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Does it matter? You can always top up with a blanket if the duvets [which as has been said are rather warm] aren't warm enough.

I had no idea they were the default of [unlucky] guests in 'the Grills'.

Pillows are your choice of firm/squashy, feather or synthetic [not foam to my knowledge]. Bedding, again your choice of duvets [not sure of filling] or sheets and blankets.

Over all the years we've been QGrilling it, it has never occurred to us to take anything provided in the cabin, out of the cabin for consumption around the ship. As Hattie said, they are for cabin consumption and as we don't take any drinks onboard with us, anything consumed in the cabin other than the QG 'allowances', will be items on our onboard account.

No. The two bottles when replaced each time are not charged for although you'll sign a chitty for them each time you get a replacement. Don't worry, it's a zero addition to any onboard account. If you have a bit of a do in the cabin, as we do occasionally, and order extra to the two bottles, then you'll be charged for the extras.

Excellent advice, and also ask the butler. No question is too trivial. I am assuming the ship will be QE rather than QM2, in which case, the Grills Concierge will be in the lounge on deck eleven. If you, astronomy55 , are new to QG, there are many little niceties to do with QG dining, such as choosing off menu if nothing tickles your taste-buds. Ask on this board and don't be backwards in asking your Head Waiter if there's a dish you fancy. If the ingredients are on the ship, the Grill's galley will make it for you. 🙂

I drink water supplied 'at the table', when dining and I assume the water from our bathroom/cabin sink taps come from the same supply, so is there a potential problem drinking it?

Usually the bottles are replenished very promptly. I say usually as there have been mention over the years of this not happening very quickly. We have found the butler replenishes when the bottle is nearly empty which means our bottles never run out. Magic! 😀

Don't think the sofa looks at all comfortable. Hope it's not style over substance. The arm chairs look OK.

and me and my times of day vary. I do my deck three laps and manage it very well. I think I will leave the speculation and find out the reality. As we have quite a few QA bookings, I'll have plenty of time to suss that out.

Oh don't praise any ingenuity. My comment was the asked for suggestion and is definitely capsule but it forms only part of my actual packed items. 🙂

I continue to be intrigued with the amount of input you appear to have in your wife’s wardrobe. My husband knows what I’m wearing, when he sees me wearing it. 🙂 For me, a Cunard cruise is a holiday, not a sartorial assault course to be micro managed to within an inch of every waking hour although I certainly shower and change when going for lunch after a morning in the sun or dusty excursion. I throw things in a case knowing I will have enough to wear and will decide on the spur of the moment each evening what to put on. I will take three or four formal [as opposed to just maxi] long dresses depending on the number of gala nights on a two weeker, but I might re wear one or even two if the mind takes me. Same for non gala evenings. As for during the day, I’ll put on whatever I feel like when I wake up. Just for the record, being less than a Slim Jim, separates suit me more than dresses and I would pitch my evening trousers and evening jackets/over shirts eg [now considered vintage] Escada, Elie Saab for starters, against the majority of long dresses worn on a Cunard QV gala evening as they are a darned sight more formal than many of the long dresses I have seen. Taste in clothes is very personal. I see what I think are sartorial blunders, day and evening but the wearer will think they look fine or even fantastic and that is all that counts at the end of the day.

Not sharp practice, the term is 'dynamic pricing' and yes prices go up and down and I don't think the company hiked the prices just to offer a discount. A cabin we have booked went up a couple of weeks after we booked it [which we did on past passengers' booking day]. On sale, it was still more than we paid. It happens.

There is a small chart on the wall in the QV laundrettes which give the times of the washes and any additional programme such as extra rinse etc. I just put the dryers on for a certain time and pop back to see if it's done the trick. If not, it gets extra time. What I would say is take note of the timings and be there a few mins before programmes end so YOU take out your washing and no one else gets there before you. Edit I assume QE has a similar set up

Black, narrow leg, ankle length evening [ can be worn during the day with appropriate top] trousers, and a selection of beautiful silk tops or overshirts/jackets and black camisoles.

We learnt many years ago, the universal word for chips, is 'fries'. 😀 So saying, the wait staff should have made sure what 'chips' were required...chunky/skinny/skin on/sweet potato etc and that would have made the order clear.

and fairly invisible under evening trousers and long dresses.

Many, many years ago, we were offered an upgrade [wasn't a freebie but it was a generous offer] to a Q2. I can confirm the hooking works. 😄

They can if the correct immigration procedures aren't available. If available, it would be interesting and instructive to learn how departing could be stopped.

A PA Bellini, good idea but in truth, although we often leave ours as we have enough already in the cabin, P.A isn't all that bad if really well chilled. I really hope you have a fantastic cruise.

You sort of beat me to it BigMac1953 😀 I can't help with upgrades. mid cruise or pre boarding as we always book the cabin we want, but in our experience, being known as good clients helps as demonstrated by Solent Richard's Viking upgrade. Like others, we don't know folk but seem to be known by those who count within the Cunard organisation which seems to carry a bit of clout and being known as good eggs and being able to hold our end up is probably why when pre Covid we had a certain large table, the celebrity guest speakers who asked for a large table were sat with us.

The only people we know in Cunard high places are some fellow passengers on decks eleven and twelve on QV.😀 We generally meet [or met, past tense at the moment] one or two folk we know [knew]. edit Good luck to those who do get free upgrades though. We'll stick with the booking system.

That would be great. Maybe one day it might happen.

The only people who feel guilty are those who choose to feel guilty. No one is making them so yet again, up to the individual to feel guilty, or not. In red. Yet another bold statement. Please can I see the proof. The concrete proof and not a major tom fudge.,

For heavens sake, it was over a quarter of a century ago. Times move on and if you still feel the guilt you must gave felt nearly twenty seven years ago then, well, I don't know what to say other then it's on you to stop feeling a totally unnecessary guilty feeling because you are the only one who can stop it.