The Children's Off Topic Thread

[towny44]

Do you also wash your car before going on a cruise and leaving it in an outdoor car park in a salt laden seaport?!

[Stephen]

Do you also wash your car before going on a cruise and leaving it in an outdoor car park in a salt laden seaport?!

Always get it washed before going on holiday, providing it's not chucking it down. I like to travel in a clean car. Couldn't care less about any salt spray that might waft over it, the wax wash helps protect it. Never had a problem yet.

[towny44]

Just changed energy suppliers but the process to obtain a final bill, and in my case a healthy refund of over-payments, can take 6-8 weeks according to both old and new suppliers. Why on earth in this age of computers does it take so long to create a final account, the only reason I can see is to allow my old supplier to delay my refund to help its cash flow, and the worthless ombudsman allows this sort of thing. I shall be even more annoyed if the old supplier takes another monthly DD which falls due within the 6-8 week period.

[Happydays]

Lovely hot sunny day here. After walking our dog decided to do some gardening. Got the make the most of the sunshine.

[Stephen]

Had a good day out on Cunard ship visit. Not for me, the ship didn't warm to me and expensive.

[Stephen]

Had a good day out on Cunard ship visit. Not for me, the ship didn't warm to me and expensive.

I felt it was a cruise ship for the wealthy elderly.........so Merv should be alright

[Mervyn and Trish]

Well one out of two ain't bad!

[Stephen]

Lovely dance floor area Merv and the theatre was very nice too with upper balcony boxes......for an extra charge of course.

[Happydays]

Thought I'd give this one the kiss of life Ha! Ha!

[towny44]

Thought I'd give this one the kiss of life Ha! Ha!

I would recommend a strong dose of antibiotics after that.

[Stephen]

Lovely morning again at Maldon towers

[towny44]

Has the Norwegian tan worn off yet Stephen?

Looking forward to your review of Britannia.

[Stephen]

I don't do reviews. However....

I personally found the ship a bit too big. I must have walked miles that week. In fact my wife has one of those fit bit things, and she worked out with walking round the ship and ashore she had walked around thirty odd miles, and as we were together most of the time I did too Embarkation was a nightmare as we had a announcement of a fire on board which halted proceedings, apparently due to a small fire in the incinerator room...really! That's like saying there's a small fire at the crematorium. Disembarkation wasn't much better as the air bridge moved and had to be repositioned.

Getting round the ship could be challenging at times with having to go up, down or along to get to certain levels. The lifts are a nightmare as they hardly ever stop at your level, with the added annoyance of no stairs at the ships centre lifts.

We, and others found the food choice, portion sizes and quality poor in the main dining room in the evening (freedom). We dined in the buffet one evening and wondered why we hadn't done it before as we thought the choice, quality and temperature of the food far better than the main dining room. The only down side was they still served drinks in plastic glasses in the evening in the buffet which I could never understand.

Our cabin a Superior Deluxe balcony was very nice and roomy with plenty of storage space and two large modern TV's. The one thing that you can't do on Britannia which you could on other ships is you cannot view your account via the TV menus which I found a bit strange and inconvenient. The bathroom had a good size bath with shower over. If there was one niggle it was the layout of the taps. If you were having relaxing bath you couldn't just lean forward to turn a tap on for more hot or cold water, you had to get up and turn the valves half way up the wall. Not the end of the world but in my opinion poor design.

The atrium was large and airy with a great centre piece hanging from the ceiling.

The Norwegian weather was extraordinarily kind to us. I think even the locals were a little surprised. The scenery was stunning, especially Olden. We only done one trip and that was to the glacier, the one where you have to walk about 45 minutes from the drop off point to the glacier. The scenery on the journey from the ship to the drop off point is breathtakingly beautiful. The walk from the drop off point to the glacier is something else with the surrounding scenery and water falls, and of course once you arrive at the glacier....wow. Returning to the drop off point you then have tea/coffee and cakes at the café. The cakes are yummy.

All in all a good cruise, however after having now done ten P&O cruises it is noticeable that P&O seem to be making more cut backs here and there. Little things, but noticeable.

[Happydays]

I think you copied and paste ha ha!
I agree about the cut backs, sometimes it feels more obvious than others

[Stephen]

How dare you....I typed it out word for word

[Happydays]

yeah I believe you

[Stephen]

Would I lie

[towny44]

No but you might bend the truth a little.

[Stephen]

Not me ya honour

[Mervyn and Trish]

Your comment about the lack of an account facility on the TV in interesting. We noticed that on the Maiden Voyage and were told it was a work in progress by the IT department.

Well the Maiden was 2015...…..

Progress a bit slow then. Bizarre when they have the IT to do it working on Azura and Ventura.

Anyone for another Windows Update?

[Mervyn and Trish]

BTW we were also told that reprogramming the lifts to behave properly instead of missing floors was in the pipeline. Bleeping long pipeline....

[Stephen]

I asked the hotels manager about the lifts one day and he came out with some old cobblers of, 'if they are full then they won't stop at your level'.

Mmmm. So the lifts can take 18 people and the fullest I've counted is about nine or ten, which is pretty tight even then. You've got to be some lard ar*e to make up the difference in weight.

[towny44]

Your comment about the lack of an account facility on the TV in interesting. We noticed that on the Maiden Voyage and were told it was a work in progress by the IT department.

Well the Maiden was 2015...…..

Progress a bit slow then. Bizarre when they have the IT to do it working on Azura and Ventura.

Anyone for another Windows Update?

Ventura no longer has the on TV account facility after the latest refit, so maybe its something P&O are fazing out.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Hmm. Wonder why not? It was really useful. Maybe they got too many people queuing to query their account obstructing those queuing to remove their tips?

[Stephen]

Now everyone just queues at reception.