AndyUK

This is exactly my plan.!!

Hi all, I booked a few shore things for our cruise later in the year ( Greek island Glow) , I booked early, as part of MRS priority…. I booked three excursions , and all of them the same thing happened, they are all booked but no money taken and says ‘Deducted from pending refund’. I checked the app and the shore things are booked and scheduled within my app. I didn’t get an email confirmation, should I have?! I assume it’s a VV glitch, and I’m reluctant to call them… worst case I lose the booking , but I’m happy to make alternative arrangements. Thanks Andy

Thank you!

Will they be chargeable events?

Thank you! Very helpful!!

Thank you. Do you recall what time you got to the hotel, as we hope to book some massages also.

Has anyone done the Mandarin Oriental beach club day in Bodrum ? Was thinking of going to the hotel for a spa day so interested to hear if anyone did the shore thing excursion there.

Yes you do. They will be available in the app on embarkation. Note on the last cruise we went on they were not available immediately in the app... they held them back while more sailors got onboard. We were MRS so first on and they were not available for the first 45 mins or so. I asked why and was told they hold them back if the boat is busy.

usually 8am, 10am and sometimes 3pm. but they not every day.

Looking forward to seeing them again on the greek island glow in July!

How odd we had different experiences, wonder if had to do with access points on the ship or something. I certainly was able to work fine throughout , both port and sea days.

No , you watch video in your cabin, and then the muster drill is just show up at your station and they give a 2 mins overview of a life jacket and that’s it, you are free to go. They wait for a group of people and do a session, that group goes and they repeat.

We were MRS and had premium on Valiant on their holiday cruise over Christmas and thought the WiFi was good. Examples… I was able to use zoom for zoom video calls( work), many WhatsApp video calls, emails and surfing the net all fine, streaming music from Apple and videos from YouTube all perfect. Maybe I was lucky, but it seemed to work well certainly within the cabin anyhow.

We did Valiant Lady over Christmas. Cruise was sold out, 2700 passengers. We didn’t face long queues for anything. All dinner reservations there was no queues to get your table. No long queue for events, people queued up for many none tickets events like bingo 30 mins or so before, which causes a long line, but our experience was wait till later, and there be no queue and still get a seat. Unless you really wanted a specific front row seat. On sea days yes the pool can get busy, especially if the weather is good, though didn’t feel overcrowded at all. The longest we had to wait for a drink in any bar was probably 10 mins and that was at the dock house on day one where the is limited other places to get a drink before sail away. The service though-out the ship was fantastic, staff providing amazing service as quick as possible. I honestly say don’t worry about it, relax and enjoy it, even with a full ship there is a lot of space in our view, and we’ll organised .

I don’t see that on either my phone or PC! How strange !