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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 03-07-2005 11:57 PM

P&O has update their site and a new video on the ARCADIA. She is coming along nicely! Much of the Cunard "feel" has been carried over...

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Jekyll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1878

posted 03-08-2005 07:48 PM

Hmmm - just watched the video - doesn't "feel" like any Cunard ship I've ever sailed on...thank god there are still some small ships around

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BTF
First Class Passenger
Member # 2024

posted 03-10-2005 05:35 AM

Based upon this video, the Arcadia in her interior seems very similar in design and decor to a Holland America Vista ship, I recognize that the Arcadia was orginally the 5th Vista ship for Holland America before ending up finally with P&O but they seem to have kept all the same internal features,

It will be interesting to see how the P&O Vista and the HAL Vista compare.

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mec1
First Class Passenger
Member # 4287

posted 03-10-2005 07:18 AM

I think it is very hard to tell from the video what she is going to look like - but I have no idea what Keitaro means about a cunard feel.....

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Stevie2020
First Class Passenger
Member # 4901

posted 03-10-2005 10:22 AM

I think It's going to be even more interesting to see what Cunard does with their Vista ship "Victoria". I hope I'ts going to be much different.

I supose we will have to wait and see what Cunard are up to soon.

Steve

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Hi Seas
First Class Passenger
Member # 5085

posted 03-10-2005 10:29 AM

Well, looking at the lady, she kinda looks and there aren't much looking at that site, but it kinda feels "Spiritesque" If I say so myself.

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 03-10-2005 10:35 AM

She was intended to be the 4th Vista ship (actually she would be the Noordam 4) buth the order was transfered to Cunard to become there Queen Victoria etc. etc. There was a option to a 5th ship wich was chansed in a order she will become the Noordam in januari ore februari 2006. Carnival/HAL desided thene that this Noordam would be the last Vista ordered fore HAL.

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Noordam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3811

posted 03-10-2005 10:59 AM

where online can i see the deckplans for the Arcadia.... on the P&O site i am limited to just cabins, would like to see the public room layout... btw - i am not a fan of the VISTA class at all!

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 03-10-2005 07:31 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Keitaro:
Much of the Cunard "feel" has been carried over...

I think I am right in saying that QV actually started out as a HAL vessel? Anyway, the video reveals very little. The unfinished ship looks like every other new ship, at present.

I too had assumed that in the re-badging (Cunarder to P&O) that most of the Cunard style decore would be retained. However, I am assured that much of the Cunard decor had not been fully completed, so Arcadia is not the Queen Victoria, in disguise.

Interestingly I heard it was the Princess team that was involved in the interior design and not the QM2 team?

So will Arcadia feel like a P&O ship, a Cunarder, a HAL or a Princess vessel? Or are ships so homogenous these days that it is impossible to tell them apart, anyway?

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Waynaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 3484

posted 03-10-2005 07:40 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mec1:
but I have no idea what Keitaro means about a cunard feel.....

There are some public room that uses soft furnishing and a bit like the QM2's decor. Then again, the main show lounge looks like it came from HAL....

One thing I am curious though. When construction first started, was she a HAL ship or already given to Cunard?

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