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Old 19th April 2008, 01:08 PM   #8 (permalink)
sue mullen
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Default Carnival misses port... throws family off ship

Tom K wrote:

> The QM2 does them in 6 days. So you don't need a long sailing.


We have no interest in cruising on any Cunard ship.

> We got a morning flight from Newark to London, so no jetlag. And the ship
> changes the clocks 1 hour each day... so you get a 25 hour day coming back
> to the US.


This might work for a healthy person, but for me changing the clock by
an hour really messes me us.

> Our air via Cunard was considerably less than air that we could find on the
> internet through either Continental or Virgin Atlantic. $300 less in fact.
> And we're on the same Virgin Atlantic flight. I suspect Cunard buys round
> trip tix and then give you half. This was one instance where it was MUCH
> cheaper to do cruise air.


Still a flight to Florida would be much cheaper. I think you might be
right about Cunard buying roundtrip tickets.

sue
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