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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.