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We love the convenience of driving to the port. Saves air fares and accommodation at either end of the cruise. Our last overseas cruise was out of Miami and it was 27 hours between boarding the flight in Brisbane and landing in Miami. Exhausting. Fortunately we had 4 days in Miami before boarding the cruise so we had time to recover.

Well, that would be irritating to say the very least! We've been fortunate enough not to come across overly inebriated yobs on any of our P&O cruises. (Mind you, we steer clear of the Lido deck at peak times). There was one cruise where we came across one of the overly lubricated who seemed to want to attach himself to us but we escaped fairly rapidly the first time and went into stealth mode when we saw him coming on subsequent occasions. 😂 Just as a matter of interest, were you on short cruises? The 3 and 4 day ones seem to attract the party animals. We tend to take longer cruises (7-12 days) which in our experience appears to attract a different demographic or maybe we are just lucky. Mind you, if there are wall to wall (rail to rail?) drunks, what happened to the responsible service of alcohol? 🙄

Definitely sounds like a plan!😉

Woah, Gwendy, that's a bit harsh!😂 (Probably true in some quarters, however 🙄). I manage to get my money's worth on a drinks package without drinking anywhere near 15 alcoholic drinks a day. Several barista coffees (I like to stay well caffeinated), the higher end cocktails and higher end wines by the glass and several bottles of water easily surpasses the daily cost of the package.

The pill or the cruise or both?!🤭

You'll be fine Julie. After all, it's not your first rodeo!😉 Wishing you an absolutely wonderful trip and I'm sure everyone here will be looking forward to hearing all about it!

We don't bother with slippers. Our rubber thongs just do double duty - slippers and poolside footwear. And we're cheapos - the thongs are P&O (alleged) 'freebies' from a past cruise. 😉🤭

Yuck. It's not THAT difficult to wash a few things in the cabin bathroom! I always take a bar of Sunlight laundry soap in a zip lock bag. Takes up no room in the suitcase. I've found that light clothing in particular (undies and cotton shirts and dresses, etc) dry overnight hung up in the bathroom. I remember when we had an ocean view cabin on one cruise I actually draped undies on the flat window sill. OK, it looked like a Chinese laundry 😂 but everything dried quite rapidly in the sunlight coming in through the window. Don't know what the cabin attendants thought, but I would venture to guess they've seen worse than my bikini briefs.🤣

Well, all I can say is we wish we were going on it. What an awesome cruise!

Busman's holiday or Networking?????????????

Those collapsible laundry hampers are a great idea. However, I just take along a pillowcase and hang it from a trouser hanger in the cabin wardrobe and put soiled clothes in that. Find it works a treat and if I don't get around to washing everything for disembarkation, I have something to segregate the soiled clothes from the clean ones in the suitcase.

What a wonderful idea!

Especially if you have the misfortune to be a crew member on a cruise ship😟

At most I take evening shoes (dance pumps, so light and comfortable), 1 pair of joggers, 1 pair of wedge sandals,1 pair of thongs and on occasion 1 pair of ballet flats (sometimes I don't bother with these, depends on the time of year) regardless of the length of the cruise.

Was she a centipede?

Yep, we're not into oneupmanship (or should that be onepersonship?🙄)

Whilst chasing the ambulance😒

Ain't that the truth?! The motto seems to be 'Don't hesitate, litigate'☹️

I think I read a post a while back that Princess removed the tub chairs because an American passenger tripped over one in the cabin. Seriously? Whatever happened to look where you're going? The cabins aren't all THAT compact and I'm pretty sure the tub wouldn't have leapt out and deliberately put out a leg to trip up the passenger.🥴

I have a lace cocktail dress which is my 'go to'. It's very light weight and can be rolled up to a compact shape for packing and doesn't crease. I'm thinking of buying a couple more in different colours.

Couldn't believe it when I first came across this 'trend' (some people were promoting it as a hack). a) Very unhygenic b) A lot of effort to wrestle off the beds and maneuver through the balcony doors c) They'd get very damp in the sea air d) Highly likely to p-off the poor cabin steward

What really tickled us (ok boasting about the free suite may have irked us just a little), was they also said that they nearly were denied boarding because the wife mislaid her proof of Covid vaccination and they had to contact their doctor and get another copy emailed post haste. Wouldn't that just make you rip your nightie when you were getting a 'freebie' cruise?!😂

Never a truer word, Mic! We were at breakfast on a cruise once and the couple at the next table were chatting to us. Wasn't long before they mentioned they were in a suite and to rub salt into the wound, they got it for free (!!) because of players' club or some such. Mind you, we didn't really care, they probably paid for it with their losses to the house in the Casino over time.🙂

Agree, I've seen plenty of rude passengers. Wish they would take their superior attitude and air of condescension somewhere other than the cruise I happen to be on. I find them incredibly embarrassing to be around. Misery might crave company, but they won't be having mine!

Yes, I think the days of a free upgrade are, if not dead at the very least moribund now that a lot of cruise lines have adopted the bid for an upgrade routine.