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Mr & Mrs Mugford, I’m delighted that you enjoyed your cruise on Azura and that you liked our Headliners’ Theatre Company shows. Our chosen performers work very hard to make sure each performance is up to our exacting standards, and the feedback we have been receiving from our passengers about the different groups on our ships has been extremely positive. I’m also pleased that we are often able to have all our performers up on stage for a ‘getting to know you’ hour. I think these question and answer sessions are a fun way of hearing what happens behind the scenes – something by which I think we’re all quite intrigued!

Unfortunately we’re not able to produce a dedicated DVD of the shows for copyright reasons. We can reproduce visual snippets of the shows in our ‘My cruise diary’ DVDs, but we can’t include show music. So the only way to see these shows in all their glory is, I’m afraid, to go cruising!

Sir Henry Cooper is very entertaining to listen to. Our new ’Spotlights Programme’ of talks and after dinner speakers will certainly include many such speakers, who we feel will be excellent at bringing their subject matter to life, so we hope to provide an even wider variety of talks across our cruises going forward.

Thanks for your welcome back Chris. Yes, I enjoy being able to chat about what we’re doing across P&O Cruises and hearing the questions and comments that follow. I hope you enjoyed your Oriana cruise with us. Oriana was really the start of our investment in modern day cruise ships, and with her naming by Her Majesty The Queen, she is a very special ship to us all.

Arcadia, likewise, has become a firm favourite ship for many in her own right. Being ‘Exclusively for Adults’, she attracts many people who quite often, whilst loving children, just fancy a few weeks away with adult company. In fact many of our passengers on Arcadia in July/August time are teachers having a well earned rest from the classroom. Other teachers, of course, enjoy holidays where children are on board, and we are building up our Youth Crew on our ‘Family Friendly’ ships and look forward to welcoming our young P&O Cruises passengers with their families during the school holidays.

Regarding Freedom Dining (where you can sit with a different group of people every evening and dine at different times), we now also offer this on Azura and it is certainly is a popular option there. However, we have never really been asked to provide this option on our other ships, where the Club Dining concept has proved popular. Perhaps others have views on this? We do, of course, have our Select Dining venues to give you a choice of dining location on these other ships.

So Chris, I do hope you’ll try a cruise on Azura in the not too distant future, so you can enjoy Freedom Dining there, but in the meantime Arcadia can offer you a great alternative in Arcadian Rhodes for the occasional evening.

I notice that there have been a few more comments, so I’ll get back to you shortly with responses to these.