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Not to highjack, but on topic for the Beyond, can someone explain exactly how the 4-restaurant concept works? We will be a party of 5. Do we go at whatever time we want? - is it all 'My time Dinning' or do we have a set time? The reason for the confusion is that we booked this cruise before they switched us to The Beyond, so all our documents and the App still say we have 6pm dinning. Do you just show up to whichever of the 4 restaurant you want at any time you want? Thanks in advance.

Awesome - keep em coming, as we are headed to the ABC island for the first time ever in June.

Yes, we just booked Oceania for the same price as RCCL, Royal was a 5 night and O is a 7 night. Also compared O to same cruise on Celebrity which both are 7 nights and Oceania was cheaper.

I agree - thanks OP for starting this post. Hope to learn before our first O cruise July 2025.

Real world example - as posted earlier - was considering X Retreat for our 2025 cruise, but booked Oceania instead....lower priced and more included.....not sure why such high prices on X Retreat and RCCL Suites now.

For those of you who chimed in, we just wanted to provide an update..... we booked it ! We are officially no longer loyal to Royal/Celebrity. We are now a part of the Oceania family ! We are in an A1 on the Insignia headed to Bermuda July 2025...it's a long way away, but we are excited to try something new and different.

Awesome you finding that on their website.....Ive been looking for something like that but was having no luck.

Thank you for the explanation.

Can someone explain how Specialty dining works on O? For example, if on the Insignia and in Concierge Class, how many times can one visit the 2 specialty restaurants on a 7-night cruise? or just explain how it works overall, as I can't find an explanation on their website.

Thanks for pointing this out!! I missed that the Regatta is basically the same ship and Danny does great room reviews!! He stepped into the Concierge level shower and shut the doors, so I got a good size aspect and now feel MUCH better. Call me a O newbie, as I should have known about the Regatta similar size and Danny's walk thru. More research needed but getting closer to commitment.

@CurlerRob thank you VERY much for posting this link! Up until page 3, there was a very good discussion, then it shifted to O vs Viking....LOL - but anyways......based on you and MANY others, the bathroom may be a 100% deal breaker for us with Concierge class. I am not a small guy.....6'3" therefor I may struggle with the shower and even possibly the toilet just based on my long legs alone. The upcharge of 3k to a PH suite, seems a little steep for a 7-day cruise, so we may be back to the Celerity Silhouette.

Thanks for everyone that has responded so far.....we are going sleep on it tonight and watch more YouTube videos tomorrow on our day off. As far as trying other larger ships with Oceania, that is/was sort of our thought process for 2026, if we liked 'this' cruise/CruiseLine, then we would look for a different sailing on the Vista or another 1200 passenger ship in 2026 on Oceania. My DW had her mind set on Bermuda next year and typically 7 nights is about our limit for vacation days with work/dog sitting etc...so we are looking at 5 Nights on RCCL Liberty or 7 nights on Celebrity Silhouette or this 7 night on Oceania Insignia.

A little background, we are in our upper 40’s and have been loyal to Royal/Celebrity cruisers for a number of years, but based on recent cruise experiences, we are ‘looking around’ at other cruise lines for summer 2025. We would like to go to Bermuda, but due to work obligations, we cannot go until June or after. While searching other lines, I found Oceania travels to Bermuda in July of 2025. The O ship that travels to Bermuda is the Insignia. It holds around 670 passengers which seems VERY small from what we are used too. We are concerned that this ship will be very boring for us, even though we are not ‘party animals’ by any means. Also, the room sizes seem very small. We tend to spend a lot of time in our room/balcony reading and relaxing and the concierge class staterooms are around 200 sqft with a very small bathroom and shower. We are considering a PH room, but its 3k more than the deal we can get on the Concierge level room. We are not sure if the room size justifies the 3k upcharge? Current O line cruisers, can you help us decide if we should take a chance on this small ship and get out of our ‘comfort zone’? Tell us why O and its small ship experience is superior to the larger mainstream cruise ships. Thanks!!

We have been considering booking retreat level Bermuda cruise for 2025....these reviews have me seriously reconsidering.

I think Royal missed the boat on the release time........ my wife spent all pre-game looking at cruises and kept on saying if 2025 Bermuda was released ... she would be booking now.