'Mass brawl' breaks out on P&O cruise ship Britannia

It depends on which class of holiday you are on. :-p

You’re in luck, here is the Big Bogan at Nyngan, NSW.

Singlet, shorts and thongs seems to be the dress of choice and the indispensable Esky of course…

Brilliant! Is that outside the P&O offices? :mrgreen::mrgreen:

The red box to the right is the P&O office.

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You now realise you got your facts totally wrong, failed to understand basic pricing structure and made a fool of yourself. Just not man enough to admit it.

Pop off to Amazon and pick up this, you seem to need it!

Just repeating the same old nonsense as you are doesn’t make it true but I’ll let you have the last word just to make you happy. OK now?

Won’t detract from the simple errors you made. Man up.

You just claim that I made errors. There were none, I understand cruise pricing perfectly it is exactly the same as any other packaged holiday ie quoted per person twin share (effectively).

The fact remains that cruising is a cheap holiday for the masses as I illustrated why you still wish to argue about it says a lot about you and nothing about me.

Here is a book about you to read on your next cruise

Just for you dear Realist here is a video of my last cruise for you to watch while you think of your next inane reply.

You did make errors. Simple as.

BS

No you don’t

Let’s review. Here are the offers YOU posted up:

YOU stated that the cheapest there was £400

Care to point out which one is £400?

No thought not

You also stated that the most expensive was £1000

Again, care to highlight which one that was?

No thought not

You made a fool of yourself. A better man would simply admit it.

You’re babbling again. Quite easy to demonstrate, as I said originally:

$794 is approximately £400

$1887 or $2099 is approximately £1000

A cost easily afforded by even a pensioner - the proof, if needed, is in the number of pensioners on these cruises and definitely affordable by most working families. Why can’t you understand this?

I know you will now waffle on about this is per person per cabin yes that is true it is clearly written in the illustration I gave but most people I know merely share the cabin with someone. I told you that I shared the cabin with my son, I didn’t pay for him he didn’t pay for me.

You really are the most pedantic sophist I have ever come across.

QED

Next?

If I may interrupt here chaps…:024: News just in…
A friend has just returned from a 19 night cruise into the Med, Sicily, Venice, Split and Dubrovnik etc aboard the P&O ship Arcadia…After a bout of Noravirus broke out on the ship just two days out from Southampton , food had to be served by the waiters only, and the top deck cafeteria was closed. Most people ate in their cabins.

Due to engine trouble, Sicily was missed out altogether and the ship spent two nights in Malaga waiting for engineers to fly out and make repairs.
The engineers failed to repair the ship and as a consequence had to stay berthed in Malaga for yet another day.
It would appear P&O have ‘Gone to the Dogs’ and unfortunately Mrs Fox and myself are due to sail on the Arcadia over the New Year period…Eeeeeeeek…!

Sure they will get all problems sorted, sounds fabulous.:mrgreen:

Arcadia is a decent ship OGF. Another of the more trafitional ones with wide prom deck etc though her lounges and bars are open not enclosed. I have always found the air con system to be a problem as have many others. It is too powerful un the cabins and leaves people with the well known “cabin cough”. I believe that air con spreads germs around more than other ships and as a rrsult I think it’s more of a “sick” ship than others. Possibly it’s just an older audience that tends to bring illnesses on board. The oldies will all have been frightened into having their flu jabs each year and end up bringing thes ebugs on board with them. Norovirus is no different. Crew and passengers alike bring it on board with them.

We never use the buffet areas on any ship in order to minimise exposure to Norovirus. Closing the buffet is appropriate when Noro is onboard.

Also I would have loved the 3 night unscheduled overnight stay in Malaga. It’s a lovely place. Far better than Sicily.

Arcadia may be the next ship to leave the fleet imho.

P&O are favouring the bigger ships. More bums in cabins = more on board revenue for them.

Tell them to look on the bright side - they could have been on the Costa Concordia. :wink:

Booking on the right side of the Costa Concordia was not a good idea - that was the side that sank … :shock:

Do they accept anyone else?

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Convinced now that cruising is not for us.

Bit of a knee jerk reaction TBH

Your average mainland restaurant would have far worse issues. Flies are everywhere, in supermarkets on the produce, in restaurants, in take away shops and so on.

Hygiene standards are pretty stringent on cruise ships.

An example.

During evening dining in the restaurants, waiters run off to the kitchen to collect your starters, mains and desserts.
When they do they join the end of a long line of waiters all doing the same. They must wash their hands at the outset.

If at any point they touch their mouth, nose or face whilst standing in line, they are pulled out of the line, go wash their hands again, and then join the back of the queue.

Of course, just as there’s a difference between what you might expect at a Michelin star restaurant and say Nando’s there’s a difference between each cruise line.

Pick a decent one and you’ll have few problems.