Mollag

You stated in a previous post about people taking opened bottles from the dining rooms which they do and is fair enough but the giveaway is the people bringing full bottles which have quite obviously been used several times before I.e. well stained to the bars several nights on the run and shouting at the staff when they try to remove the empty bottle because they’re taking it home as a souvenir 🤷‍♂️😂

It definitely wasn’t newbies on Auroras 65 nighter doing it all old school on there even to the extent of checking the wine bottles for dregs at our Ligurian do in Barbados and filling empty bottles brought from the ship to bring back to the ship and they were still carrying them into the bars onboard days later telling the waiters it was leftovers from lunchtime. This is as well as others openly pouring drinks into glasses of tonic water and other mixers

P&O and logic in the same sentence 🤔😂

From another forum I’ve edited out the source but that’s the third different one I’ve seen

Notification emails being sent out tomorrow in order of sailing dates allegedly

Can’t beat a medical cruise

Just do a search for the last 5 years itineraries that’ll be 99% accurate

I think you’ll find they’re not free you pay for it all in the package

On our recent Aurora cruise one of the officers was telling people that P&O were buying SAGA, he was most taken aback when I said god forbid that happens and SAGA gets dragged down to P&Os level.

I think I must be on a blacklist after the issues we had on Auroras first cruise back after covid and last years debacle on Azura maybe they don’t like being pursued through ABTA. Like you we always give praise where praise is due but can’t do it without the survey

I’ve filled the feefo one in for previous cruises and never heard a thing back so don’t bother anymore

We never heard the C word once on board although like Selbourne we saw the ghostbusters out spraying on a few occasions mostly late at night when most were turned in. Out of interest have either of you had the questionnaire yet all we’ve had was the feefo thing which isn’t worth bothering with it seems only a few get the P&O one maybe only the ones they know will answer positively 🤷‍♂️😂

There was water flushing from somewhere most days/nights but the noise from the walkers was the worst thing and the reluctance of P&O to do anything about them just the same as them not doing anything about the sunbed hoggers

It was under the prom deck only issue we had was the ignorant ones out walking there herds of elephants at 5 in the morning, I had a word with one of the security officers who didn’t think it was a problem even though it clearly states no walking before 8 he wasn’t even aware of the signs telling everyone this 🤷‍♂️

We’ve just come of Aurora had a sea view cabin on deck6 and that was shower over bath

It’s 720 miles in a straight line so probably a few more to add to that avoiding the islands in the way so 36 hours at 20+kts if we leave in the next hour or two. We were chatting to a few of the crew this afternoon and one said we wouldn’t have been using the other berth anyway as it’s owned by one of the other companies and would have cost more plus I don’t think we could’ve taken the stores on there. One thing for sure I bet we won’t be late into Antigua when our vociferous captain is getting of.

Tortolas looking doubtful Selbourne I wonder what they’ll blame that on for the insurance letters

If that’s true about Key West then surely all these letters would be making those who are claiming for missed ports will be claiming fraudulently although they are unaware of that. One of the Celebrity ships has just aborted Cayman by the looks of it, the forecast for tomorrow shows the wind decreasing slightly and more North East as opposed to Northerly at present so it’ll be interesting to see what happens tomorrow

Still the same one at the moment Simon Love is supposed to be taking over in Antigua. I’m with Selbourne no idea why we couldn’t get in this morning and after the Captain making out he was a hero in Belize by waiting an hour to see what the weather was going to do why the rush to get away from here if I wasn’t suspicious of anything I’d say they’ve got some kind of issues with the ship especially after missing Key West as well in light to moderate winds but we’ll never be told the truth

I asked for carrots with mine and actually got them not a green bean in sight and agree about the sauce no idea what it was supposed to be🤷‍♂️

Apparently the reason they couldn’t recover one of the lifeboats was one of the wires used for lowering/recovering it had jumped of the sheave in the block and got jammed so firstly they had to free it up possibly replace the wire and the sheave then retrieve the lb before lowering it again to make sure everything was okay, how the sheave was allowed to still be in use with so much wear on it is anybody’s guess but judging by the state of the ship in general maintenance is minimal

At the moment you get the free cake but according to the staff in there charges will be starting soon

Sorry to hear you’re still feeling ropey yesterday was the first day after 8 days I wasn’t coughing so maybe the ends in sight for you🤞 I can confirm the A/C is now working to a fashion in the Crows Nest which is comfortable enough but like you say the forward stairwell is pretty warm🥵 just read a couple of pages of your blog and agree with you about the repetitive nature of the menus now making it difficult to find something at times. I would also like to comment on the state of the ship which is very poor with rust nearly everywhere you look and doesn’t seem to be much in the way of maintenance going on

Sorry to upset you but they hope to have the A/C diverted from the forward stairwell to the Crows Nest imminently only taken them a month🤦‍♂️, the welding works on the prom deck are done, even got the freezers working by the Lido grill for the ice cream things are looking up 😂

Sorry to hear you’re not feeling too great Selbourne I’ve been the same for a couple of days. Apparently they can’t weld at sea which is the reason for the prom deck closure, also the non working A/C in the Crows might be fixed in 3 days if not they may have to close the venue it’s been terrible up there🥵 and finally before too much longer there’ll be no free cakes, sandwiches etc. in Raffles as too many are treating it like a buffet and abusing the system