P&O Cruisers - What are things like where YOU are?

[zap99]

36 minutes ago, grapau27 said:

Thanks Avril.

We got home a couple of hours ago after a 315 mile drive home from Southampton.

We had an amazing 7 nights cruise on Iona.

The ship was fabulous and is now top of our list of ships.

Graham.

 

Nice indoor shots of you both stood standing up inside without your masks. Blooming rebels.🤣

[Presto2]

6 hours ago, Rupert2251 said:

Well we have just been treated to a beautiful fly past by a Spitfire over Hanley. It was to mark the new exhibition at the City Museum of the Spitfire and Reginald Mitchell. Spectacular!

We missed it -- we had to stay home as we had a delivery and were hoping it would come over our house but it didn't. 

[Presto2]

1 hour ago, grapau27 said:

Thanks Avril.

We got home a couple of hours ago after a 315 mile drive home from Southampton.

We had an amazing 7 nights cruise on Iona.

The ship was fabulous and is now top of our list of ships.

Graham.

 

Looks like you had a great time -- we are supposed to be on IONA in May but are still unsure. We will be picking your brains 🙂 We have booked and aft cabin

[grapau27]

3 minutes ago, Presto2 said:

Looks like you had a great time -- we are supposed to be on IONA in May but are still unsure. We will be picking your brains 🙂 We have booked and aft cabin

Our cabin was on deck 10 just aft of the aft elevator.

Fantastic location if you are right at the back of the ship.

The only cabins I would warn about are the bow balcony cabins on deck 9 that have no privacy.

We loved Iona and there is lots of choices to eat, drink and live entertainment and lots of sun decks.

The promenade deck 8 was amazing as it was very wide with chairs and sunbeds along its entire length and on the port side there was outside covered tables to eat your fish and chips etc.

[grapau27]

1 hour ago, zap99 said:

Nice indoor shots of you both stood standing up inside without your masks. Blooming rebels.🤣

We took our masks off for the photos indoors then put them back on straight away.

[Josy1953]

31 minutes ago, Presto2 said:

We missed it -- we had to stay home as we had a delivery and were hoping it would come over our house but it didn't. 

I missed it too, because I  was inside at the vaccine hub.  David saw it when he was out walking.

[Josy1953]

Lovely pictures Graham. 

[grapau27]

2 minutes ago, Josy1953 said:

Lovely pictures Graham. 

Thanks Josy.

Iona was fabulous.

Graham.

[Josy1953]

Just now, grapau27 said:

Thanks Josy.

Iona was fabulous.

Graham.

We are going on Sky Princess in 2 weeks time and really looking forward to it after 18 months with no cruises.

[Presto2]

30 minutes ago, grapau27 said:

Our cabin was on deck 10 just aft of the aft elevator.

Fantastic location if you are right at the back of the ship.

The only cabins I would warn about are the bow balcony cabins on deck 9 that have no privacy.

We loved Iona and there is lots of choices to eat, drink and live entertainment and lots of sun decks.

The promenade deck 8 was amazing as it was very wide with chairs and sunbeds along its entire length and on the port side there was outside covered tables to eat your fish and chips etc.

We are deck 12 about the 3rd cabin in so hoping it will be quiet 🙂

We do our homework re cabins as much as we can 😉

[grapau27]

Just now, Josy1953 said:

We are going on Sky Princess in 2 weeks time and really looking forward to it after 18 months with no cruises.

Sounds fantastic.

I am really pleased for you both and hope you have an awesome time.

Graham

 

 

[Presto2]

16 minutes ago, Josy1953 said:

I missed it too, because I  was inside at the vaccine hub.  David saw it when he was out walking.

Which hub are you at Josy? We know friends at some of them 

[grapau27]

1 minute ago, Presto2 said:

We are deck 12 about the 3rd cabin in so hoping it will be quiet 🙂

We do our homework re cabins as much as we can 😉

Sounds perfect.

[Presto2]

Just now, grapau27 said:

Sounds perfect.

Just praying that things have calmed down ---- did you feel safe amidst all of the people and the air con that recirculates the air ??

[Josy1953]

9 minutes ago, Presto2 said:

Which hub are you at Josy? We know friends at some of them 

Dresden

[grapau27]

1 minute ago, Presto2 said:

Just praying that things have calmed down ---- did you feel safe amidst all of the people and the air con that recirculates the air ??

Perfectly safe.

There are lots of lounges, restaurants, bars and open deck areas.

Everyone had to wear masks indoors except when eating or drinking.

Masks compulsory in the theatre and cloth signs were draped over every third seat stopping people sitting there so couples had an empty seat either side of them.

Graham.

[Josy1953]

15 minutes ago, Presto2 said:

We are deck 12 about the 3rd cabin in so hoping it will be quiet 🙂

We do our homework re cabins as much as we can 😉

We do the same thing, we like the back on deck 10 especially the corner cabins on Azura and Ventura.  We are at the back of deck 10 again on Sky Princess.

[Adawn47]

3 hours ago, grapau27 said:

Thanks Avril.

We got home a couple of hours ago after a 315 mile drive home from Southampton.

We had an amazing 7 nights cruise on Iona.

The ship was fabulous and is now top of our list of ships.

Graham.

 

You look to have had a good time Graham. Everything looks lovely and the ship looks amazing, but certainly much too big for us.

Avril

[Josy1953]

My Saturday evenings are now sorted for the rest of the year, Strictly is back.  I already know who I want to win. 🤣🤣

[Beckett]

20 minutes ago, Josy1953 said:

My Saturday evenings are now sorted for the rest of the year, Strictly is back.  I already know who I want to win. 🤣🤣

Who Josy - or are you keeping it secret? I just watched, and really enjoyed the show, and thought the same as you - Saturday nights sorted till December!  Jane.x

[Beckett]

Graham - fabulous photos of you both as always. Pauline looks so elegant in her black ( or navy?) cocktail dress. I must say I think Iona looks very impressive and I'll be very tempted to book a cruise on her in the future. Glad you had a great time. Best wishes. Jane.x 

[Josy1953]

7 minutes ago, Beckett said:

Who Josy - or are you keeping it secret? I just watched, and really enjoyed the show, and thought the same as you - Saturday nights sorted till December!  Jane.x

Adam Peaty, but my sister just  called me and told me that he has no chance. I think that any of them are capable of winning with hard work and a good professional  dancer.  We will see.

[Rupert2251]

3 hours ago, Presto2 said:

We missed it -- we had to stay home as we had a delivery and were hoping it would come over our house but it didn't. 

We were in our daughters garden cutting the grass etc, it flew right over a couple of times. 

[Rupert2251]

2 minutes ago, Rupert2251 said:

We were in our daughters garden cutting the grass etc, it flew right over a couple of times. As always you heard it before you saw it.

 

[wowzz]

Graham - lovely photos,  and glad you had a good time.

Two observations:

I would not want to be in one of those cabins adjoining the promenade,  and secondly you were lucky that the ship was only half full.