Host Hattie

First chance to properly see the condition of the outside,

Apologies, we're in Vigo this morning! I realise I posted tomorrow but that was from the perspective of last night. The forecast was for cloud but it looks a beautiful morning.

I think that was the quality of the photograph rather than the printing ! He's good thank you.

After dinner we went back to the Queens Room to watch the dancers and listen to the band and singers. The dance floor was pretty busy but I didn't see any sign of dance hosts unless they've stopped wearing badges. Dress code seemed to be well observed everywhere we went. Clocks went forward overnight and we are due in Vigo at 9am tomorrow.

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Our formal night started with a walk through the Commodore Club, Champagne Bar and Chart Room as there wasn't a seat to be had! We ended up in the Queens Room, lots of seats, a free waiter and a few dancers. Note to self, get ready before 7.30 if you want a seat in a popular venue. We went to our table and made a start on the sparkling wine instead of the Welcome party. We'd ordered, no neighbours and no sign of the couple 1 table away. After a few minutes another couple arrived with a member of staff, there was some finger pointing and a quite loud comment of there's someone in the wrong table. Fortunately I still had my dining card which showed they had issued 2 cards with the same table number both for second sitting! We stayed put and they sat a table away, with the promise of a window seat from tomorrow! They'd requested a table of 8 so weren't best pleased. It was Beef Wellington night and the food was very good.

@Jack E Dawson Did you see any evidence that passengers arriving before their boarding time were being kept out of the building? No Is there a planned CC gathering at any point? I might have missed it today. Does it look like there was any freshing-up of the ship during her brief layup following the WC? The last time I was on QM2 for longer than 2 nights was 2015 so difficult to say.

At sea June 10th We'd ordered room service breakfast and I was fast asleep when it arrived. We managed to get organised and to The Royal Court theatre for the 11am lecture/sales pitch on the Royal Navy. We went to the Britannia restaurant for lunch, table for 2, no queue and then back to the cabin for what Mr HH had promised was sun on the balcony! The clouds had other ideas so we watched a film then I had a nap and he booked himself into the planetarium via My Voyage. We're sharing a 24hr essentials package via Bluetooth from my phone and have been able to read emails, WhatsApp messages and post to social media. We're getting ready for Black and White night.

Not that I noticed, the one set up in front of the Golden Lion was only interested in selling drinks packages. When I asked about ordering wine for dinner he didn't direct me elsewhere, just told me to order from the sommelier in the dining room. 🤦‍♀️ I gave up at that point.

Couple of additional comments - she seems in good shape, wifi has been fine in our cabin, the theatre and Britannia restaurant so far !

We stayed in our favourite New Forest hotel, our check in time was 1.30 and the taxi company had recommended a 12.30 pick-up. The driver was a little early and because of bad traffic on his outbound journey took us back through the forest to rejoin the road to Southampton. We got to the terminal just before 1, there were no queues and we were directed to the Priority check in line and then straight through to the security line. This was the longest bit of the process but we were onboard ordering lunch in the Golden Lion by 1.30. By the time we got back to the cabin all our luggage had arrived and we unpacked. No Pol AKer and we left the replacement for another day. It was a glorious afternoon so we went to the Terrace Pool for sailaway, a canny barman managed to sell Mr HH a bottle of Prosecco ! After dressing for a Smart Attire evening we went to the Champagne Bar, 2 glasses of pink champagne and some warm canapes went down very well. We’d requested late sitting dinner on a table for 6 so we were a but puzzled when our seating assignment sent us to Deck 3. We had to wait a few minutes for those who were on open dining to be shown to a table and were taken to a table for 2 right at the back of the restaurant. It was right by a window which was a nice surprise but otherwise wasn’t really what we’d asked for. The table for 2 very close to us was empty so we might get company tomorrow. Dinner was fine, crab and shrimp starter and pork for main course. The sommelier managed to find us in time for us to get wine with our mains and at least we have some for tomorrow. The show was Indigo May, a pair of female singers, one of whom lives in the same village as us so we felt we should go along to support. There was plenty of room in the theatre and waiter service. We called it a night after the show.

I haven't decided yet, to be honest I thought she looked pretty good as we arrived at Mayflower terminal.

This was a fail for me yesterday, there's no Wine line number advertised now

Stately progress this morning

On QM2 now, there are several map screens, this shows the first one

I'm sorry to hear about your family member. If you don't get any answers here you could ask on your roll call. There will be posters with experience of previous world cruises who might be able to help.

Please don't name the Travel Agent involved in your posts.

I've made it a Sticky and it looks as if our cabin on our next cruise is close to an access point so hopefully I'll be able to access Cruise Critic !

@Mercruiser, what a great resource. Thank you very much for putting it together.

Perhaps the North Sea locks on the way to Amsterdam? Not that interesting and you'll get chance to see them on the outbound journey.

Which ship are you on ?

Perhaps someone who has been onboard recently could share the wording from the Daily Programme ? I'm hoping it's less ambiguous.

Cute, thanks for sharing