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This may most important as countries get their tourist services rebuilt post Covid. The tour may have changed somewhat for any number of reasons. This can affect the physical activity of the tour and also places visited. After all we are sometimes booking a year ahead!

As everyone says, one person collect the big tour tickets from each person going and that person go get the bus ( or number ticket) ticket that you use to actually go on the tour. It is very easy to have all the party together. You are stressing too much about this😀. RELS is right, sometimes they may hand out numbered tickets a little early but don’t count on it especially if a number of tours are meeting near the same time… this happens often times in the am.

Sounds like Regent is giving you what you want then. No need to defend or complain about anything. First chance to get a seat on the first bus to the ship early regardless of when you actually arrived at the Anchorage hotel the day/night before. Everyone has a chance at the first bus. Others can sleep a little later and take a later bus.

Rachel is exactly right in what happens. They will not do the ticket exchange until your stated time so no reason to rush to the theater early. If really busy staff will not let you in the theater early. Also, since this is your first time, I think, the times you signed up for may have changed. Be sure you check your tickets when you get to your suite. The tickets in your suite are the correct times. also reread the current tour description, it may have changed. After all these tour were booked up to a year ago. Things change! If someone in your group has a mobility problem check with the tour desk. They have or can find out about any question you have. They have helped me a lot in the recent past.

Why would you get in line by 6:30 for a tickets not passed out until starting at 7! As someone else on another thread stated…everyone will be transported to the ship. And seems like the from the timing of the last buses they will arrive about the time the suites open. Your room unless an a big suite will not be ready until about 2pm and will serve the buffet until 4. We are not early risers on vacation and don’t like to rush or lines. Nor do we like waiting around in the pubic areas for our suite to be ready. Seems like they are handling the transport bus tickets like the ship tour tickets…. The bus tickets are handed out the day of the trip at a set time on a first come first serve. Down side it can and does cause short lines since many have to be first!

Sometimes Regent has offered tours on the way to the airport for those on late flights other times not. It seems to depend on the number of people that have late flights and are interested in a tour. Since Regent does not arrange flights for everyone. they won’t know the number until people board and fill out the paperwork. If you don’t want to wait and see, make your own arrangements with a private car and driver to do something. That way it will be what you need both timing wise and what you do. We find this much more satisfactory and a more relaxing way to start the trip home.

Yes you get a printed copy on your bed (or door) every night.

That is a wonderful tour! You reminded me of doing it on our first cruise to Alaska on a Princess ship in an inside cabin 😂 no less. Time flies because that was 1991, longer ago than I realized. We spent very extra penny we had on that one tour. Well worth it though. Notabigcruiee…enjoy your cruise!

We have cruised to Alaska 6 times over the past 25 years with various cruise lines and driven our RV to Alaska once for 2 1/2 months. There will be lots of kids and the ports will be crowded, but there is no place like its beautiful scenery and colorful history. The port towns are tiny and easy to walk around. Becsure to explore some on your own. Alaska is expensive and the tours tend to be also, so sone of the best ones may have an extra charge. If you have on board credit you can use it to pay for those tours. Go to the glacier in Juneau there is usually a tour that gives you time own your on and there is a lot to see in the NP center and some nice hiking trails. Also get a drink at the Red Dog saloon just to say you have! Do a whale watching cruise at some port just to get out on the water at eye level, you should be luck also and see something. The salmon bakes are fun for a first timer if there is a free one. We had dinner with two cubs one time. The Whitehorse railway is a must and explore Skagway own your on also. The ports have some similar tours so if one port’s tour costs try for a free one at the next port. Regent offers a great cruising experience, we have been to Alaska on both luxury and mass market lines. Have cruised with Regent over 200 days with 100s of days on other lines, your cruise will be what you make it.

Enjoying your reports! Beautiful pictures!

Love your pictures! Thanks for sharing😇

You should be able to be seated if you like to eat later. Sometimes they will do a list so you can put your name in and go for a drink. Other times just first come first served. The 7 o’clock hour is just a prime time.

Mass market lines do this and the TA will mark the reservation. Based on our past experience I don’t think this is something Regent does. Regent does sometimes offer up sells deals if they need a class of suite to fill a guarantee. This maybe what your TA was getting information for just in case. And of course, if. you reserve a guarantee you will get that level of suite or maybe some higher level if you are lucky.

Our experience after many days on Regent with a fair share of missed ports is you get the extra cost tours credited back to your account within a day. We always go on a shopping spree the last day the shops are open to spend any non refundable credit we have left. We cash out any refundable usually giving some to the crew fund. I bought a beautiful pruse in Jan.

If I am Reading this right you are leaving from Bali. We have flown out of Bali several times. You probably don’t need or want to get to the airport more than 3 hours ahead of flight time -5pm. Most Bali resorts are very accommodating and will hold your luggage in a safe place and will let you use the facilities pool bar spa until you leave for the airport. Last time we were there I had a spa appointment after we checked out. There were shower facilities in the spa so it worked out well. We took a taxi to the airport, taxis are cheap. Check what Regent has planned and check what the hotel will do for you. You don’t want to end a great cruise with a miserable transportation day over the little extra costs of a taxi ride!

Totally agree! We did a lot of that on our last cruise in the Caribbean! Few if any container ports and lots of pertly views!

Your conclusions are not surprising based on you first post. Regent really isn’t a good fit for you if a major complaint for you is the always available menu side…. After all the items are always available! Most passengers love that feature and we eat off it almost every night. Cruise food is very subjective and generally not too spicy. You can always request more spice though. If you don’t want to risk an active child or a number of children don’t cruise in the summer on a cruise actively promoted by Regent as a family cruise. Good luck on finding a cruise company to your liking.

It can be as lake as the day of the cruise.

This “fact” has been stated before on CC threads, but I have never seen it in any Regent material. I saved all of the Passages from our last Splendor and Navigator cruises and can’t find anything about the terry robes. A lot about chair hogs! Only thing I ever remember about them is a tag hanging with them that if you wanted to take them home, they were for sale. That may not even be the case now. Maybe it is cultural, but Terry robes were popular cover ups when I was a kid at the pools around Houston.

Where?

I was wondering that also. I see people wearing the Terry cloth robe to the spa and the pool. Think it is preferable to nothing but just a skimpy ill fitting swim suit! I can’t recall ever seeing anything from Regent saying the robes are for cabin use only. But then we always stash ours in the back of the closet as we find them bulky and hot. I have never seen the bath robes in the bars or the dinning rooms just the pool deck and the spa area.

Swim suits with a cover up as you describe is OK for Breakfast on the pool deck grill or in the La Veranda, but if you plan to eat in the Compass Rose in the morning you might be more comfortable wearing your causal clothes and changing after you eat. We eat in the Compass Rose for breakfast when it is open and haven’t seen any swimsuits with cover ups.

The poster is new to CC and possibly cruising. Maybe we can cut him some slack if he is new to the requirements of the various cruise-ship terminals. Otherwise he will really be in a world of hurt trying to board.😂

Gilly enjoy your next segment. We love doing B2Bs and long voyages….the Bears do too!. Things are always changing 🙂. And sometimes things can get really interesting! Enjoying your reports. We will be doing the Grand Arctic in ‘25 for our 60th anniversary. We will visit some of your ports so making notes!

This past Dec the tours that were first thing in the morning met in the theater and changed tickets for bus numbers. Later in the day we just walked off and to the bus. There was someone to show us the way if not obvious.” It depends on the port situation.