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I can't find them in the Chums catalogue.

As you have not been on a P&O ship before, you may not know that seats in the theatre are not reserved even if they are running the pre-booking system and if the performer(s) are popular you will find it difficult to walk in five minutes before the start and get two or more seats together - worth allowing for in your plans. The first sitting 6.30 dinner people tend to start filling up the theatre seats on Ventura from 8.00 onwards.

If it turns out that you are too late for it, you might console yourselves with the fact that sometimes it is only a buffet with long, long queues and not worth the hassle (our experience last time - we walked out in the end having wasted half an hour queueing for a fairly basic buffet lunch that we never got near!).

If it is sleeping you are concerned about, we have an "orphaned" dog that insists on sleeping with us on our bed after we had previously successfully lasted 30 years of dog ownership with this forbidden. She could snore for England, so we put in those yellow foam cylindrical earplugs and enjoy undisturbed sleep. These earplugs are compulsory packing item number 1 whenever we are due to sleep away from home, and I cannot understand why everyone does not carry them as routine. They beat creaks from the cabin walls etc too.

Just tried mine and it too fails to load - it loads "My Loyalty" instead of "My cruise history" so it appears to be down for everyone at the moment.

1) Google “P&O cruises” 2) select “Log in/Register” 3) complete ”already have an account” with your email address and password. 4) click on “Log In” 5) click “continue to hear from us” on the pop-up. 6) the Welcome page should appear with 7 categories (scroll down to see them all). 7) having scrolled down to reveal “My cruise history”, click on "View History". If this fails, try again using a different browser - e.g. Chrome.

Just shows we are all different. I love being in a high up balcony and near the bow. Bad weather is very entertaining and an extra thrill - I hate smooth cruises, day after day, and long for the rock and roll of a storm, especially at night. Trouble is, it sends me to sleep, which is very annoying!

Re labels etc - sometimes trying a different browser works. My wife found a new-to-her clothing website today and wanted to buy loads of items. Got them into her basket but the page would not show "proceed to payment" bit, so stuck. Great, I thought, saved some money there - but she tried again on Chrome and it all went through without a hitch. DOH!

re your requests for information about dining - both these ships, and Ventura, also have fixed dining - i.e a reserved table seat at a fixed time for the whole of the cruise for dinner (not lunchtime or breakfast - they are unreserved) - and two sessions: first sitting (6.30pm) and second sitting (8.30pm), and you choose which sitting you want when booking (we have never had anything else in 25 years on P&O other than first sitting). You can also ask for table size (2, 4, 6, or eight) when booking. There are no guarantees that you will get your choice but if you book on first release day you are probably going to be O.K. We don't use the Buffet for dinner, aways MDR, but do use it often for breakfast and lunch, although both meals can be taken in the dining room - unreserved - which is more civilised. We just can't eat as much as we used to so snack instead. I call the Buffet the "Works Canteen" as it reminds me of an earlier experience in a manufacturing industry, but its alright. Some hate it (scrum) - others like its flexibility.

Naughty, naughty, David! I'm sure you didn't mean to intentionally give share advice to anyone?

I use a different insurer, but same experience - this is standard practice. Remember it is a tick-box exercise on his/her computer for the clerk dealing with your claim - common sense and/or use of initiative are not relevant once the tick-boxes are established by "management".

Wonderful image! No wonder my car always smells a bit iffy when I collect it after a cruise!

Another plus for this cruise, given the red-hot temps in the Med in recent summers (too hot for us in July and August), by the time this cruise goes it might well be nice and hot but not unbearable.

Glad you were dealt with sensibly - but here is a cautionary tale though from October last year: My wife is Caribbean level but I am not, and when we turned up for the earlier time, having checked by email with P&O customer services that this is what we should do, we were refused entry by a pathetic jobsworth who didn't have the intelligence to see how ridiculous her position was! It took 20 minutes and a supervisor before we were let through, thoroughly ruffled. Our time differential was even longer than two hours! The Welcome lunch was an overcrowded buffet instead, and of poor quality with huge queues, so we ended up in the "workers playtime" canteen upstairs anyway!

Has anyone else noticed that the Shore Experiences on forthcoming cruises will only give the following message?: "Please bear with us while we add the final touches to your Shore Experiences. Our team of destination experts is currently finalising the Shore Experiences for this destination, so you can enjoy the very latest and best options available in this port. Please check back with us soon for availability." For me this applies to a cruise in Sept this year for which I have already booked all my shore experiences (confirmed in "My Orders"), and another one booked for June 2025 which has never shown the tours yet (fair enough) except for 2 minutes one evening a fortnight ago!

.... and take a couple of different configurations of mulit-sockets if that is the way you want to go as I seem to remember someone saying that there is not enough room around the wall socket to attach some types. Having said that I have never needed more than are already built-in on Aurora, be it 3 or 4 (not sure). Just remember to take a 3-pin adapter with the USB port in the back for charging phone or iPad etc. as JH1809 says. If you forget, just hang around in the lifts asking fellow passengers to lend you theirs for a few hours! Someone will take pity on you!

1) Back in October last year, Megabear2 said: P&O Exec Office email: Executive.Correspondence@carnivalukgroup.com 2) I agree with Winifred22. A saver fare gives you no control over your cabin number - that is why people typically pay up to a £1000 or more extra to secure a specific Select cabin that they choose at booking. I think P&O are saying that the appearance of Queen config was not guaranteed but would be allocated if available when they allocated cabins to all the Saver fare passengers, by which time your situation precluded it, in their eyes. Still, try the email address - good luck.

In my experience with "missed ports" insurance: They will not pay out without that letter from P&O the captain was referring to. Often it is not automatically sent to your cabin and you have to know that you need to go to reception to get it - other wise back home you need to write to P&O to get the letter. The letter will specifically state that no compensation was paid by P&O. If compensation is paid, then the insurance claim will fall as they will claim you have not suffered any loss, having been compensated, probably even if it is less than the insurance pay-out (but no experience of that bit). Most insurance policies have a limit on how many missed ports per trip they will pay out for, expressed as a limit amount in £. A missed port that is replaced does not invalidate the claim, which is good news.

Bear in mind that if an "independent" tour has an issue (e.g.breakdown*/traffic problems/etc) and does not get you back in time, the ship will sail without you. Only P&O tours guarantee the ship will wait for you. I have been on a Caribbean tour where the bus had a blow-out. The driver mended it himself and we got back O.K. (P&O Tour), but the Caribbean can be very lay-back regarding issues!

When you cook the purple ones they turn green anyway - it is a conspiracy!

This is the bit to be showing so the handlers know which deck and room number to deliver it to. We bought these strong plastic tag holders on eBay so there is no danger of the label coming off (red ribbon optional!).

We did a glass-bottomed trip once and afterwards everyone was commenting on the fantastic colours - all except my wife who thought it was nothing special. Then she realised she had had her dark sunglasses on the whole time! Doh!

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or "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" (Camp Granada Song)?

Ita quidem.