exlondoner

I don’t generally believe in leaving much extra, but I hope they tipped the butler and steward hugely.

You can use obc once you are on board, but not before. A day’s worth lasts for a 24 hour period, which means one purchase will often cover two days if carefully planned. Also you may not want it at all when in port.

True. Though Southampton to Waterloo runs even on strike days. Which day of the week is it?

It should be possible. Already having a ticket would help. But you are betting the ship will arrive on time, which is a gamble, as we saw the other week.

Luckily this dog is going westbound.

I was thinking how lively it would be, if instead of a long shaggy tail intruding on RJChatsworth’s balcony, it had been a long tail with a tuft on the end…

If you haven’t got enough, ask the steward if s/he can bring you a few more.

Or it may simply be the thing won’t fit the kennels, anyway.

The kennels are often sold out. So the only way to get your dog on board is to claim it’s vital for your mental health or some such codswallop.

None of this is remotely fair on other passengers, most notably yourself. Did the owners seem as entitled as they sound?

She is not far from Nova Scotia at present, so it could just swim home.

Do we actually know this huge thing is a dog and not, say, a yak or a polar bear? It would be a whole different set of allergens. I’m still worrying about the lifeboat position.

I know a couple of people who are allergic, but only mildly. The have cats. 🙂

I like cats very much and dislike dogs, but I understand that people are much more commonly allergic to cats than dogs. You clearly did your very best, but it might have been hard on the next occupant if they were allergic to cats. 🙂

Let us hope, even more than usual, QM2 doesn’t hit an iceberg. Imagine sharing a lifeboat with that thing.

I am profoundly grateful I am not the next occupant of that cabin. Yuck.

But it does clog up the lifts. And, on a related matter, the lifts claim to hold 18 people. Hos anyone ever been in a lift with that many?

But that involves changing lifts, and you can only get to Deck 11 in Stairway B. It is rather different from getting on an unbound lift, in the hope that it will - eventually - go down.

Yet it is Cunard that is often disliked and/or disdained for its class system. Strange, for other than when encountering people like me with lift problems, nobody has any idea what sort of cabin others have.

Yes, Deck 9 and two floors of walking is a good idea, which even I can manage, especially as there is a flat section on Deck 10.

The best thing of all is getting in a lift where someone, possibly you, has already done it. Another mystery is why the lifts are quite often quite cluttered with people going up to go down.

Dear me. As someone said on another thread, I’m speechless.

Why indeed does one need to be escorted to the theatre? It would make me feel I was on day release. I hate that slot for the Deck 11 lifts. It seems invariably even if there is only one other person in the lifts, it is a very obese man standing right next to the buttons, to whom I have to say excuse me. He will want to know what I’m doing and then ask why or tell me it is not necessary. By this time, I have got so flustered that I have failed to get it to work, and the lift has turned round at Deck 9 and I have lost my chance. 🙂🙂

I can say I ever have. Not during dinner. Surely going from the Grills Restaurants, you would just go down one of the D lifts? Or am I on the wrong ship?

I don’t understand how one can know. Nobody dines in both restaurants the same night. So how do you form a judgement?