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3 Queens in Southampton; and another Oasis
It’s been another quiet week, which explains the absence of posts. But today we have some news. First up is today’s ‘Cunard 3 Queens’ arrival into Southampton. I gather that they gathered in Lisbon and...
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Internet access on cruise ships
No-one will be surprised to learn that internet access while I’m on a cruise is something that’s important to me. For one thing, I like to post blog entries during each cruise, and these do seem to be...
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Pool accident on Independence of the Seas
There’s a story breaking about a possibly-tragic event on Independence of the Seas yesterday. A 6 year old child was found on the bottom of one of Indy’s pools. The child’s heart was found to have...
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Quantum of the Seas – automation gone mad?
I’ve done a couple of posts already about Quantum of the Seas (hereinafter ‘QotS’) – here’s a link to them. But now there’s a lot of coverage of the various automation facilities that will be on her...
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Oasis of the Seas arriving tomorrow
Royal Caribbean’s big ship Oasis of the Seas will be arriving in Southampton tomorrow (15/10/2014) prior to departing on a transatlantic voyage to Florida. She has just finished a short program of...
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Oasis of the Seas in Southampton – pictures
Oasis of the Seas was in Southampton on Wednesday, and Andrew Sassoli-Walker was on-hand to record the visit. He’s been kind enough to let me use some of his images here – thank you once again,...
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The end of the season
Once again it has been a long time since I last posted. This always seems to be a quiet time of the year, and it’s hard to think of cruises when the clocks have just changed and the nights are drawing...
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Quantum of the Seas in Southampton!
I had no idea, honestly – that’s how little attention I’d been paying to the QotS hoopla. But other people had been keeping their eyes on it, including Andrew Sassoli-Walker, and he’s just sent me the...
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Royal Caribbean all-inclusive offer
I’ve just seen the all-inclusive offer for Anthem of the Seas for 2015. At first I was a bit nonplussed by the ad – all I could see was the picture of the SkyHook-thingy and the words ‘This changes...
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Review of Quantum of the Seas mini-cruise
I read a number of other cruise-related blogs and websites, and one that I keep checking is Jane Chadwick’s ‘Go Cruise with Jane’ site. It’s not solely a blog – not even primarily, in fact, as Jane and...
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Some reviews of Anthem of the Seas
I’m conscious that this cruise blog may have become rather P&O-centric in the last few years and that wasn’t what I originally intended, although it does reflect the kind of cruising we’ve been...
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Internet access on a cruise
The question of whether to pay the cruise lines’ price for internet access during a cruise or whether to look for free wifi while ashore often comes up. I did a post just over a year on this topic, but...
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Some snippets: Dynamic Dining, Per-dish pricing, and single cabins on QM2
I’ve picked up a few pieces of information on these points, so here we go. Dynamic Dining: Royal Caribbean introduced this on their Quantum-class ships; it’s a change to the traditional dining model....
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Royal Caribbean increases dividend, follows Carnival
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd announced yesterday (3 September) that they were increasing the dividend payable to shareholders to $0.375 per share, an increase of 25%. The dividend previously was $0.30...
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Price Promise – Royal Caribbean style
Hands up who remembers the P&O and Cunard ‘Price Promise” of a few years ago? – yes, me too. It was confusing when it was in force, it did more than anything I can remember in the last ten years to...
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Royal Caribbean International and Southampton
A deal was announced yesterday between RCI and the Port of Southampton. The two parties have signed a 7-year deal which “secures Southampton’s City Cruise Terminal as the official UK home of Royal...
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Royal Caribbean “Kerb to Cabin in 10 Minutes”
I’ve been banging on a bit recently about the whole check-in thing. This arose because of two things – first, the decision by P&O (and Cunard as far as I’m aware) that stated check-in times will be...
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Even more ships under construction, etc – Royal Caribbean, MSC and TUI
So here’s the last post on this topic, this time covering ships under construction or on order for Royal Caribbean, MSC and TUI. I ought to say that these lists have not been built using information...
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