Last One to Post Wins

[Dark Knight]

wasn't that what all you middle class wanabees drunk ,to pretend you were posh in the 70's and early 80's
or was it black tower?

[qbman1]

Mateus Rose, please

[Manoverboard]

Black Tower had anti-freeze in it .... ask Cubie if he feels the cold

[Mervyn and Trish]

You're right Batty, never done Thomson. Why not? Well we like P&O so why gamble our money (and it ain't cheap) on something we might not like when we can spend it on something we know we do. And we simply don't like the look of the Thomson ships - one factor being a dire shortage of balcony cabins, which is our preference.

However, joshing apart, I know you did not like P&O as much as we did so can understand and respect you trying something else. Much better than staying put and whinging. Vive la difference, other cruise lines are available etc.

When Thomson have got some newer ships that we like the look of, and if we no longer enjoyed P&O so much, who knows?

We have tried other lines - Cunard, Princess, RCI and Calamity - but in each case preferred to return to P&O. We are back on Cunard next year to do QM2 across to New York and will almost certainly do Princess again to do the Panama. We thought RCI was fantastic, but not our style. We thought Calamity was over-hyped, and got bored with the constant self congratulation, but won't go into that again.

Quite happy for you to take your chip where you want to, and we'll take ours. Shame it's different places really because I'm sure it's your round.

By the way ours was Piat d'Or!

[qbman1]

That was 'orrible

(Piat d'Or, not Thomson !)

[Mervyn and Trish]

We're more sofistikated now. A nice Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc or a good rich New World Merlot. Or meths.

[qbman1]

Gavi please .

[Manoverboard]

Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc or a Malbec pour moi ... as our vin ordinaire of choice

[qbman1]

A nice Cote de Rhone would be most welcome too

[Mervyn and Trish]

...or a Malbec pour moi ...

A nice Cote de Rhone would be most welcome too

I'd have no argument with either if you're opening a bottle

[qbman1]

That's me done - have to set off for Solihull for a fun-packed evening of fancy dress and karaoke.

And no, I am not going on a Thomson cruise !!!!

[Mervyn and Trish]

So is the Cote de Rhone off for now then?

[Silver_Shiney]

You're right Batty, never done Thomson. Why not? Well we like P&O so why gamble our money (and it ain't cheap) on something we might not like when we can spend it on something we know we do. And we simply don't like the look of the Thomson ships - one factor being a dire shortage of balcony cabins, which is our preference.

However, joshing apart, I know you did not like P&O as much as we did so can understand and respect you trying something else. Much better than staying put and whinging. Vive la difference, other cruise lines are available etc.

When Thomson have got some newer ships that we like the look of, and if we no longer enjoyed P&O so much, who knows?

We have tried other lines - Cunard, Princess, RCI and Calamity - but in each case preferred to return to P&O. We are back on Cunard next year to do QM2 across to New York and will almost certainly do Princess again to do the Panama. We thought RCI was fantastic, but not our style. We thought Calamity was over-hyped, and got bored with the constant self congratulation, but won't go into that again.

Quite happy for you to take your chip where you want to, and we'll take ours. Shame it's different places really because I'm sure it's your round.

By the way ours was Piat d'Or!

I understand your point about gambling your money on trying a different line only to find you don't like it 'cos we're a bit like that too BUT wasn't it just as big a gamble when you booked your very first cruise with whichever line?

Remember the advertising tagline "le French adore le Piat d'Or"? The French had never heard of it... Our tipple of choice back then was St Panteleimon (a semi sweet Cypriot white wine)

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not really. Then we gambled on something we thought we would like. And we had nothing to lose. Now we know we do like P&O and, rightly or wrongly, don't like the look of Thomson. It's a different gamble. But should P&O become less attractive and Thomson more attractive, who knows?

[Dark Knight]

Morning scaredycats

[towny44]

Morning half wits, dimwits and nitwits, I leave the choice to you.

[Dark Knight]

I am a half wit, which is much preferred to a no wit

[Jan Rosser]

I'm not in any of those categories John but good morning anyway

[Dark Knight]

Dint worry Jan
Towny is a great one for making unsubstantiated assumptions about people based on nothing

[Mervyn and Trish]

Ooooh. Handbags at dawn. Again

[towny44]

More like pot, kettle, black, I thought.

[Mervyn and Trish]

That too. Now I don't want to upset you but I've just agreed with you again on another thread. Must try and see my doctor...

[Dark Knight]

Just got back from doing our shopping bits and bobs and managed to do it without judging a single person, solely based on what they were wearing

[Stephen]

That too. Now I don't want to upset you but I've just agreed with you again on another thread. Must try and see my doctor...

Doctor Finlay I presume Merv

[Mervyn and Trish]

Cameron. Finlay was a student doctor in my day