Cunard maybe for the first time.

[Host Hattie]

There are pictures of Daily Programmes from Queen Elizabeth's Alaska season this year in this thread which will give you some ideas.

 

 

[NE John]

18 hours ago, exlondoner said:

Though the last two captains I’ve had were US and Irish, and my next will probably be Danish, so British accents aren’t by any means invariable.

I was thinking of the entertainment director and trivia hosts too. 

[exlondoner]

2 hours ago, NE John said:

I was thinking of the entertainment director and trivia hosts too. 

I don’t think they often make announcements. I have occasionally heard announcements from the Purser’s Office in a variety of accents.

[WantedOnVoyage]

Do note, too... this is Carnival we're talking about in many aspects so literally the entertainers are cycled through Cunard, Princess and P&O and exchanged at common ports.  So if you liked the comedian on ARVIA (god I hate that name... what on earth does it even mean) you will like him or her as much on QUEEN VICTORIA atlhough possibly not the third or fourth time. It's uncanny... I can never remember a single joke, even the good ones, within 30 minutes of leaving the show.  Maybe that's why they keep coming back with the same ones, over and over. 

[exlondoner]

7 minutes ago, WantedOnVoyage said:

Do note, too... this is Carnival we're talking about in many aspects so literally the entertainers are cycled through Cunard, Princess and P&O and exchanged at common ports.  So if you liked the comedian on ARVIA (god I hate that name... what on earth does it even mean) you will like him or her as much on QUEEN VICTORIA atlhough possibly not the third or fourth time. It's uncanny... I can never remember a single joke, even the good ones, within 30 minutes of leaving the show.  Maybe that's why they keep coming back with the same ones, over and over. 

Apparently Arvia means from the seashore, which seems fair enough, though it’s not a Latin word I’ve ever come across, nor has Lewis and Short’s Dictionary. So probably late Latin.

[3rdGenCunarder]

1 hour ago, WantedOnVoyage said:

Do note, too... this is Carnival we're talking about in many aspects so literally the entertainers are cycled through Cunard, Princess and P&O and exchanged at common ports.  So if you liked the comedian on ARVIA (god I hate that name... what on earth does it even mean) you will like him or her as much on QUEEN VICTORIA atlhough possibly not the third or fourth time. It's uncanny... I can never remember a single joke, even the good ones, within 30 minutes of leaving the show.  Maybe that's why they keep coming back with the same ones, over and over. 

 

I tend to remember the bad jokes.

 

I don't know if they're quite "tribute bands," but last year on QM2, they had a group of women who call themselves "Heat Wave" (after the Martha & the Vandellas song) and they did lot of "girl group" songs. That was the northbound leg of the Canada cruise. Southbound, for equal time, they had a group of men doing the male equivalent. Both groups were fantastic. 

[fourmile.ranch]

3 hours ago, 3rdGenCunarder said:

 

I tend to remember the bad jokes.

 

I don't know if they're quite "tribute bands," but last year on QM2, they had a group of women who call themselves "Heat Wave" (after the Martha & the Vandellas song) and they did lot of "girl group" songs. That was the northbound leg of the Canada cruise. Southbound, for equal time, they had a group of men doing the male equivalent. Both groups were fantastic. 

Heat Wave was on Elizabeth on her Panama transit. The male group that followed was The Four Ds. Both were phenomenal, would be hard pressed to pick the better of the two groups.

[Winifred 22]

17 minutes ago, fourmile.ranch said:

Heat Wave was on Elizabeth on her Panama transit. The male group that followed was The Four Ds. Both were phenomenal, would be hard pressed to pick the better of the two groups.

Can’t remember which ship and when but I have seen Four D ‘s and enjoyed them. One of the best acts I enjoyed recently was the two chaps playing the one piano. Can’t remember their names. 

[mattR]

16 hours ago, Host Hattie said:

There are pictures of Daily Programmes from Queen Elizabeth's Alaska season this year in this thread which will give you some ideas.

 

 

Thanks this was very helpful.  Looks like it might be hard to find a late breakfast onboard?  Since you filled out the form for Canadian customs in Victoria does that mean you didn't have to do customs in Vancouver during disembarkation? I would love to try Cunard for the classy feal and good food but not sure as the entertainment really doesn't seem to match my taste either not into sitting listening to live music or dancing.  

[rmsEtruria]

13 hours ago, exlondoner said:

Apparently Arvia means from the seashore, which seems fair enough, though it’s not a Latin word I’ve ever come across, nor has Lewis and Short’s Dictionary. So probably late Latin.

Neither has the TLL, hence neither classical nor late Latin. If you saw somewhere that Arvia is supposed to mean “from the seashore,” it is probably a corruption of arva, -orum “fields,” also used poetically (e.g., Vergil Aeneid 1.246, 2.209) for the seashore. But my guess would be that it’s simply a made-up name that tested well with a focus group.

[exlondoner]

55 minutes ago, rmsEtruria said:

Neither has the TLL, hence neither classical nor late Latin. If you saw somewhere that Arvia is supposed to mean “from the seashore,” it is probably a corruption of arva, -orum “fields,” also used poetically (e.g., Vergil Aeneid 1.246, 2.209) for the seashore. But my guess would be that it’s simply a made-up name that tested well with a focus group.

Yes, they gave that derivation, though I’m not sure it is normal for the Romans to go round sticking random letter ‘i’s in words like that in second declension plurals. 

[rmsEtruria]

1 minute ago, exlondoner said:

Yes, they gave that derivation, though I’m not sure it is normal for the Romans to go round sticking random letter ‘i’s in words like that in second declension plurals. 

Hmm . . . Who is “they”?

[exlondoner]

1 minute ago, rmsEtruria said:

Hmm . . . Who is “they”?

A Carnival press release and a site about what to call your babies. Neither of them Oxford Classics experts, I suspect. 🙂

[rmsEtruria]

1 minute ago, exlondoner said:

A Carnival press release and a site about what to call your babies. Neither of them Oxford Classics experts, I suspect. 🙂

Clearly not. There’s no adjective arvius, -a, -um derived from arva; on the contrary, arva itself is a substantive use of an original adjective arvus, -a, -um “arable, cultivated/-table.” Perhaps a Google  or Wiki translation bot at work? In any case, it’s a name made up by or for Carnival.

[exlondoner]

4 minutes ago, rmsEtruria said:

Clearly not. There’s no adjective arvius, -a, -um derived from arva; on the contrary, arva itself is a substantive use of an original adjective arvus, -a, -um “arable, cultivated/-table.” Perhaps a Google  or Wiki translation bot at work? In any case, it’s a name made up by or for Carnival.

Not that I mind made up names, as such.

[rmsEtruria]

3 minutes ago, exlondoner said:

Not that I mind made up names, as such.

I do; although that merely goes to show how far out of touch with the times I am 😊!

[kalos]

5 hours ago, mattR said:

  Looks like it might be hard to find a late breakfast onboard? 

 

We were on the Queen Victoria and should imagine room service menu's are similar

across the fleet .

You can book as late as 9-10 am slot for a late breakfast ,a very good choice too.

Put you the menu below ,hope it helps .

 

[Victoria2]

20 minutes ago, kalos said:

 

We were on the Queen Victoria and should imagine room service menu's are similar

across the fleet .

You can book as late as 9-10 am slot for a late breakfast ,a very good choice too.

Put you the menu below ,hope it helps .

 

Seems familiar to me.  I always add 'brown sauce' to the list for my crispy bacon open  'toastie'. I can't imagine brown sauce, or ketchup for that matter, is a QG speciality,  🙂

[Petulia]

3 hours ago, exlondoner said:

A Carnival press release and a site about what to call your babies. Neither of them Oxford Classics experts, I suspect. 🙂

Maybe  C a r n i v a l   decided to nick a few letters from their name and re-arrange them? 
 

Just a thought. 😉

[exlondoner]

6 minutes ago, Petulia said:

Maybe  C a r n i v a l   decided to nick a few letters from their name and re-arrange them? 
 

Just a thought. 😉

What a good idea. It could be the start of a series: Lina, Rival, Clan, Clara, Lava. You can make all sorts of words and pronounceable non-words from it.

[david,Mississauga]

10 hours ago, mattR said:

Thanks this was very helpful.  Looks like it might be hard to find a late breakfast onboard?  Since you filled out the form for Canadian customs in Victoria does that mean you didn't have to do customs in Vancouver during disembarkation? I would love to try Cunard for the classy feal and good food but not sure as the entertainment really doesn't seem to match my taste either not into sitting listening to live music or dancing.  

 

We have taken the QE Alaska cruise three times and the arrival in Vancouver was as easy as it can be. We never spoke with a border official and simply walked off the ship.  There were no formalities in Victoria either. 

[3rdGenCunarder]

15 hours ago, fourmile.ranch said:

Heat Wave was on Elizabeth on her Panama transit. The male group that followed was The Four Ds. Both were phenomenal, would be hard pressed to pick the better of the two groups.

 

Thank you. Yes, the male group I saw was The Four Ds. 

[3rdGenCunarder]

1 hour ago, david,Mississauga said:

 

We have taken the QE Alaska cruise three times and the arrival in Vancouver was as easy as it can be. We never spoke with a border official and simply walked off the ship.  There were no formalities in Victoria either. 

 

Victoria was so easy that when we got to Vancouver, I didn't remember we had already done the entry into Canada. I was surprised when the bellman walked me right out to the door. 

[LittleFish1976]

On 9/29/2023 at 4:34 PM, Victoria2 said:

Cunard do have magicians [and/or illusionists], and acrobats who are usually the ones who hang from ropes and perform rather dangerous looking movements with their partner. It's down to scheduling as to when they perform so it's not every cruise.

Thank you for the correction. Hopefully no-one will book a cruise on the strength of there being acrobats and magicians on board though given their lack of regularity.

 

[Victoria2]

6 hours ago, LittleFish1976 said:

Thank you for the correction. Hopefully no-one will book a cruise on the strength of there being acrobats and magicians on board though given their lack of regularity.

 

No problem at all. 🙂

We wouldn't book a cruise on the strength of any entertainment [apart from a specialist cruise such as Big Band or classical Music cruises] as it doesn't figure that highly on our daily routine but to some folk, it's important and it's always a good idea to get facts straight. I would say one in three of our cruises have had acrobats hanging from a rope suspended from some stage ceiling contraption.

I always hope it's strong enough.