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Quercus is lovely and like Mareblu we didn't find anything watered down at all [a previous thread mentioned a watering down issue], It's just that my conditioner is a specific hair product and is a sight better than the most non specific hair company products. We asked for soap tablets for the shower and all the hand basins, habit I guess.🙂

but it's pathetically 'weak'. I'm quite happy to use Quercus shampoo for a couple of weeks but always bring my own conditioner.

As we have very high and fairly flexible annual cover, I have no idea on travel insurance brokers so again, google could be your friend. No harm in contacting a few and getting quotes from them all. Good luck🙂

A quick google brings up a few links re UK-NZ one way insurance for emigration purposes. I haven't looked but the cover is mentioned so must be out there so I would have thought, a specialist insurance broker to marry the one way requirement with cruise insurance would be the sensible path to take.

Fair comment, however, you will not be the first to 'emigrate' and there will be a way around this.

We did but as we have rolling annual cover, no questions were asked it we had flights booked and so I am assuming that didn't factor into the insurance cover. Many people use ships to relocate for a season and again, I'm assuming that would be classed as either one way if a TA or sectors if part of a longer cruise.

Don't look at it as 'one way'.. Describe it as 'sectors'. We have cruised sectors of a world cruise a few times and have had no difficulty getting insurance.

I'm sure I read a comment some time ago about the shortage of GM in relation to Crepes Suzette so if it's a supply issue, I guess the solution is to take a small [?] bottle of GM with you if it's that important a drink and if none available ship wide, resign yourself to a pre bedtime drink in the cabin.

I agree. We were bitten decades ago, when quite green about these things, when we booked a 'package' [ not Cunard] and we were basically allocated a broom closet. Apparently, 'run of house' gives the hotel carte blanche to utilise whatever room available. From then on, we booked out own hotels and so got specified rooms. The rates might not be so favourable, but the rooms definitely are,

Hint to wife, a few of us ladies, have ditched the heels at the end of an evening and have walked the rest of the way, bare foot. Often the sign of a great evening. 🙂

Interesting. That might be why pre and post Covid, from my elevated deck three position, I have watched quite a few 'waistcoats' dancing, occupied waistcoats obviously. I just assumed the wearers were hot, and without wishing to denigrate, that's temperature hot! 🙂

I would dearly like to agree with you but devil's advocate here, the term 'elevated' depends on the base line before hand. A jacket, to add to the collared shirt and trousers could be construed as 'elevated' and to be perfectly frank, unless clearer guidance is given, the jacket would theoretically, 'elevate' a shirt and trouser outfit. Semantics, I know but I have to agree with those who say the word is misleading and leaves the door wide open to interpretation.

I think it marvelous when folk queue in order to pay their respects to a public figure and it doesn't matter what they wear in order to do so. It's the need to say thank you and goodbye which counts. A friend had a mobile phone in the early 90s. It literally, was the size of a brick. Technology moved on and I can fit my phone in my back pocket. The world of technology changed and so has the world in general and as far as 'dressing' is concerned, places less emphasis on formality, for want of a better word. It is a fact of life the traditionalists will have to put up with. That doesn’t mean to say tradition is wrong. Tradition has its place with those who wish to keep it alive but for those unused to it, a new world beckons and someone at Cunard must have taken note and have moved with the times. We will miss [not mourn though] the old and will still keep our end up with black tie on non TAs. I am sure many others will do the same. 👍

Casual dress for chaps can be just as much a minefield as formal. Enjoy your next cruise. 🙂

The only reviews/comment I read are on this Cunard board but I shall google some Victoria reviews forthwith. 🙂 Shan't take any notice but if they're amusing, they will make me smile.

My husband finds wearing a polo shirt and decent chinos, a great casual yet acceptably elegant daytime choice. Saves gussying up in a jacket and tie for lunch. 🙂

I don't read reviews. My idea of a wonderful holiday bears no relation to many others' views. The day we come home from a QV holiday, dissatisfied, is the day we might start looking at Regent but until then, we are our own 'persons' and will continue to enjoy our home from home.

Others will disagree and will have their own favorite/s but Queen Victoria [like Roscoe, our home from home too] is the Happy Ship as far as we're concerned and she makes us so happy the minute we see her, never mind embark. In fact, I'm happy just thinking abut the three trips we have scheduled on her this year. Without wishing my life away, bring the first one on! 🙂

Well we won't be getting our knickers in a twist about something we have no experience of and will wait to see if the sky does fall on our first QV outing this year due to any scrum effect! 🙂

Quite, and we will continue to dress in what I loosely term, the more Cunard evening way and I suspect, many will have the same idea and just maybe, after the first Cunard encounter, newbies see the black tie [OK, coloured tie too] worn by the 'traditionalists', their next Cunard encounter might include adjusted packing. Whatever happens, the dress code for us is not the main Cunard draw and neither are we affected by others' dress sense. As I have often said, if it keeps the line afloat, fine by me. 🙂

The fact Cunard has tweaked its dress codes was not the subject of the selected part of my comment you have replied to and although I quite understand why many folk regret the passing of 'the past', times change and so you'll have to forgive me but I don't see the point you're making here other than to say things aren't what they used to be. In that, I agree, things have changed. I quoted your 'Jeans in the Grills at any time makes me cringe.' and went on to say I wasn't sure what makes the Grills any different from the rest of the ship, clothes wise, before saying T wear jeans in QG, and this is the comment I addressed in post #21, the post you have part quoted. I see no reason why standard of dress in the Grills' area is any different from the rest of the ship and I would wear the same if I booked an inside cabin or the largest cabin on the ship. If I am within any dress advisories and I make folk cringe, Britannia or QG, that's their problem, not mine. 🙂

I'm a Michener fan and bought this book after our first Alaska cruise. I read it every so often when I need an Alaskan fix.

Or indeed LargeNegroni, ask the Butler for/about anything you're unsure about. They are there to help create the best possible experience for you and as a Cunard newbie, there will be things you won't be sure about. Just ask, and that goes for all your wait staff too. They are also there to enhance your cruise experience. Enjoy your cruise on my favourite ship. 😄

I don't think Cunard are floundering as such but I do think they have had negative publicity as far as treating passengers affected by Hull-Gate are concerned and the WC Gala fiasco, if as described, will not enhance their reputation. Maybe another Gala dinner will be arranged as a face saving exercise.