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Hampshire Steve

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    Southampton
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    Used to be cruising!
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    New York, Norway, Canaries

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  1. Eight people saved, is that not better than moaning about dinner or weather? Well done Arcadia
  2. Some pleasant news tonight. Arcadia was on the way towards Gibraltar this evening. About an hour ago the ship was tasked by Spanish authorities to look out for a boat adrift, after a short search pattern Arcadia came alongside a boat with eight persons onboard, Acadia has provided some hot food and water to them and as the boat is safe we are now standing by the boat awaiting a rescue vessel from Cartagena.
  3. A zero passenger count onboard was the desired position by the Captain, he did say if it was not possible (rather than a disinclination) for you to go ashore you could spend the day at the neptune pool but with limited seating it was not preferred. As we left the ship it was like a ghost town, all internal fire doors were closed and as we departed on a shuttle there were no people visible on balconies. As to smells on board, can't say I have ever noted them and have to say this is our third trip this year on Arcadia with a number of previous as well. This is just the bad one, started by weather issues.
  4. Tour due to leave the ship at 1.45pm, because of the sanitation process there was a last minute change to leave at the bus station in town, so that's where we all went only to find out that there were no arrangements in place for tour coaches to enter so we all bussed back to the ship to pick the coach up there. Difficult to write this stuff without it sounding like a joke. Anyway left the ship a little late, encountered a small traffic diversion and then met Mr Happy in charge of himself at the Ostia Antica archaeological site who refused entry as we were 4 minutes past entry time, even though there were plenty of visitors still on site.
  5. Another day of joy! Having been asked to vacate the ship early today we strolled around until our designated tour time of 1.45, joined the coach, drove for an hour an half to find the venue had closed and entry was refused, so a whole coach load of unhappy cruisers took a slow drive back to the ship. Tour refunded and £38 compensation each. Trying to keep smiling
  6. 4th cruise this year and being fair mostly went to plan, just this one playing on my mind, we have four more booked over the next 18 months, two of them quite special and we are looking at the company attitude to missed ports and wondering if we should invest further.
  7. As it's mostly weather related that will be a conversation with insurers later. P&O have given £20 to each guest of OBC to cover lunch today
  8. Nothing is P&O's fault - they remind us all the time. After spending two days at Southampton due to weather, then instead of our first three Mediterranean ports we end up in Le Havre, can't find much nice to say about that! Cartegena added in as a stop, nice place but we ended up doing a tour of Cartegena that was actually to a small strip of beach without any facilities, looking across to the Mar menor then back on the coach to the town centre - only across the road from the ship - what a waste of effort. Today at Genoa, our tour was cancelled last minute so we did an alternative down the motorway to a village that in the summer would be a delight but in the winter that's a different matter. Back on board to be told the Norovirus that has been on board since last cruise is getting worse so everyone must disembark at Civitavecchia between 10.00am and 4.00pm, pain if you are on a 1.45 tour so just hanging around while waiting for what will be a long day and possibly in the rain tomorrow. Then of course we have the industrial action to look forward to at Lisbon on the 16th (possibly) Not sure if I am finding cruising as relaxing as I used to! Just a whinge because I know nothing is the fault of P&O - they remind us weather is beyond their control as is the illness us nasty people bring on board. Although as was pointed out to me the other day, on this forum, all these water leaks on board are because of foreign objects flushed down the loo, so does that mean all the puddles we pass are from sewerage not clean water🤢
  9. I agree the wait was essential and no way the fault of P&O. Anyway Arcadia always provides on ship entertainment in dodging the buckets, Today the piano bar is fully open for the first time - Carpets dry! Deck below's turn today with water laying on the carpets, plumbing problem present for years now but we still come back to this one! Just entering the straights now, flat calm and warm so better things ahead perhaps
  10. Oh great joy! Currently on Arcadia, missed Cadiz, Missed Valencia, Missed Ajaccio, down to the recent weather - Lisbon is on our schedule for the 16th
  11. We are in an aft cabin and it is fine for us, last time we were on in July we were midships and couldn't even get the my holiday app to work most of the time, as far as I am aware Arcadia is still on the old system but it is working for us, possibly still not the case everywhere. I don't carry my phone around on the ship so have not checked elsewhere. We pre paid for single device basic internet, think it worked out more like £9 or £10 per day
  12. Currently on Arcadia....using the wifi. I am using it for remote access to work and finding it's good enough, not as good as my recent experience of Skynet on Princess but acceptable. Web browsing is fine. I am also connected to WhatsApp without issue
  13. The little bowl of Fox's fruit sweets has made a comeback! Loyalty lunch was also on today, that was missing earlier in the year.
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