FamilyCruiserUK Posted September 6, 2021 #1651 Share Posted September 6, 2021 30 minutes ago, xxHadleyxx said: Onboard now. 90 of us are from outside the UK. Even with having to do the antigen test at the terminal we were on the ship within 30 minutes of arrival. Everything went super smoothly. Only 33 kids on this sailing...10 under age 3. Dancing is allowed... they're putting spotlights on the dance floor and each couple had to dance in their own little light bubble 😂 Crew is amazing. Ship is beautiful. Passengers are nice. Food is delicious. Life is good Looks like you may have the weather as well. Sitting at home in garden after getting off yesterday, and its blue skies and going to be 27c.......if only had it last week. Have a great time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnylikely Posted September 6, 2021 #1652 Share Posted September 6, 2021 34 minutes ago, xxHadleyxx said: Onboard now. 90 of us are from outside the UK. Even with having to do the antigen test at the terminal we were on the ship within 30 minutes of arrival. Everything went super smoothly. Only 33 kids on this sailing...10 under age 3. Dancing is allowed... they're putting spotlights on the dance floor and each couple had to dance in their own little light bubble 😂 Crew is amazing. Ship is beautiful. Passengers are nice. Food is delicious. Life is good WOW! Keep us updated! Onboard this Sunday! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare kernow Posted September 6, 2021 #1653 Share Posted September 6, 2021 33 minutes ago, xxHadleyxx said: Onboard now. 90 of us are from outside the UK. Even with having to do the antigen test at the terminal we were on the ship within 30 minutes of arrival. Everything went super smoothly. Only 33 kids on this sailing...10 under age 3. Dancing is allowed... they're putting spotlights on the dance floor and each couple had to dance in their own little light bubble 😂 Crew is amazing. Ship is beautiful. Passengers are nice. Food is delicious. Life is good Sounds great, do you know if they still hold the silent disco, always one of my favourites? Have a lovely time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavvy Posted September 6, 2021 #1654 Share Posted September 6, 2021 How do you find out how many are on board? is it just a case of asking once you are there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted September 6, 2021 #1655 Share Posted September 6, 2021 1 hour ago, gavvy said: How do you find out how many are on board? is it just a case of asking once you are there? They may announce it, or some staff may know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ententecordiale Posted September 6, 2021 #1656 Share Posted September 6, 2021 2 hours ago, xxHadleyxx said: Onboard now. 90 of us are from outside the UK. Even with having to do the antigen test at the terminal we were on the ship within 30 minutes of arrival. Everything went super smoothly. Only 33 kids on this sailing...10 under age 3. Dancing is allowed... they're putting spotlights on the dance floor and each couple had to dance in their own little light bubble 😂 Crew is amazing. Ship is beautiful. Passengers are nice. Food is delicious. Life is good One of the 'foreigners' is me but UK resident. That confused them. They wanted proof of residency which we don't have but in the end, my NHS vaccination card satisfied their requirements. 33 kids, it's wonderful! I agree, passengers are lovely, friendly and polite. It feels very safe as not crowded but not deserted either. About to start progressive trivia and the turn out is very good. I love this ship so much! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twolittleboys Posted September 6, 2021 #1657 Share Posted September 6, 2021 2 hours ago, xxHadleyxx said: Onboard now. 90 of us are from outside the UK. Even with having to do the antigen test at the terminal we were on the ship within 30 minutes of arrival. Everything went super smoothly. Only 33 kids on this sailing...10 under age 3. Dancing is allowed... they're putting spotlights on the dance floor and each couple had to dance in their own little light bubble 😂 Crew is amazing. Ship is beautiful. Passengers are nice. Food is delicious. Life is good Hadley, so happy everything went smoothly after all that stress! So did I understand this right: All you had to do in the end was - Get a test before the flight and the second day test required by the UK (both completely independent from the cruise) - Let Royal administer an Antigen test at the port? Is that right or was there more? Did you have to sign up for the Antigen test ahead of time? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuCruise Posted September 6, 2021 #1658 Share Posted September 6, 2021 It's great hearing updates in this thread. One question on something I haven't seen mentioned. Is there entertainment in the Schooner bar in the evenings (i.e. piano player)? And if so, how is the person? We love hanging out there, especially when the person has a sense of humor and has fun. (But not sure if it's too busy with covid protocols) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ententecordiale Posted September 6, 2021 #1659 Share Posted September 6, 2021 19 minutes ago, LuCruise said: It's great hearing updates in this thread. One question on something I haven't seen mentioned. Is there entertainment in the Schooner bar in the evenings (i.e. piano player)? And if so, how is the person? We love hanging out there, especially when the person has a sense of humor and has fun. (But not sure if it's too busy with covid protocols) Yes there is, tonight at 9pm with Daniel Marks. Do t think we'll be there to report on how good he is, but it's there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxHadleyxx Posted September 6, 2021 #1660 Share Posted September 6, 2021 4 hours ago, kernow said: Sounds great, do you know if they still hold the silent disco, always one of my favourites? Have a lovely time. Haven't heard anything about silent disco yet. I live it too .. hopefully they'll have it. I'll post about it if yes. 2 hours ago, ententecordiale said: One of the 'foreigners' is me but UK resident. That confused them. They wanted proof of residency which we don't have but in the end, my NHS vaccination card satisfied their requirements. 33 kids, it's wonderful! I agree, passengers are lovely, friendly and polite. It feels very safe as not crowded but not deserted either. About to start progressive trivia and the turn out is very good. I love this ship so much! Yes ...we were saying the same at lunch, enough people to not feel awkward, but not enough to be crowded..a perfect sweet spot. We were at progressive too....so nice to have everyone chill and having fun and not super competitive as usually happens. 1 hour ago, Twolittleboys said: Hadley, so happy everything went smoothly after all that stress! So did I understand this right: All you had to do in the end was - Get a test before the flight and the second day test required by the UK (both completely independent from the cruise) - Let Royal administer an Antigen test at the port? Is that right or was there more? Did you have to sign up for the Antigen test ahead of time? Thanks. We sort of had to register. We had to sign up/register with a link...that generated an email from trust one app with a qr code and a link telling us to sign up for a test (following that link just gets you told to sign up as a Brit and the whole saga). We didn't need to register for a specific time, etc but DID need that qr code. It's kind of a confusing set up. But yes, other than that, you're correct about the system they eventually landed on for us international guests. 17 minutes ago, LuCruise said: It's great hearing updates in this thread. One question on something I haven't seen mentioned. Is there entertainment in the Schooner bar in the evenings (i.e. piano player)? And if so, how is the person? We love hanging out there, especially when the person has a sense of humor and has fun. (But not sure if it's too busy with covid protocols) I didn't notice last night. I'll look and get back to you 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cublet Posted September 7, 2021 #1661 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Hello, The eDoc is now available for the 19th September 2021 sailing from Southampton. However, in what is yet another triumph for the IT department, the pages are blank apart from a picture of a ship on the front cover and the page showing the luggage tag. Regards, Cublet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex008 Posted September 7, 2021 #1662 Share Posted September 7, 2021 12 minutes ago, cublet said: Hello, The eDoc is now available for the 19th September 2021 sailing from Southampton. However, in what is yet another triumph for the IT department, the pages are blank apart from a picture of a ship on the front cover and the page showing the luggage tag. Regards, Cublet My doc for the sailing on the 12th was emailed through a week ago and was fine - 15 full pages, luggage tags near the end. Saying that, there's very little in there that hasn't already been sent in one of the multiple emails we've had since booking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cublet Posted September 7, 2021 #1663 Share Posted September 7, 2021 5 minutes ago, Rex008 said: My doc for the sailing on the 12th was emailed through a week ago and was fine - 15 full pages, luggage tags near the end. Saying that, there's very little in there that hasn't already been sent in one of the multiple emails we've had since booking. Hello, I had the 12th well over a week ago not that any ever tell you much. However the best one I had, I can't remember the ship, had the 'Welcome' letter a merge of the 'Royal' and 'Celebrity' letters so the ship was 'Celebrity <I forget> of the Seas'. Regards, Cublet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavvy Posted September 7, 2021 #1664 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Had my docs through yesterday for my October 9 sailing. The luggage tags at the end look like they have been chopped in half. Think I will just get new ones, at the port Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aarrmuch Posted September 7, 2021 #1665 Share Posted September 7, 2021 1 hour ago, gavvy said: Had my docs through yesterday for my October 9 sailing. The luggage tags at the end look like they have been chopped in half. Think I will just get new ones, at the port Had ours through also, Printed the bits we need. just need to book parking now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavvy Posted September 7, 2021 #1666 Share Posted September 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Aarrmuch said: Had ours through also, Printed the bits we need. just need to book parking now. I boooked ABP as I found it the easiest and there was a discount code for 10% off, think it was welcomeback21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare kernow Posted September 7, 2021 #1667 Share Posted September 7, 2021 3 hours ago, gavvy said: Had my docs through yesterday for my October 9 sailing. The luggage tags at the end look like they have been chopped in half. Think I will just get new ones, at the port Ours were the same in the edocs. You can print off proper ones by going into your account (on desktop not the app) choose 'view boarding pass' and then 'view luggage tags'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cublet Posted September 7, 2021 #1668 Share Posted September 7, 2021 Hello, My October 9th eDocs is also blank apart from the luggage tag. I feel victimised. Regards, Cublet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaroleC Posted September 7, 2021 #1669 Share Posted September 7, 2021 3 hours ago, cublet said: Hello, My October 9th eDocs is also blank apart from the luggage tag. I feel victimised. Regards, Cublet We’re on that sailing, my eDocs came through ok 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireGuy Posted September 7, 2021 #1670 Share Posted September 7, 2021 We were on last week - great holiday though not much sunshine plenty to do. My daughter (11) didn’t get her PCR result from Eurofins back in time for boarding - just said ‘waiting for result’ in the app. However once the negative test result came through at port we were good to go. There was no dancing for us so good to hear that has now changed for this weeks cruisers! We’re going again at October half term and already can’t wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roybthered Posted September 7, 2021 #1671 Share Posted September 7, 2021 6 hours ago, gavvy said: I boooked ABP as I found it the easiest and there was a discount code for 10% off, think it was welcomeback21 We booked ABP when we sailed on the 7th July and they where brilliant, also gave us blue light card discount! Just booked the 15th October sailing and will be booking through them again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ententecordiale Posted September 8, 2021 #1672 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Very good feel on this cruise. I've never thought of less of Covid since being on it! It feels totally safe and it's such a blessing to know everyone is vaccinated. It helps there are no children. The only co plaint I have so far is that they hardly have any sessions if i-fly unless you want to pay for it, then there are plenty. They only do them when docking so when you have plans and then they become available on the app to book randomly and of course, it's full before you get the chance to go on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare kernow Posted September 8, 2021 #1673 Share Posted September 8, 2021 A question for those on now or recently, are they still taking temperatures daily and do you have to take a test at anytime during the cruise? Just wondering as we had to on Virtuosa in June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ententecordiale Posted September 8, 2021 #1674 Share Posted September 8, 2021 No temp taken at any time and no test on the current journey. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavvy Posted September 8, 2021 #1675 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Oct 9th, now only has Balcony available, so looks like its close to being a sell out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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