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I hope you have a great cruise anyway. Sorry the upgrade fairy hasn’t worked their magic yet!
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Had early supper in Blue Danube! What did I miss? 🤔 Petite four!!! I love those in YC! they weren’t forthcoming with tea offers after the meal either but guess they have two more sitting to entertain. One bonus was we sat with one other couple from South Wales and we had easy and interesting conversation. If we were on a table for two we would have missed out on that! the food was every bit as good as YC and service very good too.
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There’s a bit of a damp smell in the bathroom. In comparison with YC, once, we checked into a YC1 and it smelled awful! It was a room fragrancer that must have dropped into the air con unit! We were swiftly moved cabin and all was fine. it will be interesting to see how quickly they respond to this musty smell in this class of room. I’ll post back!
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Had good service and a pleasant chat with a staff member from South Africa in the Champagne bar. All similar to YC lounge. Then went to sit on loungers by the pool. The main difference was lack of drinks service (not that we needed it!) and no cushions on the loungers. The other guests were quiet and even one small family checking their kids were not too loud ‘for people to relax’. Once before we had a very loud child in YC and his parents let him be as loud as he liked! 😅
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Just pulled into Temple Meads station the largest in Bristol. There were lots of dressed up people waiting to go to Cheltenham horse Race. Even spotted some green outfits for St Patrick’s day! not sure I could face a beer at this time of day but would love a cup of tea! There’s no service on such a small train and I forgot to pick up my travel mug (full of Lady Grey tea!) on my rush out of the door! 😅
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We’re on the train to Southampton! It’s just a small three carriage train and it’s fairly full due to the strike yesterday and the day before. We have seats though and can keep an eye on our small cases. The train driver smiled at me as he drew into the station. I then remembered my great grandfather was a steam engine driver all those years ago! Trains were very different then but drivers just as smiley!
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Two small worries about todays travels! A text we both received yesterday from MSC to say don’t come to the terminal early as Virtuosa will arrive late today! Then, there has been industrial action on our railways in U.K. 😅 Last night, I looked at the Railway website- and little yellow warning triangle was placed on all our possible train journeys from Bristol to Southampton! Although we had bought tickets this promoted me to contact friends who live nearby (& who happen to be cruising in New Zealand now!) to ask if I can have a Plan B to drive down to Southampton and park outside their house! This plan B is now on stand by! Today I woke up to find that Virtuosa is now nearly arriving so panic over! Also our trains, although still showing triangles, are so far showing ‘on time’!