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Do they still serve see-through custard on Ventura.

Yacht club was probably my worst experience in a restaurant on any ship.

MSC Virtuosa  May  this year from Southampton.

Half an hour between courses was normal.

lack of staff was the excuse.

So lack of tips was my excuse.

Thank you BREXIT TEARS.

I would always check with my travel insurance before l decided to slide down a mountain side

in a basket.

I will come clean straight away to say l hate APPs. When ever l purchase an appliance if it has an APP l avoid it.

having recently been on the Iona we did not book any restaurants or shows. However it seemed everyone else did

but this wasn’t done with any particular planning in mind it was blanket booking even before they boarded the

ship. One would look in on a show or restaurant to find they were half empty or only two thirds full.

When we approached the theatre they would say are you booked we would say no but the show had started

with many seats empty. I know l won’t beat the system so my only choice is to join every one and blanket 

book everything as l board the ship.

P&O really push the boat out don’t they.

Yes the Caribbean lunch is in the coral dinning room. Only go for the free drinks though.

the food is buffet only, and a bit dry and uninteresting.

so buffet first then just go for the drink.

No washing up to do. No cooking.No making beds.

Unfortunately you can’t miss it.

It was a surprise, we just chatted through the slot’s.

Yes

Apparently what you do as soon as you board, you book all the show’s and restaurant’s weather

you intend to go or not. This is cruising now. That’s what we were told to do.

Personally l do love sea day’s, maybe 7 day’s from Southampton and back, you Can’t fly anyway.

OK the hole thing my be a bit tongue in cheek, but what about half price, now your thinking.

It could be better than no cruise at all. After all port’s are closed.

Once all passengers are temperature tested virus certificated and have their doctors certificate, plus travel insurance, then why not a sea cruise with no stop’s.

We have contacted celebrity and as expected, they will not make a complete refund as we cancelled the cruise before 

they did. We did explain we were acting on government advice for over 70s but this didn’t seem to make any difference.

thank’s to everyone who replied.

Following advice from the U.K. government, over 70s should not travel on cruise ship's due to the virus, So we cancelled our APEX cruise from southampton on the 13th April.

At that time we were told we would loss two third's of our cost, so thinking we would have lost all our money at one time we agreed and cancelled.

Now we find celebrity have cancelled the cruise and have offered refund's, but not to us because we cancelled before they cancelled.   

Is it fare as the cruise is not taking  place anyway shouldn't we have a complete refund.

Nice to see the black soot smudges are still around. 

I think that make’s my point.

If the grey water is so pure, why would the Ventura go 4 miles out to discharge the waste.

when it could do so at anytime. Remember save the waves campaign.

I was under the impression that zero emissions was the policy these days, from cruise ships.

lm no eco worrier but l was surprised. That the Ventura was discharge in grey water out to sea.

Yes something warm.

Don't get me wrong we've had great time's on fred. We are gold member's, not shore if that mean's anything anymore as we haven't been on them for some time.

But how they can justify the cost of some of there cabin's is beyond belief. Madeira 11 night's over £2000 for a balcony, and £970 for an inside cabin.

For this you can cruise on ship's with far more facilities than fred can offer, ok i know fred is different, it's a different experience i get it.

However today it's all about cost and what you get for your money. Sorry Fred we still love you.

On 12/17/2018 at 11:39 AM, groryjm said:

UK web site as of 17/12/18......

 

I have tried the Persian garden, from what i remember no garden just solid stone recliners. very uncomfortable.

It's people who call a ship a boat that get me, back to the boat they say.