exlondoner

Is your impression that people have mainly enjoyed the experience or are a lot of them fed up?

I may be being cynical, but I’m not sure that notice is always entire accurate. Anyway, there must always be a few empty cabins, so they can move people whose cabins get flooded or whatever.

It would have been the pits if they had been able to loosen the bolts and remove the damaged blade but, for some reason, not get the new one screwed on.

Surely that is exactly what travel agents are for. Set them on to it. I must say I have read very few complaints about noise from the lifts, so it may not be much of a problem.

We once had a call at Izmir cancelled in advance, because of the political/terrorist situation in Turkey, which I thought a rather over cautious reaction, but nonetheless understandable. This meant I still haven’t got to see Ephesus, which, as a classicist, I think is one of the few ancient ruins actually worth visiting. Sarande was in no way a worthy substitute. But that’s life.

I’m not sure an industrial dry dock is any more disagreeable than the container ports the ships sometimes dock in. As I have said, I should find it fascinating. Surely you should be pleased they are, we hope, fixing the vibration problem so your journey back is less tiresome?

A small amount of OBC would have been nice. It would also have been nice to tell people before they left, as does often happen with itinerary changes. But why should they give people the option of cancelling because of one change of port. It would be crazy. Or perhaps they could have charged extra to all those who preferred Cadiz. 😀

Well, we will hope it is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I can see it is very disappointing to miss the beautiful city of Lisbon if you haven’t been there, but Cadiz is splendid too. Unless, it was very noisy overnight, I really can’t see that there is anything much to moan about, unless one is looking for reasons to be miserable. As you will see from other posts, I am frequently critical of Cunard, but can’t see a reason to be here.

Your comments are so helpful and knowledgeable. Thank you.

At present they may be busy keeping their fingers crossed that they won’t have to delay QV’s cruise because of the pod problems. As are we all, I imagine.

I imagine it will be rather noisy tonight for those whose cabins are at the back.

Surely it won’t be dark all day tomorrow? Rotten to miss Lisbon though, I quite see.

All true, but two of the worst things about it are its strange shape and lack of interesting view, and there is nothing much they can do about those. New decor would be nice though

I must say I think I would want to remain on board and watch what was going on.

A long walk in the early hours?

As someone has pointed out, it is not even two days, let alone three. Why not enjoy the wonderful city of Cadiz? Unless you’ve never been to Lisbon, you are not losing really, are you, and instead having a rare experience, which many would find fascinating?

Good heavens, I bet the engineers enjoyed that day. Their hair must have turned white. 😀

Back to ironing?

Perhaps they’ll have a whip round among the passengers.

My goodness, they could halve sold the cruise for twice the price, if they’d known it was going to happen. Many would love to be aboard.

The house keys. 😀

Seasickness pills, just in case. And a spare pair of glasses.

I believe they are very good at catering for allergies. If they know about it, they will probably show you the menu the day before, so they can provide alternatives.

We enjoyed Coriander very much, also La Piazza, the Italian one. But in both cases, we shared a starter, eg a huge plate of antipasti, and a desert, and still could barely finish.

The foods I quoted were merely examples. But we clearly have a completely different concept of an enjoyable meal out. I don’t want it to be like home. And I hate having to carry stuff.