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Will Regent be employing additional chefs, wait staff & sommeliers to cover these additional venues ? We like choice but not at the expense of attentive service 🤔

Yes, Coffee Connection is very popular …………. and is also a self-serve buffet arrangement.

We have done many Regent cruises, and enjoyed all aspects of them including the lunch self-serve buffets in La Veranda. The buffet offerings during our recent Navigator cruise, which I believe you were also on, were particularly good.

So sorry that you are approaching your forthcoming cruise expecting the worst. I hope you have an enjoyable, & uneventful, time on Voyager and I am sure you will be able to find an alternative to the lunch-time buffet if that is what is fuelling your extreme pessimism.

You will need to speak to Destinations on board to see if anything is being offered in Piraeus. Not a problem. Regent staff members will move all your hanging clothes & drawers. You just need to obtain new suite key cards from Reception & move your valuables. Suggest you have a chat with the Executive Concierge during the first segment to finalise arrangements & timing.

............ or if you want to do your own thing locally: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Osborne House (on the Isle of Wight, a short ferry ride away)

TBD 🤔 Decisions, Decisions !! We hadn't realised that; makes sense now that we didn't spot them before. Was this a re-routing to avoid the Suez Canal?

Looking at two Voyager cruises in 2025 and surprised to see no pre or post cruise offerings in Cape Town https://www.rssc.com/cruises/VOY250516/summary (final segment of a Grand Voyage) https://www.rssc.com/cruises/VOY250604/summary This seems unusual & Regent (Southampton) confirm that this is not just a website glitch. Any thoughts as to why nothing is available through Regent for this popular location?

As was her/his alter ego, Sir Les, who always went beyond the minimum requirements of the Regent dress code

It means that Navigator has as much, if not more, issues getting in to ports with shallow water. For example, in 2019 Navigator was scheduled to dock near the centre of Bangkok but had to dock about 2 hours away in the container port of Laem Chabang due to low river levels. A Silversea ship with shallower draft managed to dock successfully in Bangkok on the same day. On our recent Navigator cruise the embarkation port of Bangkok was again changed to Laem Chabang a few weeks before the cruise; again citing low river levels.

IMHO, many of the posts simply indicate that some would like Regent to adopt their own lower, or higher, interpretation of the simple, and widely understood, term "Elegant Casual" 🤨

Perhaps they assume that their customers have enough common sense to not require any further clarification of a their very simple dress code 😉

Although Navigator is the smallest of the Regent fleet, her draft is the deepest. Mariner has the shallowest draft.

From Regent Shore Excursion Summary: “Please be advised that when booking multiple tours on the same day online, the later tour must begin at least 75 minutes after the first tour is scheduled to return to the ship” Just waitlist your preferred excursion; hopefully space will open up later.

Maybe they are replacing the pianist for the contract that includes Christmas & New Year ? Boogie is an excellent keyboard player.