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Hi, we are sailing in March on Virtuosa - does anyone know is Heineken 0 is included in the Alcohol free package is San Pellegrino Lemon (and other flavours) available are there Fevertree or Fentimen tonics and drinks available? many thanks

I've finally got brave enough to buy some shares (I'd actually fogotten about it!) Bought them this morning through the Freetrade app that Host Hattie mentioned. Very easy process and as we already have a Cunard cruise and a P&O one booked, I'm looking forward to spending my OBC.

we had it on our cruise in July and they gave us a load of sudokos and crosswords as well. We were very well looked after. Hope you both feel better soon.

we've had this on a Costa cruise. The only impact we saw were frequent safety drills annoucements. Some of the days we left quite late in the evening, which was an advantage! We are on MSC in March and our cruise officially starts in Hamburg, though we doing Southampton to Southampton.

Love Ginger Beer - on a recent Cunard cruise the waiters made me a Moscow Donkey - a Mule without the booze, absolutely delicious. I hope they have it on Virtousa in March.

many thanks for checking, enjoy the rest of the cruise.

have a great time! If you get a moment could you see if there is lactose-free milk in the buffet at breakfast? I will let P&O know about himself's lactose intolerance but just wondered if it's easily available at breakfast (Cunard had a chiller section with all the "other" milks in it). Many thanks.

Thank you Majortom

Thinking of booking QA in June 2024 using our FCC from our Covid experience. Does anyone know if we chose the port parking as our Cunard Fare benefit and then wanted to swap to the coach, or vice versa, would that be possible? Many thanks

we've had to do that with Cunard on a transatlantic. It all seemed to work fine, and as you say, straight off the ship at Southampton.

we're on a coach connection so it will be the same day. We've used them before and the ship has waited in the past if the coaches were delayed. Had we been travelling under our own steam we'd have come down the day before.

thanks, will definitely buy before we go.

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thanks, looks like my Cosmos & Moscow Mules are included so I think that's the package for me! I reckon that a couple of lattes, bottled water and a cocktail as well as a couple of glasses of wine with dinner will easily add up to more than the package especially if bought beforehand.

Just trying to get a definitive answer to what cocktails are included on the Easy drinks package for a 7 night cruise Northern Europe in March 2023. I like a Cosmopolitan or Moscow mule or Bloody Mary but I'm not sure if they are included. I'm pretty sure the ones on the Contemporary Classics menu aren't included but are other cocktails included or is it just mix drinks? I'm fine with a glass of prosecco as an aperitif and a merlot with dinner, which seem to be included but just wanted to check the situation with cocktails. Many thanks.

we've got our cabin, Deck 12 deluxe (not partial view) aft. Only cabins above & below us, happy with that.

It's UK £91pp for 3 meals (or £96 including a show and a cocktail). I've nothing to compare against within MSC but seems ok to me compared with other lines. We paid $40 pp on QE for the Verandah and weren't that impressed.

well, as a non-moaning Brit, I'd join you! Can't do anthing about the weather though. We intend to get theTrilogy package on Virtuosa in March. It includes the Butcher's Cut, Indochine and Sushi place.

what's the upgrade bidding system? Not heard of that.

We were upgraded with Costa to a cabin above the nightclub which was fun! But that's the only one that has ever been a problem. On QE this year our GUAR cabin was perfect and others have been absolutely fine. We're honestly not bothered where we are and this MSC one is our first MSC and was a bargain price so we're happy to be anywhere. We've pre-booked a cabin with Marella when we were travelling with my parents and wanted to be near them, and on P&O because the difference in fares was very small when the OBC was included. Long way of saying, yes I'd do GUAR again!

I asked my TA to keep an eye out for flight sales and she got us a very reasonable upgrade to Premium Economy with BA to Vancouver & return from Miami. Your TA should know when is best to look.

thanks for this. We are looking to use our FCC from covid cabin confinement on our Alaska-FL cruise. Probably the fjords as QM2 was our honeymoon TA and it will be 15 years in 2024. I think I have a plan forming ....

just bumping this up in case anyone can help further? Thanks

thanks

thanks, I'll keep looking!