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Thanks a lot for all of your answers, especially Alberta!!! Given me a lot to think about, but for sure it´s going to be our next big holiday!!

Thanks for all the answers! It is illegal in Norway to drive while looking at your phone, as the same as in most of the European countries. David, thanks for the email, I´ll send them the complaint and the videos I recorded.

Hi, just finished our wonderful Nothern LIght cruise on Aurora, but still a bit angry about "an issue" that happened during one of our excursions in Andalsnes. While we were travelling by bus, the guide received a call telling him to change the route and take us to a different cafe to have a coffee. He told the bus driver and while he was driving us on slippery roads he took out his phone, and opened maps, typed in the new address and started looking on the phone without even slowing down. After looking for a while he found it and then drove the rest of the way with one hand on the wheel while holding his phone with the other hand, even going round roundabouts he didn´t put his phone away. Not only this, but on the way back he received a videocall and took his phone out again, and took the call and then put his phone down on the side so he could continue the call. I thought about reporting this, but I did feel a bit bad about doing this, but when we got back I told the guide that it was wrong to do that with a bus full of people, but he just said that everybody does it, and that even cars now days have screens that show your phone. I then told the driver that he should not do that and he just smiled at me as if I was crazy, didn´t even apologize. I went to shore excursion on the ship, and the guy said there after seeing the video that he was probably looking at maps, giving it no importance at all. Now I do feel like I should do something, as this is very reckless, and if he keeps on like this people could get hurt.

Hello from Spain, I´m just starting to think about doing Alaska in August 2025 or maybe 2026, but I have some doubts. The first plan would be to do the Rocky Mountaineer, inside passage cruise, and Denali park staying at Holland Americas resort, and not sure if the other destinations in Alaska. What we most enjoy is the scenery, wildlife, little villages, and maybe some "easy" hiking. Not that much into shopping, or bigger cities though. - First question, will there be lots of kids on the ship and resorts? I know Holland America doesn´t usually attract a lot of families, but we´ve never booked a cruise during school vacations, except for on adults only ships. We´re not a fan of relaxing on a holiday while kids are running around shouting (or whatever). - Is August a good month to go for the scenery and/or wildlife? I would prefer to go earlier, as we love seeing the Mountains with more snow. Just got back from a northern light cruise to the north of Norway and we almost cried seeing all the scenery round us. The issue is that for at least another 5 or more years I can´t get time off work from May to July, or September. April and October could be done, with a 2 year notice, but I don´t think they´re good months for Alaska? - Any advice about the Mountaineer? I´ve seen they have different destinations and routes. Also any advice about the rest of the destinations in Alaska (apart from the cruises ones and Mackinley resort as we´ve decided to stay there for 2 or 3 nights) - Better first inland and then cruise, or other way around? TIA!!

Does anybody know what day of the week does Sindhu on Aurora change it´s menu? On Britannia last year it was changing on Wednesdays or Thursdays on the cruise we did, not sure if that applies to every cruise or it counts from the day the cruise starts or what. TIA

Thanks a lot, I had no idea about the discount Shame the Glass House can´t be booked though, that´s our favourite restaurant

Hi, does anybody know if it´s possible to pre-book specialty dining on Aurora 14 days before? We embark in one month and I would like to get this sorted out before we get on the ship. Also, is it easy to get in the Glass House for dinner (not too early), last time on Britannia the queues on the app filled up in a few minutes every night, and was almost impossible to get a table at around 7:30-8:30.

On Britannia you can only book the Limelight Club at this moment, on all the rest it says "Enquire on board". I´ve been trying twice per day for the last 10 days, for both of my cruises.

Good idea, I can take the extra weight from both suitcases in one bag. Don´t know why I didn´t think of this in the first place Thanks!

Thanks David, I´ll ask for more hangers if needed and try and keep my clothes clean 🙂

Got a couple of questions more: On our last Canary cruise, there was a laundry offer on the second last night, that was fill the whole laundry bag and they washed and ironed everything for a flat rate. Does anybody know how much this is and if they would do it at the end of the first cruise of a back to back cruise? Also wondering about how many hangers are available in the wardrobe? Never done a cruise longer than 10 days or so, and this one will be 21 days and will need to use more hangers than normal and not sure whether to take a few more with us or not.

Is that a Riesling? If so, at around 45 or 50 Fahrenhiet, or slightly lower if you´re having the whole bottle and then you can appreciate the difference of aromas when it starts getting warmer.

The bottles we will take cost more than 30 pounds (usually around 50-60€ when bought). All of them have aged 5 years or more more from when they were sold, and on P&O they don´t have older vintages, and if they do they would be much more expensive. Lots of complex wines are much better and don´t finish "rounding" all the tannins to get the perfect balance until 5 or 10 years after being sold. I have a wine cellar in my house with around 750 bottles, some more than 50 years old (the very old ones can only be drunken at home). All of the wines sold on board are big production wines, not comparable to some of the bottles we have that are bought from small family run wineries, with very small productions (maybe between 300 and 1000 bottles per year). These we really enjoy due to their unique qualities. We also enjoy wines served on board, and they have very good prices compared to any other cruise line (one of the reasons we choose P&O), and we also enjoy trying wines from other regions and grape varieties that we don´t have that much at home (Spain). We´ll be going to the Glass House a few times, for sure. I just hope they don´t serve red wine by the glass at room temperature like last time we went. As I said before, we´re wine snobs, lol

Not business, but flight from Malaga with Wizz allows 32kg, and flight back 25kg. I was never thinking on bringing 32kg, but 25-26 including a couple of bottles of wine each. I did know about the corkage fee of 20 Pounds, and have no problem with it.

The trouble about taking more cases is that we fly from Spain (where we live), and we have one piece of luggage + hand luggage allowed for our flight. I´ll try and keep it the lowest weight possible then About carrying it on myself, I wouldn´t mind that, maybe not 30kg, but could move 25 with no problem at all. Thanks for all the answers. Really looking forward to the cruise!!!