P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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Thank you Mr Ludlow. If you listened to loyal customers you would know that larger ships are a no go area for many of us. If you continue to build ever larger ships then you will lose your traditional market. Fine but are you sure you can sell Butlins at sea to an increasing number of new clients?

I wish you well but 180000 tons is not for us. I am increasingly impressed with the quality of the Celebrity offering and am a loyal P& O cruiser who has had enough of declining standards and a management that does not value loyalty.


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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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Big Bob wrote:
Thank you Mr Ludlow. If you listened to loyal customers you would know that larger ships are a no go area for many of us. If you continue to build ever larger ships then you will lose your traditional market. Fine but are you sure you can sell Butlins at sea to an increasing number of new clients?

I wish you well but 180000 tons is not for us. I am increasingly impressed with the quality of the Celebrity offering and am a loyal P& O cruiser who has had enough of declining standards and a management that does not value loyalty.
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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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After our experience with the food in the MDR on QM2 in August, I fear that creeping "Carnivalisation" will drive us away permanently. I think Sue and I are going to save up, and try Seven Seas, meanwhile it will be UK hols for us.

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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Big Bob wrote:
Thank you Mr Ludlow. If you listened to loyal customers you would know that larger ships are a no go area for many of us. If you continue to build ever larger ships then you will lose your traditional market. Fine but are you sure you can sell Butlins at sea to an increasing number of new clients?

I wish you well but 180000 tons is not for us. I am increasingly impressed with the quality of the Celebrity offering and am a loyal P& O cruiser who has had enough of declining standards and a management that does not value loyalty.

In P&O's defence, they have realised that the rapidly aging regular consumer will not be around forever.

Younger people are clearly looking for something slightly different to the traditional cruise that we have come to love.
If the didn't, Royal Carib would not exist with it's surf waves and climbing walls

The simple formula is that if you don't like big ships, then don't book one.

There are always alternatives :thumbup:
Empty vessels .. and all that

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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I see that P&O are now admitting that they had "technical problems" with the "Announcement" on Wednesday - now remind me where have I heard that before?

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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I wonder who they blame now?


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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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On the thread about this on CC someone thinks that initially this Special Announcement was meant to be the news of the new ship but that Carnival wanted it out earlier so it was announced before P&O intended it. This leaves the current Special Announcement as a bit of a dead squib - plus the useless transmission. If they had combined it with news of the new loyalty benefits which are supposed to be coming then maybe it wouldn't be so useless - assuming of course they could get the technical side correct.

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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While trying, and failing, to use the Adonia link David provided over on the Adonia thread I came across the updated info for the new "Gala" ship, and was very disturbed to see a photo of Britannia's supremely boring Atrium against the blurb about creating unrivalled experiences and levels of luxury on board.
I do hope this is just lack of a suitable mock up from the new vessel and not an indication of how drab it will look.
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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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I fear P&O currently have a terminal case of Taupe !

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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Sorry to disagree both. We loved Britannia's atrium. Still if it keeps you two away.......

p.s. it's not called taupe. It's called understated elegance!
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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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The starburst thingy is nice enough...but all that beige ! And with Sindhu and the other nice places being open to the atrium they are all a bit noisy

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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Well turn your hearing aid off then!

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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Does that get rid of all the beige ?

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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If you take you glasses off and put a bucket over your head as well, yes

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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Mervyn and Trish wrote:
Sorry to disagree both. We loved Britannia's atrium. Still if it keeps you two away.......

p.s. it's not called taupe. It's called understated elegance!
What's to love about Britannia's Atrium? It's not even as elegant as a John Lewis store, and nowhere near as many interesting items to browse.
I think you need to check out Oceana's Atrium, as an ex Princess ship she is designed to give you that "wow" moment the first time you see it, rather than Britannia's Hmm, where next.
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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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towny44 wrote:
Mervyn and Trish wrote:
Sorry to disagree both. We loved Britannia's atrium. Still if it keeps you two away.......

p.s. it's not called taupe. It's called understated elegance!
What's to love about Britannia's Atrium? It's not even as elegant as a John Lewis store, and nowhere near as many interesting items to browse.
I think you need to check out Oceana's Atrium, as an ex Princess ship she is designed to give you that "wow" moment the first time you see it, rather than Britannia's Hmm, where next.
Like I say, we don't have to agree. Yes Oceana has a wow but for us it's a rather over blinged wow. But each to his own. For some Oceana is their favourite ship, it's our least favourite in the fleet. Perhaps we just love department store chic! Doesn't make us wrong.

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Re: P & O 'Special Announcements' 26/10/2016

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I think I should arrange a Ship's Tour on Calamity next year so I can see what all the fuss is about

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