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Whatever the pros and cons of the word "smart" when referring to clothes, it pales into insignificance compared to the word "nice", as in 'can I wear a nice top?' or 'will I be okay on formal evenings wearing a nice pair of trousers?' that ladies often ask.

Original meaning “foolish, stupid, senseless” apparently. I’ve seen a few to merit that description aboard over the years.

David.

You must have run out now as P&O are still the most generous

 

 

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Hardly, Cunard have not changed policy yet.

David

I don’t think many would argue that cruise standards have not fallen, and the longer ago that they took their first the more the falling would be.

David

Did not realise things were getting that violent John :o

 

Bet you meant "They then have to tweet each other so that every one of their 1,209 friends know what they are doing".:D

It was no less than David Cameron who said “too many twits make a twat”

He did apologise though.

David.

3000 passengers embark, chances are that one will be starting to feel nauseous with what is probably the virus. Hopefully the passenger will be sensible and not circulate around the ship and quarantine will keep it isolated. But what would most embarking passengers who don’t feel well when filling in the health check leaflet do. No one wants to be denied boarding at the check in desk.

David

There is no scientific evidence that passive smoking affects those around smokers. . It is rediculous to ban smokers who occupy a very small area of the ship. Children are subjected to worse fumes in the back of a car when people fill up with petrol.

Get a grip P and O. We are not allowed to enjoy ourselves.....we are after all on holiday. And no I don't smoke and never have.

This is not true, there are numerous scientific reports showing that passive smoke is hazardous. A quick search will bring up volumes if you are interested.

David

The theory of retaining passengers in their seats applies to busses as well as cars. There are numerous videos of bus crashes where people were tossed around like test dummies, one girl obviously badly injured by slamming in to the bus dashboard. Of course we all think it’s not going to happen to us on this bus at this time and many leave brains at home when they travel anyway.

DAVID

This offensive clothing rule indicates that there has been a problem or problems aboard as with passengers also abusing the lenient drinks policy. Do I want to be aboard a ship where anyone would think of wearing offensive logoed clothing, I don’t think I do and how many posts here do we need to discover that some passengers have very different standards to the majority. It only needs one bad apple to ruin the lot.

Times are indeed changing.

DAVID.

Or because they don't do any of that, they just have a strong immune system.

Indeed, that’s why some people never seem to catch anything. At the moment due to medical reasons my immune system is probably pretty shot at but normally I am one of the lucky ones. Sensible eating and drinking helps as well.

DAVID.

As we all know, Noro virus outbreaks are common in winter months among people in a closed environment - schools, hospitals, care homes and of course cruise ships. There are many people who never experience it, mainly I think because they take the care needed to always avoid the danger points, never shake hands with anyone, never put hand to mouth and as suggests here carry some strong wipes for hands and even cutlery.

Food poisoning is a red herring (intended pun) yes it certainly exists but is a separate issue and nothing to do with Noro virus outbreaks which have been known for years.

David

If everyone stuck to 1 litre there would be no need to bring in any new policy.

David.

Lthough we are all used to the pint measure it could be better if they used metric. Extra service for them as they would need to serve 2 glasses to get to roughly a pint. I think it’s difficult to get a full pint in a uk pub but not to this extent. For P.O.& O every little helps and this would add up to a nice little sum at the cruise end.

Next week, bedding not included.

David.

Entertainment staff unruly? Why would that surprise anyone. They get paid peanuts (and are mostly over paid at that) so course they then act like monkeys. It’s all a sign of the steady decline of a once good cruise line. As for some passengers, all they seem to be interested is how much booze they can neck for the lowest cost.

One day one of those bottles is going to explode in the cargo bay. That would take a bit of explaining.

David

In My Honest Opinion the best thing to happen to the QE2 is to sail the QE2 back to the UK to be used as a floating hotel/convention center in the Port of Southampton. The reason why I think Southampton is the best location for the QE2 is that Cunard still uses Southampton as the homeport for its ships. The question I who lives in the USA am asking to Cruisecritic members who live in the Southampton area or in the UK is that Is there dock or berth space available in the Port of Southampton to permanently dock the QE2? Regards,Jerry

Well first it wouldn’t be sail back it would be tow back and I can’t see it being a success in Southampton anyway. Time has moved on and to most people here QE2 is just a ship that they may be aware of or most probably are not. Ship enthusiasts and those of us who were lucky enough to have sailed aboard her are a steadily diminishing band. I certainly wouldn’t put any of my funds into the project.

David

Over the years we have had so many of these plans that have never come to anything. This one could be the goer though, who knows. The question is though, does QE2 have the pulling power now after so many years to justify the expense of conversion to what would need to be a very high standard. Strip out all the interior and refit to modern standards and it would not be the ship I remember.

DAVID

Yes, some are expecting that for less than £100.00 per day.

 

 

 

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At £200 a day all in they are getting the value you could expect for that amount and possibly more. A poster who is hoping to get Harvester quality dining on a P&O ship is due to be disappointed IMO. But look what the cost of a dinner there is, then add lunch, breakfast snacks,serviced cabin and entertainment and all the rest and the value is obvious. So if the food isn’t up to much, which I don’t think it is and there’s no Wow factor that’s the price of mass cruising, but folks it’s still great value.

DAVID

Well they would have a hard time putting £30K on your credit card. Nobody has that kind of limit!

The cost of the chopper would be the responsibility of the passenger.

DAVID.

I'm pretty sure that P&O wouldn't refuse to treat or evacuate you if you didn't have insurance, but they would send you a bill later. And the point of these forms demanding that you have insurance and asking whose insurance it was, is (I suspect) to remove any possible defence of "I didn't know, you never told me" from anyone who would rather not pay the bill.

Wouldn’t need to send you a bill, they would simply add the charges to your registered credit card.

David

But David that is my point we are long time passengers now with 40+ Cruises and we can still find new ports. So it can be done.

 

 

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Maybe I should have emphasised “worthwhile”. There is often good reason why a port has not been visited before that only becomes apparent when you step ashore.

DAVID.

Ports are only “new” if you haven’t visited them before. Long time passengers have probably been to most, if not all of the worthwhile Med ports and most of North Africa is out for security reasons. Bordeaux and Seville are both excellent ports to sail into, but P&O are getting rid of their only ship that can reach them.

Also cruise lines don’t really like tender ports. Bigger ships therefore actually limit the choice.

DAVID.

This is why we are advised to get insurance, I would think your insurance company, would have loved you to have been fit enough to go to the land of OZ. ;p

It’s a bit more than advised I think. Cunard need an insurance number as part of the booking process. Whether you can make up the number though, I don’t know.

Dvid.

I was looking at some P&O deals yesterday with up to £400 OBC offered for 14 night cruises.

This would more than pay the tips which nullifies the tipping argument.

A lot of other cruise lengths offered with varying OBC amounts but in most cases this again would more than cover autogratuities.

But OBC isn’t a gift from the cruise company, as with all other inducements it’s paid for by the customer whether hidden or not. It is never intended or flagged up as a potential gratuity payment and many would prefer to spend it in other ways.

David

“Say, where are you folks from” ——“We live in Cheshire, not far from Liverpool” ——Blank look. Reminder to self, next time say near London.

David.

It takes some skill to make food look good on a photo. Hope it tastes better than it looks.

David

Now that would be great !!!

Then all the folk from “down South” would have to travel north to board. Wouldn’t do at all.

DAVID (20 minutes from Liverpool dock side)