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The food is the same, service and ambience is theoretically the same, but will obviously depend on the teams working and your fellow dinners. We tend to favour Cielo, the isolated one on deck 6, purely because we usually book aft rooms, and partake in the loyalty lounge which is the floor above. Soleil is convenient for Vines pre dinner drinks, I have found people have a tendency to head for Estrella, often queues here when not at the others. Estrella is also the restaurant that hosts lunch on sea days and Embarkation. As it has the Reserve Collection seating area.

Interesting, as they always look at my medallion and read the date before giving me the nod to board.

Your post is exactly the type that make me reluctant to post on Cruise Critic. I was doing my best to answer the OP. Not open up a debate as to whether anyone needs more than a foot and a half to get into bed.

I don’t know what these look like on reverse, but the printing around the outside of the medallion, which is name and date, needs to be visible when boarding the ship. I wear the sports band sold on Princess, so convenient to have it on your wrist.

If you are in an inside room and opt for a queen bed, you get “about” (an estimated) foot and a half either side of the bed. Whereas opt for twins, with one side of each bed pushed against each wall, that equates to a 3ft area between the beds which feels more spacious. In a balcony always queen set up.

Dancing Man Brewery does great food. West Quay has almost all of the big dining chains, no shortage of places to eat.

I did similar back in 2019, I was watching an end of August Med cruise on Britannia. (Back early September so not school holidays) Balconies starting at £1049. So much availability was sure there would be another price drop. Nope turned to Sold Out overnight. Of course by then I had convinced myself I needed to be on that cruise, kept checking for cancellations, one popped up about 10 days before sailing, In short, we ended up paying £1400 each for an Inside 🤣 Had a fab cruise though. we usually book Select, but booked the 7th July as a little extra, our preferred rooms already gone, so opted to try the saver fare. Got exactly what we paid for, grade wise, 3 cabins away from where we would have chosen on Select but around a corner, so No Aft view for us.

We booked early saver a number of months ago, and had our cabin allocated a few days ago. So imagine that is why the available cabins have reduced.

Yes been like it on Britannia for a week or more, okay if you know what you are doing, a nightmare if you are unfamiliar with ships layout.

Yes, I noticed on Britannia they were using Cravendale.

No problem taking your coffee back to the room, but you should use a P&O supplied mug and pour it in to your insulated mug. As Josy said, they require you do this to avoid contamination. Easier still make the coffee in your room, we take decent coffee bags with us for this purpose.

I use “what’s in port”

Please be aware that Triangle is just a pay and display, no allocated parking type car park. Heard numerous reports of people having to queue waiting for cars to leave to get a prepaid space. Reports of the taxi service have been very mixed. With a wheelchair user if you were unable to change your parking I would drop them off first at the terminal. I never usually recommend people use West Quay car park for a cruise, but even I would use that over Triangle.

I’m hoping ICF is just having such a good time he hasn’t had the inclination to update us yet. He had quite a full on day yesterday, with a nice meal booked for lunch. With the good weather the New Forest could have been busier than usual, or should that be as busy as it usually is, which means they could have been in traffic queues then people queues. maybe they boarded and just called it a night. Even with the queuing to embark that seemed to be experienced yesterday, that’s still better than an airport, before your flight, when you watch time tick away worrying you might miss your flight! It’s like you’ve arrived, and are just waiting to get through immigration.

Slightly controversial, but I am/was supportive of the inside seating area in the terminal not being used for early arrivals. After all, how many were happy to say I’ll just turn up and wait so the place was gridlocked. By stopping the relative comfort of turning up and waiting, eventually the message gets through, stick to your boarding time, and people begin to comply. However, I would be very disappointed if people that are there on time, but caught up in a delayed boarding situation weren’t allowed to make use of those seats in the terminal. I saw the photo of queue, am hoping one of them is a continual moving one going through the process of check in and security.