exlondoner

I just had the same email, and our cruise isn’t until May. I haven’t tried to do anything about it yet, as who know what decrepit state we may be in by then, but it is both ridiculous and reassuring that the IT doesn't work.

So why would you want to go on board if you can’t put your things in your stateroom. Are people wandering around with the huge amount of hand luggage many seem to have. At least on Cunard, not boarding, usually, until after about 12.30, I have always had immediate access.

Goodness me, how on earth do they get the ship ready so quickly?

You’ll soon be back in the 36s. Never fear.

It is one of my favourite things, not necessarily for the food itself, but to mark a calm and soothing end to all the stress of embarkation day, with a small glass of rosé to signal the start of a holiday.

Were there people arriving that early? Not even a short hiatus?

A friend who went on a world cruise put on 31/2 stone, despite doing far more exercise than he ever did at home. As this was on Cunard he had sensibly taken two dinner suits with him, of increasing sizes. When he got back, the first 21/2 came off easily and fairly rapidly without doing anything in particular. The last stone was a different matter. But, anyway, the point is simply by eating normally for home, rather than as one does on a cruise, it usually disappears quite easily. 🙂

Thank you. I do know what vis-à-vis means. It was the abbreviation which was unfamiliar. I should have thought it stood for vice versa. In any case the calls at Tangier seem to show a softening of security concerns about Morocco.

But that soon changed. It was lunch by 2022.

Where are you? UK and US practices differ.

It is clearly all a matter of perception, as with the meal times. I thought I was trying to be positive and even sympathetic, you felt I was belittling your comments. Just out of interest did they also bring tea forward half an hour?

And indeed a baggage room, which was converted into a Suite near the end.

In the 20th century, a major course of losses of Atlantic trawlers was getting covered with too great a weight of ice for the ship to bear.

On QE2 it was much harder to find the cabin, and the assistance should have been useful, except twice we had people who had less idea where to go than I did.

Thank you and eeeeeeeek.

Yes, sorry, on reflection, I meant next year and 2025. It is indeed a most attractive cruise, except for being in, I think, November.

Actually, now I think about it, Cunard has calls at Tangiers this year and 2025.

No. The flight isn’t so bad. It’s the months of sleepless nights worrying about it beforehand. Just not worth it.

I think we might have had divers in Cadiz, but not sure.

What does v.v mean?

Or a flying boat that actually landed on the Nile.

Well, I wouldn’t start worrying yet. It seems these refits are always done under immense time pressure, and ship yards are used to it. That’s not to say that there might not be workers on your cruise finishing off stuff, human nature being what it is. And, if the worst happens (which I doubt, from a position of complete ignorance), it will be one more thing Cunard gets the blame for when it’s not their fault.

And Paris, and Stockholm, and London (not so recently, but many near misses) and everywhere else practically.

Isn’t there always quite a lot to be done? That’s why they work day and night. ‘Quite a lot’ isn’t really the same as ‘too much’ necessarily.

Surely Morocco is as safe as anywhere?