exlondoner

You did not give that impression. Enjoying a drink or two and upsetting other passengers by rowdy and uncontrolled behaviour are two completely different things, not even two versions of the same thing.

My very thought. 🙂

The shortest cruise I’ve been on was a five-nighter, but I’ve been on a couple of cruises that encompassed two-nighters to/from Hamburg. In all cases there was no sign of unruliness. Whatever keen consumption of alcohol there was seems to have been well within the perpetrators’ capacity.

Perhaps they are worried about passengers getting hypothermia, though, as we all know, all fans do is make a breeze and move the air around, they do not lower the temperature. I wonder if the miserable looking woman is still employed. If so, she is very lucky. As to the people at Tampa, they can’t have enough to do. And, actually, their behaviour is quite dangerous. If they are so tied up with unnecessary trivia, they are less, not more, likely to notice a real danger.

I think he is talking about Celebrity (and specifically Tampa security) not Carnival.

How can a fan be a security risk? I can see they might want to check the electrics on board, but a security risk? I wonder how Tampa security would deal with Cunard’s ‘Bring as much booze on board as you like, so long as you don’t act drunk’ policy?

Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, I’ve been in one of the pop-ups, when the Captain etc were at that table.

For the first time in years, I have not booked anything on this opening day, because it is so far ahead, and, in view of my husband’s age, seems too much like tempting fate. However, we might book when on board in May…perhaps.

And the food?

I think it is Haysbruh, but obviously said with a Norfolk accent.

I was referring to the former.

I believe it is sometimes a menu item.

That is interesting, because it had never struck me that its pronunciation was actually illogical, but I suppose it is.

Try Happisburgh, Norfolk, where the cliffs fall into the sea.

Yes. Just where one would think of looking. 😀It also amuses me they sell chocolate bars, as there are obviously so few other eating opportunities available on board.

I had an email about this from Cunard the other day. There are so many things on the new ship I should rather learn details about than shops. The only shop I might be interested in is the bookshop, which they don’t mention. Oh and the little helpful shop that sells things like nail files and toothpaste, which you might unaccountably have forgotten. Actually, I think that may have been moved into the bookshop on at least one ship.

There will be children, but not hordes. In my experience, children have always behaved very well on Cunard ships, and are well cared for by the children’s and teenagers’ facilities. They will not disrupt dinner.

Foolish even.

I’m on the next voyage and haven’t been able to find anything either. I realise Cunard don’t want to tempt fate, but soon it really will be time to give us some more information, I feel.

In a spirit of helpfulness, I suggest, next time you are in the UK in the summer, you pop in to Lord’s for a County Cricket match (not a Test Match, which an be rowdy). You will find the fans very peaceful, or, possibly, dozing, but definitely not obnoxious. 😀

Yes, reading some recent reviews of Oasis, one of the major niggles seems to be large numbers of badly behaved children swarming the ship without much parental control, and this is generally attributed to their travelling free. (The numbers, not the behaviour, I think.)

I do remember being docked just along from Anthem somewhere on a Med cruise a few years ago. She was obviously sailing full, and it was a very hot day. While I strolled back on board my smallish Cunarder, I noticed the huge queue (really hundreds of passengers) to get back on board Anthem with no shade to protect them. I don’t know whether something had gone wrong with the technology or whether this is typical, but, from what you say, it is a bit like that on board too. It certainly put me off.

Surely it would be nice for her to be somewhere in the Western Docks so passengers passing on trains can see and admire?

That seems a pretty good and inoffensive form of words. I bet they immediately do so.

This is all so true. On the other hand, before her latest refit, QM2 seemed to be occupied by squads of passengers, whose only purpose was to search for specks of rust and then report on them in reviews on here.