Southampton Pier***

"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote
in message ...

This place has been pretty crappy of late, but to be frank, it's been
a ground for bickering forever. It's also a great place to get
specific advice, if you take care in asking. As many as 3% of posts
receive no sarcasm whatsoever.

Thank you for clarifying the situation and I shall try to *weed* out the
sarcasm and stay clear of the bickering! ;-)
I have gotten some very nice responses, not only to this thread but one I
started awhile back about visiting London later this month... I shall go
through those that are especially helpful and copy them to take with us
while we are there.

--Jean

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:52:36 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
wrote:

This place has been pretty crappy of late, but to be frank, it's been
a ground for bickering forever. It's also a great place to get
specific advice, if you take care in asking. As many as 3% of posts
receive no sarcasm whatsoever.


People have said similar lately about many of the groups I infest, maybe
it's the full moon or something...

--
Best
Greg

You've not detected any common factor?

Cheers, Alan, Australia

"Jean O'Boyle" wrote in message
t...

"Gregory Morrow" wrote in message
ink.net...

Jean O'Boyle wrote;

We are scheduled to visit Falmouth during our cruise on the
Constellation


Isn't the Constellation a submarine...???

Yes! ;-)

--Jean

Well, at least you got your answer. Some of the English posters (even
ex-pats) are a little defensive.

Marianne

"Martin" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:31:40 -0500, "Jean O'Boyle"
wrote:

Too bad you did not refrain from sarcasm and post this as your first
response to my question.

Martin, Jean comes to us from rec.travel.cruises. It's a different world.

Cheers,

George W Russell
Bangalore

Martin wrote:

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 22:17:41 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:
[]
I'm not landing at Marco Polo, but at Treviso (20 off miles away), as I
noted! It's rare I encounter an airport without an ATM in Europe- last
one was Kirkwall, Orkney, which is very small indeed.

One word of warning if Jean is still listening.

There may be an ATM, but it could be out of order or empty. It happens.

I recently arrived at Manchester's terminal 1 check-in and none of the
landside ATM's had cash...

It might also not accept your card.
I'd take sufficient sterling to get to the next ATM by taxi if necessary.

If no sterling, get in a cab and explain the situation- I've done this
myself, and they won't mind taking you by an ATM. As she's obviusly a
visitor, they'll be particularly understanding.

--
(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
(don't email yahoo address) usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk

Martin wrote:

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 08:12:22 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:
[]
If no sterling, get in a cab and explain the situation- I've done this
myself, and they won't mind taking you by an ATM. As she's obviusly a
visitor, they'll be particularly understanding.

They might rip her/him off???

I can't say it won't happen, but it's rare here IME with metered cabs-
even with private hire.

She? I thought a he.

Jean O'Boyle- a she, I'd have thought.

--
(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
(don't email yahoo address) usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk

"Martin" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:26:06 +0100, "RAK" wrote:


"Martin" wrote in message
. ..
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:06:45 -0500, "Jean O'Boyle"
wrote:

We are scheduled to visit Falmouth during our cruise on the
Constellation
on
April 23rd where we planned to use the ATM to acquire British
Pounds....If
by chance the waters are too rough for the tender to make landing there,
is
there an ATM at the Southampton Pier so we will have the proper currency
to
pay our way to London? Just covering all our bases and wondering if we
should get GBP here at home from a bank instead.

Try asking the same question about a major US sea port and hear how
silly
it
sounds.
--

Why? Genuine question! Do you mean they definitely would have ATMs?

Of course Southampton has ATMs


I was referring to US ports Read the above again. Someone replied: "Try
asking the same question about a major US sea port and hear how silly it
sounds."
I really do not understand why the question is silly if asked about a US
port. I was just asking the person who said that what he/she meant.

(And I also said that Southhampton would have ATMs.)




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"Martin" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 22:06:17 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Jean O'Boyle wrote:

[]
I implied no such thing and explained my concern because of our
experience
at the airport in Venice.

Which airport- Marco Polo? I'll be flying into Treviso tomorrow, but
have plenty of euro...

Years ago I flew into New York from Heathrow and found there was no way of
changing cash in the terminal, somebody gave me the bus fare to the
terminal my
connecting flight went from.
--

That is an extraordinary system. I remember having do it a few times. Is it
still like that at Kennedy?
Extra annoying if you are transferring to another international flight and
don't need any US$ except for the transfer bus.



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"Jean O'Boyle" wrote in message
. ..

"Martin" wrote in message
...
Years ago I flew into New York from Heathrow and found there was no way
of
changing cash in the terminal, somebody gave me the bus fare to the
terminal my
connecting flight went from.

Into which airport did you fly into in NYC? JFK? Did you have to
transfer to LaGuardia A/P for your connecting flight?
Transportation between terminals at JFK is free. As it is at all airports
that we have used in the US...Either trains or buses take you free of
charge from terminal to terminal.

They used to charge for the bus between terminals years ago - I was flying
through from Europe through NY Kennedy quite often around 1980 and they
charged then.
It was really annoying if you did not know about it, especially if
transferring to a flight out of the US so had not bothered to bring any US$.



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"Martin" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:59:22 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
wrote:


David Horne wrote:

Jean O'Boyle wrote:

[]
I implied no such thing and explained my concern because of our
experience
at the airport in Venice.

Which airport- Marco Polo? I'll be flying into Treviso tomorrow, but
have plenty of euro...


But Jean thinks that Italy is still on Sterling...

or Lira?
--
Well, that did used to be confusing when they used the same sign £=pound
£=lira
(not that Jean ever said she thinks they use sterling in Italy!)



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