FangedRose

I live about 1 1/2 hrs north of Blackpool, and I'm still in England, and then there is Scotland. So yes, most of the country is north of Blackpool. Assigning the more comfortable and newer coaches to those travelling further is just common sense. I've never had a clapped out coaches for the return journey from Intercruise. Unlike one of the two Eavesway transfers which broke down. As for P&O playing silly beggars with Eavesway, why shouldn't the company they have a professional partnership with get priority? Those travelling by Eavesway are considered as independent travellers, and as such get no assistance from P&O if anything does go wrong, like the couple on my last pre-covid cruise who had their luggage unloaded at the wrong ship, and were left with nothing until they could go shopping at the first port. They were told that if it had been an Intercruise bus they would have had a generous allowance to spend in the onboard shops.

I've had the opposite experience. Traveled with Eavesway twice. No end of problems, changing pick up point (after other arrangements had been made), unloading wrong luggage at wrong drop off point, vehicles breaking down, having to change vehicles twice in one journey, speeding etc. Never had any trouble with Intercruise (any problems there was were caused by passengers). They always use Ellisons coaches too. They no longer pick up anywhere further north than Preston, so no use for majority of country anyway.

You must have booked, and paid, independently. If you take the free coach option Instead of obc or free car parking you have to use Intercruise. P&O transferred official partner status to Intercruise from Eavesway many, many years ago.

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Not necessarily. Scottish schools (and private schools) broke up at least three weeks ago. There can be a week or 10 days difference in school holiday dates in different parts of the country. There can be scarcely a weeks difference in one breaking up for summer and another, not a million miles away, starting back for the long slog till C******s.

You could book a one way coach with Intercruise down to Southampton, then a train (eek) from Manchester Airport back to Glasgow or Edinburgh.

Are you sailing from Southampton, and returning by air to Manchester? If that is so the coach will only be going from Manchester to Southampton so people can retrieve their cars which will have been left there. P&O don't include transfers within the UK as part of the package unless you choose coach transfer as the perk (the other choices would be on board credit or free car parking). That being said I have never actually done this particular cruise so stand to be corrected.

SOLVED! Dunno what I did different, but just tried again, and it worked!

Tried that.

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I'm trying to complete my online check in. I have done this successfully many, many times. It will not accept the Emergency Medical Assistance phone number. It complains about the format. Has anyone else using Post Office insurance had this, and which number did you use? I am definitely trying to put in the medical assistance number.

All cruise lines I have been on which offer fixed dining options fix show times to accommodate dining times. Two shows per night, usually starting two hours after dining starts. Fred Olsen guests seem to think that is unique to Fred Olsen when is the most common solution, across most cruise lines, to accommodate all those who wish to see the show.

You would have to ask the company you bought the travel insurance from.

Slightly off topic (but not by much). My coach arrival estimated time and my boarding time are the same, for the first time ever. Planning or coincidence? My betting is on the latter! Though the former would give me (faint) hope that the left hand knows what the right hand is doing.

Doubt the signal will be strong enough. If can struggle with no hot spotting.

Pop over to the Saga board. There is a similar thread on there with a part-time wheelchair user being 'forced' to book an accessible cabin.

As far as I'm aware no shorts anywhere in the evening. As to wearing a suit in hot weather, the temperature inside the ship is constantly cool, if not decidedly chilly.

Lifts are a problem on Britannia. During my last cruise on Britannia my cabin was on Lido Deck. No way was I going to use the stairs when returning from an excursion, but my crammed full lift wasn't moving, the doors would shut but then open again! (No, it wasn't overloaded). After this happened some half dozen times we worked out that one person waiting for the lifts was hitting the call button as soon as the doors shut, of course that caused all the lifts on that level to open their doors again. We were all delayed by several minutes because one person didn't want to wait for ten seconds to let the lifts move! A few choice words pointing out the error of their ways rectified the situation.

Been on Britannia twice, in different cabins, and had the same trouble with my electric toothbrush, as did table companions in their various cabins. So it seems to be a shipwide irritation.

In general the older and smaller the ship (Arcadia and Aurora) the more likely that formal night dress code will be adhered too (incidentally both adult only). The newer, bigger ships less so.

Got my Travel Voucher 😁. As I guessed pick up is 5am, and predicted arrival is 1.15pm.

Yes, that was the post I was referring too. And on there I also mentioned the "48 hour rule". It appears that they were initially told 24 hours, then was awaiting the go ahead to go ashore was told it had changed to 48 hours. The standard treatment for anything gastr intestinal is 24 hours fluids only (not milk) then gradually introduce food. Only then after a day of normal eating can you be considered "over it". Unless any bout of illness was a single instance due to over indulgence (so I'm told (ahem)), or a very mild case of food poisoning/intolerance/allergy I would be too nervous of venturing out of my cabin for 48 hours anyway.

Do you ask the staff to adjust their schedule too? Do you ask the speaker to delay the start of their talk, ask the ents staff to give you a bye to the final of shuffleboard, do you ask to delay the tour bus? Adjusting your schedule is not always possible. And eating at specific times and/or intervals can be vital to some.

That reminds me of my experiences with Eavesway. No such problems with Cruise Connect. Nothing caused by the coach company anyway. Problems caused by passengers is another matter!

I think that the post you refer to states that they were only in isolation for 24 hours. That is certainly not "longer than necessary". As I replied to that post schools require 48 hours between last symptoms and return to school. No wonder it keeps spreading! Edit: Feeling better after 24 hours indicates to me that it wasn't Norovirus. Norovirus wipes you out for much, much longer than that.