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Thoughts with everyone involved. Ship is at anchor to allow fast response craft to do their thing. Roll call is usual, but not only, when someone reports a person in the water but CCTV and the motion detectors on the side of the ship don’t register anything.

What I personally don’t understand…., When you fly, you’re told that there is a window to turn up from… usually 150 to 45 minutes before departure. If you turn up early, you wait as checkin is not open for you’re flight of 400 people. When P&O say board between after 3pm (ie between 3pm and 4.45pm), why does it upset people that they must then wait if they are early? Surely it’s the same? I know what you’re going to say, it’s undercover but that’s not necessarily true. When I last flew back from Greece we were made to stand in the midday heat until our flight was let into the terminal at 90 minutes to go. I’m not trying to create an argument, I just don’t see it’s any different. The whole plane might get the same time but that’s 400 people. If a single plane took 4,000 people plus, you would not see them all being given the same time.

I did acknowledge that some are unable to follow the designated times. But there are also many who blatantly ignore their 3pm time because they want to be on by noon to get their maximum holiday time. A surprising large number of those people live local to Southampton.

The policy is please turn up at your designated time. This is well communicated. The queue is for those who chose/are unable to follow that policy. If everyone turns up at their designated time, the queue should not be needed. The terminal has a maximum capacity, go over that and you risk injuries. There is a longer term plan to enable people to chose their arrival time but this has been on hold since the pandemic.

The purpose of the queuing is not to hold you back but to ensure that the main checkin terminal is not overwhelmed with people. Therefore if checkin is running smoothly, the ship has allowed passengers on board, then you should see that they start to allow those early arrivals in.

JP Morgan also upgraded their view. This is pricing in good news expected in the financials to 30 May, on June 22.

That would do it. As soon as the other analysts start announcing the same you could see Carnival hit £14 quickly. It will also mean they can go and get better interest rates on their long term borrowing.

A lot of people bought between £9-£10 when they were on their way down. We could see a track back shortly as profit takers sell. For a while, the institutions have been saying £8 ceiling and £6 support. Having broken the ceiling and then some, it will be interesting to see what they set as their next guides.

This seems likely. Although you may have seen, say, 200 cabins available for choice, it’s possible that there was only, say, five available snd once these were sold, it would have locked out the rest. It’s exactly how the system works. It knows how many it can sell but shows all unallocated/blocked cabins.

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I've just checked a couple of my horizons from 2018 and 2019 and they were still doing it then - so its odd that they would refer to 2016/17. It was stopped due to Covid. Its worth saying it had been restricted to cruises of 10/12 days+ before then form memory.

I like Sky Princess. The rooms are the next evolution on from Regal which still carries the Grand class interiors.

I don’t know the full details but understand everyone did everything the should. The people declared their conditions, it was checked with P&O, P&O considered and responded appropriately. What appears to have become a nuanced point is the report says they were offered an orientation once on board. I believe it was more a case that they could travel as long as they could safely find their way around the ship together. Not an unusual scenario. It become obvious that they could not. For their own safety, they were refused travel bearing in mind that if something happened there was a high chance of both of them getting injured. For those who follow these boards regularly, just ask yourself how often P&O readily refund cruise cost including out of pocket expenses without fuss. It was rightly taken seriously and dealt with. I do feel sorry for the disappointed ladies.

Ventura just has U.K. plug sockets.

My view on this is that Sture Myrell might have always been intended as a temporary CUK President. He was parachuted in when Josh Weinstein was called to Miami in late 2021. I believe his family remained in Australia where he had previously been posted. I would suggest that Ludlow had enough on his plate at the time with getting P&O back running and two new ships coming on line. Equally with the Cunard President Simon P leaving, Ludlow could not do all three jobs! Now that Cunard have an incoming President, it makes sense. You will note that the other restructuring has removed the other equivalents of CUK President - Costa & Aida had a parent company, CMG, which lost its president a couple of months ago. Holland America Group had Jan Schwartz as president who has now moved to Corporate. Don't be mislead, there are now less senior managers earning expensive salaries. This was cost saving. That said, the markets responded very favourably. What makes this interesting for me is the split of Aida and Costa into separate reporting lines. I continue to suspect that Costa will continue to loose its ships to Carnival. Fortuna and Deliziosa would be useful ships for the smaller ports. Diadema slots into existing Carnival classes too. Carnival already have 3 XL ships so taking another two would be alignment. This would allow Carnival to do an 'MSC' RCI'. They could have more of their own brand ships in the Med, one in the Middle East, one in South America. They could use the other two to retire their Fantasy Class ships. That leaves the Concordia Class which would be an ideal sell-off.

Don’t go looking for what doesn’t exist. It may be that it’s only those three.

I’m sorry this happened, there should be no charge either way. The only thing that still gets charged are drinks ordered. Tray charges and supplements should be waived as you’re in a suite.

The Limelight Club debuted on Britannia. The idea was post act, the bar would open to all. I believe that’s still the case but in practice people don’t use it. It’s a shame as in the early days the act would often hang around at the bar. It was reimagined for Iona onwards with the addition of the all female Limelight’s - being almost the opposite to the all male 710 acoustic band. On the busier cruises it does fill up, but the venue remains adults only which is useless to many family groups.

Yes

Britannia was first to have electronic screens. I though Azura and Ventura had been retrofitted. Iona and Arvia have the next level of screens. Aurora and Arvia have a more traditional theatre setup.

If it appears on the bill, give reception a call and they will remove it. It shouldn't happen but does occasionally.

Free however you order.

I get onboard, have lunch, then a nice 3hr nap. Normally it’s been a crazy lead up to holiday. If I’m lucky, dinner in the Epicurean to avoid the first night Main Dining Room stampede.

I tend to stay on board for about 50% of ports nowadays especially if it’s port heavy. On an Azura cruise from Malta, I want 3 days relaxing on ship and 3 days in port but that usually means missing a port. That’s fine, you can only do the train into Rome so many times in life! Each to their own.

Benefits are attached to each cruise card. Any tier perks such as priority lunch, priority boarding, invite to reception etc will apply per cabin based on highest tier.