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Are the Cunard ship visits worth the £50pp charge, which seems expensive to me?

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Stephen wrote: 03 Feb 2017, 09:24
Are the Cunard ship visits worth the £50pp charge, which seems expensive to me?
Do you get it refunded if you eventually book a cruise?
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We've done it once, purely because we wanted to see one of the Cunard ships and for that reason, we felt that £50 was OK for a day out. Wouldn't necessarily do it again though

Compare that with £25pp for the same kind of experience with P&O, where I felt the lunch to be far superior then, yes, it is expensive.

Both Cunard and P&O do offer you discounts and/or extra OBC if you book following a ship visit

Anyone know what Calamity charge for a visit ?


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No, I've not done a ship visit with X, I don't (personally) think that in the case of X that a brief visit would give a deep enough insight into the service which we have experienced on our cruises with them.

We have had a ship visit with Azamara - and it was an invitation and free of charge. There were the usual perks of discount/obc etc if you made a booking as a result of the ship visit, and in our case the booking wasn't necessary on the day itself, we were given a voucher with a code on it, and that would give us the perks. As it turned out, we were able to squeeze in to actually make our reservation before we left the ship.

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qbman1 wrote: 03 Feb 2017, 09:41
We've done it once, purely because we wanted to see one of the Cunard ships and for that reason, we felt that £50 was OK for a day out. Wouldn't necessarily do it again though

Compare that with £25pp for the same kind of experience with P&O, where I felt the lunch to be far superior then, yes, it is expensive.

Both Cunard and P&O do offer you discounts and/or extra OBC if you book following a ship visit

Anyone know what Calamity charge for a visit ?
We paid £25 but it was 2-3 years ago. We were surprised to be given a drinks voucher and the run of the ship for a couple of hours
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Stephen wrote: 03 Feb 2017, 09:24
Are the Cunard ship visits worth the £50pp charge, which seems expensive to me?
We didn't think so, not when P&O/Celebrity were charging £25 for the same thing
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Agree Alan.

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