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My tip too, and through experience. Pay no attention to waitlists. Check online each day and twice a day if it’s important enough to really want a cabin.

If you have a localM&S, you can return online purchases with no problem. They stock some great brands now, many items of which are only available online. Celtic &Co sweaters are amazing and are now stocked online so I can try for size and easily return. I buy online, collect at my local store knowing I can return any I don’t want to keep.

Well I obviously haven’t any decorum what so ever as my favourite long dress is M&S per Una. 👍😀 but then my mother often urged me 'to have a bit of decorum' as I climbed down from the latest tree swing, as a child I must add! 😀

Come on folks, everyone knows 'The Grills' have water cannons placed at strategic points along the perimeters with instructions to please water bomb any and all interlopers who dare to poke their noses into areas where they don’t belong. Indeed, it’s an unofficial sport for those who don’t take up archery. There’s a chart in the lounge to chalk up hits. The best score so far over this last week is one hundred and eighty, although I have a feeling that might have been a darts score, 'mistakenly' added in the hopes of winning the much prized half bottle of Pol Acker. It’s quite easy to spot 'them'. 'Their' clothes are just not what we’re used to. I mean, who wears jeans on a Cunard ship, and M&S clothes, especially on a Gala night Ooops…that’s me! 🤣🤣

I would have thought a bib de rigueur if drinking out of a saucer.

This window table for four for example, is still there this July. I suggest you and your friends add a rider, if you haven’t already done so, to your booking requesting a window table.

Beautiful today. Clouds and sunshine. The air temp. is chilly but the wind across deck eleven isn’t as strong as the last couple of days. Loads and loads of free loungers and chairs and constant bar and coffee service. All tickety-boo.

If your tastes are low, then ours are too 😀

The Pavilion screen is great if there’s something being screened, of interest. A cup of tea in PG suits us down to the ground, Vistas or Annie and yes, QA is Cunard lite but most acceptable and QV, just right 👍

OK. I'm going to stick up for Annie. She's not half as bad as some folk paint her, speaking from a Grills perspective and more pertinently, QG. The accommodation is smaller but counter that with the modern fittings. The food has been phenomenally good and the service, excellent. I don’t like hiking the ship especially when I turn left and find once at the end, I should have turned right. I do NOT appreciate the lift doors closing on us before we’ve managed to race across the lobby if I’m pushing a wheelchair and the pinch points on deck three on the way to the theatre is an annoying bit of bad planning but Annie as a ship, has grown on us. She is NOT a trad. Cunard ship, but as I have said before, she IS a Cunard ship, too and I speak as a confirmed QV groupie.

Great photo. Should be included in official Cunard blurb. Real photo with real passengers who, it has to be said, are easy on the eyes.👍 Didn’t get an invitation to any party. 'They' probably knew we wouldn’t turn up. We do have one for next week though.

The room seems yet another Marmite issue. We think it’s fine as do others we speak to. Obviously, that opinion isn’t shared by others. No problem. It is what it is. 🙂

Tell your friends, corkscrew, bottle opener, cocktail shaker and other bar stuff is in one of the side cupboards by the bar set up. Then they won’t feel foolish when asking the very sweet and kind butler ‘could we have a bottle opener please' as I did, last May.🥴

I’ll post a photo of our table position and that of the one behind where a Q1'er is seated in my overall review. What I would say is, the configurations are fluid but you won’t be sat in the boon docks, possibly in a four top, siding onto the window.

I mentioned best ever crispy duck on Cunard a few posts back, and I lauded the Chicken Pad Thai some nights ago. I know this might seem an outrageous thing to say from the comfort of a rather nice QG cabin etc but it’s been very difficult getting our normal off menu requests. Why? Simply because the menus have been so absolutely great. We seriously can’t fault a darn thing about the food in QG other than the fact the choices are so wonderful, it’s difficult to choose.

No although Sky News was off air for a bit but Sports 24 and The Open isn’t affected so this cabin has happy passengers!👍 Fingers crossed for your shortie. QM2 is my least favourite Cunard ship and my last shortie was donkey's years ago but I could never fault the service we received and hopefully, normal excellent service will resume for you.

Devil's advocate here. If seats were taken, it must mean other passengers decided to arrive early enough to get seated. Gauge the situation and act accordingly. We knew the area would be packed, decided to have an early ish dinner ( crispy duck…the best on a Cunard ship we have ever had) and go and enjoy an evening of live music which suited our tastes. 🙂

Join our club! That’s how wheelchair passengers feel when 'we' can’t get the required seating because of inconsiderate passengers taking the seats, unless we arrive super early to guarantee the seats.

I have done four nighter 'party cruises' to Hamburg on QM2 in the past and had a great time.No problem with service at all and whilst I don’t think it’s representative of a TA experience, they were very enjoyable trips with a girl friend and others. We also had a shortie Hamburg segment on a Baltic cruise on QV last year and the atmosphere definitely changed during those few days to a more party atmosphere. Not our thing but it didn’t affect our enjoyment at all.

We spent almost two hours front row in a packed deck three ‘balcony' watching the dancers and listening first to the Amethyst Duo again and then The MacDonald Bros., again. The Queens Room Live, as it was called felt like a cosy night club and as I nipped down in the interval between the two, to see the main area, as on deck three, it was pretty well crowded too. I like the Queens Room and last night, it was utilised by a large number of passengers, as I think a main entertainment area of the ship should be.

Can I point out, she says sitting out in brilliant sunshine now, the wind whips across deck 11 so bring a fleece with you as well as sun screen.

Not sure what that means Myles other than the drinks are on you tonight! 😀

If staff know you’re up on deck, and they do patrol up there even in the damp, you’ll get service as we found out yesterday am.

It’s a wet day, more from the spray than actual rain and I cut my deck walk down for fear of slipping. It looks a bit brighter so might venture out later. Spent a hour watching a lovely foursome play Mahjong. It’s a long time since I played on a regular basis and this four did have some 'local rules' but good fun. We didn’t leave the restaurant until around 9.45 last night after a wonderful dinner involving a great Chicken Pad Thai and finishing off with Crepes Suzette. Might yet need that wheelbarrow for disembarkation!🥴

To be fair, there was some unpleasantness on QA in May from a couple of passengers who were not QG or PG and were unpleasant to deck staff. They apparently 'were informed ' their presence wasn’t wanted on deck eleven and their attitude to staff would not be tolerated.. I’m sure no slight as such was meant with the term 'policed' and just maybe that incident was where the term was generated. Edit Words can often offend when no offence was meant and it’s quite easy to take offence when no offence was meant.