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How Do You Get The Best Fare On Cunard, Or Any Other Cruise Line?

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How Do You Get The Best Fare On Cunard, Or Any Other Cruise Line?

…rsions costing up to $120 per person, it can mount up. As can transfers to Southampton from or to London, or parking. Loyalty. Once you have 20 days/ 2 cruises on Cunard you get 2 hours internet, 4 hours after 70 days/ 7 cruises plus you start to get discounts on other things. So factor in being loyal as way of driving down total cost. Own Carnival Shares. If you own at last 100 shares you can get further on-board credit. You will need to be a ver…

Is Cunard’s $120 “Behind the Scenes” Tour of Queen Elizabeth worth it, or just a waste of time and money?

Cruise Ship / Cunard / Queen Elizabeth / transportation

Is Cunard’s $120 “Behind the Scenes” Tour of Queen Elizabeth worth it, or just a waste of time and money?

…to storage. Stores are taken in roughly 24 day cycles and almost always at Southampton. The logistics are impressive. They rider 6 – 8 weeks in advance. Enironmental and Recycling The Officer in Charge explained and showed us how they recycle everything and what they have to do. From grinding glass into fine powder, to crushing plastics and cans and how they turn food waste into a liquid to be able to offload it into the sea. Everything has to be…

The Ultimate Guide to Cruising the Stunning Norwegian Fjords

Cruise Ship / Cunard / Norwerian Fjords / Queen Elizabeth / transportation

The Ultimate Guide to Cruising the Stunning Norwegian Fjords

…, but they are not magical and special like the Fjords. If you cruise from Southampton, or one of the European Ports, you will have a day at sea getting there and getting back, and visit 4 places. It would be a pity if 2 of them are cities. Look for routes that include places like: – Geiranger A World Heritage site, and probably the most famous of the places to visit. Busy as can have 3 or 4 ships in each day, although only has 300 permanent resid…

Barbados. How to make the most of your time there.

BA / Barbados / British Airways / caribbean / cruise / Tips for Travellers / travel / Virgin Atlantic

Barbados. How to make the most of your time there.

…doing their relocation or repositioning cruises. You can get the ship from Southampton in the UK take a week to get there, stay a while and then fly back. Repositioning cruises are generally cheaper than normal cruises. The island does seem to be targeting Americans more and more. And many US visitors to Barbados tend to come in for the day on the cruise ships, because Barbados is a very popular stopping point for cruise ships, and there’s a devel…

P&O Arcadia: Review of 3-nighter Russell Watson Cruise

Arcadia / P&O

P&O Arcadia: Review of 3-nighter Russell Watson Cruise

…To read a review of the ship from those: click here When we checked in at Southampton, we were told that due to the winds and sea conditions the trip to Zeebrugge would not take place and the ship would just go to Le Havre (France) and stay there overnight. Many were frustrated and complained a lot, as they would miss outings to things like the Christmas Markets in Bruge. I was surprised at how annoyed people got, as surely safety and not being s…

Cruise Ship / Cruise Ship / Cunard / transportation

Cunard Queen Elizabeth Ship. Newest Cruise Ship In The Fleet Review

…t 7 months after she entered service. It was a short 5-night cruise out of Southampton round Europ . The trip went to Amsterdam, Zeebrugge and Le Havre, and was one of a series of identical trips that they did to let people try out and see the new ship around the same time. The second trip was a few months before her 2nd anniversary when I went on a 7 night Norwegian Fjords Cruise. Mixed Reviews and Expectations I had mixed views about the ship be…

Celebrity / Cruise Ship / transportation

Celebrity Eclipse Review. Ship tour, staterooms, suites and more

…fficially, was sent to bring back stranded travellers. So we drove down to Southampton, where the ship was docked for the day on Halloween Day (31 October), before it set off on a transatlantic repositioning cruise to Miami for the Caribbean Winter Season. Celebrity is part of the 2nd largest Cruise Group (Royal Caribbean) and is their more premium offer. The Celebrity brand has a number of ships of the same class, and are adding more over the com…

Cruise Ship / Cunard / transportation

Cunard Queen Victoria Ship. Review, Photos and Video.

…tons. We went on a 4 night “taster” cruise to a few European ports out of Southampton from 2 – 6 May. We travelled in Queens Grill, on a super deal thanks to our excellent travel agent (Jane Chadwick; Go cruise). That deal may already indicate the challenge in attracting people to pay a high premium to travel Queens Grill on regular cruises on the ship versus just doing a suite on other brands. Q4 Penthouse Cabin We had a Q4 Penthouse (5106). I a…

CUNARD QM2 QUEEN MARY 2 Q4 PENTHOUSE SUITE REVIEW

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CUNARD QM2 QUEEN MARY 2 Q4 PENTHOUSE SUITE REVIEW

…We travelled in Penthouse suite 10092 on the Queen Mary 2 from New York to Southampton in April 2009. And what a suite it is! Originally we had booked in a Q6 suite, which is a Queen Grill level cabin, and been upgraded into a Q4 Penthouse Suite. On Cunard, like on many airlines, there are broadly 3 different classes that are linked to the restaurant that you eat in: Britannia; Princess Grill and Queens Grill. Queens Grill is kind of like their “f…

Caribbean Cruise Part 7: Crossing the Atlantic to the UK

Antigua / Arcadia / Atlantic Crossing / caribbean / cruise / P and O

Caribbean Cruise Part 7: Crossing the Atlantic to the UK

…of Madeira, where we stop for half a day before carrying on for 3 days to Southampton (our final stop). We woke during the night noticing that it was fairly “rocky”. Although the sea looks pretty calm especially versus the huge waves experience crossing the Atlantic on the QE2, there is apparently a swell causing the ship to pitch and roll more than the sea would suggest. The pool at the back of the ship was great fun to swim in as it was like sw…

Caribbean Cruise 2007: The amazing cabin

Arcadia / caribbean / cruise / Hotel Room Video / P and O

Caribbean Cruise 2007: The amazing cabin

…As you will have seen from the original posting, I went on a 14 day cruise which started in Barbados and ends in Southampton in the UK. I wrote a journal that I will be posting with pictures and videos. But meantime, here is the cabin on the ship (P&O Arcadia) that we were in. It is a really amazing cabin which was B58 on the port side of the ship called the “Florence Suite”. More of the trip to come soon!…