciality restaurants.

My prices for Cunard were for a standard QG (Queens Grill Suite) not a standard balcony, which is similiar in size and price to a Saga mid ship Suite)

Same cruise pick up 7.30 am , live 250 miles away but no motorwayjust A roads mainly single carriageway or we'd be there for breakfast

No this is specific to Trinadad about crime , no similiar warnings for other Carribean islands

Perhaps best to only go on organised tour. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/trinidad-and-tobago-travel-advisory.html We may well stay on board as middle of 8 islands in a row

How did the ship take the swell, did you feel it in the cabin. We will be crossing Atlantic in just under two weeks. You are very adventurous with your breakfast, my adventurous eating gene doesn't kick in till lunch at the earliest.

One thing we haven't mentioned is sharing in the speciality restaurants. My calculations were based on maximum capacity with maximum sharing. If on a full ship people don't want to share , then capacity is reduced so will opportunity to use speciality restaurants. With no sharing wouldn't get three opportunities to go to speciality restaurants in a two week cruise. Thus on full ships sharing should be obligatory.

Sorry didnt read it properly. Your Queen Anne prices seem very good bargain. My recent average for Cunard on ,QV, and QM is 500ppn for a standard QG midships.

Agree QG service is good. Subjectively I think it's outside the Grills bubble that Saga is better/nicer.

Price wise I think a Saga suite at 30 or 35% discount, early booking is similiar price to Cunard QG, maybe slightly more but you get more. Of course once you get down to 15% discount or below Saga gets dear and a deluxe costs more, similiar then to Cunard QG

I was slightly lounge I in cheek. On our last cruise half empty, butler got what ever we asked. Don't know about full cruise . There are 240 speciality restaurant places So 1680 spaces in a week , only ONE guaranteed place per passenger with 693 spare So 3360 spaces in 2 weeks enough for THREE guaranteed places per passenger with 390 spare So 5040 in 3 weeks so FOUR guaranteed places with 1080 spare , 5 guaranteed spaces possible but very tight So on my 30 day cruise in 2 weeks 7200 places, enough for SIX guaranteed plaves with 1278 spare. So they need a SYSTEM that explains this and gives everyone their right number of guaranteed places depending on length of cruise. Spare places should be bookable only on night after 6pm. Giving suites a few extra bookable slots would come out of spare places and have very little effect overall. We've just been on two Cunard QG cruises this year, yes Queens Grill restaurants are nice, but a bit monotonous unless you order off menu. Also outside of the Grills, deck , lounge. Service and ambience is much nicer on Saga throughout the ship. Saga is our line of choice .

They also get larger rooms

You are very busy, admire your energy When we went because the ship was relatively empty, you didn't share in supper club. Booths felt empty. In other speciality restaurants didn't share, but easy to talk to neighbours. Nice to talk to someone each night. We didn't find the lift in Calagari either

Are you going on a tour, if not Syracuse is an easy walk from the ship and plenty to see, enjoy.

We just got the cable car up the rock, then walked to the look out ,then the caves which we're fantastic, then across to the world war 2 tunnels, and back down the 250 steps to the square for shuttle bus. Back in time for afternoon tea. Need comfortable shoes. Like you looking forward to Carribean in 3 weeks.