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  1. There is indeed a socket sort of behind the head of the bed in Britannia, but I cannot speak to any other sort of cabin.
  2. You cannot bring SURGE-PROTECTED extension cords. My husband uses a CPAP also, and QM2 is our favorite ship. If we recall correctly, they used to provide distilled water at no charge. On our last TA, last December, we were able to get it on board, but we may have had to pay a few dollars for it. The plain extension cord we pack is no problem, but we’ve never needed one THAT long!
  3. Agree with the above, but everyone’s different. We choose transatlantic both to avoid flying both ways and for the ultimate relaxation and fun of sea days. My sister, on the other hand, would never do a TA because she requires ports most days. Just depends on your personal preferences, but yes, there ARE tons of fun things to do on Cunard sea days.
  4. We’ve most often found that we are served large pours on the package. Whether we are charged for two small or one, I don’t know, but it’s never been a problem. In fact, one night, we asked to have the Cunard Reserve red rather then the regular only to be told by the sommelier that we had been drinking the reserve all along. In short, they will do their best to treat you well. No one’s losing money on this anyway.
  5. Mr. Cummings can wear any kind of coat he likes, but to spend that much time on ageist commentary in such a short article….Wow, certainly does undermine any bit of credibility he might have squeezed out of his celebrity.
  6. I’m in the U.S. also, and I have been treating credit card points travel as a lucrative hobby for years. We fly eastbound transatlantic in business class on points whenever possible, spend a week or so either in the UK or in France with our son and his family, and then take the QM2 back to the U.S. (Iberia cards have great signup bonuses and their off-season TA flights are very cheap for business.) If you don’t have that much interest in playing the game, then you might consider booking via Cunard (if that’s your preference) on a Capital One Venture card, which would allow you to acquire 2 points per dollar and then erase that amount in travel expenses on the card.
  7. Yes, you’re right: the package includes service charges; one at a time, it’s added.
  8. It was not less formal for us. In ports and during the day, we dressed less formally, but that’s true on every Cunard trip. Evenings, though? If we didn’t want to dress we’d have gone on a different line. It’s such a pleasant thing to do when we have so much of the year that won’t allow it. (Growing much of what we eat makes most of the year pretty grubby for us!)
  9. The only cutback we really noticed in December was in the number and quality of musicians. A real disappointment.
  10. We were in an “executive” room. Also, a staff member made a great show of trying to make it work, but it eventually became clear that the problem was no surprise to him. Aside from that, we have visited the UK more times than I can readily tell you, and we’ve never encountered a lack of heating before.
  11. The only thing we found the app useful for was keeping an eye on shipboard charges. Most other features were not kept up to date or had little content.
  12. Just don’t stay at the Leonardo Grand Harbour, which we confused with the Harbour Hotel I assume everyone is recommending. We made that error two weeks ago before boarding to sail home. While the room was large and clean, there was no working heat. In December.
  13. I’m with pushpit: way too much of a control freak to let an agent get between me and my details. Tried it once. Didn’t like it.
  14. We’ve always used dollars, and no one has turned them down yet.
  15. We also just returned from the westbound TA, and though a new knee (his) and toe surgery (mine) kept us from dancing, we noticed a decline in the number and quality of musicians onboard. Except for the classical guitarist and, to a lesser degree, the pianist in the Commodore Club, we found the musicianship poorer than before. The most annoying change was that the lobby piano was used only to play itself. In the past, we’ve loved pausing to listen to a human being playing well as we moved around the ship. Perhaps the arts are no longer a priority for Cunard. In any case, we expressed all of this in the survey we returned. That complaints about dance hosts seem to have made a difference makes me think perhaps we can hope for a return to overall better music for next October as well.
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