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I doubt you’ll have to wait till 3, just until your tranche is called, which will depend on how many are ahead of you.
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And in my experience the restaurant staff are very good about not charging lunch time drinks until the evening, when one is safely at sea. In fact they tend to do this anyway.
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Until you hit an iceberg, almost all problems to do with cruises are first worldish.
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Goodness, that must have been a fluke. I’m hopeless at this game, even when I’ve been to the place, which I haven’t in this case. 😀
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On QM2 anywhere near the door, as there is a draft, anywhere in the large indentation as it’s dark. In addition some people don’t like to be too far from the door, because it’s a bit of a walk, and some people don’t like the windows because people look in. On the Vistas, the QG restaurants are much, much, nicer, I think.
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Probably, unless you are in the Grills or Diamond. Nobody boards anyway, until the ship is ready, which may be well after 12.30.
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Notes from Queen Victoria to the Mediterranean (& back)
exlondoner replied to Host Hattie's topic in Cunard Line
And you did have the chocolate thingy for lunch. 😀 -
If you stroll along Brook Street, so called because the buried Tyburn River flows underneath, towards the Park, you will come across one of my favourite London coincidences. According to the Blue Plaques, Jimi Hendrix and Handel lived next door to each other, though they missed each other by 250 years. Hendrix loved Handel ’s music, and I suspect the opposite might have been the case too.
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Green Park? There was another, called, I think, Down Street, but it was closed before the war, as it was too close to the others.
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Leicester Square, in London terms at any rate, is nowhere near Hyde Park Corner.
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Notes from Queen Victoria to the Mediterranean (& back)
exlondoner replied to Host Hattie's topic in Cunard Line
And I imagine, if he is still quarantined, you will have to hang around until the very end of disembarkation for him to be restored to you. -
I think it has changed since then.
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No, they are free, and indeed delicious. Alas the champagne is not (free, that is).😀
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That has always been my experience in the Vistas too, which is why I was so surprised when it worked on QM2.
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Notes from Queen Victoria to the Mediterranean (& back)
exlondoner replied to Host Hattie's topic in Cunard Line
I should have lobster then beef Welly, as a celebration. -
In the summer, in our Q5, which was the first one aft of the lifeboats on the port side, the only place the Wi-Fi worked was, bizarrely, on the balcony. Could be fun doing that in mid-Atlantic . When we were quarantined in a sheltered balcony on Deck 5, it worked much better inside.
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I think you will be very unlucky if a connecting cabin causes noise problems. I have booked them unawares a number of times over the years and never heard a thing.
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Notes from Queen Victoria to the Mediterranean (& back)
exlondoner replied to Host Hattie's topic in Cunard Line
O frabjous day. So pleased for you. -
There is a Carinthia on QE.
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No, you won’t, but you may still be able to move, if you don’t like it. Just not to the best window table.
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Notes from Queen Victoria to the Mediterranean (& back)
exlondoner replied to Host Hattie's topic in Cunard Line
it almost seems it would be better to do,the opposite to their current procedure. That is, have a stringent, certified test before boarding, make everyone wear masks for a couple of days, and then just let people do their own thing, with strong encouragement to stay in cabin if they feel ill. This seems better than enforcing masks only at the end. -
Notes from Queen Victoria to the Mediterranean (& back)
exlondoner replied to Host Hattie's topic in Cunard Line
Nothing in the world is as evocative as the sound of foghorns. But preferably at night, when the fog isn’t spoiling the view. -
Notes from Queen Victoria to the Mediterranean (& back)
exlondoner replied to Host Hattie's topic in Cunard Line
When we were quarantined, the QG M d’H rang up everyday to see that we were OK, and sent down wine as requested. That may be the QG, but may suggest you are better off dealing directly with the restaurant, if you can. -
Notes from Queen Victoria to the Mediterranean (& back)
exlondoner replied to Host Hattie's topic in Cunard Line
Well, it depends on the virus doesn’t it? Nobody thinks of testing people wandering around with colds, or didn’t. And those are often caused by coronaviruses. -
Thoughts on when we might get access to our room?
exlondoner replied to JAH1969's topic in Cunard Line
Something similar happened to us last time, though we were on a little earlier. Once, in pre-Covid days, they let lots of people on early, and told us to go and wait in the Lido or Grills Lounge. But we escaped from the lift on Deck 7, and lo and behold, our cabin was ready, and had been since about 11, according to our butler.
