FangedRose

Yes Yes, but they are cans now. Yes Yes If you want towels changed leave them in shower or bath. Don't know Yes No. On boarding you go to your muster station to get your boarding pass scanned (proves you know where it is), then proceed to cabin where safety video will be playing on TV. Yes

Yes, on 5th July cruise (so first one back after lay off) there was entertainment in the Globe (mainly the showband Pulse, but others too), there were singers/musicians/quizzes in most if not all venues throughout the evening.

Just read a post on fb. They were complaining that people wearing masks 'claiming' to have covid wouldn't let them in a lift when trying to disembark this morning. They obviously hadn't read the disembarkation instructions which gave everyone specific timings to avoid covid/non covid passengers mixing. And rather than thanking the covid passengers for trying to keep them safe they are complaining!

Always travel on coach. Only problems I had was with Eavesaay. Moving pickup point two weeks prior to cruise. Adding 1 1/2 hrs to an already lengthy journey to pick up two passengers. Offloaded some luggage (not mine) at the wrong ship (never had Intercruise/Cruise Connect deliver passengers to different ships). On the return journey the driver twice unloaded my luggage at wrong place. (Luckily my seat was above the hold and i could see). Was then transferred onto a minibus which was late and then broke down! Only trouble I've had with Intercruise has been caused by the passengers. Late disembarking because they hadn't finished breakfast, late arriving at pick up points etc.

Been told not to wait to check on luggage being unloaded as the luggage isn't unloaded at the same place as the passengers. Last cruise got off and as we were being ushered into the terminal the coach moved off to the luggage hold.

From Carlisle the pick up is much later for Eavesway than for cruise Connect/Intercruise

Only one UK plug in cabin, so take adaptors or multi gang extensions.

Seen further posts that mask wearing is being encouraged and the indoor pool is also closed, so same situation as previous cruise. We will get an estimate of numbers at disembarkation when if is obvious how many people have been isolated.

Ah OK. I prefer the liquid handwash myself. Anyway the point is that liquid handwash/hand soap, shower gel and shampoo is provided. It would be prudent to fetch anything else you want yourself.

It's not clear whether Dorset Cruise Fan did not have any tablet soap at all (which I would find strange seeing how hand washing is strongly encouraged, especially after using the toilet). Or whether they wanted extra to use in the bath/shower. Ranchi says they had to ask for tablet soap, but liquid soap provided. Again, not clear if the soap had been replaced by liquid hand wash by the sink or it was just an oversight on the stewards part.

I see from a fb post that covid has hit Arcadia's current cruise. At exactly the same stage as it hit the previous cruise.

In the shower (sorry no idea about a bath) there is large pump bottle of shampoo and another of body wash. At the sink there is a bar of soap.

The conditioner and body lotion are in plastic bottles.

Not a supply problem. They have been phased out. At first first it was a Covid thing. Now they are citing reduction in plastic use. The one's you got on Iona must have been the remains.

A poster on annother thread, specifically regarding Iona has posted that Epicurean and Glass House are closed.

I was on 5th July cruise. Dining issues were resolved on day three. Did not notice any closed bars. Yes, speciality restaurants were closed, in common with most other P&O ships. And Cheese and Biscuits have been reintroduced on the present cruise.

It was no problem after the second day, when I remembered. Just go along port side corridor until reach aft lift lobby,then cross the lobby. It us only the cabins directly behind the lifts that are shut off.

The previous policy was a waste of time and money.(Never mind the stress of trying to upload test without a PC). It never prevented the massive outbreak on Arcadia J212.

In phone calls with tablemates I was told that the MDR was deserted. The Palladium had blocked a third of the seats and there were still spare places, the daily programme (which we still got delivered), was very sparse with a lot of activities cut. In general the ship was very quiet. Did you walk down the cabin corridors and counted how many tables were outside rooms? Each table indicated a covid cabin, and that did not include the isolation cabins behind the aft lifts on every floor which were full. Some had to isolate in inside cabins. If you had seen the queue stretching from the Palladium to the doors of the mdr at 7.05am yesterday (we had been told not to leave cabins before 7am) wearing ship issues ffp3 masks you would have seen how many of us there were.

Well, unless you self reported that is what happened. There was no proactive "Track and Tracing", or pouncing on chronic coughers in the theatre etc. Totally relied on people being altruistic.

Yes, of course, but backed up by other comments, both on here and fb. P&O will never publish official figure.

I never felt "ill". Others did, I just had a tickly, annoying cough.

If you reported symptoms you were told to stay in your cabin until a test could be done. I did my own test, but a nurse came and did their own test and confirmed the result. If one person in a cabin was positive everyone in the cabin was in put in isolation.

Well, it is a bit of a guesstimate. But, the queue for disembarkation of isolation passengers stretched the length of the ship. They ran out of isolation balcony cabins, those already in balcony cabins stayed put, only those in sea view and inside were offered them, by Friday (four days before Southampton) there were none left. On my stretch of cabins (maybe 17) five or six were in isolation, and that's only the ones I glimpsed when putting my food tray out. We were being ticked off a list as we disembarked, and the list covered five sides of A4 paper, in normal 12 point font. One quarter of the baggage hall was solely for covid passengers (we had been given yellow tags to put on our cases).

Me, on board, joining the ship long queue for isolation disembarkation. Being in cabin for a week listening to people walking by coughing exactly the way I did.