worldtraveller99

Sounds absolutely lovely, thank you.

Aha! Also an ALC menu with meat choices all week? 

(I had thought alc = alcohol menu! Trust me!)

PS Maybe we will meet our friends in the buffet!

Thank you all very much, especially exlondoner. 

Noted just one meat main a day! (We don't eat shellfish). I shall have to try the fish dishes too!

So no-one in QG ever needs to pay for a speciality restaurant? Thank you!

I would still like to see some QG dinner menus if anyone could post them please?

Could we ask say for an Indian main course in the Queens Grill? And would they bring it to us from the speciality restaurant? 

Thank you both very much. The reason I ask is that our friends have chosen to be in the Britannia Club and I would like to eat with them one night. So if we go for the pop-up in the Lido, do we need to book that (when?) and is there a charge for that?

Thank you Victoria2. So did you eat in the Queens Grill every night?

First time Cunard cruiser. We will be on the Queen Anne in the Queens Grill and considering visiting a speciality restaurant. But does the Queens Grill dinner menu change every day - and does it cover steak anyway?

If you are cruising on it any time this year, will you be able please to put up the Queens Grill dinner menu each day - that would be wonderful, thank you for your help!

Thank you all. I guess because it's a one-off with a paper tag, being taken from a dock 10 yards to our room on the ship! I already have super leather tags on our cases for flying, but they are small and would not fit the long paper tags from Cunard. Thank you anyway, I shall let the porters staple the paper tags when we give them the cases (which also have our names on anyway in the leather tags).

If we just bring the cases and tags to the dock, do they have a stapler there they can use to get them fixed? If not, what do they do?

Napria, I agree with you that our Silversea butler was conspicuous by his absence. But re sea-sickness, I take morning and evening Dramamine and am fine. And I am someone who feels nauseous looking down in a glass bottomed boat in a lake!

Thank you - there is also lots to see in A Coruna, so I shall look at the excursion times when they are uploaded on the Cunard website.

If any of you see these next year for 2026 please will you point the link out to us all?

I sincerely hope that from the top Terrace of the ship nothing will block our view of the eclipse in Spain?

Re the tour to Santiago de Compostela, I would like to do that. I believe all tours must get back on board at least an hour before departure, so that would still give us time to set up our tripods?

I have spare eclipse glasses if you arrange to meet me on board; we have just come back from Texas where they gave us loads - we saw 98% and then cloud, but with nice wines at a winery as we were in Fredericksburg, so still a fun day! 

We are aiming to use our OBC for our drinks - and not bother with a drinks package, so we can buy more expensive wines and cocktails, and not feel we need to drink quantity not quality, which drinks packages encourage I think?

PS After asking Cunard customer services, I received the reply that we leave Al Coruna at 9.00 pm - so presumably we all need to be back on board at 8.00 pm, and the eclipse in 2026 is at 8.30 pm. He said, very reasonably, that the ship will still be stationary at 8.30 pm, so hopefully we will be able to photograph it from the terrace.

Me too ocean sounds! But I read that we don't leave port until the evening, which should allow us to photograph the eclipse on land before we leave? Oops if that isn't so! 

We are booked on the 9th August sailing out of Southampton with the eclipse on 12th August at A Coruna. Will there be any Cruise Critic meetup, and how does that work please? - am relatively new to ocean cruising.

I understand that the ship stays late in port that evening, and assume there will be an excursion out of the town for us to photograph the eclipse?

Thank you! We shall see!

We have just booked our future cruise (first with Cunard, and third ocean cruise overall) and chosen a table for 4. I once won a Fred Olsen cruise where we had a table for 2, but the next table was very near, so we did chat to them every day. They were elderly (and we were much younger than now!), and they had not gone out at the ports, so it was a bit strained.

I am assuming they will choose people to share with us who are similar to us in age? Do you think that is right?

Personally I think if staff do not receive a living wage, then every penny of profit goes to the business owners. I know a lot of Americans are business owners, but much fewer people in the UK are, so we see those people as skimming our money.

I work in the gig economy - I have had about 4 tips in over 20 years, but my fee is fair, so I really was never expecting it. Just to say, it was mostly the poorest people I served who tipped me!

Anyway, we will pay the service charge, and only tip if someone does something extra for us.

I think if we are paying a service charge then fewer people will want to tip as well? 

All sounds good thank you very much - Cinzano and lemonade all round!

I was aiming to ask for a bottle of simple single malt whisky, to make our own cocktails - that costs more than many Champagnes?

How lovely!