Pink-belle

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.

I’m really hoping it’s not, 2 reasons first being, if it’s in the package they might run out, secondly I “might” be tempted to double both my bar bill, by buying the package and also double my alcohol consumption to make good use of it!

From this 1st photo that looks really positive for those who like to buy packages. Last year the package was so restrictive, it would have made no sense at all for us to buy it. As we didn’t “chose” to drink the included options. What was good about that was it made me pay attention to our bar bill onboard. We are light drinkers at home, probably have wine with dinner a couple of nights a week. definitely drink more on holiday, drink what we want when we want. We averaged a spend of £60 a day on drinks over the 14 nights. So although the lemon drizzle spritz is now included in the Deluxe package, it would still be far more expensive to go for a package.

It’s cruise day, I’m looking forward to following along. You have a nice day planned, before boarding. would be really grateful if you could post the “New” Glass House drinks menu. Hoping my favourites, remain outside the drinks package, (We don’t but a package) so they don’t run dry during the cruise.

Sorry I can’t help directly with the baby change question but have you heard of https://www.cruisemummy.co.uk/cruise-with-a-two-year-old-everything-you-need-to-know/ A cruise blogger who cruises with her family, lots of really useful information on her site.

Your comment regarding the bucket of water being the surprise really made me chuckle this morning, thank you for that. I admire your positive spirit, and am enjoying your live from.

It was on the personaliser before the changes with all the details, that information has now gone. It may not have had an add button, as to be honest if we are buying it we tend to do so onboard after confirming they have the bottles we would chose available.

I just checked my cruise personaliser for my cruise in July. Wine packages still mentioned, but no button to click to see details or order. It was there yesterday, so hoping it will reappear in the next couple of days.

On the P&O site, a good guide to what to wear on a cruise https://www.pocruises.com/what-to-wear hand luggage will depend on airline guidelines if flying, if in Southampton small enough to go through an airport style scanner. if we are allocated early boarding we take a small holdall, paperwork, medication and valuables as good chance luggage will arrive before dinner, and you need to carry around as you wait for rooms to be ready, around 1:30pm with a later boarding time a slight larger rolling holdall, as we can go straight to the room, good to have items available to freshen up before dinner, in case cases arrive a little later.

I am a fan of the My Holiday app, although I personally chose not to use it my husband does. So nice to join the virtual queue from the comfort of our room. If you have issues accessing or using the technology, there are My Holiday podiums with staff who can help you get set up. Last three times on Britannia there was a dining enquiry desk set up on embarkation day right at the enterance of The Limelight Club, to help with bookings. Plus Yes you can go to the venues and book, during the cruise.

That’s a shame! Hope it’s cleared by now, we did a great tour in Belfast out to the Gaol and then around to see the “walls”. When we were there a couple of years ago. hope you have had a good day.