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  1. Were the chairs on the dance floor? I'd have thought the friction on the carpets would have kept them steady, or if really bad they would tip over.
  2. On the subject of the sling. We saw a lady who wasn't disabled but like the OP couldn't manage the ladders. They were advised that they needed to have someone with them to operate the hoist, which she had. A member of staff came to instruct them but would not operate it for them, possibly an insurance issue. It seemed quite straightforward.
  3. I gave an answer to that question recently in this thread:
  4. I don't suffer from motion sickness and like cabins high and forward. Some of my favourite ferry cabins have been forward facing over the bow. We choose deck 12 near staircase B as we like the location and it suits us as a starting point to get to all the bits of the ship we use. On 14 nights Transatlantic in early June 2022 it was mainly smooth. We did experience some movement. A couple of times in the gym on the cross trainer I felt an odd movement, which wasn't a problem because you have both hands and feet securely placed on the holds provided. My wife on the forward facing treadmills sometimes found the slight pitch making her feet catch the board in front of the belt. A couple of nights in The Queens Room and G32 we were put off balance a bit while dancing, not enough to fall. Otherwise we didn't notice movement. I did wake one night during a force 9 gale but although there was a bit of creaking from the hull we didn't really have any motion and my wife didn't wake at all. My wife has been known to suffer. We took many ferry crossings in North Sea, English Channel and Biscay. She has felt a bit off colour on one or two of the roughest ones, including a first evening from Portsmouth down The Channel towards Biscay, which was then smooth. She has never felt anything on cruise ships. The only time she was actually sick was an overnight North Sea Crossing in a force 10 on the Ro-Ro freight ferry in the photo. It had been converted by welding passenger accommodation above it's car decks. I've marked the area where the cabins were. The bunk bed cabins were the width of a narrow single bunk plus about 18". The ventilation was a gap at foot of door and it was extremely warm. Every few minutes there would be motion a bit like a roller coaster where we would rise up before the bow would crash down into a trough. Neither of us got any sleep that night. For those that are interested the ship was at that time named Baltic Ferry. One of it's many sisters that had also been converted was Nordic Ferry. We used them a few times between 1989 and early 1990s.
  5. You'll see waistcoats and cummerbunds. I prefer neither, just a well fitting trouser waistband to white shirt. I didn't carry out a survey so I've no idea what the percentage of each was.
  6. We haven't tried them but they have a section of Kings Court or Lido buffets where they set up speciality restaurants. I think Italian and Indian themes amongst others where you are served at the table and there is a cover charge.
  7. Is that not for the pop-ups? US fares often have visit(s) to them included.
  8. They weren't usually dreary. It was a big church without a P.A. system. While not quite fire and brimstone, my Dad's delivery from the pulpit was very forceful. There were times it was reported that an old lady in the congregation was upset because she thought he was shouting at her. 🙂 I was getting near the stage of deciding to just stay at home on Sunday mornings so it was all a bit long for me.
  9. When aged about eleven I would sit on the balcony with a chocolate bar unwrapped and broken in pieces so I wouldn't make any noise. I'd start a countdown when the sermon went over twenty minutes.
  10. Toulon is a fairly big station and unlike many around the region these days should have a manned ticket counter and several machines. However these days many tickets are bought online and displayed in an app. It might save time at the station if you buy on the app. If you buy on the app you obviously can't use the machines. Here's a link to the site associated with the app: https://www.sncf-connect.com/ This doesn't apply in the South Region (PACA) at present, but due to the reduction in paper ticket use SNCF have started removing the yellow machines. This article (in French) tells you about it. You may need to translate in a browser if you don't read French. https://www.quechoisir.org/actualite-sncf-ce-qui-change-avec-la-disparition-des-bornes-de-compostage-n105698/
  11. There is a painting on QM2 that resembles a spilt tin of baked beans. Not sure how retro that is or how it relates to historic ships. Personally although I quite like some of the paintings, they don't really have a functional use and I'd be happy without any of them. We'd dress to the nines every night no matter what ship we sailed on, just as we would any time we go out to dinner. But on QM2 we can dance all of every evening. But the most important thing is waking up at 3:30 am in a force 9 and sensing the QM2's keel flexing under the immense pressures of the ocean while feeling virtually no roll and hardly any pitch. No element of fantasy about it. If the ship had an ultra modern theme we'd still be happy to sail on it.
  12. These aren't the best of photos, but I think they make the situation clear... Coco-Canel is now about nine months old and is very good at jumping and climbing. We'd prefer that she didn't go on top of our main aircon/heating unit. We've now been gathering the curtains to hang a few feet to the right. Unusual for someone sign up to CC and make a first post to wish HH a Happy Birthday. I wondered if it was a wind up, but I see it was this time last year. Ursel and Coco join us in wishing you a Happy Birthday!
  13. If you need or want to find a good travel agent, I would suggest that you contact a few. Start by phoning them and having a discussion about your future needs rather than something you want to book at that time. Make sure that you are always going to be dealing with the same person, although it might be reassuring to know that they have some sort of backup if they were to take ill or not be available for some other reason. Decide from initial calls if you like them, at least from the point of being comfortable talking to them. If you don't like them look elsewhere. Ideally you want to know that if you send them an email, SMS, WhatsApp or Messenger message that it is answered within a few hours. If you call and get an answering machine, that might not be a bad sign. It could mean they have plenty of business, which you would expect from a good agent. Leave a message and then judge them on how quickly they respond to your message. By coincidence I'd left a message for our agent having found their site online and was talking to a frequent cruising friend in Scotland when they called back, just as the friend was recommending that agent as the best they'd ever encountered. But I doubt you'll find one by making online bookings through an agent then hoping they'll be proactive if anything goes wrong or needs changed. If you're not going to do some work to identify a good agent you are as well sticking to direct bookings.
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  15. Not been on the network since July 2022. Here's the current link to the South Brooklyn Route timetable: https://www.ferry.nyc/routes-and-schedules/south-brooklyn/ Timetables change periodically so best check nearer the time. Routes can change as well. For a while that route called at Governors Island (between Red Hook and Bay Ridge) but that isn't the case at present, but perhaps they might resume that during summer. If you can install the app you can buy tickets on that and see timetables etc. And the fare is now $4 per journey including one ferry connection in 2 hours.
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