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It’s more worrying if the waiters look like that. 😀
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Queen Elizabeth - Dinner at Golden Lion Pub
exlondoner replied to Desert Cruisers's topic in Cunard Line
I seem to remember QE2 was taken to visit them when on trials, for some reason. -
Queen Elizabeth - Dinner at Golden Lion Pub
exlondoner replied to Desert Cruisers's topic in Cunard Line
Not mad about the ham, which looks a bit watery, but in general agree. Definitely the right idea. Is that the Donkey Sanctuary near Sidmouth? -
The uniform is not always the same. Women wear differentiated scarfs according to what line they are doing that day. I think that is quite impressive: it would certainly be beyond me to get it right first thing in the morning.
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It does make sense that they are outsourced. Often there are days when Carnival have no ships in, while on other days they have three. The staff need to be used as evenly as possible.
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Queen Elizabeth - Dinner at Golden Lion Pub
exlondoner replied to Desert Cruisers's topic in Cunard Line
Usually in the restaurants, the portions tend to be too large for us, and my husband often asks for a small one, though, strangely, rarely of puddings. Steaks in particularly are often far too big. However that ploughman’s seems to fail in terms of both ingredients and size. Improved maternal nutrition makes all the difference to height. -
Yes, they are certainly cunningly disguised as Intercruise employees.
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Queen Elizabeth - Dinner at Golden Lion Pub
exlondoner replied to Desert Cruisers's topic in Cunard Line
But what an odd combination of bits. Surely the essentials of a ploughperson’s is large chunks of bread and cheese, and if you must a couple of picked onions. -
Some of Intercruises employees know nothing. A few cruises ago, I asked a man on the door where the Grills priority queue was, and he said he didn’t know anything about Cunard as he worked for Intercruises and I would have to ask on board. Luckily the next person I encountered flapped me in the right direction.
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No, ‘request’ here is surely a polite way of saying , ‘Do do this.’ Surely jeans are a sub category of trousers in a way shorts aren’t. I suspect what they don’t want is people turning up for dinner in shorts, hence the mention of trousers.
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The good luck is in still being so young that that is the price, meaning you probably have more happy years of cruises ahead than many of us do. 🙂
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No, I don’t either. It is almost as if some people are determined to dislike her. Even odder is a review posted with yours, giving her five blobs, and then saying there was no wow factor, whatever that is, and they won’t be going again. I think there was great a lot of wow, the Commodore Club, the Pavilion, and that wonderful MDR.
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Nice review, which probably means I more or less completely agree with you, especially about how nice most of the rooms are, except one or two. (Regular readers can fill in which ones for themselves. 😀) I too think she is verging on gorgeous.
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Did the two of you have to share an oar? 😀
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The dedicated Grills area is pretty small on Cunard ships. NCL, MSC, Celebrity, and probably others I don’t know about, seem to have far larger exclusive space.
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I never under any possible circumstances wear any sort of trouser, but I always assumed that part of the definition of what jeans were was that they needed to be made of denim. So this is interesting.
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Believe you me, it is not mainly for the rich and famous, or I wouldn’t be allowed in.
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Very probably, but paper receipts undoubtedly make it easier to keep track.
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But what will we have to check?
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I find the paper copies of the drinks bills very useful. I am able to keep them to check against the final account, which we all know may not be accurate.
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If you are ever in County Durham, try the ones at the Bowes Museum.
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Very true. We went on a wonderful seven night cruise round the Bay of Biscay last summer, and it was really one of the nicest cruises I’ve ever been on, except that I never truly relaxed because disembarkation was always impending. 😀
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If the jam was from Wilkins of Tiptree in Essex, it was the tops, other than home made.
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Seven nights is never long enough.
