Bestbubba

Thank you everyone for your helpful and thoughtful replies. We're really looking forward to our first Cunard cruise.

First time sailing Cunard but we've been cruising since the 80s. On past cruises we've been able to pre book speciality dining, cabin gifts, wine etc but I can't find anywhere online to do this for our QM2 cruise in November. Am I too early? Am I not looking in the right place? Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks.

Thank you, that's good to know.

How will the poster know if she likes it or not if she doesn't taste it🙄?

My teenage grandchildren tell me crocs with socks are the fashion!

We're just back from the Divina. We'd prepaid for laundry. You just fill out the regular form, add your 20/40 pieces and we just wrote on the form PAID with a copy of the confirmation MSC had sent. We bought the package before the increase. As others have said, the new prepaid price is higher than the offer on the ship. If it were me I'd wait till I was onboard.

Our last MSC cruise was pre covid, on the Musica from Rio to Venice. A really great cruise. Every evening in the dining room, a different risotto was offered as one of the starters. They were delicious. I've seen lots of menus posted lately and no risotto on any of them. We're sailing on Divina in May, the TA to Barcelona and my dear husband was looking forward to enjoying them once again. Is he going to be disappointed? Its certainly not that big a deal but seemed strange on an Italian cruise line. Can anyone confirm one way or the other? Many thanks and warmest wishes for a happy new year.

We've just booked an MSC cruise for next May. Yesterday we received an email from them with links to specific Covid cover "add on" insurance. We are in our 70s and the quote was £53. Although we have an annual policy that does say it covers Covid-19, we thought for £53 it was worth it. Belt and braces perhaps, but we wont have to worry about the wording of our policy perhaps not ticking all MSC boxes.

Thank you everyone for taking the time to reply. I will certainly take note of all your advice and suggestions. Again, many thanks. Sue

It does look lovely 😊

Hi Bea I'd love to try Europa, looks amazing. We're on Divina, looking on it as a nice way to come home after visiting our children in the USA. Sue

Hello Beamafar! I remember what a great help you were when we booked our first MSC cruise pre covid, I was hoping you'd see my post😊 Many thanks for your prompt and positive reply. Sue

We're thinking of booking a T/A next spring that ends in Genoa. The only airline seems to be Ryanair. Any thoughts or experiences flying with them from Genoa would be gratefully received. Thank you.

Were cruising B2B in November. Got our assignment last week. Phoned, without much hope of success as we're based in the UK, and asked could we change to the same cabin for both sectors. Neither cabin was available for both. Really nice chap told me to hold on, he'd be awhile. 20 minutes later it was all done and new confirmation emails had arrived. The 2 reference numbers now show as linked too. We were delighted.

There seem to be a lot of problems reported with Lloyds. From personal experience I'd recommend visiting or phoning the branch the day before to confirm your appointment. We have also used DAM health, we read some scary reviews but they were excellent and we'll be using them again.