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This article below is about our first cruise last August. It was such a success that we were invited back for another one in May this year! This one was also a terrific experience and again, we achieved approval ratings for the passngers in the high 90%. We understand that this will probably now be at least an annual event.
Anthony Inglis and the NSO have just returned from the Proms Cruise on the QM2, where they gave four concerts.
What a week! It is a total fantasy land on board, where every whim is catered for; hundreds of chefs produce cordon bleu food around the clock and everyone dresses up every day after 6pm. The ‘Daily Programmes’ of events, covered everything from pub quizzes, dance classes and lectures on the state of the universe to ‘Friends of Dorothy’, scarf tying classes and full dress balls.
Apart from the Force 8 Gale on the Tuesday, the sea was more or less like a millpond, but unfortunately Tuesday was the day of the first concert and three members suffered badly, but all made the performance. We got the biggest attendance EVER for entertainers and the first standing ovation they have had!! Alisdair Hogarth was a brilliant soloist in Rhapsody in Blue.
It was a great bunch of players and they joined in the quizzes, (the Brass won two!) the dance classes and everything else going like troupers. Anthony was very proud of us and Cunard gave us the group photograph on the actual bow of the ship as a gift!
One of our triumphs was that Fiona Clifton-Welker and Anne Collis won prizes for their outfits at the Royal Ascot Ball. We all had a wonderful time and I must say it is the best bonding exercise you could imagine. We were a perfect team by the end and we were really cooking!
Back to reality now, a bit of an anticlimax, but you couldn’t live like that for long. Enjoying oneself that much is quite hard work!!
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