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If we ever want a quick lunch due to timings of an excursion, a tuna melt, with fries of course is our cabin 'go to'. Yummy 🙂

and replaced before wilting. A nice added touch to the dining table.

My lunches, -: Sushi, sashimi, tuna tartare, caprese salad, carpaccio, wonderful salads [to my own dictate of constituents] with lobster tail and prawns, seared tuna, blackened tuna...salads with dressings on the side Light, delicious and most certainly doable when ordered the night before or at breakfast. Enjoy

Or maybe anyone with limited English but enough about them to book a cruise on a foreign language ship, would understand the numbers and deduce which meals are taken within the times shown. Really, does it matter either way?

You've hit the nail on the head. Q.G. is discreet and attentive, not stuffy or pretentious. I am so glad you are obviously having a great time. 🙂

Staggeringly wonderful night photographs. Worthy of any commercial advertising blurb, and your others are super, too. Thank you

A girl after my own heart! I don't do ironing if I can help it at the best of times and definitely not onboard. Judicious packing and lots of steam from the shower usually does the trick for us although husbands cotton/dress shirts do go to laundry.

Fabulous photography and wonderful lights. Jealous? Moi? You bet! 🙂

I don't find it shocking but definitely surprising a G.M. bottle isn't, G.M. I wonder if finding out the G. M., isn't G.M., the Crepes are less tasty in hindsight!🙂

Old fashioned maybe but the only photo we'd take inside the restaurant would be of our table companions on the last Gala evening. A human memento of the cruise. Other than that, a camera, with us when dining will be if the outdoor might warrant a snap. We would have missed whales, dolphins, turtles and flying fish if we hadn't been camera ready.

You take fabulous photos, the scenic ones are magnificent.

Thank you for taking us with you and thank you for the photographs. I'm not clever enough to upload photos [I don't do food ones at all] so your scenic ones are much appreciated.

We were onboard 21st August and the system will not have changed. It's not perfect as 24/7 should mean all the time eg, no need to keep logging in so in that respect, it is clunky but once log in is saved, as Hattie indicated, a ten second job to reconnect. You'll get there. 🙂

It's OK. We should have been with you this time, by the window and so would have been able to say Hi in person but as I'd have to have you remember us to your butler and Joachim and Raul and Aziz [they would all definitely have remembered us] and... it's not fair to single out one staff member as they were all beyond brilliant. Hopefully, we'll see them next time if they haven't been moved around or on leave. Continue to have a wonderful time.

Although my husband would go bonkers if I used the camera to film our food, I have to say your photos are wonderful. Is that Jane serving you in one of them?

The internet on the Norwegian cruises has always had a Norwegian mode. Something to do with deep cuttings, otherwise known as fjords, between high cliffs, otherwise known as mountains! You would think their tourist industry would flatten these out a bit so cruise passengers could access the internet on a less ad hoc basis! 🙂 I got caught out on the first day or so of usage when I didn't realise 24/7 didn't actually mean that and assumed I'd got a problem. Well I did but it was user error 50/50 with lack of usage info from Cunard. It's no great shakes to log in again, a ten second job if fingers are nimble. I have no idea what the app thingy is as it didn't feature on our list of things to use so shows how useful it was for us. Zero! We can definitely live without it.

Regular restaurant coffee's OK but nothing to write home about unless you ask for an extra shot/stronger. When we make deck 11 for breakfast, I always have tea. Lunch and dinner I usually ask for a latte, decaf after dinner.

Ask, ask ask! 🙂

Lovely to see al the photos but that bar set up. I'd never be sober! 😄

Layout is the same but having been guests in a couple of 1s before the refit, we weren't surprised at the lack of a guest bathroom. Apart from the fact three weeks is long enough for us at the moment due to health matters, a single bathroom wouldn't deter us.

Definitely first world problem but I completely agree with groryjm about the lack of a guest loo. We didn't have any drawer problems in 7085 but all in all, sounds pretty promising so far.

Before QVs major refit years ago, the 1s didn't have balconies. They had terraces which could easily host functions for a crowd. They were huge and the big draw which outweighed any possible motion problems. The new ship has both 1s and 2s situated mid ships.

The lack of availability of the 2s, is the reason we book early. Yes we pay rack rate with very poor obc, but we get the cabin we want. Q1s aren't so popular so a little breathing space can be had. The new ship will have four 2s but only two 1s. Both categories to be mid ships. My quip on the products is because so many have had the same problem you had. and in all seriousness, sounds as if there could be a burgeoning problem.

I hope the rest of your trip goes as well as it seems to have started.

I think the choice of ship has a lot to do with any experience in 'The Grills'. First you have to decide if it's QG or PG. When folk say they travel in the Grills, they often don't specify which one so it can be hard to get the correct impression. I haven't seen any cabins on QM2 but I have seen the QG dining room and I wasn't impressed but then I'm not a fan of that ship. I have heard however, the cabins are very spacious and that includes PG. On the Vistas, the PG cabins aren't that much more spacious than Britannia but they have a huge added bonus. Decks 11 and 12. These two decks are deemed 'The Grills'. Deck 11 has both restaurants and having taken afternoon tea in PG, the restaurant is almost a t2win of QG. Bright and spacious. The lounge is there, not huge and can get very busy at certain times[ usually pre lunch and pre dinner but a lovely place for your complimentary teas and coffees when the bar is staffed. The concierge has their desk there too. Outside you have a sun deck and between 11 and 12, i have never yet not managed to get a sunbed or chair if needed. Then we have QG. The main differences being the cabins and the choice of food in the restaurant. We love the restaurant but it's the spacious cabins which draw us time and time again, The Butler is a nice touch and is always at the end of a pager when on duty for anything you need but one can survive without that. Same for a 'free' bar set up. Is QG worth the extra over PG? A very personal decision just as is PG worth the extra over BC etc. We have gone from a Q5 over the years to a Q2 and a Q1 purely because we want the space. It's up to the individual to decide if PG/QG is right for them.