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43.54650618773531, 7.014551963567566 These are the map coordinates. It's known as Quay Laubeuf and the tender point is just beside where ferries to Ile Sainte Marguerite depart from.

If the flight concerned is EI122 ORD->DUB it seems to be fairly reliable. Scheduled arrival in Dublin is 05:15. Average arrival in last 7 days was 04:47, earliest 04:18, latest 05:23. Of course that's no guarantee it'll be on time when you use it.

These photos aren't of great quality, and it was QM2, but this shows two medium cases side by side under one side of the King Size bed. There is an identically sized dark blue one behind the red. The dimensions of each case are 66cm x 43cm x 29cm. Unless your cases are much thicker than 29cm, they should fit. On the other side a little of the space was taken up with a box containing spare bedding for the steward to use.

Seems like your choice is whether to buy in advance or onboard. Onboard will cost you $192 more assuming there are two of you. You can of course get Illy coffees, soft drinks and bottled water on the package as well. And the 15% is included. Depends what else you would use the $690 OBC for? We've only had/will have $290, but we'll buy a pro photo package at about $600, my wife likes Radley handbags and if there was an offer on one she liked that would be charged as well. Hotel & Dining service charge will take at least $348 of it. You might take internet access over and above any loyalty benefits. The other thing is your taste in wine. Will you be happy with those available by the glass? If we're having a good meat dish at dinner we want a decent Bordeaux with it, or a Burgundy white with fish or white meats. Splitting one between two nights would be enough (of the decent stuff) for us, but that would help use OBC and you do get the 20% discount on those with the package. I think you may be posting from UK, and I don't know when you travel. The other consideration is the GBP:USD exchange rate. It's currently close to it's lowest since November. You would have got the best deal for a while on March 11th.

Since you quote me; perhaps if you're talking about someone else.... In my case what she means is if I'm sorting stuff to put in the communal recycling I flatten cardboard boxes, crush plastic containers and cans, and make sure the correct things go in. Some of our neighbours put in huge empty boxes without breaking them up, which makes the bins fill much quicker. Or if I'm doing some sort of DIY job you can be sure it won't fall down the first or ten thousand and first time the cats jump on it. And I like to keep an eye on a friend who visits and when in the kitchen is liable to let the coffee machines overflow or try and wreck appliances by trying to use them by trial and error when he doesn't know how, rather than asking. She's not talking about dress codes.

I certainly hope I don't come across as being pompous. I just asked my wife. She says, "that in her opinion I'm not, but I like to do things the right way". 😀 When we booked crossings for 2020 there were galas on the middle nights without themes. By the time we travelled in 2022 those had gone and there were only two each week. By then we had planned our outfits, so we just stuck with the plan. I didn't feel overdressed in the ivory tux on those nights. Therefore, I don't think I'll feel out of place wearing a tux every night. There was only one comment; we were having pro photos taken when a lady wearing faded light blue jeans and a red and white striped T-shirt approached me to ask if "she'd missed something" and "was it a gala night?" I wasn't sure if she was genuinely concerned that she might have missed such information, or she wanted to let us know that she didn't approve of us "over dressing" for the evening. As an aside, I think the jeans/t-shirt outfit might have been associated with a sort of jive that her group were doing, possibly hip hop. Nora has so many outfits that didn't fit for years, plus lots of stuff that's been bought since she shrank. She couldn't possibly get through it all going out once a week, and she rarely gets a chance to wear the longest gowns. Two weeks on QM2 is an opportunity to wear as much as possible. I don't get many formal events that I can wear tuxes to, so I might as well get some use from them and complement her outfits. And for us cruises/crossings are not holidays. They are an experience. Holidays are staying at home in our seaside resort.

Hmmm.. I've never tried that. Would be interesting, but I wouldn't fancy trying to get a refund if they accepted the ticket sale.

Think yourself lucky! 😀 When they close the line between Cannes, Nice and Monaco, they don't bother with replacement buses. As that usually includes Sundays or Holidays when buses are only every 30 minutes, virtually all the buses leave Cannes or Nice full and hardly pick up anyone in between. We've learned the hard way that It's best to stay local when it happens.

Exactly. For the next twice I will only wear those three dinner suits on the fourteen nights, plus varied accessories. It may even reduce what I need to pack. It also gives flexibility to send them for cleaning, which I will do at least once each as I'd trust the laundry more than our local dry cleaners and it'll be cheaper. In my case just about the only thing I miss about work is wearing suits and ties when I was in an office or meetings. My base was at home, so I didn't go to those lengths to sit at my kitchen table! And even though I had the tech back then for video calls, none of my colleagues did. But for folk that just want to match the advised dress code, it's not difficult. I admit to feeling slightly perplexed when folk come along trying to find ways of avoiding dressing to that code, but on the ship I'm unlikely to notice much other than my wife. We might comment between ourselves now and again if someone is wearing a particularly stunning outfit, or hopefully less frequently something awful like ripped jeans or sportswear at dinner.

Some pics from a walk along the prom last week. An adult swan in a local river mouth. Some of the pairs have been missing recently. I suspect they may be upstream guarding eggs. The neighbouring town's sailing school. I think this was man overboard training. Elements of that town's fishing fleet. They are usually out fishing very early in the morning.

I should have made clear in post #74; that was not a gala night (at least not a Cunard one). I only wore the black tuxes on official gala nights. While there are only four gala nights in fourteen, I'll keep the ivory tux for smart attire nights. For me it's a wee bit casual for a gala night. If there were more galas I'd possibly wear it for some.

We would walk from the pier to the station. It would depend on your mobility. The cruise terminal is beside where we would catch ferries to the islands. The train service is fairly reliable. I think in the last two weeks I've seen four interruptions to service due to train breakdowns and people getting themselves hit by trains. The timetable is here: https://ter-fiches-horaires.sncf.fr/publish/FH_04_Grasse_Cannes_Nice_Vintimille_du 23 mars 2024 au 14 décembre 2024_V20240328.pdf TLJ is all days, L à V is Mon to Fri, SD is Sat & Sun, F is bank holidays.

Probably. The ticket office is only staffed on Tuesdays 8h00 - 13h00 / 14h05 - 16h00. There is a ticket machine, but there could be a queue/line to use it. There is an app called SNCF Connect, which you can install. You can buy and display tickets on that. It's not the easiest thing to use, it will want to know the names and birth dates of all the travellers that tickets are being bought for. However at least if the language of the phone is English it should default to that rather than French.

I believe that's for UK residents. Many UK companies will provide similar. This thread has been about Europeans (Swedish in this case) that have booked through the UK. It's unusual to find that level of guarantee in European policies.

I think strikes are less likely on Sundays, but services may be slightly less frequent than a weekday. Roads may be better, particularly travelling early as there won't be an early morning peak period.