Welcome to our third Cunard Queen Victoria episode! Its jam packed! Hopefully we've scrubbed up well as it is formal night! Do you enjoy formal nights?
Hi guy! Brilliant vlog again! I like you attitude, rain or shine you’ll enjoy your life 👍 You both looked very handsome in your dinner jackets. I love dress up on cruises and I love Cunard.
I think that's one of the things I like most about cruise ships. You can spend your ship days doing whatever you fancy, always something going on somewhere if you want to get involved. But if you just want to chill there's usually a bar you can people watch. That batter sounded wonderfully crisp too, nothing worse for your appetite than soggy fish.
Been on 11 ships since the late 90s and Queen Victoria is our absolute favourite. Great to catch a glimpse of Alvin serving at the pool bar (just the nicest guy we’ve ever been served by). Really nice/ fun vlog as always.
We went on our first cruise last may 23 to the fjords for my 60th birthday the first vlogs we found were yours we have been massive fans ever since you both make a dull day bright going to rotterdam in March and canarys for xmas 2024 we have got the bug which I feel was helped by your funny videos I literally watch them as soon as you post them thank you both for the entertainment 😂😂
Awww thank you so much, that’s such a lovely comment! Really glad they are entertaining and useful! Maybe we should have warned you about cruising being addictive 🤣 Thank you 🤩
My wife and I met you on the Victoria back in your LKGP days. We look forward to all your vlogs. No matter how stressed we both are with life, your vlogs make us laugh and wipes out all the hassle from the previous week. Many cruise vloggers dislike the dressing up that cruising offers but you two embrace it and really appreciate the food offered. You are a great , well dressed couple and a credit to Wales and cruising in general. Love you both, Gary and Leigh from south Wales.
Diolch! So lovely you have been following us since the beginning 🥰 thank you! We like to bring people along, while not everything is perfect at all times, we’re definitely glass half full people and really appreciate how fortunate we are to be able to cruise 🥰
Some people would have complained all day about the rainy weather, but the two of you made the most of it and had a wonderful day. Good to see you having so much fun on that lovely ship.
Awww, I'm so excited for the Verandah! A formal night there - wow! Funny enough, while watching this episode, in the middle of supper, Amazon delivered one of my formal night jackets (Masquerade Night) coming up for the Queen Elizabeth this summer. Cheers to you both, much love!
What a perfect day you had, I would have loved all of it. Queen Victoria is now definitely on my cruise to do in the future list. Glad Max had a outing wearing no pants but a posh hat.
Another jam packed video by my favourite monkeys! You do scrub up well boys…. How handsome are you both all suited and booted! …. No “sandwich special” this time ha ha!, but that’s fine because I must say, every plateful of food you had looked delicious ( I feel I need to go to the gym just watching you 😆) Have a fab weekend both of you 🙂
It sure was jam packed! Awww thank you, we like to make an effort 😀 No sandwich in think one but think there is in the next one 🤣 Hahaha, we need to head there too! Thank you, have a wonderful one too!
You always make me smile. That was obviously a great evening with the champagne box at the theatre and the Verandah restaurant. Thanks for your great vlogs.
This looked amazing, you looked like royalty in the box in the theatre , how special was that !! The steaks looked incredible 😊 it just all looks stunning!!
Hiya lads. Im home from hospital finally after the hysterectomy. I ended up in the hospital for a week due to an infection. Being back at home watching you both is part of my recovery. Great video as always. Xx
Great video guys. You both looked very Posh 😀. Makes us excited about our cruise in seven weeks, we’ve both missed wearing ours dinner suits 🤵♂️ we’ve sat in the boxes a few times, but not on a formal night so might try it this time as it seemed pretty good value for all you got. Look forward to the next one 🚢👍
Sometimes you just fancy it… no! 😂 A Harpist and the size of that Orchestra?! How fancy 😜 Love that! Amy was full on disgusted because she thought that you paid all that money for just the chocolates, I had to explain it to her 😂 she’s not very observant! 🤣😂 That steak looked amazing! 🤤
Hahahahaha! Oh it’s such a special treat and worth it for the private box 🥰 The verandah is stunning and great value for money to be honest compared with speciality dining in the other American lines 😀
Wow fencing class, i love it…it certainly something i would like to do. That lunch looked fabulous, i could not understand Luke what you were saying it was..it looked like beef…can you tell me again what it was, you know I am a yank😂😂
Yeah, think we’d like to try that next time! It was a beef suet pudding 🤤 It’s a small deep filled pie really, made with suet pastry which is normally then normally steamed or boiled. 😋
Thank you! I go to a lot of effort to try and match the music theme to the setting if that makes sense. Try epidemic sounds for the music😉 that’s where it’s all from! Luke 👍🏻
I took a cruise in October Luke and I missed not having housework to do! It sounds strange but I get great satisfaction from making a jobs to do list and crossing jobs off once I've done them. I also missed my kitchen and being able to cook the food I wanted to eat! 😂.. What am I like?! X
Lovely vlog as you know we have been on QE for 10days our itiniary was changed due cyclone we ended up in SA not Qld had a lovely time booked for December.
Morning gents, we’re big fans and a subscriber to your channel. We’re hoping to book a four night stay on the Victoria. Can I ask how much a drinks package is. Cheers.
Thanks so much for getting back to us gents. Again all the best and hope we meet on the travels, your top blokes and my wife jools is a party animal, so you would get on like a house on fire. Have a great day.
So the Theatre event is that a special for this cruise or this Queen?? I have never seen a blogger review it and it looked POSH as well as fun Lukie you should have taken one for the team Cheese Tray a definite must but would have loved to have eaten the strawberry pavlova of course if you had it I would not have had the calories or the guilt 😂😂
It’s available on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth on their production show nights, think quite a few people don’t realise it’s available but they do advertise it in the daily magazine. It is a talk or comedian they don’t offer it and the boxes are then just available on a first come first serve basis! Ohhh we’d have loved to try the puds but we were so full 🤣
@@CruiseMonkeys Hopefully Queen Anne will do it as well Was hoping that QM2 did it The transatlantic is a bucket list cruise don’t know if the tummy will like it But don’t care childhood dream Of course then I imagined doing it all POSH dripping in diamonds impossibly glam 😂
Glad you enjoyed! With Cunard they add a 15% service charge to their bar items etc, this is on top of the menu price. If you have the drinks package like we did, this is all included. The per drink limit of the package is for the menu price not the price with service charge.
We booked it as soon as we boarded, head to the reception / guest services and they’ll let you know availability and be able to book It. Ideal to do on Gala night.
This is booked onboard, do it asap to make sure you get a reservation but they are bookable up until the afternoon of the show if you wish. We popped to guest services on the first day to make sure we had it booked (thought as it was Gala night, that one would likely sell quickly)
Do yo do all your filming at 6:00 in the morning or midnight? The ship looks so empty. The last cruise I took, it was almost impossible to walk there were so many people everywhere. Even when you say it is crowded, it looks just normal...
No, we’re fast asleep that time of the morning 🤣 This cruise never felt crowded- even when you went to a venue and the seats were all taken up, it still never felt rammed.
Hello Monkeys! QUESTION(s): While dining in the Britannia on Cunard, do you have an assigned table? If not, can you request one? Or can you at least request to be seated with servers you enjoyed already?
Hi! Cunard now operate a freedom and a club/set dining. So we chose the freedom, this is a turn up when you want between 18:00 and 21:00 - you could ask for a specific section and they would try and cater for you, you may need to wait etc. you can also ‘book’ times on the app, so if you eat the same time each night we’re sure they could accommodate that - it would be worth asking the restaurant manager. Cunard also still operate set dining, an early at 18:00 and late at 20:00 - this means you have the same table each night. As we said, we chose freedom but in our experience if you can’t choose and are assigned something you don’t like, head to the restaurant on boarding day afternoon and they’ll try and accommodate changes, so either a change in time, table size or to/from freedom style. Hope thet helps!
Oh my that helps loads! On QE this summer we'll be on the late seating. Thank you SO MUCH for responding so quickly and so thoroughly! Cheers and love! @@CruiseMonkeys
There really is a cruise line for everyone and every mood. Believe you me there are times we wouldn’t book the likes of Cunard because of how sedate and sophisticated they can be, but then again, there are times there’s nothing we’d want more. It’s one of the reasons we don’t like booking too far in advance because you don’t know how you’ll feel at the time. Having said that, we wanted Cunard for this festive experience and it was 100% fab 👌🏻 everything we wanted on this occasion 💥
Welcome to our third Cunard Queen Victoria episode! Its jam packed! Hopefully we've scrubbed up well as it is formal night! Do you enjoy formal nights?
Really loved this video! To see two wonderful young men 'dressing for the occasion' is lovely.
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for calling us ‘young’ 🥰
Hi guy! Brilliant vlog again! I like you attitude, rain or shine you’ll enjoy your life 👍 You both looked very handsome in your dinner jackets. I love dress up on cruises and I love Cunard.
Glad you enjoyed it! 💯! We’re very fortunate we can cruise so we always make the most of it and never let something small like rain put us off 🤣
I think that's one of the things I like most about cruise ships. You can spend your ship days doing whatever you fancy, always something going on somewhere if you want to get involved. But if you just want to chill there's usually a bar you can people watch. That batter sounded wonderfully crisp too, nothing worse for your appetite than soggy fish.
100% agree! That’s why we love cruising! The fish and chips was delicious 🤤
Been on 11 ships since the late 90s and Queen Victoria is our absolute favourite. Great to catch a glimpse of Alvin serving at the pool bar (just the nicest guy we’ve ever been served by). Really nice/ fun vlog as always.
QV is a fabulous ship. Glad you enjoyed the vlog! Alvin was an amazing guy, we’d go that bar to see him
We went on our first cruise last may 23 to the fjords for my 60th birthday the first vlogs we found were yours we have been massive fans ever since you both make a dull day bright going to rotterdam in March and canarys for xmas 2024 we have got the bug which I feel was helped by your funny videos I literally watch them as soon as you post them thank you both for the entertainment 😂😂
Awww thank you so much, that’s such a lovely comment! Really glad they are entertaining and useful! Maybe we should have warned you about cruising being addictive 🤣 Thank you 🤩
My wife and I met you on the Victoria back in your LKGP days. We look forward to all your vlogs. No matter how stressed we both are with life, your vlogs make us laugh and wipes out all the hassle from the previous week. Many cruise vloggers dislike the dressing up that cruising offers but you two embrace it and really appreciate the food offered. You are a great , well dressed couple and a credit to Wales and cruising in general. Love you both, Gary and Leigh from south Wales.
Diolch! So lovely you have been following us since the beginning 🥰 thank you!
We like to bring people along, while not everything is perfect at all times, we’re definitely glass half full people and really appreciate how fortunate we are to be able to cruise 🥰
First view! Excited, boys!
🙌 enjoy the episode!
Some people would have complained all day about the rainy weather, but the two of you made the most of it and had a wonderful day. Good to see you having so much fun on that lovely ship.
Ahhh we’re Welsh so used to the rain! 😂 Thanks for watching 😀
Awww, I'm so excited for the Verandah! A formal night there - wow! Funny enough, while watching this episode, in the middle of supper, Amazon delivered one of my formal night jackets (Masquerade Night) coming up for the Queen Elizabeth this summer. Cheers to you both, much love!
Oh it was a fantastic meal - you’ll have a great time there! What perfect timing! Ohhh that’s a fabulous theme to have 👌😀
Thank you 🥰
What a perfect day you had, I would have loved all of it. Queen Victoria is now definitely on my cruise to do in the future list. Glad Max had a outing wearing no pants but a posh hat.
It really was a perfect day 🥰
Yes Gavin "just get it in your mouth". Wonderful to see having a good time so well portrayed.
Woops! 🤣 was such a wonderful day! 😀
Another jam packed video by my favourite monkeys! You do scrub up well boys…. How handsome are you both all suited and booted! …. No “sandwich special” this time ha ha!, but that’s fine because I must say, every plateful of food you had looked delicious ( I feel I need to go to the gym just watching you 😆) Have a fab weekend both of you 🙂
It sure was jam packed! Awww thank you, we like to make an effort 😀 No sandwich in think one but think there is in the next one 🤣 Hahaha, we need to head there too! Thank you, have a wonderful one too!
You looked very posh in your tuxes, and the theater box and dinner looked incredible! Glad you had a good day.
It was! Thank you 🥰
Bhoys your great Craic. Loved the look of the private box, you both looked very flash. Thanks for the laughs
Hahah, thank you we want the video to be fun and informative!
You always make me smile. That was obviously a great evening with the champagne box at the theatre and the Verandah restaurant. Thanks for your great vlogs.
Awwww thank you! Yes it really was a fabulous day that 🥰
Loved the box experience! Think that’s something we would love to do.
You should - ideal for gala night!
Awesome vlog one of your best, but they are all amazing!
Thanks so much!! 🥰
Absolutely great stuff lads, another video, straight out of the Top Drawer. Did Rotterdam for the first time, last October, absolutely loved it.
Awww thank you! Rotterdam is a lovely place 👍
This looked amazing, you looked like royalty in the box in the theatre , how special was that !! The steaks looked incredible 😊 it just all looks stunning!!
It was such an incredible day, everything was perfect 😍
Glad you both had such a great time,wow the box looks a special night ,😊
Thank you! You it was a nice touch to gala night 🥰
Hiya lads. Im home from hospital finally after the hysterectomy. I ended up in the hospital for a week due to an infection. Being back at home watching you both is part of my recovery. Great video as always. Xx
Awww sorry to hear you’ve been in hospital! Wishing you a speedy recovery! Glad you enjoyed the vlog 😀
Great video guys. You both looked very Posh 😀. Makes us excited about our cruise in seven weeks, we’ve both missed wearing ours dinner suits 🤵♂️ we’ve sat in the boxes a few times, but not on a formal night so might try it this time as it seemed pretty good value for all you got. Look forward to the next one 🚢👍
Thanks so much! 😊 Ohhh it will soon be your turn to cruise then! Highly recommend the box on formal night, a nice sense of occasion 😍
Wow! what an evening. The box looked lovely, how was the show? Definitely something I'd do with my partner too!
Jam packed evening! The show was okay, their standard production show - signing and dancing, the box certainly enhanced the experience!
Brilliant vlog looked amazing especially loved the box for the show would have loved the treats and champagne 🥰x
Thank you! That box was brilliant, such a great treat!
Fun vlog loved your delight seeing the ferry and experiencing the ship❤❤
Glad you enjoyed it - we were so pleased to spot it 😀
Sometimes you just fancy it… no! 😂 A Harpist and the size of that Orchestra?! How fancy 😜 Love that! Amy was full on disgusted because she thought that you paid all that money for just the chocolates, I had to explain it to her 😂 she’s not very observant! 🤣😂 That steak looked amazing! 🤤
Hahahahaha! Oh it’s such a special treat and worth it for the private box 🥰
The verandah is stunning and great value for money to be honest compared with speciality dining in the other American lines 😀
Great vlog, great to see the ship again, we've had a few good cruises on QV.
Glad you enjoyed! It’s a stunning ship 🥰
Great video gents! Although I would have expected you to order the adults meal at the Golden Lion, not the kids portions 😂
It was just a light snack 😉😂
Awe brilliant vlog guys so much fun watching you both .all the adventures your getting up too x can’t wait to see your trip to Rotterdam 😊
Thanks so much, glad you are enjoying them 😊
Great video chaps … 👏
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Wow fencing class, i love it…it certainly something i would like to do. That lunch looked fabulous, i could not understand Luke what you were saying it was..it looked like beef…can you tell me again what it was, you know I am a yank😂😂
Yeah, think we’d like to try that next time! It was a beef suet pudding 🤤 It’s a small deep filled pie really, made with suet pastry which is normally then normally steamed or boiled. 😋
Fantastic vlog guys!!
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
Thank you for the video
Thanks for watching!
We love your choice of background music, always head straight for shazam to check out the tunes 🎼🎧
Thank you! I go to a lot of effort to try and match the music theme to the setting if that makes sense. Try epidemic sounds for the music😉 that’s where it’s all from! Luke 👍🏻
Brilliant vlog, as usual 😊 .... titanic 😂 xx
Thank you ☺️ don’t think we’ll get awards for our acting skills 🤣
@@CruiseMonkeys 🤣🤣🤣
I took a cruise in October Luke and I missed not having housework to do! It sounds strange but I get great satisfaction from making a jobs to do list and crossing jobs off once I've done them. I also missed my kitchen and being able to cook the food I wanted to eat! 😂.. What am I like?! X
What are you like but totally get get 💯
when is your next cruise , you prob said but i been to bed and started a new day 😂 so totally forgot
Currently on P&O Azura :)
Lovely vlog as you know we have been on QE for 10days our itiniary was changed due cyclone we ended up in SA not Qld had a lovely time booked for December.
Thank you! Glad you had a wonderful time even with the change in itinerary and good to hear you’ve another booked 👍
Morning gents, we’re big fans and a subscriber to your channel. We’re hoping to book a four night stay on the Victoria. Can I ask how much a drinks package is. Cheers.
Pre voyage it will be $85pppd. It goes down to $72pppd on cruises of 5-14 nights.
Buying on the ship will cost you $95pppd.
Thanks so much for getting back to us gents. Again all the best and hope we meet on the travels, your top blokes and my wife jools is a party animal, so you would get on like a house on fire. Have a great day.
@sparx550 very well one! Hopefully see you in a ship one day! 🙌
So the Theatre event is that a special for this cruise or this Queen?? I have never seen a blogger review it and it looked POSH as well as fun Lukie you should have taken one for the team Cheese Tray a definite must but would have loved to have eaten the strawberry pavlova of course if you had it I would not have had the calories or the guilt 😂😂
It’s available on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth on their production show nights, think quite a few people don’t realise it’s available but they do advertise it in the daily magazine. It is a talk or comedian they don’t offer it and the boxes are then just available on a first come first serve basis!
Ohhh we’d have loved to try the puds but we were so full 🤣
@@CruiseMonkeys Hopefully Queen Anne will do it as well
Was hoping that QM2 did it The transatlantic is a bucket list cruise don’t know if the tummy will like it But don’t care childhood dream Of course then I imagined doing it all POSH dripping in diamonds impossibly glam 😂
Great video, we love watching you both. Hope you don’t mind me asking but where did you get your Santa Xmas jumper from? 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it! It’s a couple of years old, from Studio 😀
Hi lovely video once again, could you please explain the service charge on the drinks, Thanks. Joanne
Glad you enjoyed! With Cunard they add a 15% service charge to their bar items etc, this is on top of the menu price.
If you have the drinks package like we did, this is all included. The per drink limit of the package is for the menu price not the price with service charge.
Hi Guys
Did you book the Royal Court Theatre box before you got onboard or once you were on?
We booked it as soon as we boarded, head to the reception / guest services and they’ll let you know availability and be able to book
It. Ideal to do on Gala night.
Thanks for the info I'm on Victoria in November and would like to do that for my wife's birthday.
@colinbassett1170 oh fab. Book as soon as you board then to make sure you get a spot!
We went on that ferry many times on a booze cruise lol 😂 😂 😂
Hahaha - that’s our memories of her too 🤣
@@CruiseMonkeys Doing the Macarena on rough seas 🤢🤮
@Mary-rees heeeeyyy Macarena! lol 😂
🤣🤣🤣 we always found the way over was fine, coming back was the rough part 🤣
@@CruiseMonkeys 🍺🥂😂
Hi! Do you have to book the box theatre/drinks in advance of sailing or on board?
This is booked onboard, do it asap to make sure you get a reservation but they are bookable up until the afternoon of the show if you wish. We popped to guest services on the first day to make sure we had it booked (thought as it was Gala night, that one would likely sell quickly)
Do yo do all your filming at 6:00 in the morning or midnight? The ship looks so empty. The last cruise I took, it was almost impossible to walk there were so many people everywhere. Even when you say it is crowded, it looks just normal...
No, we’re fast asleep that time of the morning 🤣 This cruise never felt crowded- even when you went to a venue and the seats were all taken up, it still never felt rammed.
Hello Monkeys! QUESTION(s): While dining in the Britannia on Cunard, do you have an assigned table? If not, can you request one? Or can you at least request to be seated with servers you enjoyed already?
Hi! Cunard now operate a freedom and a club/set dining. So we chose the freedom, this is a turn up when you want between 18:00 and 21:00 - you could ask for a specific section and they would try and cater for you, you may need to wait etc. you can also ‘book’ times on the app, so if you eat the same time each night we’re sure they could accommodate that - it would be worth asking the restaurant manager. Cunard also still operate set dining, an early at 18:00 and late at 20:00 - this means you have the same table each night.
As we said, we chose freedom but in our experience if you can’t choose and are assigned something you don’t like, head to the restaurant on boarding day afternoon and they’ll try and accommodate changes, so either a change in time, table size or to/from freedom style.
Hope thet helps!
Oh my that helps loads! On QE this summer we'll be on the late seating. Thank you SO MUCH for responding so quickly and so thoroughly! Cheers and love!
@@CruiseMonkeys
Oh thank you so much for this DETAILED REPLY! It helps LOADS! Crystal clear now, lads! Cheers and Love@@CruiseMonkeys
Hi cruise monkeys lovely view
Thank you 🤩
Spa looks beautiful 😍 enjoyed the reel ❤ you had a variety of booze 😀
It was a fabulous ship! Ohhh yes, had to sample them 😉
I don’t understand what black pudding is!
It’s blood sausage - traditional British breakfast accompaniment! Tastes nicer than it sounds
Hi guys I've got to be honest but cunard looks incredibly boring to me but glad you enjoyed it.
There really is a cruise line for everyone and every mood. Believe you me there are times we wouldn’t book the likes of Cunard because of how sedate and sophisticated they can be, but then again, there are times there’s nothing we’d want more. It’s one of the reasons we don’t like booking too far in advance because you don’t know how you’ll feel at the time. Having said that, we wanted Cunard for this festive experience and it was 100% fab 👌🏻 everything we wanted on this occasion 💥