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ighten

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  1. Latest Voting proxy has just dropped on my shares and says board recommendation for Carnival is to continue the benefit. This happens every year so why its a suprise or drama is a little bizarre
  2. It does seem this was bound to happen once P&O put a mega ship into the Carribean that caters for mainly UK based pax. There simply are not enough seats using the normal airline fleets capacity.
  3. Quick ? I use Interactive Investor for my share isa dealings and as we have a few P&O bookings coming up for the first time decided to add carnival. The thing Im curious about is that I only ever get a contract note on this platform and a quarterly statement so how on earth do P&O actually know im still in possession or do they want portfolio screenshots which seem even less proof to me as they have no contract number attached.
  4. Just some bits of video from this segment of the last (spectacular - probably the best we have taken) cruise quickly edited together.
  5. still held on Borealis at the end of the Greenland Cruise a cpl of weeks back...They always use the buffet though but usually the waiter will tell you in the MDR the night before.. Best way to find out is to ask your waiter to let you know what lunch time it will be served.
  6. I had been watching the Greenland trip closely as its now dropped more than 60% on some rooms and even more if you take the savers and use the LVRPL100 discount.. Its also quite noticeable if you blind book that first sitting is still available even as an add on to the saver price. So im guessing capacity is low. I now have one early booked Azores trip next year booked but I'm seriously thinking of just loosing the deposit and re-booking it nearer the time.
  7. you can probably get on an hour or so before that and then just leave - the all aboard sign will be posted.. Usually One hour before sailing on the first night - 30 mins after that
  8. Looking at how they have had to change the June 100£ offer to a new July 200£ offer (though that in reality only effects 2 cruises) even the sales are not having that much impact.. The pricing is wrong right from the start.. If you take all the prices of the various scenic Scotlands original book price from the various ports for this summer the actual drop in price is an average of over 725£. Its actually worse if you remove Southampton from the weighting as this was always sold a lot cheaper. The problem for Fred seems to be they want to look like there akin to Saga whilst offering older ships and whilsts Saga only sells Balconys and is fully inclusive with the odd tour and transport thrown in. Granted Fred has better Itinerary at times but whoever is coming up with the initial pricing model really needs to go back to the drawing board.. There now seems little point at all in booking early compared to how other Cruise lines model the pricing where its more of a risk.
  9. Have to agree.. after several Fred cruises now I am getting sick to death of seeing them fail to fill any ship and not just drop savers by 2 - 3 hundred (which kind of was compensated for those who did book early as they either got equiv OBC or Drinks or other perks) . Problem now is the new norm regarding savers dropping in price is in the 500£ plus mark which says to me they are simply not pricing realistically in the first place and not filling enough rooms at the freedom prices or offers.
  10. Sorry to Jump this but just booked our first on Balmoral going next week .. But did wonder..what has happened to the Grill?? And how flexible how they to changing dining times - we always found Borealis very accomadating (though I suspect the maitre de had got to know us)
  11. Sorry for confusion..Nothing to do with booking ref..I assume account number on the website means Pennisular number which I dont have - they have now goven it me over the phone but even when booking a third it still doesnt accept it (I assume its because I havent actually sailed yet on any P&O)
  12. Im a bit confused by this as I have booked a cruise on Iona and a cruise on Aurora but both times it cames asking me (online bookings) for my account number (which I presume is my loyalty number).. But unless I'm misunderstanding it you dont get a number until 15 days cruising have been completed and then they do it atomatically.. It all seems a bit backwards. I am now just a bit concerned I need the number though as the Iona cruise is 14 or 15 nights and the Aurora 24 nights. Wouldnt it make more sense to have an account I can log into and see all my cruises like every other company before I sail. Or am I getting this completely wrong.. I have no mention of a (peninsula account I assume) number on the invoice (which the site seems to say I will have??) but I did fill out the join section weeks ago but nothing ever happened.
  13. OK B it is then.. I was trying to avoid the shower only rooms if that was confusing people. Thx
  14. JUst trying to work out which cabins do not have a bathtub in a deluxe cabin and which are rooms to avoid in this catagory. Thanks in advance.
  15. Weird thing is P and O have now DM tweeted me to say Epicurean is exclusive to suite guests for all meals! When I said that doesn't seem to be the case they replied that was when staffing was not fully implemented.
  16. Thanks - Is the butler usually able to get you priority into restaurants
  17. The website suite description seems to say yes but I cant find what/where it could be
  18. its measured using google maps..We are dead on the 250 for portsmouth , less for southampton but over for Dover.. Being Over can add significantly though due to the route so clearly not as the crow flies. By the way never had a shared car yet strangely. Must be luck of the draw.
  19. Easiest way is just to ring when on board
  20. I totally forgot to finish this .. may apologies.. It seems we havent stopped last year.. I promise to catch them all up including the most excellent Faroes cruise.. In the mean time a little teaser from a meeting of two Freds that happened on this one. I see the Bollette seems to be getting quite a lot of repositioning next year both out of Newcastle and Liverpool so we may end up on her.. Is she significantly different to Borealis
  21. Lisbon does seem to be getting dropped from quite a few Itinerarys this and next years.. Its now almost missing from all of Sagas 24 Canary routings and is replaced with a port in Green Spain. I wonder if Lisbons port costings have significantly increased.
  22. As soon as this NY period finishes I will crack down and start.. I do have a cpl more vids though Fun on the Lido Deck and fun with Ian Waite (the Strictly come dancing man - who was quite funny - though his actual evening show was not as good)
  23. Just a little Rhine Gorge Action and Cabin details from Oct/Nov this year (oops now last year).. A beautiful first river cruise.
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