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Now you're in my wheelhouse. ;) Our saying in the CG to remember right of way pecking order is....Often Non Rates Can Fool Senior People Sometimes.

 

(Overtaken, Not under command, Restricted ability to maneuver, Constrained by draft, Fishing, Sail, Power, Seaplanes)

There's a little rhyme:

Here lies the body of Michael Day,

Who insisted on having his right of way.

His course was true and his will was strong,

But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong.

:)

I would agree. Cash is dead! We have been to Norway 3 or 4 times and never needed it. We now use a Revolut card which you load with cash and can use in any country at a good exchange rate with no fee. I’ve used it for very small amounts with no difficulty. We rarely ever bother with foreign currency nowadays. As our kids tell us, cash is for old people ;)

Excellent news. I'm an old person, so if you do find yourself with any of this worthless cash, send it on to me please and I will try and find a use for it. :evilsmile::evilsmile::D

The OP must remember that in the general public opinion, 7 year olds now are genetically very different from 7 year olds fifty years ago. Then, 7 year olds were quite capable of walking to and from school, of going shopping, of visiting libraries, of going round to friends' houses, and generally of making decisions. Now, they aren't fit to be out of a parent's sight even for a second. Either parents have got paranoid, or else children have got stupid.

It's one thing to worry about increased sexual assault. the statistics don't back up those worries, but there is logic behind it. But to reckon that children nowadays can't know stuff or do stuff that children fifty years ago could do? It makes no sense.

Most cruise lines sell currency on board, in my experience. Who are you with?

It's the number of passengers that makes the difference, not the number of ships. If you have 6,000 passengers it's harder to book onshore excursions than if there are 800. How many on your ship?

Having said that, last time I was in Stavangar there were about 3,000 passengers in port (2 ships) and I had no trouble getting a place on a Pulpit rock trip. They did put on an extra boat when they found there was demand for it.

Trivial I know, but on my last cruise, friends used to leave the daily News Sheet, and crossword in my pigeon hole. They often went missing.

 

As the only reason people had to pass my cabin was to reach the library, it has reinforced my suspicion of people who insist on destroying rain forests to read one book rather than read hundreds on an electronic device. ;p(Excuse me while I find somewhere safe to hide).;p

Well, you could hide in the rain forest, because as you surely know they don't make books out of tropical hardwood,

Possible alternative - if you can cancel the hotel booking for the 19th, book a hotel at Heathrow instead and go there the night before.

It's amazing how people ASSume the worst in everyone. I would like to prevent them from killing someone and would like to see Greece. I purchased a service, travel insurance so that if I needed to be medivaced I could be and my conditions do not cause me to get the flu, all my conditions were listed.

 

As to enjoying my life got that covered. But excuse me if I feel people should be held accountable for not following Government guidelines and put people lives in jeopardy. At bare minimum the Dr should be written up.

 

This is my first post in this forum and if I wanted trolls I would have stuck to Facebook. I was trying to get advice on how to hold them accountable.

There are two different issues here. One, you would have liked to see Greece. Well, if they had taken you off on a helicopter you would have seen the inside of a Greek hospital, but you wouldn't have really seen Greece. So any complaints you have at not seeing Greece shouldn't be directed at the cruise line unless you blame them for you catching flu.

The other one is the $2,500 (less insurance excess) that you would like to have back. There, I think you'll be unlucky. You can check with your legal people under whose law you were travelling, but whatever it was, I suspect you'll find that their verdict is that you had put yourself in a bad place. The ship's doctor can only do his best according to his ability and specialisms, and he or she would be a general practitioner, not a specialist in people with severe heart, kidney, and bone marrow conditions. You said yourself that you have a huge medical team and needed $2,000 of tests on your return; can you really expect the ship's doctor to have the same skills and knowledge as your huge team? Especially as (if I read your post correctly) you didn't even go back to him a second time?

There are two possible outcomes to sueing the cruise line.

1 - you lose, in which case nothing much happens.

2 - you win, in which case you get back the $2,500 you missed out on cruise value, and the cruise line does its level best to ensure that people in your position do not travel with them in future. If you put the medical team into a position where they are expected to have medical knowledge way above what a small team can possibly have, then the line will not want to risk any further terminally or seriously ill people to travel with them.

If you sue, you risk spoiling things for other people in your position.

Children that age can get on together with no common language at all. This is a problem that doesn't need solving yet - if it turns out that she doesn't like the club, then you can work on your solution. But until then, there's little likelihood of a problem.

I met a couple who booked an Arctic cruise and then complained because they hadn't brought thick coats, and it was the travel agent's fault for not warning them it would be cold. On an Arctic cruise!

You've misread the itinerary, I believe - the word "only" does not appear on that schedule. You leave Eidfjord at 3 pm and the next entry on the list is "cruise Hardangerfjord" - that's because to get away from Eidfjord, you have to cruise Hardangerfjord. Eidfjord is a long way inland - several hours sailing.

What's wrong with art auctions? Or line dancing, or bingo, or ballroom dancing, or shuffleboard, or speciality restaurants, or childrens' clubs, or all the myriad other functions that I never use? I have no objection to the cruise line running these activities so long as they have no objection to me being somewhere else. I'm not going to worry because someone a hundred yards away is using the spa when I don't want to.

That's a very vague question. Could you please post a copy of the itinerary and then we can base our answers on the full information?

One thing to look out for is that policies vary on which particular sports or activities can be considered "dangerous" and are excluded. For example, policies may exclude ziplining, or water sports, or cycling, or they may allow cycling but not race cycling or stunt cycling, or they may allow snorkelling but not scuba diving, or allow scuba diving to 30 feet but not below, or not allow snorkelling or scuba diving. Make sure you know what's offered,

I don't quite get the bit where "the cruise line abandoned her" - it's undoubtedly true that they took her off the ship and put her into hospital. Is that wrong?

I can well understand that someone with poor health still wants to enjoy life, even at some risk to herself. Sitting around waiting to die is no fun. And it doesn't seem to be the family that's trying to make a fuss, it's a doctor in the hospital (possibly worried about not getting paid?) and the Daily Mail. Not having insurance, though - that's stupid.

Check google for temperatures. Whether you will be warm or cold depends not only on the weather, but also where you come from - a person from Lapland would think it warm, a person from Greece would think it cold. The outdoor pool may be heated or may not - depends on the line. The temperatures inside the ship are more or less the same wherever in the world it is - it's air conditioned.

could anyone tell me what clothes to take.ie... jumpers jeans coat etc. seeing that this will be our first visit, we dont know what the weather will be like. so looking forw:)ard to it.

You still won't know what the weather will be like on your fiftieth visit.

It may be cold, warm, hot, wet, dry, or all of the above. Possibly all on the same day. Pack for that. It depends to some extent how far north you are going as well - Norway's a couple of thousand miles long, and the odd thousand miles further north does make a difference to the temperature.

I will never be on a transoceanic trip again. Of all the days of my life my appendix had to rupture then!!

No reason not to go. You're better off than most of us - you can't get appendicitis. ;)

Putting stuff in a safe will deter the opportunist thief, but I would have thought it would attract the "professional" thief - a random carrier bag probably has nothing valuable in it; a safe certainly has something valuable. Unless the object it's attached to really is immovable, I can well imagine them picking up the chair and taking it away.

I can't imagine the travel agent would be researching your medical condition - why on earth should they? Travel agents take the bookings on behalf of the line, they aren't agents in any other respect. The cruise line may want to look into it, though I've never heard of it - all they normally want to know is "are you insured?".

I once met a man on board who had had several strokes and heart attacks - his insurance cost more than his cruise. The cruise line (P&O) wasn't bothered.

I don't understand the bit about "can't drive along the coast" - they're public roads. They can drive where they want.

I'd give up on this lot and try other companies.

And as Bob pointed out further up, if you go to Carrick-a-Rede first, you can book your ticket; if it is too early, Giant's Causeway is only 8 miles down the coast so you can go there and come back at your appointed time. I would presume, but I don't know, that if they offer you a slot 2 hours ahead you can ask for one 3 hours ahead or four hours ahead, if you wish.

The coast road goes directly past both attractions - you aren't going out of your way to drop in at Carrick-a-Rede on your way to Giant's Causeway.

We are looking at a last minute family cruise and this is an option, has anyone tried 4 adults in a cabin, did you all survive? Is there enough room?

Plenty of room, no problem at all. Of course there isn't room for all four of you to move around in the cabin at the same time, but then you never need to.

If you all insist on showering twice a day, that might slow the job down a bit.

I did Oslo to Bergen in March when it was very snowy. It's a lovely ride. I've done the Flam railway only in spring and summer. That's a lovely ride too. The Oslo to Bergen seats are bigger and more comfortable, especially if you book fist class (Komfort class, I think they call it?) but the scenery on the Flam railway is much closer together, and mostly steeper.

You won't regret either. If it really is a once only, I'd probably go for Flam. If you go back, you can do the other one!

(Flam has the added attraction that it's the steepest non-funicular in the world.)

The more you tell them they may be seasick, the more likely it is that they will be. Seasickness (and motion sickness in general) is susceptible to auto suggestion. Therefore, I'd wait and see if they need medicine before you give them any; obviously they may get sick even if they have no idea it's coming, but then again, they may not.

For me, it is no different than needing to store insulin or have a special needs diet that must be accommodated.

For everyone else, it is different. If there is no fridge for insulin, the diabetic person may die. If there is no fridge for your breast milk, then the reserve supply for your distant baby will be less than ten days when you get home, but it isn't normally fatal to babies to have only a day or two reserve milk supply - or even to have no reserve at all.