Stormlight

That's an excellent post, chengkp75. 👏

Curious. We have parallel and ongoing threads on the Cunard Board 1) extolling formal wear aboard ships in the evening and 2) complaining about the cost of drinks aboard the same ships and that one can buy the same wine or spirits cheaper at your local or at your supermarket. Which begs one to ask the last time you wore formal dress and ambled down the road to your pub for a pint or two.

 

The reality is that Cunard drink prices are on the high side for ships yet entirely in keeping with the prices charged say at a Chewton Glen or Victoria Hotel or any top end London or New York hotel. Indeed, cheaper than the later two examples in most cases. In the U.S., you'll pay $17.95 for a martini in most top end big city hotels.

 

Reading these threads one conjures up the incongruous image of tuxedoed and gowned passengers in their cabins at cocktail hour drinking their £6.95 cava from Tesco.

Thank you! Very well said! :)

(...) I have the right to express my concerns and my experience over a product on a public platform.

No, you really don't. You are a guest here.

Very warm for us too a few years ago. St. Petersburg was around 35 degrees in July. The Baltics not much less.

We would also like to know if the QV now has the large screen TVs mounted on the wall like the QM2 and QE. I keep reading that she doesn't have them yet but would love to have a definite answer. Thanks!!

Not as of last week, no.

It was interesting to read Stormlights view and reflect that some people pickup on different things, and are irritated by different clothing violations/crimes! As I stated earlier, my vote would be for more formal nights. My feeling is that having a dress code called 'informal' when it is really 'formal, no tie' is inviting non compliance.

I guess you start to pick up on these things the more you cruise with Cunard. Make no mistakes, the cruise was fantastic and I would go back in a heartbeat but I just couldn't help notice the change in passenger attitude.

By the way, I just read a review of the cruise by a first time Cunarder who goes by the name "Swish Flare" who says it all so much better than me. :)

http://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=514386

We're just back from a 2 week cruise on the Queen Victoria that took us from Rome to Istanbul and it was really great! The food in the Britannia was even better than last time, the service was faultless and the ship in great shape! Even the weather was great (with the exception of maybe a day or two).

However ... we couldn't help but notice a change in passenger attitude from only a few years ago. A lot of the passengers were rude with the staff, they wouldn't greet you back and there is just a general disregard for other people.

And then there's the dress code: while at the start of the cruise almost everyone was making the effort to dress nicely in the evening this changed over the next 2 weeks: jeans, t-shirt and flip-flops in the Britannia, shorts and t-shirt in the Commodore Club in the evening; polo shirt and cagoule (!) in the Veranda restaurant ... seen it all. At the end I would guess that only about 70-75% of people bothered to adhere to the dress code, the rest couldn't be bothered. The dress code was definitely not enforced. Personnaly I think Cunard is making a big mistake here.