Butler "meet and greet"

[Firedobber]

I have heard that if booked in certain grades of stateroom your butler meets and greets on embarkation and shows you to your stateroom.

Firedobber wonders if this is correct and  if so for which grades of stateroom? Assuming Q1 only?

[Victoria2]

and Q2 too on QV. Others will be able to tell you if more cabins have Butler met passengers.

[Bell Boy]

It's not actually the Butler, however, in certain categories of QG suites a Bell Boy 'may be' on hand to welcome & escort. The Butler is usually visible in the corridor on arrival  to welcome and introduce him/her self .

 

Edited to add;

The reference to the Bell Boy refers to the 'arrival lounge' ( shoreside) however, I haven't witnessed  this since pre pandemic  

Edited November 8, 2023 by Bell Boy

[Victoria2]

3 minutes ago, Bell Boy said:

It's not actually the Butler, however, in certain categories of QG suites a Bell Boy 'may be' on hand to welcome & escort. The Butler is usually visible in the corridor on arrival  to welcome and introduce him/her self .

On embarking the ship, our Butler meets us and escorts us to our cabin. That might change the next time we embark but we'll have to wait and see if QA has the same Butler meet and greet.

[Victoria2]

12 minutes ago, Bell Boy said:

It's not actually the Butler, however, in certain categories of QG suites a Bell Boy 'may be' on hand to welcome & escort. The Butler is usually visible in the corridor on arrival  to welcome and introduce him/her self .

 

Edited to add;

The reference to the Bell Boy refers to the 'arrival lounge' ( shoreside) however, I haven't witnessed  this since pre pandemic  

Must be/have been a QM2 thing as we have never had the assistance of a Bell Boy, shore side.

[Bell Boy]

2 minutes ago, Victoria2 said:

On embarking the ship, our Butler meets us and escorts us to our cabin. That might change the next time we embark but we'll have to wait and see if QA has the same Butler meet and greet.

I understand that, however, occasionally a crew member in the Bell Boy livery is sometimes seen in the arrival lounge for escorting a QG guest.   As happened to me in 2015 & 2017 suite 10 001 QM2.  

[Victoria2]

26 minutes ago, Bell Boy said:

I understand that, however, occasionally a crew member in the Bell Boy livery is sometimes seen in the arrival lounge for escorting a QG guest.   As happened to me in 2015 & 2017 suite 10 001 QM2.  

QM2

QED

🙂

[Firedobber]

Thank you all very much for your input. Much appreciated.

[BigMac1953]

On QM2. a Bell Boy escorts Q1 - Q4.

 

The rest of the Q's have to join the plebs and fend for themselves. Serves them right.

[david63]

1 minute ago, BigMac1953 said:

The rest of the Q's have to join the plebs and fend for themselves.

Never had a problem finding my way around a ship without assistance yet, and I don't intend starting now.

[exlondoner]

10 minutes ago, david63 said:

Never had a problem finding my way around a ship without assistance yet, and I don't intend starting now.

On QE2 it was much harder to find the cabin, and the assistance should have been useful, except twice we had people who had less idea where to go than I did.