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Good for you ,nice to have hobbies 🙂 When on my last cruise I met an Australian guy and he knew what I liked but he still asked me anyway ' He said to me "What's your favourite hobby, sport?" 🙃

Wait until your fully retired, you will wonder how you ever found the time to be anything else 🙃

Hope your hubby makes a good recovery soon . With your track record on holiday mishaps Mega ,do you ever think "Why me ?" I think a travel agent from your past must have put a curse on you 😉 Hope you get it all sorted soon 🙂

Morning 14.c with a little sun this morning . Lets talk customer service as we get people who tell us how bad it can get . I can tell you it's not just the ships ,it can happen anywhere like supermarkets. I was in one the other day wanting some chicken cuppa soups and as I past a young lady who worked there I thought I'd ask if they had any in stock ? " I'll see " she said and went on her way . Some 15 minutes went by and what looked to be a shop floor manager had noticed me just stood there. So I asked him "Does he know if they sell boxes of Chicken cuppa soups ? " As he went off he told me "I'll see" and the annoying part for me was he never came back either. Not happy with this service I began to work my way out of the supermarket, but then I had a stroke of luck . I found my chicken cuppa soups in isle C 🙃 Have a nice day

This is what I read a while ago and poster ann141 was replying to Selbourne asking of his whereabouts .

I posted that another poster (who's name slipped my mind ) had said he was posting on other media. Suppose he has his reasons and will come back in his own time. Getting back to you John ,I hope your not feeling too bad due to the Plague you seem to have acquired.

Years ago I used to have inside cabins and no complaints from us. Now years later we do not drink nor do we smoke but do enjoy a lot of time on our balcony so to us it's money well spent . So we do agree with you . Everyone else can choose what suits them .

Sorry to hear this John ,hope the Mrs stays clear of it and you get better soon .

Fully agree, all ship companies learn from all ships incidents such as the C C disaster and the life boat tragedy on Tomson Majesty . Most safety regs/ laws are built /adapted from such incidents . So same as you I put my faith /trust in them ,otherwise I also would not set foot on a ship either.

In the life boat film I noted very little mention of when nature calls . Pleased to see for the fine diner's among you , rather than the biscuit ,there is the option of line caught fish .Regrettably serve yourself .

Oh you mean that film where they plonk you on the Captains table ..To eat with the crew .🙃

Thanks for that Moley ,I cannot recall seeing those for the choice of a better word ... "Bum " marks on the floor of the tenders we have used with P&O. I had an inkling that the SOLAS regs would cover most of the onboard stuff . Just found the video amazing ,will look at them boats in a different light should I stroll under one of the life boats.. Thanks for your input .

Let you into a little secret. My Mrs takes them off the bed even in our overnight stay hotels. She very much doubts they see a washing m/c very often and dreads to think what has been on them , So no big loss to us really. Thanks for your helpful posts and as you say most can be worked around . Thank you .

I came across a fascinating video and thought wow ! never knew the half of it . We just amble by them possibly look up at how many they seat, even jump in one on a tender port run to and from shore . My question is P&O, Cunard or any other do they all operate the same ,should the worst happen ? I know we have posters who have worked on the ships and would be great to hear their input on ships of the IONA / ARVIA size ships ,or any of the fleet really . Will leave you with the film ....... Thanks for watching .

Takes me back to my holidays in the Costas years ago 🤣 They kept you regular those Spanish 🙃

It does , I was doing a booking and the lady at the call centre said "That cabin has been taken ." I had to come out of the booking as she would do it whilst I was on the phone anyway.

I remember the time my Sister went on holiday and trusted us with caring for her dog. His name was Butch ,cute little Yorkshire Terrier . What a fuss she made, when to feed him ,walk him and so on . I was told he liked playing in gardens and could I throw a ball for him as well ? To me it seemed a little over the top, but he looked great in his little tuxedo🙃

Hi I use my laptop windows 10 on chrome but it also has Microsoft edge built into the windows 10 . So I have just tried on the Edge and first attempt when selecting a cabin I got the message "There has been a technical error, please try later " So I clicked on retry and it worked exactly the same as on Chrome ,showing pop up box and let me complete dummy booking . Not sure what the problem is with Edge and hope you get sorted soon .

Even on the pop channels ..Alice Cooper wanted to be elected , no getting away from it 😉

Just had a go myself and where I think your going wrong is ,.. For example ,you have a balcony on deck E but click edit cabin and maybe see a cabin on deck A you like, so select it . A pop up screen now appears giving you details and price but you you don't see is that you have to scroll down to select this cabin within this pop up box . If you just close the box and hit continue then it will take you back to your original choice on deck E. Bad design having the "select this cabin" hidden that is until you scroll down within the pop up box . Hope this helps 🙂

I hated my boss at work and one day I heard he had fell fell down a wishing well😮 I was amazed, I didn't think they worked. 🙃

We used to buy a couple of bottles from shops when in port .

Our supermarkets are taking the mick at the moment . Morrison want £ 141.7 ..Asda £139.7 and sat between them two independents selling at £138.9 .They have both beaten the supermarkets for quite a while now .

And as the price of car insurance hit's stupid amounts for the "New to the road" drivers , we also have them driving with no insurance . A while back I watched a guy pulled by the police ,who said this is the 2nd time in as many months they had nicked the guy and scrapped his car . The guy told the TV crew , he did not care as he found it cheaper than being legit . He got done something like £150 ,a community order and his car scrapped. He told the cops "take it ,I will have another in a week or so.

Exactly what I did with Funchal in Madeira ,until the cruise ships ,it was never on my holiday radar .