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Actually, I don’t sleep that well so I shall retrieve it and let you know how far I get!

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Only that if you hold shares beyond the amalgamation date they will be listed only on the NYSE as CCL………. I think!

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Hi Bot and all,

My phone book turned up today………Oh joy! Recycling bin now full.

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PS still waiting to hear from P & O about any compensation - they still have about 14 days left.

I wonder if it’s because my shares are held in a SIPP with HL and I although I am the beneficiary, the actual owner is my pension scheme. Carnival doesn’t have my address, except as a customer.

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Is it the share amalgamation and the move to Bermuda?

I ain’t received nuffink?

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Can you enlighten me as to what this thread is about, please, Bot?

Ta.

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They’re due out next Friday, Sun.

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Started out well enough then the usual dribble away……

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Very good, YR.

So glad you lot keep up to speed with what’s happening elsewhere. It saves people like me doing lots of trawling - no, not for fish! - through newscasts etc. Keep it up, please!

Thanks.

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I have a letter in to Paul Ludlow. They need to be reminded of Section 3 of the ABTA Code of Conduct but I’ll wait until I hear from him or his team.

This is far from over.

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First offer, zilch! “There is nothing more we can do”.

What an honourable company! A mess entirely of their making and that’s the response. Shameful.

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I would certainly take that as my starting point, Topo!

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Hi all,

Quick update - P & O have told me they are refunding all monies paid so no need for Section 75. Just need to see if we can get some extra compensations.

Will let you know.

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ps they didn’t actually cancel but put me in the position of no choice. if i had wanted a min-suite i would’ve ******* booked one.

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Hello all,

Thanks Bot. I have had too much contact with Guest Services. We are devastated to say the least. Have just unpacked. It was to celebrate 55 years married, too, and they knew that.

I have written to Ludlow - the twelve year-old? - so we’ll see what that brings.

Balance for June cruise is due 29th March. We are not in a good place to even think about paying it. But do I want to sacrifice the deposit?

Will update on progress. Have a good weekend everyone!

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hello everyone,

just when you think things can’t get any worse we will not be on iona tomorrow as p & o reneged on their cabin grade guarantee. they offered a mini suite instead of a full suite and almost immediately issued a cancellation invoice for the full charge.

all i can say is ******* outrageous. good old section 75. now considering cruises later this year.

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Will new clubs make her widowest?

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Does your wife know you’re taking up golf, P412?

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Thanks, Bot.

I took the 25% some years back so the SIPP is a remnant that I transferred from some outfit making outrageous charges and have effectively played, a tad cautiously on the basis that I have always, with hindsight, got it wrong if I had day-traded! So, the money stays where it is accumulating some dividends and paying for cruises! Unusually for us, we have two more this year, both on Arcadia, so there will be two more withdrawals in the tax year 26/27. I just have to accept the (present?) 40% hit.

Irks me a bit, but I cannot complain! Fortunately, won’t be anywhere near troubling the IHT threshold. The other thing that irks, of course, is madam from complaints who seems to think that the best way to grow the economy is to increase taxes - even on (ex) students…….

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Hello all and welcome P412ms to this very friendly board.

I apologise in advance for my typos and also that the single brain cell I have, I am just keeping it warm for a friend……

I have been a long-term holder of CCL at an average of £8 in a SIPP with HL. Unlike Bot, i don’t have huge holdings (is that a euphemism?) so I regard what I do have as a kind of bonus cash pot with some savings elsewhere. My situation has pretty well usually been adequate, secure income but no capital to speak of. So, if I take any money out of my SIPP I have to pay 40% tax. Simples really.

Not any help to you but rather to show the variety of financial situations people are in.

Looking forward to Iona on Saturday, if only P & O would tell us our cabin number!!!

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