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That sound exactly right the Iona lady needs retraining.

Even I agree with that.

Hi from north of the river, this is what the P&O website says and it looks new. Any guest who is a full-time wheelchair or mobility scooter user or requires the use of their device inside their cabin, must be booked into an accessible cabin, selected Suites or Mini-suites that provide the space and features required to suit guest’s needs. If you tell us (on your on-board needs questionnaire) that you will be bringing mobility equipment and the cabin you have chosen is not a fully accessible cabin or selected Suite or Mini-suite, there may be insufficient room to manoeuvre your mobility aid. Therefore, we may need to contact you to discuss other cabin options. This is defiantly a change and refers to those who need to move around the cabin using their chair. Perhaps this is what the sales person has seen and has got it wrong?? However if you need the chair in the cabin you would need an adapted cabin anyway. Dai

I would hope this is a misunderstanding on behalf of the Iona staff. If it were true then there would have been far more publicity about it. Wouldn’t there. ????

Well all you do is ask, just because it is not laid out into 6 courses does not mean you cant have them. I have had starter, soup, fish course, main desert, cheese, coffee.. Just ask it is available, within the past year on Ventura, Iona and Aurora.

And I disagree with you after 60+ cruises in 20+ years I do not find that much different. As for choice it is interesting to look at menus from 10 to 15 years ago and the choice is very much the same. That is why I keep the menus. They are laid out differently but you can still get 6/7 courses if you want. Which I have done on occasions on our last 3 cruises to prove the point.

I am seeing on here and other groups that, for once, P&O are being quicker than Princess in getting things done. My 3 cruises OBC were confirmed by P&O within a couple of hours each. Perhaps it is because Princess have more passengers.

Example in Sep/Oct 25 we have 2 cruises both 14 nights. The first one to the Baltic £500.00 more now than when we booked and the second to the Canaries is £1000.00 more.

I always book on day one and only on rare occasions has the price I paid been beaten. As things settle down I think this will be more and more the case. So many people book 18 month out and claim that they booked early. In fact they booked at the worse time. Booking early is booking on day one.

It’s in New York. Thats the one in New York State not North Tyneside. 🙂

I have now done mine for October and had it confirmed, inside a couple of hours. like this new system, a website that works.

Email this afternoon to say our OBC has been applied to our 2 cruises. Canny like. Now its set up it is a very easy process.

Once I had got a letter from the firm holding my shares I found the App works well, very easy and once set up you only input you cruise number and date the cruise starts. Saves having to write a new email with all my details. Of course the real test is when I get the OBC on the ship.

Correct John.

We were there last night as well, wonderful meal. Best in Sindhu for some time.

@Selbourne Perhaps you could wave as you sail past us. I do believe we are in Funchal at the same time. We may see you wandering about. Gan Canny Dai

It’s always the same as everyone want drinks all at the same time. Short cruises are always the same, the staff levels will be the same for our 5 week cruise on Wednesday.

It should make no difference. We have had the discount when booking cruises 6 month apart. One was the last cruise in one booking period and the second was the first in the next period.

Having been on 4/5 of these cruises i can say we take none of the above apart from the laundry sheets, for hand washing. See you on board Dai

I was going to say that. 🙂

They have just collected our luggage 30 mins ago, for our next cruise. Great service.

Good God ….. that much. Is a good reply. 😎

I have to say i cannot remember anyone asking me either. Defiantly a no no a bit like how many cruises have you done?

Our easiest disembarkation recently has been on Iona. The key is they have 2 air bridges and two exits. BTW I do not get assistance.

We are considerably older than you but enjoy a lively atmosphere as well as peace and quiet. We enjoyed Aurora and Iona on our last two cruises although I find Aurora is less accessible now, Iona is brilliant. My wife and I have a saying, 2000 passengers on this ship and there are 2000 different holiday's. We were on Aurora at the time, 20 years ago.