Vampiress88

think they will let me in if I’m too early?

What time do all the important people (top tier peninsular) board the ship usually?

we have 4 😱

Cheers 😂 it’s probably cos I’m blonde sometimes (even though it’s now dyed red) I have a little obsession with spreadsheets so I know exactly what I spent on board every cruise (5) and Florida. It’s so I know how to budget so I will get the amounts. I just forget if people need them. Same as I came into the spare room today trying to pack suitcases and couldn’t remember why I’d done it. Took me a good 10mins and ranting at my hubby that he should have been listening to whatever I was rattling on about as neither of us could remember. I’m blaming my kids. I had brains til I had them

Yes but remind me lol. I always have spends written down

already been. It cos us about £17 think I got a pint and two cans of pop. Need to also pay for Uber to swords and back

we love Gibraltar and was one of the reasons o booked that particular cruise- until hubby overruled me for the Caribbean

we stayed on the ship once. I was very cross. we booked msc for Northern Europe, did not think at all about seeing if anything was closed. hamburg on Sundays is shut it says. So we stayed on the ship- other people ended up In McDonald’s after paying shuttle prices. It was like £40 For 4 of us which I thought was steep. anyway when we go on iona the iron farm and the archeology museum is closed on Mondays. And we are there on a Monday. Didn’t want to pay the extra for private excursions so looks like I will be going back to the bar in Stavanger for the nice but short looking Viking bar man.

They had the lava block steaks on the previous menu too. Just better deserts and starts imo plus I had the fajitas on both ships and you got a lot more before. On iona when I had it I was quite hungry, my kids should have probably had that one as it was two very small fajita wraps. There was also lots of veg and less meat. Would say cost cutting. But can’t be cos of covid as it was quite acceptable in April 22.

we loved the beach house menu on Britannia in April last year but didn’t really think the menu was good on iona in November. think we might just do mdr and olive grove only this cruise.

Only on sail to April. But I was just pricing up same dates for 2024 and then adding some on for inflation 😂 need a figure to work with in general cos I can’t get flight prices etc yet.

The ships are getting bigger though everywhere is seems on every line. there’s me pricing up royal Caribbean holiday for 2025- only need a good £15000ish. Anyone sending donations 😂

Can prebook on iona for beach house

I wouldn’t say it’s disneyworld or butlins. I will pay big bucks for Disney- far more than I have a cruise. Wouldn’t go back to butlins. also apart from the pool and the kids club there isn’t a whole lot to do aimed at kids other than eat and drink. Not recently anyway. There was some good stuff on Britannia last April.

We had the opposite. Had been on 3 p&o cruises. Found two deals on MSC virtuosa and preziosa and still came back to p&o. there are pros and cons with both though, I wouldn’t say no for the right price.

they aren’t the ones paying though! seems it might be between for royal Caribbean and Disney flying to Florida and cruising from there. Hopefully in 2025

If the p&o advisor is wrong then does it include the beach house

On phone to p&o now and they said there is no 20% discount at all. I would be annoyed if I went to sindhu and didn’t get 20% off for pre booking

Is that on iona too? Doesn’t say anything when I go to book sindhu about 20% off otherwise I might do it now

normal pools like at swimming baths. virtuosa tasted disgusting and stung the eyes. The kids hated the pools and the kids club on there. we booked shows and restaurants on the app. Hated having to book the restaurants inside that French place, queued for ages and they still got it wrong. I like military planning mostly too.

P&O Cruises are a decent product and great value for money but you do get what you pay for. Agreed. would love to go on Royal Caribbean or Disney but are they really twice or more as good as p&o for me to be paying the double price? and then I end up back with p&o

I’m quite jealous of some of the itineraries on the adult only ships. yes I think most would only be able to do those really long ones when retired

The scoop from the youngest is that she wanted to nosy at a different ship. She’s 7 and has tried 5 different ships! I don’t know how people can sit in jackets in warm weather. The only thing my two would prefer is the water park on the top of the ship like other ones. They are looking forward to Arvia for the few little extra bits but they actually like dressing up at night and going to the mdr etc - I’ve just had to convince them that 3 formal dresses for a weeks cruise is more than enough, that they will be more dressed up than others and they still want to dress like that. They didn’t feel like they could do that on msc so probably it is families with kids like mine that are cruising young as I assume when they are older then they will do this with their kids. I know if the deals are still good I’ll be taking grandkids etc if we have them. Cruising is just much easier.

my kids love cruising and are excited to go back. However when we told them we had booked they did ask is it msc or p&o as the difference they both found was massive. They were glad it was p&o but the youngest (7) did say “it’s iona, again” will have to ask why she said that. Unfortunately she had to go learn to swim and the conversation got interrupted

I wouldn’t say we have any class but do have manners. We are probably what they are trying to attract the younger age but just cos we are younger etc doesn’t mean we are slobs etc. I suppose I assume that when I hear these comments that I feel they are slightly towards us younger ones rather that the ones who have been cruising decades, feels like a dig. anyhow, I’ve seen some things before from all ages that I don’t like anywhere. Feet out on the back of my child seat and farting in theatre. talking down to staff laying across a large sofa with no shoes on in the pub when others wanted seats. Asking if my kids can move up so she can sit down to watch a comedian 5mins before the show after we’d been there an hour to fetch three more people and end up with kids on our knees (they are 7&8 and so not want to sit on our knees in pubs nor do I want a numb knee for an hour!) pushing my kids out the way to sit at a table when they had already put their bags down. there will be things we all do that would probably be seen as incorrect to some. I suppose it’s more be polite, and try to treat others as you’d like. And Andy Peroni at the table tut tut (what’s it supposed to be? I drink coke 😂 but hubby has that beer at the table too)