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Looking for a luxury hotel in Tokyo for pre-cruise stay. Suggestions welcome including best areas to stay.

Looking for a luxury hotel in Tokyo for pre-cruise stay. Suggestions welcome including best areas to stay.

Looking for a luxury hotel in Tokyo for pre-cruise stay. Suggestions welcome including best areas to stay.

You might want to consider taking the high speed train Kobe to Kyoto and Kyoto back to Kobe. Maybe someone who has done this will comment.

Booked this cruise for next year and considering the Okura. Would love your review of the hotel and it’s location.

When can we expect staffing levels and quality to return to pre-pandemic levels?

This may have been asked and answered before but does Regent provide a complimentary jacket/parka similar to what Seabourn does for it's Alaska cruises?

If you Google taxi from Venice cruise terminal to Marco Polo Airport you will find lots of info and choices.

Would love to get your review on The Okura.

Good to know. Thanks

Does anyone know if one can walk from the ship to the terminal and terminal to ship or does it require taking a shuttle in each direction?

Does anyone know if a shuttle is required to get from ship to terminal or terminal to ship or can one just walk?

According to the tour description of the included shuttle "the coach will drop you off at City Hall" and goes on to say "after 6 hours of free time, reboard the coach at the drop-off point (City Hall) and return to the ship."

Another option is the Silversea "included shuttle" from the port to central Kyoto. They say it's only 1 hour but I'll bet it's more like 75 minutes. Just don't miss the return shuttle unless the ship is overnight in Incheon.

We used Stugeron 15 for our Antarctic cruise on the Venture in 2023. Tried it at home to make sure we had no bad ill effects. Had no problems. On both our crossings we had the "Drake Quake." 12 to13 meter seas. We never got ill and felt the Stugeron was great.