P&O SUE

Morning all, my most exciting news ( seeings as it’s not that warm here STILL 😡) is that I’ve just booked Epicurean for the first night of our cruise 😁😁

We finally have some sun! Started the day with thick white cloud so was very grumpy! Now sitting in the garden although the breeze is quite strong!

As a Liverpool fan I’m not watching the Cup Final 😜

Yes I had one a few weeks ok to bid for a higher cabin. Glad I didn’t go for it as I’m very happy with my 12.30 embarkation time. Yesterday I got another email for more bidding - £50 each for a deluxe balcony. I’m staying where I am though. We go in only 2 weeks so I’m surprised they’re still offering them. There were all level of suites as well.

Perfect! Happy anniversary! 🥂🥂 Have a great time and keep those photos coming 😊

Oh no John sorry to hear that .

Same here in North Kent, thick white cloud again! I’m getting heartily fed up of weather forecasters saying ‘ another lovely sunny day’ It’s not here! My ‘social media’ memory tells me I was at Southampton this day in 2015 off to the Canaries! Take me back! Mind you in the photo I’m holding a strawberry daiquiri in my hand and it was overcast - I can still feel the cold glass in my hand!

I’ve only just got round to reading this thread ICF - thanks for all your posts, I’ve enjoyed the cruise with you!

When we went on that ride it broke down! But the music didn’t stop! 😳😀

when I went to Norway our first stop was Stavanger and I thought ‘it’s lovely but no more stunning than the Lake District’ - then we went to Olden and Flam and my jaw dropped!

We always walk to the far end of the buffet on Ventura and Azura, always plenty of seats there ☺️

Hello all, I’m fed up here on the North Kent coast because we’ve had some sun lately but also a lot of dull days with a very keen wind. My heating came on this morning and it was only on 16! Anyway, more exciting I’ve got my boarding time for my short cruise in 3 weeks time. 12.30, very happy with that!

One of my favourite cruise memories, cruising out of Olden on Ventura with a window seat while we ate in The Beach House, fabulous!

Same 😊

Morning all, very very dull here again! Fed up of it, I need sun! Supposedly suppose to brighten up soon but the forecast has said that a lot recently. Our corner seems to miss it! Hope everyone has a good weekend 😊

Yes it’s a great itinerary, these experiences are putting me off too! In Pandemic times I had a Ventura cruise cancelled that was a similar itinerary . How upsetting that is now!

When I’ve been to Gunwharf before I always said I’d like to stay at the Holiday Inn there. I highly recommend the Spinnaker Tower, great views and we spent ages watching the Isle of Wight ferry coming in and out, it’s a tight manoeuvre! I’ve been on her twice before both in inside cabins. I love that style of ship. Lovely prom deck. Even though Azura was our first cruise Ventura was the place we discovered the Glasshouse. This time we’ve got a balcony on Lido deck, it’s only 4 nights so we weren’t too fussed where the balcony was. C deck has the largest balconies they look huge. Bit worried about some recent feedback of her but seen much better reviews lately . I’ll report back.

Yes I like a large hat! I often sit with a group of friends outside and I’m the only one with a hat! I have discovered bronzer too but I’m not keen on my pale face 😄

I hope you give honest feedback 😊

Ah yes but we didn’t know any better then did we? It was called ‘sun tan lotion’ so sounded like it gave us a sun tan! I’m very careful nowadays especially my face as it seems to go very red now and it didnt before so now I have tanned arms and a pale face as I’m always putting sun cream on my face! Hope you’re healing ok x

We have been to Gunwharf a couple of times and liked the atmosphere. Not stayed there though so looking forward to that as there’s so many restaurants to choose from! We also had a harbour boat tour from there once and of course the Dockyard is an easy walk.

Thank you and I shall bear that in mind re the traffic. It seems P&O have a strict policy again so it seemed a good idea to go a bit further away this time. We have a check out time of 11am so I hope we don’t have too late a time to check in.

I eventually went back to sleep, straight to the alarm at 6-45 - ugh! Good thing I am working from home today, will be going to my home ‘office’ in a bit!

We will be going by car but I’ve just had a quick look and from Portsmouth harbour it’s 45 minutes by train to Southampton.

Ventura 😊