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Post by d'James on Jun 30, 2017 15:03:18 GMT
Oh yeh.... then we get on board and you disappear with some "theatrical" type for the duration like Alison Steadman in Shirley Valentine! I don't think so! Anyway I like my own room on holiday. Keeps the options open!  Excuse moi ! I'm the one likely to be left talking to the rock...... But the idea of Theatreboard cruises appeals. We could start small maybe hire the Mersey Ferry with a medley from "Blood Brothers". There's enough of us to play the roles. |
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Post by hulmeman on Jun 30, 2017 18:25:58 GMT
Free taxi to the port for anyone cracking a particularly bad joke. I went to the doctor last week, he told me what was wrong, I said, I don't believe you, I want a second opinion. The doctor said alright, your bloody ugly as well. Send the cab, I'm on me way!!!! |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 1, 2017 11:29:08 GMT
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 1, 2017 12:01:23 GMT
"So we went on this North Sea cruise in October and........"
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Post by danb on Jul 1, 2017 12:32:48 GMT
"So we went on this North Sea cruise in October and........" Yeah, but if it were to a soundtrack of 'Thick Legs' doing 'Close Every Door' you could probably enjoy it Burly? No? Burly? |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 1, 2017 12:52:53 GMT
"So we went on this North Sea cruise in October and........" Yeah, but if it were to a soundtrack of 'Thick Legs' doing 'Close Every Door' you could probably enjoy it Burly? No? Burly? Any dream will do! Go Go Joseph Lee! 😋 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 14:28:30 GMT
That looks ... exciting. I'm not entirely sure it was a sensible idea to take something that by its very nature is not going to remain horizontal and then design rooms with long open stretches and smooth floors and pack those rooms with things that slide.
Also, I can't begin to describe my dislike of people who think you want to listen to their choice of music when watching a video. It's like a website from the 1990s.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 1, 2017 16:05:11 GMT
That's brilliant! Hilarious. BurlyBeaR, that's some research! I'm impressed. I'm looking for a car and they bore me rigid - any chance you can find me one?  |
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Post by Snciole on Aug 17, 2017 15:41:17 GMT
BUMP! For anyone tight like me who doesn't want to pay The Sexpress (does anyone call it this?) are running a competition for this cruise and an 80s themed one. YOU and a lucky friend have the chance to win a cabin for two aboard a ground-breaking cruise experience, as two brand new 'Floating Festivals' launch in October 2018 - Throwback and Stages. Throwback is the ultimate three-night 80's Festival at Sea including a full day stop in Bruges, celebrating all things 80s. Throwback will feature a line-up of chart-topping legends including headliners The Human League. OMD and Erasure's Andy Bell, along with Jason Donovan, Sonia and many more. Stages is a luxurious four-night Musical Theatre festival at Sea including a full day stop in Amsterdam. Stages will feature an incredible array of West End and Broadway stars including musical theatre star Michael Ball, musical theatre super group Collabro, and the divine Beverley Knight, star of The Bodyguard and Cats. For more details, go to www.FloatingFestivals.co.ukFor terms, visit: www.floatingfestivals.co.uk/competitionCall 0905 789 3498 (80ppm)" or text DXWIN3 followed by your email address, name and address to 83310 Or to enter via post send your name, address, phone number, email address, age and gender in a sealed envelope to Themed Cruises Competition, PO BOX 12581, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BX One entry per letter. Entrants must be 18 or over This competition closes at midnight on 07/10/17 and throe working days later for postal entries. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Texts cost £2 plus your usual network rate. Calls cost 80p per minute from a BT landline plus network extras and last 2.5 mins. Calls from other networks and mobiles may cost more. Maximum of 200 premium rate SMS per promotion, per day. For SMS you may receive other related promotional offers/services: if you do not wish to, send NS NOINFO at the end of your message. __________________ |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 16:38:00 GMT
They might make better headway if they try breaking the water instead. |
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Post by Snciole on Aug 18, 2017 8:15:24 GMT
They might make better headway if they try breaking the water instead. As long as they don't mean Michael Ball! |
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Post by theatreian on Aug 18, 2017 8:39:28 GMT
I have been on 10 cruises I think and you really cant beat them for a great holiday. As a theatre lover one of the reasons we go is for the entertainment and the nightly theatre shows. Some of the theatres onboard would give some west end theatres a run for their money. Particularly the theatre onboard Cunards Queen Victoria. As for the catering the meals in the restaurants you would find hard to beat. No I don't work for a cruise company!!And on the bigger ships that we go on you don't feel cooped up as there are so many venues. Anyway that's my say on cruises from someone who has actually been on some!!
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Post by samjane92 on Aug 18, 2017 10:39:22 GMT
I am booked! Anyone else coming?
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Post by frosty on Aug 18, 2017 11:29:55 GMT
I've entered the competition, fingers crossed! Never been on a cruise before (unless you count a drunken party booze cruise to France in my teens where I ended up being sick in a bin while wearing a Tina Turner wig), so I would go with an open mind.
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 18, 2017 12:24:05 GMT
I've entered the competition, fingers crossed! Never been on a cruise before (unless you count a drunken party booze cruise to France in my teens where I ended up being sick in a bin while wearing a Tina Turner wig), so I would go with an open mind. You could get your big break, at the Aldwych next year. What are you like in heels? |
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Post by frosty on Aug 18, 2017 12:53:23 GMT
I've entered the competition, fingers crossed! Never been on a cruise before (unless you count a drunken party booze cruise to France in my teens where I ended up being sick in a bin while wearing a Tina Turner wig), so I would go with an open mind. You could get your big break, at the Aldwych next year. What are you like in heels? Simply the best! (I'll get me coat...) |
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Post by theatreian on Aug 18, 2017 14:53:49 GMT
Sure there will be quite a few friends of Dorothy on this one as we all love a bit of cruising!
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Post by drowseychap on Sept 1, 2017 0:29:31 GMT
They missed a trick not booking st Jane of the macdonald surely !
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Post by bimse on Sept 1, 2017 11:06:57 GMT
The only cruise I ever went on was with Royal Caribbean, the entertainment was incredibly disappointing, no star names at all, and very few acts all told . Names like these would have been very welcome .
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Post by theatregeek on Sept 1, 2017 11:37:05 GMT
I have been on 10 cruises I think and you really cant beat them for a great holiday. As a theatre lover one of the reasons we go is for the entertainment and the nightly theatre shows. Some of the theatres onboard would give some west end theatres a run for their money. Particularly the theatre onboard Cunards Queen Victoria. As for the catering the meals in the restaurants you would find hard to beat. No I don't work for a cruise company!!And on the bigger ships that we go on you don't feel cooped up as there are so many venues. Anyway that's my say on cruises from someone who has actually been on some!! I'm totally with you on this - all my friends cruise now despite all their excuses in the past about old people, being cooped up, the cost etc etc. I'm just off one and one night after the main show the cruise director announced that in the theatre in the morning there would be an audience with Steven Schwartz! I nearly choked on my Pimms! What? So I got up early - it was an 0330 session in the piano bar the prior evening with a lovely young chap tinkling the ivories belting out Shirley Bassey choones and the like! Went to the theatre and spent a lovely hour listening to him talk about his life and he played a couple of tunes of his I didn't actually know, but loved! He was in the said piano bar that evening too with his entourage - he was actually on holiday, so if it's good enough for Lord Steven then good enough for anybody! I'm booked on this too with about a dozen friends - it is a tad expensive but that's a lot of decent acts to pay I suppose. Really looking forward to it, and you are quite right, the FOD's will be out in force but I can't think of better cruise mates to be honest. Come along! Great time guaranteed - despite some dodgy reviews you might read on the ship, I've stopped reading cruise reviews, I've never had a bad one.
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Post by Phantom of London on Sept 1, 2017 13:11:23 GMT
A colleague went on her first cruise last year. "Splendour of the Norwegian Fjords" or something. She said the Fjords were indeed splendid, sadly the same couldn't be said for the passengers. Mealtimes were a sight to behold apparently. I'll leave it to your imagination. She said she'd only ever go on another cruise if she was going to pay top whack and get exclusive access to certain parts of the ship, dedicated restaurants, lounges and bars etc. The class system is alive and kicking in the world of cruising. Basically it's Titanic all over again. Dreadfully snobby I know but I'm with her on it. I don't wanna hang out with a load of people behaving like they've never seen a buffet before in their lives. I certainly agree cruising is about class, apparently on a cruise the higher up your cabin is the better class you are are and more affluent part of society, this is based that the crew sleep on the bottom, so the further away from them the better, I am obnoxious enough to want to sleep on the bottom based on this theory!!! Also on board the shipping company are always trying to get you to spend money, like enter tonight's lottery, have your picture taken, this is after you have been herded up to be on the ship by 6pm, so you spend money on there extortionate alcohol, which they pay no duty on, for me a destination comes alive at night time. I would hate all the queue also on board to get your evening meal, especially with raucous behaviour as highlighted on here and feels like some sort of Benidorm on the sea and don't ever ever get me started about that grear invitation to sit at the captain's table, how tacky and gaudy. I was reading the itinerary of a round the world cruise, 5 days at sea I would be bored out of my head, by the second day and would end up jettison myself overboard. |
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 1, 2017 13:19:12 GMT
They missed a trick not booking st Jane of the macdonald surely ! Back on telly to-night. (Channel 5, 9pm, I think.) |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 1, 2017 13:27:20 GMT
I hear that all meals on the cruise are going to be Musical themed.
Meat pies
Schnitzel with noodles
Turkey Lurkey kebabs
and a real nice clam bake of course.
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Post by theatreian on Sept 1, 2017 14:08:39 GMT
I have to disagree with comments made by those who obviously have not been on a cruise. I have been on at least 10 with 7 different companies. Most of what has been written is not true , in my experience anyway. The captains table does not really happen anymore. It is just such a good way of seeing different places and it is up to you what you get involved in. I have always been impressed by the music and theatre on board and I am sure anyone who has booked on the musical theatre cruise will have a great time. I have already booked 2 cruises for nest year so wont be able to go on this one.
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 1, 2017 14:41:33 GMT
^Sung by Bruno Mars, The Spice Girls, Christina Peri Peri, M& M and Bovril Lavine
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