Francisdrake

Cheers sounds promising, will be through the DAZN app so don't need to worry about the app itself.

Any idea if it's good enough for streaming video through an app? wouldn't mind watching the Boxing on my cruise on 1st of June & i'm presuming P&O won't have rights to show it on board.

Been on Azura maybe half a dozen times now and had issues with the plumbing on one cruise. Balcony cabin & the toilet regularly wouldn't flush, reported it and they'd get it sorted fairly quickly (they didn't need to go into the room to sort it) but i'd come back a few hours later & it'd be the same issue. About halfway through the cruise though they must have done something different as they sorted it & I didn't have the issue for the rest of the holiday.

Don't worry about the inside cabin, they aren't that bad you get a cracking night's sleep with no light pollution in the morning,

That's changed now, got upgraded from a standard balcony to a deluxe balcony on Azura in the canaries in February this year, still the same in that it was still an upgrade from a balcony to a higher grade balcony cabin but the balcony was one of the really big ones with a lot more space than a standard balcony. Guess any free upgrades are unlikely to happen now they've introduced pay for an upgrade though.

Usually in Barbados you are free to do what you want until your scheduled departure time (when we flew back from Barbados in November last year we didn't have to leave Britannia until about 14:30 for our evening flight) so we went for a walk around Bridgetown for a couple of hours in the morning & then came back for a spot of lunch before disembarking.

Never had any major issues with Eavesway or Intercruises, minor issue on the last Eavesway one that they'd had to get the driver out of retirement due to a driver shortage & he took us to the wrong cruise terminal but it was resolved quickly & didn't cause any issues as we were there in oodles of time anyway. If i had to pick a favourite I'd probably go Eavesway as the coaches are good every time, with Intercruises we've had some of the good Ellisons coaches (once we even got one of the coaches the top football teams use) but because they contract out the buses sometimes the coaches they've turned up in haven't been great at all.

Check your local drop off point it might not necessarily be the services (two of the local ones to me are Barnsley bus station & Leeds interchange with Eavesway) could be an option to get on a stop like that if it's easier than getting to the services. Not sure if Intercruises have any stops like that as it's been years since we used Intercruises as par of select fare as the extra for select fare on all the recent cruises i've done have been a lot more than the saver fare so it's been cheaper to book saver & pay for Eavesway.

If it's only offered close to sailing chances are any Select fare would be due in full as well then as it's a late booking ?

I've never had to pay for saver in advance (though it's usually called early saver) is this a new thing ? For me if it's £600 per cabin cheaper I'd be going saver fare and chancing my arm with the cabin, I already got onboard credit because of my shareholding & that £600 saving would more than cover my drinks spend for the trip.

To be fair if i'd bought something from B&Q & the next day the price dropped, i'd take it back & get a full refund and re-buy it if they wouldn't refund me the difference. Difference with a P&O holiday is you haven't the cooling off period to be able to do this.

Think i'd prefer Vera 😂

It's TUI they are using for our flights to Malta & back from Manchester in July. When we went to Tenerife in February from Manchester though they were using Jet2 flights.

This year they had all the Canaries cruises between January & March 2023 with no single supplements in the run up to Christmas might be worth checking the pricing on the January - March 2024 canaries cruises if those appeal to you.

Only on Select fares if it's same as when I was looking to book on board earlier this year.