terrierjohn

Check out post 10.

Helicopter medevac is apparently provided free by the coastguard.

Smart casual is the designated dress code, so the same things you would wear on a non formal evening.

Jane, from the jocular nature of your recent post I take it that your are feeling much better, with far less pain. On a different topic I am Intered to know how your vaping trial is going, and whether you stil smoke free.

Out of interest, in case this insurance question pops up again. Does your personal medical insurance cover you for any problems that occur on a cruise; and would that include airfares back home if you were admitted to hospital whilst on your cruise?

Once disembarkation starts, there is, IMHO, no problem in letting people off the ship, and I certainly did not see anyone queueing at the gangway, nor indeed anyone turned away because their coloured tag had not been called. In fact the downside to arriving too early in the baggage hall on ships that do provide fresh baggage tags, is that your row is still full and takes you far longer to find your luggage than disembarking a little later, when it's much easier to spot your suitcases.

That's not how we disembarked Sky Princess last June, I agree they do have colour coded disembarkation luggage tags, but there was no meeting points. The instruction was to listen to the announcements and as yours was called, make your way to the gangway. It was a very slick and fast process.

I think it is the way that P&O want you to attend a meeting point and wait there until they say you can disembark. Princess, Celebrity and Royal Caribbean make regular announcements advising when a disembarkation group can leave the ship. This enables passengers to know how disembarkation is progressing and and allows passengers to speed up or slow down their breakfasts, and seems to avoid the mass scrums for the lifts, which are always full, and certainly makes the whole process much less stressful.

@TigerB' explained the Sindhu pricing, as regards wine, if you are not big drinkers then buying wine by the glass will probably be your best option. Iona does not let you leave unfinished bottles for the next time you're in the MDR, so you need to take it back to your cabin, and carry back down the the next time.

In Lanzarotte the shuttle takes you to the Marina entrance, the port exit is as you exit the car/bus park.

In March Iona was nearly 2 hours late back because of a helicopter medevac, and main disembarkation did not start till about 9:45.

I hope that a large enough number of passengers continue to make MDR reservations or choose fixed dining, and that the walk up MDR does not become the MDR of choice leading to long queues or lots of pagers.

That's OK if your stockholder provides you with a flexible facility to print out a statement that needs little or no redacting mine doesn't.

Since very few numbers normally self disembark, then splitting the queue would result in doubling the time taken for standard disembarking passengers which I think you will agree would be grossly unfair.