P and O

[Gloucester Saint]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

an you get a pint of Whitbread best on there too?

Which ironically given this thread was made with a hop called East Kent Goldings https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/igpgp4u2tb/

[East Kent Saint]

Ha , kent used to be covered with hop fields back in the 60 s and before , rarely see them these days . 

[Weston Super Saint]

39 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

Ha , kent used to be covered with hop fields back in the 60 s and before , rarely see them these days . 

Fucking illegal immigrants.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, East Kent Saint said:

Ha , kent used to be covered with hop fields back in the 60 s and before , rarely see them these days . 

Lots of them in neighbouring Worcestershire.

[Winnersaint]

11 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

 I am old enough to remember the White Star Line

Wow a Titanic survivor!

[Whitey Grandad]

4 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Which shares - Carnival CCL are currently listed at £1980 per share...

That's they. I think that's about what I paid for them all those years ago. They are dual listed and AGMs alternate between London and Miami. I've been to a few. They're not the most dynamic bunch of executives that you might hope for.

[Whitey Grandad]

6 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Quite rare cruises that do that.

The mainstream lines, like the company that owns the coffee brand (and has a concession on their ships) tend to visit Flam, Olden, Helsyllt in the Fjords and add on a couple of sea towns like Haugesund, Kristiansand, Stavanger to make up the cruise length.

Still nice to sail along a Fjord sat on a balcony with a nice cup of Costa.

The locals are starting to get fussy about the type of ships that can use the Fjords. Geiranger in particular will eventually require visiting ships to be zero emissions. 

[Whitey Grandad]

3 hours ago, Zorba said:

Might have to get a ferry. 

We did that. I drove my dear wife up to the middle of Sweden so that she could buy a large Dalahäst (red painted wooden horse) in Mora in Dalarna. Ferries go from Hirtshals in Northern Denmark to Larvik and Kristiansand but the Bergen route is probably better for western Norway. 

Or you could go the long way round over the Øresund Bridge. We drove outbound via Harwich - Esbjerg just before that route closed and back via Øresund and Hook of Holland. 

[Whitey Grandad]

5 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

FO and Hurtigruten go there, I think Ambassador do as well - not sure about NCL, but the main ones from Southampton, P&O, MSC, Princess, Carnival only do shorter 7 day cruises.

 

I've done the Hurtigruten from Bergen to Kirkenes and back twice but it's a voyage and not really a cruise. You only get a couple of hours in the bigger ports but not necessarily at the best of times. 

NCL do a couple but they are mainly aimed at the Americans with 9 or 10 nighters.

P&O still do some. Arcadia in August this year and Aurora in December.

We went up to North Cape on Princess in 2022 the year before I lost my dear wife but the emphasis now is on shorter ones. 

The Norwegians are getting fussy over environmental issues. Geiranger Fjord will soon only accept zero emission ships. 

The problem is that the big lines are moving towards ever larger ships and many ports can't handle them. 

[benjii]

Do Carnival run the fair on the common?

[Scummer]

15 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Which shares - Carnival CCL are currently listed at £1980 per share...

That's £19.80 by the way, not £1,980. UK shares are priced in pence.

[Whitey Grandad]

5 hours ago, benjii said:

Do Carnival run the fair on the common?

I first met the young girl who was to become my wife and lifelong companion at a disco called the North20 in Barnet High Street although we didn't call them discos then. It was a Valentine's evening on 12th February 1966 and we were both still just sixteen years old.

For the last dance of the evening they would always play "The Carnival is Over" by The Seekers. She always dreaded hearing this song because it meant that the evening was over and if you hadn't pulled by then you were going to go home alone. For the two of us, fifty-seven years later, the carnival is truly over.

By all means get tickets for the fair on the Common but you won't see much of the wider world that's waiting out there for you.

[Whitey Grandad]

4 minutes ago, Scummer said:

That's £19.80 by the way, not £1,980. UK shares are priced in pence.

Good point.

Although to qualify for the on board credit that you get for holding these shares you need to have at least 100 of them so that is what you would need to spend. This perk is available on all Carnival Cruise brands.

[Marsdinho]

11 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

That's they. I think that's about what I paid for them all those years ago. They are dual listed and AGMs alternate between London and Miami. I've been to a few. They're not the most dynamic bunch of executives that you might hope for.

I worked at the AGM at The Mandarin Oriental in 2019. I was providing IT support to the bunch of executives. Cant complain too much as they put me and the Mrs up in the Four Seasons on Park Lane for a week!

[Weston Super Saint]

1 hour ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Good point.

Although to qualify for the on board credit that you get for holding these shares you need to have at least 100 of them so that is what you would need to spend. This perk is available on all Carnival Cruise brands.

How much credit - we've got a two week cruise on Iona in Sep so could be worth investing and keep hold for our 2027 cruise on Arvia...

[East Kent Saint]

P&O hit the headlines again , Boss paid £683k lowest paid crew on £4.87 an hour.

[Whitey Grandad]

57 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

How much credit - we've got a two week cruise on Iona in Sep so could be worth investing and keep hold for our 2027 cruise on Arvia...

£150 per stateroom on P&O for 14 days or more. I'm on a Princess cruise to Galveston in October and I get $250. Nowadays you have to apply through an app called Stockperks.

https://www.carnivalcorp.com/investors/shareholder-information/shareholder-benefit/

Somehow I've ended up buying a lot of future cruise credits on NCL and I looked at buying their shares but they only give you $100 for cruise up to 14 days so it wasn't worth it. To ge honest you wouldn’t want to spend that long on NCL anyway.

[Whitey Grandad]

35 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

P&O hit the headlines again , Boss paid £683k lowest paid crew on £4.87 an hour.

Which P&O is that?

[Weston Super Saint]

3 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Which P&O is that?

Ferries.

Also made £91m loss, which is probably better than last year.

[spyinthesky]

58 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

£150 per stateroom on P&O for 14 days or more. I'm on a Princess cruise to Galveston in October and I get $250. Nowadays you have to apply through an app called Stockperks.

https://www.carnivalcorp.com/investors/shareholder-information/shareholder-benefit/

Somehow I've ended up buying a lot of future cruise credits on NCL and I looked at buying their shares but they only give you $100 for cruise up to 14 days so it wasn't worth it. To ge honest you wouldn’t want to spend that long on NCL anyway.

Whitey,
You're a class act and can understand that you may not have fitted in on NCL.

Perhaps have a think about Seaborne, the class act of the Carnival group

[Whitey Grandad]

39 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

Whitey,
You're a class act and can understand that you may not have fitted in on NCL.

Perhaps have a think about Seaborne, the class act of the Carnival group

Thanks, I'll have a look.

I'm cramming in all the travel that I can these days whilst i can still get the insurance and a big problem is that I want a solo balcony cabin which is not too expensive. 

[Weston Super Saint]

Just now, Whitey Grandad said:

Thanks, I'll have a look.

I'm cramming in all the travel that I can these days whilst i can still get the insurance and a big problem is that I want a solo balcony cabin which is not too expensive. 

With some rocking horse teeth thrown in!!

[Zorba]

54 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

With some rocking horse teeth thrown in!!

I thought it was hen’s teeth ..and rocking horse shit. 

 

[SW5 SAINT]

1 hour ago, spyinthesky said:

Whitey,
You're a class act and can understand that you may not have fitted in on NCL.

Perhaps have a think about Seaborne, the class act of the Carnival group

I realise Seaborne are the class act of the Carnival group, but they are still part of Carnival. If I was spending that sort of money I would rather look at someone like Oceania, Azamara or Silversea……

[Weston Super Saint]

30 minutes ago, Zorba said:

I thought it was hen’s teeth ..and rocking horse shit. 

 

Shows how hard it would be!!

[spyinthesky]

1 hour ago, SW5 SAINT said:

I realise Seaborne are the class act of the Carnival group, but they are still part of Carnival. If I was spending that sort of money I would rather look at someone like Oceania, Azamara or Silversea……

I've been on Seaborne, Regent Seven Seas (a subsidiary of NCL) and Oceania.
All excellent, but expensive and as a consequence there are quite a few pompous passengers who like to boast about their money making expertise..
There are a number of other '6 Star' Cruise Lines starting to make inroads into this top end of the marker so there is a great deal of choice in whatever market floats yer boat (see what I did there🤪?

[benjii]

 

4 hours ago, East Kent Saint said:

P&O hit the headlines again , Boss paid £683k lowest paid crew on £4.87 an hour.

 

4 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Which P&O is that?

 

4 hours ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Ferries.

 

Lolz.