SarahHben

Hi Andy, I hope you have a wonderful cruise! It’s such a shame for the person in your party who’s unwell. We’ve got 5 weeks until our Britannia cruise so would be very interested to know if the theatre has to be booked on ‘my holiday’ or do you just turn up? The same question for MDR breakfasts and dinners? Also keen to find out if the muster drill is video in cabin or muster stations with/without life jackets? Have a great time.

Thank you for that, I hadn't spotted the Feb half term one. Our daughter's October half term falls between the 2 October Rotterdam cruises but the Feb one would work. OH has said he wants to do May half Term '26 on Ventura which goes to La Rochelle, Santander, Gijon & La Coruna, but I might be able to persuade him to do both 😁

Thank you all, that’s really helpful info. Although the cruise says it’s in the school holidays, and it is for Medway where we live, it appears it probably won’t be school holidays for the rest of Kent & my daughter will still be at work so I will have the 2 grandchildren 🥴 We will definitely do a Rotterdam cruise & visit The Hauge at some point but not just yet. Back to choosing another itinerary…

Thank you. Did you take the train?

Do any of you know if P&O run excursions to The Hague from Rotterdam? I know that we could to the trip independently but I wondered if the was an organised excursion too? We're considering booking an Iona cruise to Rotterdam, Hamburg and Zeebrugge and if we do I would like to visit The Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague. Thanks

I booked this morning for our end of May/June cruise and had the confirmation email. My dining bookings are showing on My Cruise itinerary page too.

I found this page on the P&O website. It doesn't give Ray Quinn dates and I don't think it covers all cruises but it's a start. https://www.pocruises.com/onboard-activities/dining/the-limelight-club Looks like Tom Lister will be on our cruise. I've not heard of him so I'm not sure if we'll book or not.

i don't blame him at all! I'm hoping we at least have dry weather in Norway

Thanks Kalos I thought I’d have more time for browsing once my daughter was on maternity leave but it hasn’t worked that way. New baby is gorgeous, the 4 year old goes and sits on the stairs with his hand over his ears when baby cries 😂 Mum hasn’t had a date for her back operation yet. Our cruise is 8 weeks today so I hope the op isn’t while we’re away 🥴 i hope you and everyone else is keeping well.

Sounds lovely, I think that’s one I looked at before booking our Norway one. You might be getting on Britannia as we’re getting off? We disembark on Friday 7th June.

Oh my goodness! Good news that you had no fractures but I expect you’re going to be very sore. I hope you feel better very soon

I’m glad you had a good time 😊 Where are you off to next?

How exciting 🥰

Thank you 😊 We decided last. Night that Holiday Inn in town was too expensive, over £200, so have booked Holiday Inn Fareham instead. We’ve stayed there before and it’s close to Port Solent shops and restaurants. Our first choice would have been HI Express near the cricket ground if it wasn’t for cricket being on that day and likely to be busy, they do a good breakfast 😊 Are you staying there pre-cruise?

Thank you all 🥰 baby was 12 days late and our daughter was worried he'd be a whopper but he was a perfectly respectable 7lb. His older brother hasn't plucked up the courage to get too close yet, he's appreciating him from a safe distance 😂 Thanks for info on Holiday Inn. If we were to have a late embarkation time on Britannia, we had 3:30pm on Ventura last year, do you know if they allow people to stay in the hotel lounge area? We're torn between Holiday Inn Express - much cheaper and great breakfast but will need to arrive mid afternoon to get a parking space and then there's not much to do locally, or Holiday Inn ...paying quite a bit more but have places to walk to.

Hi everyone We've had an exciting weekend, baby grandson was born Friday morning, he missed being a 29th Feb baby by 1 hour, he's totally gorgeous 🥰 We've also started thinking about our end of May cruise, we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express M27 Jct.7 the night before our first 2 cruises. We have a room booked there again for this year but wondered if it's worth spending extra to stay in the main Holiday Inn in Southampton? The cost is twice as much but there is cricket on at the Ageas Bowl on the night of our stay again and last time that made parking at the hotel very difficult. Any opinions welcome.

Thanks, I'll tell Mr B to cycle carefully, too energetic for me, I'll just enjoy taking photos from the train ☺️

Morning all. I haven't been on here much lately other than reading the occasional 'live from' post. I hope everyone is well. We feel very ready for a holiday, with various health issues in the wider family, brother has just got out of hospital after an operation, mum is waiting for an operation date for her back but in the meantime is still not very mobile. Our daughter is heavily pregnant, 9 days overdue at the moment so we're at a constant state of readiness to drive her to the hospital and look after the almost 4 year old. We're hoping baby doesn't make an appearance on 29th Feb 😏 It's balance due time for our Britannia cruise at the end of May so I can start getting excited about it now ☺️ Mum and dad have had to cancel due to mum's current mobility issues and pending operation so although it's a shame, it will be nice just being me and hubby. It does mean I'll be doing the Flam railway trip on my own as Mr B is cycling down, I hope it's impossible to get lost and board the wrong train coming back down again 😂

Sorry to read that you’re still having issues, I hope those situations improve for the rest of your cruise

My husband and I booked the Retreat on our 2 weeks Canaries cruise in Ventura last August and both agreed that it ‘made’ our trip. The outside decks were very busy but there were only a dozen or so people in the Retreat. There’s both sheltered and unsheltered areas. Blankets are available for if it’s chilly. Food wise we didn’t have breakfast there but often had lunch there, if I remember rightly it was a salad every day. Then they offer a light afternoon tea later. Tea, coffee & chilled water are always available and if you want any other drinks the waiters take your cruise card and go to the bars to get what you want . Bear in mind though we went in August and had warm/hot weather. We didn’t use the retreat on our 1 wet day.

Morning. It’s been an interesting week here. Mum’s not been good, it took both my sister and I to get her out of bed, bathed and dressed on Tuesday morning. She then had a call from her physio, told her how everything was getting worse and the physio told her to go straight to A&E. We spent several hours there with her going through various assessments and she was eventually sent home with a change of pain relief and an order to return if she gets either numbness down below or loss of ‘control’. Shes got an MRI in two weeks, but doc thinks it’s Spinal Stenosis and at least one slipped disc. My sister and I persuaded her to let us make a temporary bedroom for her in their dining room so we’ve been rearranging furniture and my husband moved the bed downstairs and she’s been relieved to not have to manage the stairs twice a day. They are going to cancel coming on Britannia with us in May, fortunately not a big deposit to loose. Five weeks until our Grandson number two is due so we really need mum settled and improving by then or I may end up in a frazzled heap. 🥴 Sorry to ramble on, that was quite therapeutic getting all that off my chest 😂

Fantastic news! 🎉 How lovely to hear from Frank too 😊

Different models may have the settings in a different place but if you can get to the settings you should be able to connect to your WiFi package on the kindle then once connected you can definitely download books straight to the kindle. No iPad necessary. Good luck

Morning. Does your wife have kindle unlimited? I was whiling away a few hours in A&E yesterday evening and had my kindle with me so took a few pics of what I do. First go to kindle settings and connect to WiFi. Then I click on the 3 bars, top right, click on Shop in Kindle Store and then Kindle Unlimited is an option to choose. I don’t have Kindle Unlimited but type ‘Free’ in the search bar and a long list appears. You can then click on the 3 bars again, click on Refine and chose the genre you want. I hope that helps?

My husband and son are going to watch the Gillingham vs Sheffield United match this afternoon so I’m looking forward to a quiet afternoon until they come back to watch the highlights to see if they can see themselves on tv 🥴😂