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  1. I've used a voucher a couple of times in specialty restaurants. One vouchers for 40% off a bottle (under $100). It's been available for around a year so they should be aware of it by now.
  2. We were amazed how nice various shades of light grey looks on the walks, very restful. We started with the study and ending up doing the whole downstairs in different shades
  3. When you open the app there will be three icons at top, a ship, a calendar and a person head/shoulders. Click on person, this takes you to your profile and bookings. At the bottom of your cruise it should read 'don't see your cruise, add it now' click there. This takes you to another page where you could add details of other cruises booked OR click on 'Browse our ships'. Click on 'Browse our Ships' This takes you to list of ships. Click on one you are interested in and it gives you a list of sailings. Click on this week and it will be populated with all the activities, dinning, bar menus, entertainment and excursions with prices
  4. Happy Birthday Dani !! Hope you gave a fabulous day and get to do all your favourite things . VID-20240214-WA0011.mp4
  5. Porridge pots from M@S too. Just add boiling water. £1 each. No need for bowl and use the spoon that comes with the in room tea/kettle tray. A lot cheaper and healthier than the overpriced buffet breakfast in the hotel
  6. Prices vary widely, but more to do with I think how many drink packages they've already sold or how many they think they will sell. If they think there's high demand then the price is high. For instance in a sector of the world cruise on Serenade the DP is showing as £52.50 pppd in my planner (including tax as UK prices) for 16 day cruise. But apparently Anthem ex Southampton is £76 pppd, 14 day cruise. My thinking is on the UWC most full world cruisers have drinks included, there will probably be a lot of Diamond and up who get free drinks too so demand for the DP will be low, hence a lower price. On the Southampton cruise, a 14 day cruise will be most people's main summer holiday, and us Brits like a drink on holiday, so I think the demand for the DP will be high. As far as speciality dinning then my experience, comparing Symphony to Serenade last year, is the bigger the ship and more choice, the more expensive the dinner. Symphony was £60pp for Chops and Serenade £46
  7. We've had an extremely wet winter with rain most days. But molly still needs daily walks. Yesterday we had a rare few hours of sunshine at a National Trust property about an hours drive from us. Petworth House and grounds. It has a large deer park with a big herd of deer as well as gardens and an amazing collection of paintings including many Van Dyck and Turners. Only disappointment was lunch was not up to the usual NT standard. Looking out over the Deer park. Zoom in to see the herd close up of the deer 🦌 the house. Only about a third was open to the public , the family still live in a wing of the house. the Chapel, parts of it are from the 13th century Petworth, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex/petworth
  8. Wish they would bring back those drink cards, 10 drinks for $80 or whatever. They were handy when we were pre diamond, and shareable too.
  9. Diamond Lounge also pretty empty on Spectrum , and this was in a cruise with over 5000 on board. Maybe half a dozen at most. They did have sandwiches and pastries there all day as well as breakfast and pre dinner snacks but still not enough to entice people to stay
  10. @Hlitner and anyone else with knowledge, does uber or similar work in France? We're in Le Harve overnight in July and thinking of train to Rouen one day and car hire the next. But a bit concerned about the scarcity of taxis to and fro port to station and car hire office
  11. I think we're going to hire a car as we're in Le Havre overnight. DH is happy to drive on the continent and we've been to France multiple times
  12. Thank you Debbie. Matt and Isaac came round and Gary cooked a roast. Nick n Co were meant to come but Theo developed crusty eyes and in case its conjunctivitis they just did a socially distanced hello and goodbye. This time of year it alwaya seems one of them has something. We also visited our mums graves to leave flowers
  13. 😲 oh my, hope he was ok, can't believe parents didn't notice. Shake my head over how social media and smart phones is changing parenting
  14. Pax is on ship ex Southampton. Drinking age in UK is 18
  15. You can prebuy the Evian 12/24 litre bottles in the planner from around £20 in your cruise planner, though the iced ships water is fine. They'll be waiting in your room when you board. Also there's a coffee card for £28 (15 specialist coffees) to prepurchase. On UK sailings there's a kettle in your room. My next cruise, BCN to Southampton my drink package is £54.50 pppd so the price is dynamic and changes pre cruise depending how many they've sold. I think in the UK the price includes the 18% gratuities , in the USA its added on at the end of the purchase process. You can bring a limited amount of soda on with you as well as your bottle of wine. It's a strict no-no to share a package. Also both adults in a room must purchase a package There is a small fridge in your room. Your room steward will bring you daily bucket of ice and wine glasses if you ask him
  16. We find on the European cruises they have a lot of ports and not many sea days, so we are off the ship most of the day. We usually get a couple of beers on land with lunch. Otherwise I'm happy with their free water, flavoured water, teas and coffees during the day and just get a couple of glasses of wine during the evening. Like @firefly333I get a few free drinks because of my diamond level so I recommend you join their loyalty scheme. You can bring one bottle of wine per adult on board with you and also pre-buy bottles of wine and some spirts through their gifts and gear catalogue. If you have a specialised dinning package, I think you can also get 40% off bottles of wine under $100
  17. We did a cruise last September from Tampa to Boston. I think she is a great ship. Love the Viking Crown lounge on this class. Yes she is a bit faded and tired looking in places but still a lovely ship. Food was OK, waiters and service amongst the best ever
  18. Great photo. Would love to do that. Do you know if it was really strenuous Laura? The couple on the far left look like a couple who are doing a RTW blog . Nice to see John looking so well. I would be interested in how this very long voyage is affecting people health (or not). Everyone in the photos looks really well, congratulations to everyone. Sue
  19. Thank you. Like most of our celebrations it comes from the Christian Calendar and is the fourth Sunday of Lent , Mothering Sunday , a day in centuries gone by for those to go home to visit the 'Mother church' and their mothers. My work colleagues who had families living abroad always had to remember to buy a card now to send to their mums in May as they weren't available to buy here in May
  20. Dementia is such an awful disease and so difficult for family to deal with. My older brother very rarely visited mum. I was lucky that Gary was very supportive, once he retired he use to take Molly and visit every day. Our blessing was that she still knew Gary and I till the end.
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