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Similar here not to special on my pins these days a handy DH is extremely useful in such cases.
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As Pontac pointed out earlier it’s all do do with ship design and layout. We first thought about security but I expect you’ve noticed how quickly the crew get to know their customers I’m pretty sure a stranger wouldn’t last long just wondering around.
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Curious you’d think they would want to sell their product. Just working out where the challenges are in Paris at the moment due to arrive there lunch time Saturday.
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Sometimes this getting cosy is only because the boat on the inside is late leaving or the one on the outside is early arriving. DH reminded me that once walking through next doors reception the staff were definitely iffy about our presence, couldn’t have looked further down their collective noses if they’d tried. So my aforesaid DH asked the obvious ‘I’m in charge’ if it would be possible for them to show us their lounge, bar and if possible restaurant as we could then consider them for a future cruise. He was answered with a resounding no, no explanation at all needless to say we were all not impressed nor was he, as a marketing man he does know how to work a room so he was not impressed. What an opportunity to miss! Never mind on our return they’d gone, actually never to be seen again. Only twice in our river cruising experience has another crew been ‘off’ this one and once moored behind a different brand and they were (the hotel crew not maritime) really objectionable, you really do not see this on the rivers.
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Headache Experience Booking with Viking
Canal archive replied to Concombre's topic in River Cruising
There is an American on line magazine type thing I’m sure loads of you know who I mean does escorted French barge cruises - well he has produced a useful comparison list I’m not to sure if it’s against regulations to name it. Well I’ll try River Cruise Adviser - comparisons. I will risk a slapped wrist. -
There was a Sound of Music excursion on one of cruises and I passed on that one. Tags showing both suitcases are now in Paris for some reason they’ve even been to Belgium.
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Just a snippet to add to the water level discussion an expression used by the old boatmen in England when water levels were a tad low - the bottoms coming up to meet the top - I suspect used by boatmen world wide maybe varied slightly and in different languages but used enough to be mentioned in old writings about the ‘cut’.
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For a start in canal parlance U.K. style it’s ‘breasting up’ in my cruising since 2011 we’ve breasted up a handful of times, never overnight and usually during an excursion. Twice we’ve shared a glass with our neighbours and each had a sneaky peak at each others cabin, interesting - AMA & Uniworld - in one case our butler was gobsmacked at what we were doing but brought our four as requested cocktails no problem (points to Scenic there). On another we’re on the sun deck and on our neighbouring boat a guy was doing Tai Chi so, I mean you’ve got to ask haven’t you and an impromptu lesson ensued I’m sure it was an American who said if your handed peanuts eat them.
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What constitutes a large group for potential booking discount?
Canal archive replied to Chris_Texas's topic in River Cruising
On the Scenic website U.K. they quote - 10 to 228 and will work with you to sort it out. So it’s more than likely similar in the USA. -
Shorts worn in town on Rhine, Main, Danube?
Canal archive replied to Denarius's topic in River Cruising
Now now is that the kind of question to ask an Englishman? 🤔 -
It wasn’t required reading in our school but Anne’s story was included in the history of religion across Europe. When the sound of music was released I was earning my pocket money to afford my scooter, as an usherette in the the Odeon North End Portsmouth and had to go home after the half way intermission, to this day I have never seen the second half the first half was quite enough, thank you.
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Well I found this and thought of us, the great wine unwashed. If your anything like me (and I’m most probably in the minority) choosing a wine is more - ohh that’s nice - regardless of cost, where it comes from and does it suite my ‘palate’ what! Can I drink it? In my case Merlot no way but thats a real minority thing. Cheers! Can AI help drinkers buy a better bottle of wine? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65959815 All, enjoy your wine on board and remember regardless of your cruise after the first sip and if you don’t like it tell the waiter and get it changed to something you enjoy, that’s what a wine is for, enjoyment.
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Notamermaid thank you so much for the tip, we will definitely go. My dad was a Navy man and I spent many of my early years in Portsmouth (Pompey) I did my early training in a Royal Navy facility. If you ever get the chance the dockyard is home to HMS Victory, Nelson’s flagship and still technically the flagship of the Royal Navy, HMS Warrior the first ironclad warship in the British Fleet and the Mary Rose Henry V111s flagship the one that was raised from the Solent plus loads of other things it’s an interesting place. When you’ve done that go through the shopping centre and up the Spinnaker tower. We have several friends who still live in the area, home from home.
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Will be thinking of you whilst on our way to our Seine river cruise on Saturday, have a great weekend.
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Rhine water levels 2023 and similar topics
Canal archive replied to notamermaid's topic in River Cruising
They say ships have not a soul but something akin. -
2-3 Night River Cruises in France or Germany
Canal archive replied to Debate's topic in River Cruising
Yeh there’s not much room even for a trundle bed in a river cruise cabin. Because thinking about it my grandson would love it especially with his - brother in trouble - I.e. grandfather. -
Oh wow looking at where the damage is I hope the kitchen crew are okay. Please hope it’s not the Emerald’s crews fault and all are okay, what a shake up.
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On one of our cruises for the first at least four days we were up and out by just after 8am you can imagine the moaning and groaning although we all went along with it and in any case we’re all ‘ha ha’ in the same boat at the next port talk our next start wasn’t until 10.30 I’ve never heard a boatload of - paying quite a lot passengers - cheer quite so much. Evidently it just happened that the majority of us wanted to take part in all of the excursions that meant starting early, an absolute headache for our very competent Cruise Director. Our only lengthier coach journey was to Salamanca- worth every mile, the most beautiful city, I’d go again just for this experience.
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Looks like they’re trying and I think still a woman at the helm, with a bit of effort and good will could be a happy merger. There seem to be some doubts about the British passport side of things well all I can say is about 2022 when we took the car and still had to prove Covid credentials, we sailed through no problem. It is the way to travel between Europe and the U.K. I think the only time I would quibble with is Avignon to St Pancras - no passport control (pre covid) at Avignon so we had to stop at Lille get off go through control and return to our seats don’t know what’s happening now. I do know we could get on the first Eurostar from St Pancras travel to Marseille have a superb French lunch back on board and return to the U.K. in one day, I’ll let you know when we do it, any recommendations for the meal.
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Or should I say old rock but still cutting the mustard.