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Over £8,000 for the classic package on our world cruise in January, with the early booking 10% it takes £700 off so I assume with another 10%loyalty off it would bring it down to £6,400. If we ever get anywhere near that amount over 99 nights even allowing for soft drinks and coffees we would need medical assistance🤢

Sorry if this has been asked before, just booked with Fred for the first time and we are cruising out of Newcastle, has anybody any experience of car parking at the port , is it safe and secure as quite wary about something happening to my car? Thanks

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One of the issues is that P and O sometimes make things up which differs from the official requirement's, (yellow fever earlier this year been one )

We are finding the whole visa scenario for this cruise quite perplexing, so much varying information as to what type is required.IE, travel visa, transit visa, full visa , on board passport stamp 🙄

Thanks for the replies , we booked last week via our usual TA so the blc would not have been valid , in all fairness my good lady has the card but often forgets to use it !!!

Do Fred have the same restriction as P and O regarding BLC when you book through an agent?

TBH the last time we were on Arcadia and attempted to sit in the crows nest the staff looked absolutely frozen, we at least had the option to try another venue , they didn't, and we both felt extremely sorry for them as virtually nobody was in there but they had to stand in shirts only ( with waistcoats of course, and trousers/skirts before people get the wrong image!!! ) 🥶

You don't appear from your signature to be from Scotland or Yorkshire 😆🤣😂

Thanks for the link, when reading through it Indonesia states an E visa is required , however on the UK government site it states that if transiting through one is not required, tbh the whole visa /E visa etc is a minefield of conflicting advice 😔

Is it possible that the temperature was reset to allow for the destination of your cruise? Arcadia has always been the coldest of any ship (P and O or otherwise ) that we have sailed on

Is that a definite as we were told it would/could be dealt with onboard, as its a 99 night cruise that does not leave much time before departure?

I wonder if this why the ship often feels cold ( as in too often)

It wouldn’t be a lie to say we are reading this with a certain amount of trepidation as we are going on the 99 world cruise in January on Arcadia , although we have cruised on her a number of times without incident this is the first time of hearing a full disembarkation has been necessary 😟

Hoolie , there's a word I use to hear as a kid, , thanks Jean for refreshing my childhood 😃

A word to the wise about securing items in rough weather, in January we were given a welcome bouquet of flowers on arrival and they were as you would expect in a large glass vase , the sea state for the first two days was pretty rough ( understatement) and everything was flying off the cabinet , we put the vase of flowers in the only place that was safe, the large waste basket as we didn't want broken glass and water everywhere , we came back from breakfast to discover the beautiful flowers had been thrown out by our new to cruising steward, never to be seen again !!!!!

Jam shed Shiraz is our go to red wine , just hoping the "pop up " glasshouse on Arcadia has it ?

Certainly had the same situation and disagree with it totally 😡

Visited Freeport a few years ago , that's why on our upcoming cruise we have booked an excursion

We passed through Colon earlier this year ( on an excursion ) and we had been told by lots of passengers who had had the pleasure?? of visiting before what to expect, They were totally spot on and we were glad we were on a coach and just passing through. The bad news is we are scheduled to dock there on our 65 night cruise in 2025 , suspect a day on board will be in order😒

Towards the end of our recent 65 night cruise we didn't need the menu😆

It depends if it’s a full coach as there is only so much storage in the hold , one trip we were on they had luggage stacked on the front two seats , so the coach was obviously not full but there must have been a lot of cases 😕

Just relating to the Eric and Ern tribute show , we saw them in our local theatre in the round and they were very funny ,we then saw them on our 65 night cruise and it was toe curling bad, the difference? In the local theatre they had all the sets and props, the kitchen sketch etc , on the ship they just did a stand up routine with jokes that were past their sell by date.

On our last 65 night cruise the duty free shop on board had an offer of two one litre bottles of whiskey and vodka for £35 at the start of the cruise which you could consume on board , and if I remember repeated the offer two thirds of the way through. I cant remember if Gin had offers on

On a personal level we would have preferred to be doing the world cruise on Aurora, but we are going to take our chances with Arcadia ( no choice really!!!)