roberts2005

So Oceania misses another port?

Thank you for responding. We will be going the other way. Sydney to Tahiti. And yes, we love the R ships.

We will be joining the Regatta in March. How is the ship overall? Have been on the other R ships, but not the Regatta

The leather store stop I was referring to was a stop off the highway on the way to Florence.. the whole bus spent about 30 minutes there. Found out later that the transfer that stops in Pisa doesn’t do the the leather factory stop. there is also a leather school behind the Santa Croce church that has fantastic items. Good prices and they ship.

Just to clarify the above. The meeting place is by Santa Croce, but it is a 15 to 20 minute walk from the bus drop off. Also, check to see if you have a stop at a leather factory on the way..

Check your coverage. For two people the coverage should be $20,000.00

I agree with your post for the most part. Sometimes it pays to use Chase points to purchase tickets. Last January I needed round trip business class tickets JFK to EZE (Buenos Aires). Cost of award tickets were out of sight. So I used the Chase points to purchase. For me it worked this time. Most times I will transfer to United. One point about using Chase to purchase tickets. I wound up with a discounted business class ticket so I received less AA miles than I expected. Booking round trips next September for JFK to FCO direct using miles was exorbitant. Only way to get a reasonable redemption was doing stopovers in London. 57,500 versus 200,000 or more. If I didn’t get the 57,500 redemption, it would probably made sense to buy the tickets, Buying tickets for cash presents a problem if you need to cancel.

Thank you for confirming this. We tend to book our own air, most times using miles. And pay with the related airline card.

Is this the same for Chase Ultimate reserve?

What airline and or hotel is refusing to let you make a change. Please let us know, so no one uses them in the future.

How is that Northern Pacific crossing? Is it normally that rough?

Why did you miss Dutch Harbor.

So, they will still ask for your card at lunch to confirm your package. As time goes on it seems a waste of the staff‘’s time as less and less people will have o-life. ‘’Are two people, in same cabin, able to text each other?

If you booked under o-life, do you get free wine and beer at meals?

Looking to do that our 2nd day in Bora Bora. We booked this cruise under the old system so we have 4 O life shore excursions for each of us. Don’t want to waste them Will probably do private in New Zealand, as we have been to those stops before.

We are on the March 2024 cruise. Our roll call is not very active. Looking for advice from anyone who has done this cruise and used any of the Oceania excursions, looking for any that you thought were worth the cost or experience. Or, if you thought they were bad, to avoid. Any comments would be greatly appreciated .

Not sure about any such rule. Stayed overnight at the Belmond hotel just out side the entrance. The hotel provided hiking sticks to their guests, which I used. Never looked at the bottoms

I have brought on a bottle of gin onboard on all 10 of my Oceania cruises without a problem. On our last stop in Canada, I brought onboard 3 bottles of ice wine. No one even asked to see the bottles.

Had no issue when boarding Vista in Southampton bringing on my own bottle of Hendricks. I asked for and received diet tonic once on board.

Bill if you have your long lens and can take a good picture of the under side of the bird. Use google search to identify the bird, I did this on a recent South America cruise when I wasn’t sure of the type of bird. Works on all types of mammals too.

For those of us that own stock in NCL, don’t we want Oceania to make money? If a person is retired, maybe they have lots of time. If not, maybe they can earn more money in the time it would take to do their own Visa’s.

Love the service for breakfast in Aqualina. Never a problem.

Saw it twice. Once this year and once pre pandemic. Great show. Show was different the 2nd time. Costumes are fantastic

Had the TV problem in 9045 last month. Noise coming from 9043.

We were on Vista. The problem was that it timed out before you could start. Tried many times. That’s when I was told that there were problems using my iPad. I would not had bothered, but we had extra time in NY