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You can still peruse most deals/discounts via the "Special offers" link on the Cunard US website and you can peruse all the various itineraries via the voyage "Search" function without a login. But you can't see pricing that shows possible past passenger discounts unless you actually start a mock booking and get as far as the page where you enter your Cunard World Club number. So yes, the process to see past passenger discounts applied to fares is cumbersome at best. By the way, that same cumbersome process of starting a mock booking and entering your Cunard World Club number is how you see any Future Cruise Credit you might have with Cunard on the Cunard US website as well.

You are correct. The old internet pricing was based on total minutes used which could be spread out across the entire voyage. Here is the old pricing and the corresponding credits for each CWC level. 30 minutes = $15 120 minutes (Gold package) = $45 240 minutes (Platinum package) = $80 480 minutes (Diamond package) = $135 960 minutes = $220 1,920 minutes = $330 Now the pricing is based on entire days. That works out well for those who use the internet a lot and not so well for those who only use the internet for a few minutes a day. Note if you use the internet for an hour a day on a 7-night voyage, you will come out ahead with the new full voyage package at the Essential plan level. Under the old system you would have purchased the 480 minute plan for $135 to allow an hour usage each day for 7 days. Under the new plan and new pricing, you would purchase the Essential plan for 7 days at $18 per day = $126 and have no restriction on how long you can be on the internet each day.

@TheOldBear can confirm, but perhaps what he is saying is that one of them may have purchased a 'full voyage' package which exceeded the value of that individual's CWC credit hoping the other's credit would kick in to cover the excess. Unfortunately it does not work that way. As Diamond members, on our recent 13-night Caribbean cruise our strategy was for me to purchase 24 hour Essential plans to cover the first 3 sea days (3 x $20 = $60 leaving $75 credit remining for me). Then with 9 days remaining, my wife purchased the full voyage Essential package (9 x $15 = $135) using up her entire credit. Then with 5 days remaining, I also purchased the full voyage Essential package (5 x $15 = $75) using up my remaining credit so that we could both use the internet at the same time those last 5 days. Now with the internet package price increases I will need to redo the math for our next voyage to optimize the use of our CWC credits.

Absolutely agree about the lost Cunard World Club login that used to show your past voyage history and Cunard World Club status. Not sure I'm quite following the point about not being able to sign in to browse though. Perhaps you could clarify that for me. If you mean browsing voyages on sale, I can see how that might help to see past passenger discounts up front when those are available.

Not meaning to cause contention here, but I've noticed Cunard have raised the prices of their internet packages. For the Essential plan, the price used to be $15 per day if purchased for all the remaining days of the voyage. That's increasing to $18 per day. When purchased 24 hours at a time, the Essential plan was $20 per day. That's increasing to $24 per day. For the Premium plan, the price used to be $20 per day if purchased for the all the remaining days of the voyage. That's increasing to $24 per day. When purchased 24 hours at a time, the Premium plan was $30 per day. That's increasing to $36 per day. What I'm not seeing is any change to the complimentary internet credits for Gold, Platinum and Diamond Cunard World Club members. Those credits still appear to be $45 for Gold, $80 for Platinum and $135 for Diamond members. Unfortunately that would mean those credits won't go quite as far as they used to. For example, Diamond members used to be able to purchase the Essential plan for the last 9 nights of their voyage (9 days x $15 per day = $135). Now the $135 credit will only get Diamond members the Essential plan for the last 7 nights for free (7 days x $18 = $126). As another example, when paying for individual 24 hour blocks of time, Platinum members used to be able get 4 days of the Essential plan (4 days x $20 = $80). Now the $80 credit will only get Platinum members 3 days of the Essential plan for free when buying 24 hours at a time (3 days x $24 = $72).

I'm seeing MSC Meraviglia scheduled to be in New York starting April 20 and reports are she will be operating out of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal.

Good to see another contribution. I'll defer identifying this one for now to give others (especially those in the UK) a chance at it. I believe I identified this one after a bit of a struggle the first time around.

I note the article states "The Brooklyn relief center will operate until the start of cruise season this spring." For QM2, the start of the season is April 30th at the end of her world cruise.

This may be a good time to post updated lists of the ports/cruise-by locations we've seen on this thread and Cunard ports we haven't seen yet. As always, I'd like to encourage everyone to contribute photos you may have showing any of the unseen ports or different perspectives of ports we have seen already. Where in the World 2023-01-21.txt Cunard ports not seen yet 2023-01-21.txt

There is no sign-in functionality on the Cunard US website other than to "Manage my booking" which of course only applies if you have already booked a cruise. Unfortunately there is no functionality any more to view your past booking history online. You will need to phone Cunard US customer service to obtain that history. There is no ability to sign in before booking a cruise on the Cunard US website. If you book a cruise on the Cunard US website, you supply your full name, address, date of birth, phone number, email address, etc. along with your existing Cunard World Club number during the booking process.

Yes, there are gala evenings with no themes. That's especially true of the four night cruises to Hamburg where they generally try to schedule gala evenings on both sea days of a short cruise. Sometimes one of those two evenings will have a theme, other times not. And sometimes one or both of those gala evenings might be designated "optional" on those short cruises. The next day after those gala evenings will be disembarkation day for some/many passengers, so I suppose that's why they may want to keep those gala evenings a bit more low-key by not designating a theme and/or designating them as optional.

@sogne contributed a photo of Denmark Strait in post #4375 from December. Since we've been counting other straits, I'll go ahead and count "Denmark Strait, Iceland" as number 601 on our seen list. That would make Cabot Strait number 602. I've been recording the specific Canadian provinces in our list but I'm not sure what to use for Cabot Strait. @sogne, is the land in your latest photo on the coast of Newfoundland or Nova Scotia? I'll use that to determine which province to record for Cabot Strait on our list.

That's correct. That image happens to be from QV's recent call at Funchal on New Year's Eve. It shows QE docked that afternoon prior to moving out to the anchorage for the fireworks display at midnight. Here's another image I posted on the "Queen Victoria current location" thread captured from the same site (www.madeira-web.com) showing the fireworks display with QV at the far right.

I'm not sure if this one is obvious or difficult. Let's give it a try. This is another of my webcam captures of a port we've already seen. I've blurred out captions which definitely would have made it obvious.

Thank you for that correction. I have updated the QM2 document accordingly. That's interesting they have broken the pattern for M317. The first gala evening on each westbound crossing has been the Black and White theme for the past several years. And in general, the first gala evening following most other Southampton departures fleetwide has been Black and White as well. Is anyone else seeing differences in the theme schedules for your crossings from what I have posted in the QM2 document? There could well be other discrepancies since I figured Cunard would be staying with the usual pattern for each crossing this year after I learned the schedules for a few of the crossings were following that pattern.

Here's something we haven't seen for a few years: a Cunard ship arriving at Manhattan. For QV, my records indicate it has been almost eight years. This is a capture from PTZtv's "Port New York" webcam found at "portnywebcam.com".

Here's a webcam capture of QM2 at Heraklion this morning. This is a distant view to be sure, but it's a chance to feature a port we haven't seen yet on this thread. This is from Skyline Webcam's "Heraklion Live cam" found at "skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/ellada/crete/heraklion/heraklion.html".

Oh, sorry, my fault. I did not read carefully enough what you said about your old UK CWC number. Since that was a nine digit format, then I'm not sure where that leaves us either. I probably should remove the "newer" and "older" designations from my previous summary of UK CWC formats. The "more common" and "less common" designations may not mean much either with such a small sample size. Just to satisfy my curiosity, and if you don't mind me asking, could you put an approximate year on when you last had a nine digit CWC number?

Sorry, I don't really know the comparative ages of the UK numbers. I am only working under an assumption the 9 character format might be an older format since only one person so far in the UK, @PORT ROYAL, has reported they have a 9 character CWC number (with 6 digits rather than 5) and you mentioned you used to have a 9 character number that was switched to 8 characters at some point in the past. Since most people from the UK who have responded indicate they have 8 character numbers and the example on the Cunard website is an 8 character number, I'm supposing that's the newer more common format for UK CWC numbers. That's what was behind the equivocation "based on my interpretation of the feedback here so far" in my previous post, but that assumption could be way off base. I welcome further insight from anyone about UK CWC number formats.

Thanks everyone. For future reference here's an updated summary of Cunard World Club number formats for each region based on my interpretation of the feedback here so far. North America: Nine digits and one letter For example: 654321098B UK: Two letters, five digits and one letter (more common/newer) or Two letters, six digits and one letter (less common/older) For example: RP54321W or RP654321W In some places a "CU" prefix is added. Australia/New Zealand: Ten digits For example: 5432109876

Sorry if I wasn't clear. In those patterns, I was using "A" as a placeholder for any uppercase letter (A-Z) and "9" as a placeholder for any digit (0-9).

Thank you for that correction regarding the Australia/NZ format. My understanding is that in the past for US CWC numbers, the "A" suffix was always assigned to the male and "B" to the female in a couple and then "C", "D", etc. to other family members. Understandably that received pushback for being rather sexist. Hopefully the system now is something more along the lines of "A" for the primary passenger on the first booking and then subsequent letters for additional passengers in the same household.

No problem. I'm interested in seeing how common each of the various UK formats are so all replies are welcome. I have seen posts in the past where members have stated they have seen their CWC numbers listed both with and without the "CU" prefix so that may explain some of this variation. Our original US CWC number from our first voyage in 2005 was in the format "CU9999999A". Then after we sailed Princess for the first time, I noticed the first two characters had changed from "CU" to "61". It wouldn't surprise me to learn there are others in the US with CWC numbers that start with "CU".

That's interesting. So apparently there are two different formats for UK CWC numbers: AA999999A (9 total characters) CUAA99999A (10 total characters) where "A" in any letter and "9" is any digit. Just curious for those of you in the UK, which of these formats are you seeing for your CWC number and are there any other variations?

I don't see a roll call created for your QV British Isles cruise in August either. It is up to someone on each cruise to be the one to create a roll call for their cruise. I recommend you create one in the Queen Victoria Roll Call section to get the ball rolling.