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Am really looking forward to getting my cabin on Iona, I know some people are thinking she's a bit too big, but having seen some of the info abt her new types of cabin, I'm quite excited - been on the phone to Bolsover and price is good too. Never sailed the fjords before so should be good!! What do you all think?

Hi everyone, I saw today in a news post on cruise critic that Princess is trialling advance boarding, i.e. you get to go on board first for a small fee. Just on Ruby Princess as a test. Quite like the sound of that - get the holiday started early! What are your thoughts?

Thank you everyone - have Googled the subject this morning but also thought it'd be great to get some insider knowledge, so many cruise experts here! Thanks again!

Hi! Relatively new to cruise, only a cpl of trips, but taking my husband on a short cruise later this month and he wants to know everything about everything so is asking loads of questions that I can't answer. One of them was, how does the process of designing and building a cruise ship work? Sorry, I realise that's probably a massive question but I wondered if anyone had any information on how lines order ships, how long it takes etc. Just being nosy really!

I swing backwards and forwards on this issue - I see the sunbed wars regularly on hols and can see the benefit for some people of knowing they have a sunbed bought and paid for - after all, we buy and pay for almost everything else these days! But also, it feels a bit crass and so I can't imagine it happening on one of the lovely ships I've sailed on...