Ballroom dancing allowed?

[yesididit]

On Britannia October, is/will ballroom dancing carrying on? Were it not for ballroom dancing I would not go cruising so might cancel if no dancing along with not being allowed off in ports. Have paid in full so a big lump on money, though it would have all cleared up by now. Son just flown to Carribean daughter just returned from France with no fuss

Edited August 29, 2021 by yesididit

[kalos]

2 hours ago, yesididit said:

On Britannia October, is/will ballroom dancing carrying on? 

 

Things can change but  P&O latest is ... https://www.pocruises.com/cruise-with-confidence/your-holiday-experience

 

 

Activities and leisure

All of your favourites – shops, spa, salon, gym, pools, casinos, activities and children’s clubs will  be operating. Fancy a soothing spa treatment or a yoga class? A wander in the boutiques or a flutter in the casino? It’s all waiting for you. We will have new measures in place to minimise contact, reduce the number of guests in each area and maintain the highest levels of cleanliness. Only activities or areas of the ship that would make social distancing difficult will not be in operation. For example, you can dance with someone you’re travelling with as part of a hosted dance class, however the dance floors in our lounge bars/night clubs will not be open. 

[BestGuessed]

3 hours ago, yesididit said:

On Britannia October, is/will ballroom dancing carrying on? Were it not for ballroom dancing I would not go cruising so might cancel if no dancing along with not being allowed off in ports. Have paid in full so a big lump on money, though it would have all cleared up by now. Son just flown to Carribean daughter just returned from France with no fuss

We are due to sail on Britannia on 25th September and I have just commented on this very topic this morning on our Roll Call thread.
We feel the same as you  yesididit  but I can only wish you good luck with trying to contact P&O as they  do not answer the phone or emails.  We have just paid our balance (on Thursday) only to read the paragraph that Kalos has quoted above which P&O sent to us in a pre cruise email together  with our booking confirmation.

[majortom10]

P&Os stance with regards to ballroom dancing seems strange and at odds with Cunard as they virtually do the same and having recently returned from QE there was normal unhosted ballroom dancing every night in the Queens Room.

[BestGuessed]

1 hour ago, majortom10 said:

P&Os stance with regards to ballroom dancing seems strange and at odds with Cunard as they virtually do the same and having recently returned from QE there was normal unhosted ballroom dancing every night in the Queens Room.

 
We were on board Celebrity Silhouette for eight nights from 9th July and dancing was allowed in all venues where there was a dance floor.   I have been reliably informed by friends that it was the same on their Marella cruise and ditto your comment with regard to QE.   Host Sharon commented when she was onboard Saga’s Spirit of Adventure on the inaugural cruise, that dancing was allowed with your own partner.  
So P&O have got some catching up to do as there are quite a few of us who enjoy the opportunity to dance and the Cunard and P&O ships have the best dance floors.   There will be be a fair few disgruntled passengers unless P&O quickly change their stance to fall in line with other cruise lines.

[BouncingWheel]

P&O are not in step with the other cruise lines regarding "independent shore excursions". It seems they are making up their own rulebook which is out of step with their sister brands. I hate the inconsistency because to me it means one of them is wrong or has interpreted some corporate rule wrong. 

[majortom10]

6 minutes ago, BouncingWheel said:

P&O are not in step with the other cruise lines regarding "independent shore excursions". It seems they are making up their own rulebook which is out of step with their sister brands. I hate the inconsistency because to me it means one of them is wrong or has interpreted some corporate rule wrong. 

I dont think it means one of them is wrong or interpreted a corporate rule wrong with regards to independent excursions at ports think P&O sticking tot heir guns because of the profit they make on the very highly priced excursions they sell.

[Host Sharon]

I don't see the issue with allowing dancing with your own partner. Saga certainly allow it.

[terrierjohn]

27 minutes ago, Host Sharon said:

I don't see the issue with allowing dancing with your own partner. Saga certainly allow it.

Maybe you could get the CC management to point out P&Os crass stupidity, with their strange attitude to customer service Sharon.

[yesididit]

As nice as the Cyrstal room is I can't see it would be worth opening it if there were no dancing, it was never busy when dancing was allowed-especially if folk knew I was on the floor! P&O say all venues will be open. Won't be nice for the band playing to empty seats.

Dance lessons are on, but no social dancing. Rather silly. Fingers crossed they change the rules soon.

[Son of Anarchy]

35 minutes ago, yesididit said:

As nice as the Cyrstal room is I can't see it would be worth opening it if there were no dancing, it was never busy when dancing was allowed-especially if folk knew I was on the floor! P&O say all venues will be open. Won't be nice for the band playing to empty seats.

Dance lessons are on, but no social dancing. Rather silly. Fingers crossed they change the rules soon.

Interesting to read that.  On our Britannia cruise we struggled finding places to sit in the Crystal Room.

[terrierjohn]

19 minutes ago, Son of Anarchy said:

Interesting to read that.  On our Britannia cruise we struggled finding places to sit in the Crystal Room.

On our pre covid Britannia cruises the crystal room was packed every night that they had live music.

 

[kentishfred]

I do not see what P & O's problem is. From pictures of the first MSC cruise there was dancing, on the second Celebrity Silhouette cruise in early July which we were on there was dancing (unmasked), friends have confirmed the same on Marella and Cunard and host Sharon confirmed the same on Saga. It is a shame that P & O are taking this stance. You cannot even ask them why as they will not answer their phones or reply to emails.

[Harryjacobs]

simon.palethorpe@carnivalukgroup.com 

President of PO cruise and Carnival Uk.  Give him both barrells?

 

[rumbalizw]

I was on the Britannia for the 18th July seacation. One afternoon we were walking through the Crystal Lounge and Ballroom dancing and sequence was on . It wasn't a dance lesson . It was Unmasked and restricted to seven couples for sequence , and six for the ballroom, due to distancing  . My hubby and I are ex competitive ballroom dancers and stood to watch  . The sequence worked as it's a sequence of course and distance worked there easily  . However ,in the ballroom dances ,everyone bunched in  the corners at the same time in the waltz and quickstep, and some bumped into each other. So what's that all about then , when in the live lounge ,DJ Phillip ,played but you couldn't get up and socially distance ,dancing on the spot or even by your seat 

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[Two 2 Tango]

On 8/30/2021 at 11:24 AM, Harryjacobs said:

simon.palethorpe@carnivalukgroup.com 

President of PO cruise and Carnival Uk.  Give him both barrells?

 

Hi we are on Britannia on 25th September and have just sent our email to the C.E.O. and I will post any reply. I feel we should keep this live because if we are not permitted to dance then this is not the usual experience and I would encourage people to ask for compensation on our return. Please ensure you log your complaint with reception when on board because they will not deal with it ashore unless you have given them chance to fix the situation onboard. We will need to site their quote that "all our favourite activities will be going ahead as usual"

[majortom10]

2 hours ago, Two 2 Tango said:

Hi we are on Britannia on 25th September and have just sent our email to the C.E.O. and I will post any reply. I feel we should keep this live because if we are not permitted to dance then this is not the usual experience and I would encourage people to ask for compensation on our return. Please ensure you log your complaint with reception when on board because they will not deal with it ashore unless you have given them chance to fix the situation onboard. We will need to site their quote that "all our favourite activities will be going ahead as usual"

But surely when you booked your Staycation you expected things to be different seeing how the world is suffering and not expect everything to be the same as a normal cruise. I find it amazing that you are saying you are and encouraging others to ask for compensation if there is no dancing on the cruise. Totally unbelievable.

[Ardennais]

I though that Staycations ended on 25th Sept so it’s possible that this booking had been made at launch. Just shows how much aggro could be avoided if only the cruiselines improved their communication and stated on their websites exactly what is permitted onboard. 

[wowzz]

1 hour ago, majortom10 said:

But surely when you booked your Staycation you expected things to be different seeing how the world is suffering and not expect everything to be the same as a normal cruise. I find it amazing that you are saying you are and encouraging others to ask for compensation if there is no dancing on the cruise. Totally unbelievable.

Asking for compensation because you can't dance ! Really! Talk about First World problems. 

[Two 2 Tango]

1 hour ago, majortom10 said:

But surely when you booked your Staycation you expected things to be different seeing how the world is suffering and not expect everything to be the same as a normal cruise. I find it amazing that you are saying you are and encouraging others to ask for compensation if there is no dancing on the cruise. Totally unbelievable.

If dancing is not a subject you are interested in why click on to the thread or do you just like to go against the grain. This is the first European cruise "after" the staycations so it would be better if you got your facts in order, to be blunt maybe you could be better occupied looking at a map to see just what part of Italy and and Spain and the med in general are part of the UK . We have just done 2 staycation cruises with other companies and there was dancing on both of them. All land ballrooms and clubbing dancehalls are open and that is with untested possibly un- inoculated people so what is the issue. Do!

[majortom10]

51 minutes ago, Two 2 Tango said:

If dancing is not a subject you are interested in why click on to the thread or do you just like to go against the grain. This is the first European cruise "after" the staycations so it would be better if you got your facts in order, to be blunt maybe you could be better occupied looking at a map to see just what part of Italy and and Spain and the med in general are part of the UK . We have just done 2 staycation cruises with other companies and there was dancing on both of them. All land ballrooms and clubbing dancehalls are open and that is with untested possibly un- inoculated people so what is the issue. Do!

Where did I say that I wasnt interested in ballroom dancing and if you think you are going to be successful in getting compensation just because you cannot dance then best of luck. Whether a Staycation or not it will be a long time before cruising returns to normal and most people understand that. Compensation culture gone mad.

Edited September 1, 2021 by majortom10

[kalos]

22 minutes ago, majortom10 said:

Where did I say that I wasnt interested in ballroom dancing and if you think you are going to be successful in getting compensation just because you cannot dance then best of luck. Whether a Staycation or not it will be a long time before cruising returns to normal and most people understand that. Compensation culture gone mad.

You didn't, reading post #4 I would say your fighting it's corner .

[zap99]

1 hour ago, Two 2 Tango said:

If dancing is not a subject you are interested in why click on to the thread or do you just like to go against the grain. This is the first European cruise "after" the staycations so it would be better if you got your facts in order, to be blunt maybe you could be better occupied looking at a map to see just what part of Italy and and Spain and the med in general are part of the UK . We have just done 2 staycation cruises with other companies and there was dancing on both of them. All land ballrooms and clubbing dancehalls are open and that is with untested possibly un- inoculated people so what is the issue. Do!

Don't worry, you can strut your stuff on Britannia. Late night silent disco on the pool deck. I'm sure they could arrange strictly silent ballroom if asked.

[zap99]

39 minutes ago, majortom10 said:

Where did I say that I wasnt interested in ballroom dancing and if you think you are going to be successful in getting compensation just because you cannot dance then best of luck. Whether a Staycation or not it will be a long time before cruising returns to normal and most people understand that. Compensation culture gone mad.

If I was ballroom dancing P&O would have to pay compensation for all the damaged toes.🤣

[kentishfred]

I think my biggest problem is that P & O just will not talk to us. If we had been able to talk to a rep before we paid our balance we could have asked the question and then been in the position to make an informed decision on whether to cancel or accept their terms. As stated before if other cruise lines were allowing dancing, unmasked, unsupervised and without number restrictions then surely it was reasonable to assume that P & O would do likewise.  P &  O are the exception and they need to explain their reasoning. I will be sending an email to the CEO and will post the reply. However I am not holding my breath for a reply this side of 2023. Dancing is one of the most important elements to our cruise enjoyments so it will be a big dampener if we cannot dance .