MB85,
They may ask for your PNR number which is on your confirmation.

hi every body
Just a quick note to say i am back from a fantastic cruise.good company.good food ,good weather.
Met 8 other D.E.s just gill in h.t..all very nice.all had paid the upgrade fare except for the 2 sharing who had the most fantastic hol for £10!!!!!!!! i will write more after i have caught up with washing etc.
A frozen meal today ,no lobster and champayne !!!!!
i wish i had another week.it has been worth the ups and downs.
carol

Good evening you Merry cruisers, for the balcony cruise,

What a lovely day it has been up to 23c today, mind you it is a bit chilly now.

Antie Joan, that is the reason, well one of them, I left the Moss since settled in Bristol I do not own an overcoat Honest i do not. :rofl

My auntie Beryl always complains when I ring her, (she is in Northenden)and always has the heating on. move South Girl, the swallows know best
Did 30 miles today to far side of Bath, ye Gods I did sweat, not that I think you need to know that, but some might. must have lost 50 grammes ( I have no idea what 50 grammes is, but it sounds good) and 1/2 inche around the tum.

Got back and had a ggod fry up with eggs bacon black pud (from Bury) and rag pud, with a few old spuds that I fried up. bye heck that put some thing back in.hyper

Bulb just gone in lamp, so will have to close, as I'm writ ing in the dark, not mush light of the old sun lamp, also quite hard to see through the goggles.

Good Luck to all sailing this week and enjoy yourselves, which is the main thing (just to keep Luci sweet)

Byeee for now

Phil Morris

They may ask for your PNR number which is on your confirmation

Not everyone has been given this number...... I have nothing resembling this on my confirmation!

OK Phil, Own up! Have you actually weighed yourself since you began this new frenetic excercise regime? Mind you, you will soon know when your trousers fall off!

Hi all Have just returned from a WOOOW c ruise of msc Operare along with Carol and several other DE cruisers. It was absolutely fantastic!!!!!! Opera is a 5 star ship with all the trimmings. I was collected from Treviso airport with another DEcruiser, my cabin mate, in a Mercedes car, just the two of us; the driver dropped our luggage off at the cruise terminal and proceeded to take us into Venice to spend a few hours before the sailing and he collected us again after the cruise, along with Carol, in a merc. car again back to the airport. the ship was beautiful, only into service a year ago and boy oh boy was it a treat!!!! Not a bad word can be said about the whole trip. The only sad thing is the way it has come about and all the aggro and it looks as though the whole thing has dried up again. I would certainly cruise again with MSC, finances allowing; I had to keep pinching myself to see if it was real. Good luck to everyone else and please keep trying, the dream is there. regards Gill

Carol, Hope you arrived home safely and it was good to share the experiences with you funny and otherwise, you know what I mean!!! Gill

Hi, I'm posting on behalf of hubby who has just rec'd tickets ( vouchers ) for Melody dep 23/05/05. He is counting himself very lucky in view of recent developments.

Only problem is Booking confirmation states flight out to Milan on Sat with Easyjet ( arrange own overnight accom in Milan ), but the Itinery from MSC states Heathrow on the Sunday ( both agree with Easyjet return flight).

I seem to remember old posts saying you could punch in a PRN number on some website- but do not appear to have one.

How do I confirm the easyjet flight? - I have tried ringing there phonenumber - but no joy, tried Gatwick airport no joy, - any help would be much appreciated
Thanks G

Ok folks...this is serious I will give all assistance and advice that I can but only on the condition that everyone realises(as the bodies under the patio did) that I am FEMALE. I acknowledge that its not been easy to recognise at times when I have been stressed by postal workers and others who did not fully understand how a woman of a certain age can suddenly lose all control and sense of reasoning (particulary when in a hoist and up a tree...but we'll leave that to one side for the moment) .Ok , what you do to confirm your flights is to telephone the flight operator and explain that you did not book the flights yourself and you are concerned as you have heard that the company who booked them on your behalf is less that reputable ( sorry **** but desperate times call for desperate measures!) and with any luck they'll take pity on you and tell you whether or not you are on the flight as they did with me.

Hi gkendal

I'm sure, at this late stage, it would be ok for you to telephone MSC.

Hi juro
Good you've put the record straight........Up a tree? Were you hoisted by your own petard when you buried the bodies?

Hi Carol and Gill,
Great to hear you are home safely and that you have had SUCH a good time!! Joanne and I leave on Saturday for the Opera from Venice and can hardly contain ourselves (well at least I for one can't! )

A couple of quezzies crossed my mind.
Someone mentioned iced drinking water for the table, is drinking water freely available in the cabins?
How much roughly was the on board bill?
And this is a silly one perhaps but I like cranberry juice, was there any onboard? Medicinal purposes only of course
Much like the champagne!!! Now, my travelling cocktail cabinet... what needs topping up in that....Hmmmm

Well Phil, you sure know how to twist the knife. Bury black pudding was the icing on the fry-up fantasy cake. I have forgotten what real food tastes like. The roof of my mouth is shredded from eating Ryvita and that lo-cal tonic water just disses the vodca.
Less that two weeks to go now, can l make it? I shall lay the blame firmly at your door if l thaw out some best back and plug in the George Formby before then.
Auntie Beryl and me have something in common then BIG BILLS

Joan XX

To anyone still wanting flight confirmation, the site to visit is:-

http://www.viewtrip.com. To use this site you will need your PNR number which should be on your confirmation.

I am not sure if it works with all flights but it does work with Alitalia flights!
(It didn't work with BMI flights)

Hi all,

The information on how to check the flight booking was very useful, at least I now know it has been booked and I have printed off a copy, so now hope for the best as I am not going until june 20th.

Has everyone remembered to listen to Three Counties Radio this morning? Starts at 10am I believe.

Hi cruise people

any one got an update on the cruise situation ?

Particularly if you have written cruise confirmation.

Ange

I listened to Three Counties , but there was no mention of the DE cruise offer on there. On Friday they did say that they were trying to find out about the current situation. By the look of it they were unsuccessful. If the "discussions" between DE and Rise are of a legal nature then both parties might want to keep the thing under wraps until something is resolved. You know what lawyers are like !

Hi AbroadScots

We drank the iced water on offer at the table and am still here to tell the tale, no ofter effects. you obviously can buy water and bottled water is available already in the cabin along with the well-stocked mini-bar, to purchase. the mini-bar is expensive but all in all the drinks on board are reasonable. I really am envious of you going on board the Opera, you are in for a really good time. Even the inside cabins are spacious and well airconditioned; what more can I say!!! Have a good trip. Gill

Hi all
Thanks Allisu for the phone number for Ryan Air. I rang today and they confirmed my name was on the flight list for 18th June. I feel so much better now. Sounds like all the DE cruisers who have just come back have had a brill time. Would be interested to know how you managed to find each other, was it the T shirts or the tatoo on your forehead?
Thanks again all.
Its good to be able to exchange knowledge or lack of it in my case.
May B

May B

I expect the same person typed your confirmation as the one who wrote that I leave from Heathrow South Terminal when it should be Terminal One!

Phil, it is not just your aunty in the north with the heating on. I have not turned mine off yet!

Maureen H