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I'd guess they correlate to baggage hall location since the tags are intended to remain on through disembarkation.

You get new coloured luggage tags delivered to your stateroom before disembarkation. The colour relates to the various levels of priority for getting off the ship, including Grills, WC levels and onward travel arrangements. As far as we have seen, the embarkation labels are of no consequence at all once on the ship.

Anyone booked Queen Victoria Capetown to Southampton thinking the ship was calling into St. Helena and Ascension Islands? Just discovered the ship is cruising past and NOT stopping.

Very disappointed as cruise headline on the Cunard webpage cruise description clearly states that they were ports of call. Only when you look closer at the itinerary did we discover ship was merely sailing by!

You booked an expensive cruise without closely reading up on it? The brochure and the website give out the information that it's a cruise by/transit port.

Thank you for your comments everyone. I'll check out the links.

Makes me wonder, if not many people follow the colour theme, maybe they weren't advised either ;)

Or maybe they're aware not many passengers follow the themes for the balls apart from possibly the b&w ball, and that's only because it's an easy code to follow anyway. ;)

I'm on the QV 512 cruise next week and notice there's only one formal night.

It's the 175 Ball and I've just heard (unofficially) that the colour theme is black/red/gold (Cunard colours), but this isn't mentioned on my voyage personaliser. It would have been nice to be told this in advance. I'm disappointed that Cunard have not informed everyone :(

I think you'll find the colour theme is so unofficial, hardly anyone complies. They didn't at the ball I went to a couple of weeks ago on Victoria. A couple of red bow ties and cummerbunds for the men; gold shoes, gold tops and shawls, black dresses/red dresses but nothing which would really distinguish the evening from another ball, apart from the b&w one.

Joanne Haley has definitely grown into the job. She was an excellent entertainment manager during our world cruise segments on Victoria.

Sally Sagoe isn't one of my favourites I'm afraid so I'll pass on her.

Regarding the Grills Terrace, I can confirm the awnings are on both sides of deck 12. They are very substantial and were a great asset when the temperatures climbed and the sun was intense.

Blueriband your first paragraph is accurate and I can't believe some can read my piece differently. I have no objection to wheelchairs/motor scooters, but felt quite guilty that I had been upgraded into a disabled cabin when it seemed others might benefit from having it. In fact I hadn't expected to see any disabled carriages in QG because of the cabin I was in. This made me feel even more guilty and made me wonder if disabled passengers preferred regular cabins what the ultimate safety at sea consequences there might be if many had been taken by them and there was a major problem with the ship e.g. sinking.

 

Also, I was upgraded sometime before the sailing denying a handicapped late booker.

'We' were one of the wheelchair users you remarked upon and don't worry, I also read your opening post as a comment on your upgrade rather than a personal comment on disabled users of wheelchairs and scooters.

There were two scooters and two wheelchairs regularly 'parked' in the QG lobby during the last two world voyage segments. One scooter user managed to walk to the table and the other scooted there and the waiters parked it after the guest was seated.

'We' wouldn't dream of booking a disabled cabin even though 'we' need the chair to get around the ship, however small the distance and yes, on rocky days, the short distance to the actual dining table. 'We' book aids to help us in the shower [using the bath is beyond 'our' capabilities] and as long as 'we' can manage the small step up/down, 'we' will continue to book the accommodation we do and leave the disabled cabin to those who cannot cope in any other.

The fact you were accommodated in the disabled cabin must therefore mean the other disabled guests had the same thoughts as us.

Don't dwell on it. :)

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A big thumbs up from me and I've bookmarked it too.