mtt

According to https://www.logitravel.co.uk/cruises/thomson/technical-details-marella-spirit-18885475.html there is a self service laundry on Spirit but, as doing laundry is the last thing I think of when on a cruise lol, never asked. We have used the pay service (a bag full for around 15 Pounds but think this is wash and dry only not with ironing). For creased shirts etc. we just hang them in the bathroom for a few minutes with the shower full on hot and the creases fall out. From this year you can take a travel iron on board.

there are laundry rooms on deck 2/6/7 with washers/dryers and irons- you need to buy tokens for powder for the washers, but dryers and irons are free to use

some ships have actually been confiscating irons from passengers

Gonna miss the spirit next year, got its last cruise for this year booked though

Spirit shows for this season are:

Private Eye

Committed to brothers blue

At the copa

Broadway blitz

Moulin rouge ( repeated each week)

Songs that made a movie

Concerto goes pop

Concerto goes broadway

IMA

Modelled by motown (welcome show repeated)

cd is ted james

acd is corrine steel

They are back on the spirit this year along with new dimension trio back onboard

Naples airport is so bad, we flew home from ther in feb 2011 after our cruise changed de to the problems in egypt, we should have flown from barcelona, they kept us on the coaches for ages outside the airport, then all the flights check ins were all in one queue and passengers leaving earlier were at the back

It was so bad and so unorganised we went straight from check in straight to the plane it took so long

the compass rose was open til 22:00 on embarkation nights last year

celebration back to dubrovnik

• Bridgetown, Barbados
  
• Kingstown, St Vincent
  
• Castries, St Lucia
  
• Roseau, Dominica
  
• Basseterre, St Kitts
  
• St John's, Antigua
  
• Funchal, Madeira
  

• Gibraltar, Gibraltar
  
• Palma, Majorca
  
• Messina (for Mount Etna), Sicily
  
• Taranto, Italy
  
• Kotor, Montenegro
  
• Dubrovnik, Croatia
  

Think you are right. I noticed this after posting. Certainly hope this is the case as we live in the North East and would love to try the new ship.

 

 

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the explorer is sailing to newcastle on the ta

• Bridgetown, Barbados
  
• Castries, St Lucia
  
• Basseterre, St Kitts
  
• St John's, Antigua
  
• Philipsburg, St Maarten
  
• Road Town, British Virgin Islands
  
• Horta, Azores
  
• Ponta Delgada, Azores
  

• Brest, France
  
• St Malo, France
  
• Le Havre, France
  
• Zeebrugge (for Bruges), Belgium
  
• Southampton, England
  
• Newcastle, England
  

Honestly WHAT a Faff. - I booked my June cruise at a Thomsons Travel shop as frankly the website is rubbish. Anyhoo - I was not aware that if I booked that way I could do NOTHING online (well my bad for not investigating that first).

Yesterday I went to book car parking and some excursions and could not believe that you just booked the excursion for the day. - No idea what time it left could be early morning, mid day or late afternoon. - Never Ever come across this on a cruise before. Having endured 45mins in the travel shop I sincerely hope that the cruise is better than the service I have had so far.

 

Just looking for reassurance that once on board the experience is far far far better than that of the travel shops. :o

you can book excursions online

https://cruiseexcursions.tui.co.uk/?_ga=2.65638382.1585636113.1520351215-1039703397.1520351215

most of them leave early in the morning but sometimes there can be the half day ones departing in the afternoons, bt times are not known til onboard the ship

I was on the Discovery on the 21st January - loved it. 3rd Thomson/Marella cruise more used to Celebrity/MSC but they have certainly upped their game now. Really impressed with the ship and the staff were terrific.

 

I was really surprised by the amount of people who dressed up on the Captain's Cocktail night, many more than not and I saw at least 2 kilts.

 

Just wish the summer 2019 sailing would hurry up and become available as I'm hoping to go to the Baltic from Newcastle.

 

Enjoy your cruise.:D

they are doing the baltic from newcastle this year too

the adriatic doesn't tend to go down a lot in price as it is very popular, probably more so on the d2 with it being an all inclusive ship

Regarding newer ships I'll be happy with another vision class RCI rather than another Mein Schiff cos if I liked ships with 2000+ passengers I'd go with another line. I like friendly ships where you can easily find your way around and not floating office blocks/hotels

was talking to a friend last week, he is a head of department on the marella ships, and he was telling us at the moment marella want the explorers to be the biggest ships they will ever have in their fleet, they don't want to go any bigger

have also booked for the 3rd of june, first time from a uk port

I have been reading some of the reviews on this page and think that you don't now have to wait 90 days to book seats on the plane.Is this right?Hoping to go premium in FEB 2019 and would like tog et theseats we want.

We are also going to Cyprus in August but have to wait 90 days to book these seats.I'm a bit confused.

 

MARGARET

if you book premium, extra space or extra legroom seats you can choose you're seats when booking

I am working on my husband to agree to going on the last sailing; not had any joy yet but there is plenty of time to change his mind lol.

its selling well though, think its gonna be a great party atmosphere, lots are being planned by peel

We have been on both d1 and d2 last year, we did prefer d2 as the crew said they had listened to customer complaints and changed things on d2

We have booked d1 again for 2 cruise this year a week in jne fjords, and the 80's mini cruise, i know 3 of the entertainment team from last summers d2 showteam, the brilliant seb jackson kelly, freya, and simon, and also georgia and barclay beales from the spirit will be on too

Also booked the spirits last cruise as its or favourite ship

Hi mklions are you certain you receive free WiFi?[emoji6]

 

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you do if in a grand suite or above, it was good wifi in the lounge too

apart from a few price changes it has been the same for last few years, but cider, processco, and frozen cocktails carry a supplement

I hope its still there as we have booked a suite cabin for later this month and one of the benefit of the concierge lounge was the free internet for suite passengers.

only removed on d1, used the d2 one last may very good, similar coffees as the coffee port, cookies after 11 and pastries at breakfast

That's strange as Discovery's cruise start day is Sundays[emoji15]

 

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sorry d2

Hes gonna be on discovery 1 as cd from tues 16th for 2 weeks

they also normally charge the upgrade price that you would have paid at the time of booking

I hadn't seen the Strum Jam one.

Dont know if you have aleady heard Strum Jam are back to spirit next year, another good year on the cards.

Agree with you about B/R ,i have them both on disc and top men definately had the edge back in the days of joseph and co.

good to hear strum jam are back next year, i know last year they wanted the spirits last season, dysongs the guitarist in raffles is barclay beales he was showteam last year, and was in a band from the x factor show too- stereo kicks

Good to read doing these itineraries from this thursday, was chatting to my friend who works onboard and he said you didn't get the first sail away party as the ship was late leaving and the police wouldn't allow loud noises later on, which is a shame

Many thanks mtt Really liked Taylor when he was on Dream with Gavin Saw him in Cadiz last year when both Majesty and Dream were in so very pleased he's still on Majesty and we'll see him in 2 weeks Never seen the trio but nice to see new musicians Thanks again

stattus are good lee the guitarist is brilliant, they don't do the same songs every set too, and play lots of varied music