Cosmic Rays

On 8/10/2019 at 7:06 AM, steamboats said:

eTA is only required for flying into Canada. It´s not required for cruise ship arrivals or passing the border by car (ESTA is also required for cruise ship arrivals).

 

Anyway, neither ESTA nor eTA are a visa but just a pre-check.

 

steamboats

Thank you for your input. The ESTA has replaced the I94 and is required whenever entering the USA from the UK! Maybe not from Germany though!

Thanks Hattie!

We do NOT require one!!

I keep getting conflicting reports as to whether or not we will need a Visa to enter Canada in October. Scenario - we fly into JFK from the UK for a few days (we have valid ESTA's)  and then leave for Canada on QM2 to Quebec and back to New York. Do any of you experts know please?

Thanks.......

I can't remember I'm afraid but it's a while since and I am sure that it wasn't 'Cruise Director'......

Amanda Reid has been around for many years yet her title had changed on our last cruise.....

She is very professional and has always epitomised Cunard, yet not to everybodys liking sadly in this day and age of cruising.

I put together a group of eight from our cruise thread who individually contacted him and that was an ideal number. We were four couples...........

Curious if you can book this type of day with just a party of two? This sounds a lot like the cruise ship excursions available, but prefer private instead. Looked at his site however no prices or specific tours were listed? Did he just reply with specifics after you emailed him? Thanks for any information, trying to plan for a Journeys cruise stopping at this port.

I suggest that you email him directly and ask if he can offer a private tour for two, or if not who could he recommend/suggest?

Cruisegus - a bit late to help Taddy, but I agree with you as we used him just last Sunday and he was excellent = just as you say........

Thanks for your post.........interesting!!

I think I need to drop him a line to see what he says and to seek assurances that the group that I have put together won't be treated in the same way when we are there next month!!

Thanks for your reply.

What date are you on Grenada? We have the same tour booked and same price, except that we are going to a rum factory instead of the Palm Tree Garden! we are there right at the end of January.

Have you any other tours booked on your cruise, and on Tobago in particular if you are going there?

hi all booked premium upgrade on flight which was another £126 we did this when booking cruise last year im doing the azura tranatlantic in march the flight became available this week i have had to pay another £25 each to book seats when i checked with p&o as to why i paid this £126 and now you're asking for another £25 i just oh thats how it is.

i needed extra legroom for 2 reasons my parents are in there 70's and need to be able to move and my brother who is asd (a form of aspergers) and can't cope with being cooped up for to long....

in the past we've only sailed from southampton so haven't had this problem has this always been the case.

I agree with you totally, however it is what I call a 'cash cow'!!

Like you, and with the hoped for guarantee of sitting together, I have had to fork out an additional £100 for this 'privilege'!!

Hey ho.......

We were supposed to be visiting St. Maarten at the end of February but this has been changed to Martinique so presumably P&O will not be visiting before March at the earliest. I assume once the change of port has happened they wouldn't change it back - too much to do with changing excursions, port bookings etc.

My thought is that they probably won't be going back there this Winter season in the Caribbean, as all the changes have had to be made, before they return to Southampton in the Spring..........

Now that the Caribbean itineraries are being changed due to the hurricanes, I am still assuming that ESTA's are not required as we are not going to anywhere with a US link.

We are visiting.......

Barbados

Bonaire

Aruba

Tobago

St Vincent

St Lucia

Grenada

St Kitts

Antigua

and Martinique

I find that I'll have a quicker and better response here on CC, especially as I had an email just this morning telling us our existing ESTA's expire next month!! Yikes........

Thanks for the advice..........

I have done that but the times are all the same and the itinerary not amended yet!

Woe is us!!

Does anybody know how to find out more specific port arrival and departure times relating to a specific cruise?

The cruise personaliser only states 'early morning/early evening/evening', and no doubt P&O would just refer me back to my cruise agent who is unable to help on this occasion - no problems with Cunard or Princess with this though!.

We are wanting to arrange private tours rather than ships tours on our upcoming cruise in January on Britannia sailing from Barbados on the 20th January.

Help would be much appreciated - thanks..........

Hopefully it is still possible to book on board whichever ship you are on - we are on Britannia in January - and use OBC to pay the supplement required. This is rather than paying the supplements now and having too much OBC and not being able to spend it. We already have on board drinks and trips planned........

Can I assume that OBC can be used in all of the shops as in the 'paid for' restaurants onboard Britannia? Are the loyalty 'tier' discount %'s also taken into consideration when purchasing items using OBC?

I agree totally with the above comments. It is really no different to being a Hotel Manager where my motto was always "See and be Seen". It always worked well - you are a member of the team, except that you are at the top, and those on the lowest rung of the ladder as just as important and vital for the business to succeed, whatever it is. Without staff, and of course guests, no business can be successful.......

Yes I know and is what I have always looked at, but this site actually gave a little write up about it as well.

Fair enough and yes, there is a website that does describe some of the staterooms - I can't remember the name of it either! - but also on CC some of the reviews also review staterooms.............

Surely a deck plan will show you clearly what is above and below you in many instances won't it? That is how we decide a location and with staterooms above and below us to hopefully minimize noise............

Having read with great interest the comments posted here - I agree with therm - we need to bear in mind from the original post that it was not a ship tour but the shuttle which runs to and from the ship, and all other cruise ships too of course, from the entrance to the port and which we have used several times on calls we have made in the past to Tenerife.

However, I still feel P&O should 'come clean' about this fact and therefore them to take the appropriate action.......not you having to fight them.

If you call, my experience tells me to speak to a supervisor within the customer service department for a more speedy resolution rather than one of the 'agents', who, I feel may well have not experienced a cruise. I found that some of the staff in the department have no empathy and as a result fail to understand the experiences encountered by fare paying passengers, and as clearly shown in this sad instance.

Having a serious think about a repositional cruise and thought it said in the brochure they used Thomas Cook airplanes for the Caribbean?

Thomson and Thomas Cook are both used with specific charter flights. The day we go, both companies are being used and we opted for Thomson flights

My understanding is that all Thomson flights for P&O are scheduled to be on the 787.These range from 4 months to over 4 years old. No telling which one will be used. Obviously they reserve the right to substitute an alternative type of plane if necessary (say if one went tech) but this is unusual.

Thanks - a 787 will make a big change to A330's or 767 older aircraft and far less noisy too............

To those of you who have now booked specific seats on board Thomson flights to and from Barbados this Winter to join Britannia, are Thomson using the 'new' 787 aircraft? Is it possible to book Premium seats, or is it too late for that now - we depart mid January?

Thanks...........