Daveywavey70

I Hope you fed their comments back to the management spinns !

He's a Terrier! He'd be fine. That pic reminds me of a post I saw elsewhere earlier today warning of snow drifts up to 40cm in the uk.

We had nearly an inch of snow here today, My special little pup had a magnificent time!

Such a shame Host JB. I Run an open and honest business. We offer people what we offer at a fair price. We are very seasonal where we are and are heavily weighted towards weekends. We therefore offer discounts midweek or off season. Simple. Several competitors try their arm during peak season with increases of up to 1000% on a Bank holiday Saturday and usually get it when you’ve got the only room available within 60 miles. If that was my strategy I’d never sleep again. Things depend so much on providing an experience that people feel that they have paid a fair price for. Our Regulars are looked after even more so. I Don’t take kindly myself to having to watch prices daily and learn which hoops need to be jumped through to pay a fair price for something. To me, any company that feels that they need to play those games has no confidence of the quality of the product they are offering and shouldn’t be using the word luxury, let alone prefacing it with the word ultra.

That wrestling looks much less refined than anything our Welsh dragons would get involved in JP. Your trip looks absolutely awesome.

I, for one, am getting a bit tired of the constant tooing and froing, upping and downing, increasing and discounting, d2d-, p2p+, smoke and mirrors, spin a wheel pricing policies. It does nothing other than cheapen the perception, devalue the product and leave most cruisers looking over their shoulder thinking they’ve booked at the wrong time. I Understand completely the principles of dynamic pricing but the constant ambiguous pricing policies are more in keeping with a bargain bucket retailer than an ultra luxury company that you entrust your precious free time to.

I’m starting to think I’m a bit strange because every MDR I’ve ever eaten in, on several cruise lines just takes me back to my Dining Hall at school. I Much prefer the smaller venues. We’ve only had dinner in Atlantide once (we’ve only cruised SS twice) and It was the only meal on SS that I’ve not been impressed with. We had lunch there too one day and that wasn’t my favourite either. I Sailed a different line last year and had 1 meal in the MDR. It was also the only meal of the entire 14nt cruise that I didn’t enjoy. It’s not, I believe, my lack of enthusiasm clouding my judgement, the limousin steak in Atlantide could safely have doubled up to patch any hull damage inflicted by a passing iceberg even after they’d rendered enough fat from it to buy the ship an extra couple of miles in an emergency.

I would bet on it!

I Always find it coincidentally coincidental that people that have been waiting weeks for a response coincidentally get one just after posting on here and the other place. Where would we be without coincidence?

Enjoy! You'd have been better with a pint though.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/vikingrivercruises.co.uk not everybody might agree. They were absolutely diabolical with refunds during the pandemic. They refused point blank to issue refunds on cancelled cruises. Also the 18 month final payment policy may put some people off, especially knowing how they dealt with situations in the past.

If it's a matter of space then even just the high rollers section would have made for an adequate Casino. I Only peeped in there but from memory it was still larger than the entire Casino on any SS ship.

Wouldn't Psalm Court be better given over to a Gospel choir?

Have a wonderful trip JP. Can’t wait to follow along.

Sssshhhhh! They might hear you on the Silversea boards!

I’d love to see that. Not because I would ever sail on that line but purely because it would keep the overdramatic arm waving, whinging crowd off the decent ships. I haven’t smoked for 5 years and really don’t like the smell of smoke but I wouldn’t dream of walking through one of the few smoking areas on a ship and making such an unholy fuss about it.

Great news, when I last looked I couldn't see anything other than Caribbean. It was a while back though.

Most of these are pluses for us. MDR's always remind me of the school canteen, we much prefer smaller and speciality restaurants. We rarely attend lectures or classes and on our last SS cruise skipped all of the shows. It would be a boring world if we were all the same. We're loving the look of the Explora 1 and will definitely be considering them. Its a shame they've stuck with the Caribbean for their first 2 winters though but I suppose it's a tried and tested market. I, personally would have preferred something a bit more interesting, South America, Amazon, Asia and so on. The ships look perfect for visiting these places and it would certainly feel more like an Explora-tion than visiting the same Islands that dozens of the floating, behemoth gin palaces already puckfoist their thousands of passengers onto daily.

Given the age of the ships I'd imagine half of them work in Maintenance!

Don’t you find the more you move the easier it gets?

I’m sort of in agreeance. We only attended one roll call and there weren’t many there. We met a few really lovely people but rarely bumped into them again. You tend to make friends onboard with people with similar interests who seem to be doing similar things at similar times. Similar excursions, similar dining and mostly finding the best spot for some great company and a late night boogie. Just go with the flow and look forward to all of the people you’ll meet unexpectedly and make lasting friendships with.

Roj… Loubies are the the go to for anywhere fun, especially the Dandelions, I’ve only one pair of Jimmies but they frankly aren’t the most comfortable and weren’t even selected for my last trip. LV’s are out of the window because they only cater for dwarves at <45eu, I Love my Boss Derbies and I’ve a couple of pairs of velvet winklepickers (electric blue and cadburys purple to match my velvet dj’s) that aren’t too shabby. It was appreciated that the girl in the Ferragamo shop in Dubai airport had clocked my travelling loafers but it wasn’t the highlight of my trip. My gold Versace baroque slippers do also happen to match my bathrobe but i’m sure that’s just lucky coincidence. I Do quite enjoy adorning my trotters in pretty things but I’d never judge anybody else for choosing to adorn their feet in multicoloured dog muzzles.

What’s a party line? 😉🥊👞

Sending you lots of healing thoughts LV with your myeloma. Fingers crossed for 24.