florisdekort

In 2017, we took malaria pills for the Amazon based on medical advice. Partially because we signed up for an overnight Seabourn tour deep into the rain forest (from/to Manaus). As for when to start and finish taking the tablets, surely one would read the instructions on the box and not someone’s opinion on Cruise Critic 🙄

As others have said, it still depends on your destination. Hopefully not much longer now.

Very strange. They usually fall over backwards trying to make things right. And Chef Jess is one of Seabourn’s best.

Did you speak to the Maitre’D or Restaurant Manager and if so, what did they do to rectify the situation?

I don’t understand this thread. We’ve cruised 10+ times since the pandemic and Covid has been on each of those sailings. It’s also at your local grocery store. Get used to it.

Third time lucky? Join us 20 October 🙂 Would be lovely to see you again!

We just booked 20 October, Quebec to Miami. Very exciting to try something new 😃

Unless anything has changed, in previous years, once you had gone through Immigration, you had exited Canada and entered the US (your ship), so going back to shore (Canada) was not allowed. And no, obviously you couldn’t clear a day early.

Boarding starts at 1 pm today so I bet it’ll be super busy in the terminal around that time with folks who arrived earlier.

We sailed from Dakar an hour late as well, at midnight instead of 11 pm. Turns out we were waiting for Natalya Leahy, the new CEO, who boarded at 11:45 pm.

Yes, it was the Adventure Drive. But we do tend to “challenge” the program. While the group was listening to a 45 minute lecture on the history of The Gambia (which you can easily read yourself on Wikipedia), we wandered outside and played with the many kids for the whole time.

We had probably one of our best days of the World Cruise in Banjul, The Gambia. I’ll let the pictures tell the story. Floris

It just arrived at 7:42 pm.

We still miss one tour bus.

It varies. On the World Cruise, depending on the country, I’ve seen 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours and non refundable.

I don’t understand why people keep commenting “I never take my passport to shore”. As others have already said, and I’m on this cruise as well, we were NOT ALLOWED to go to shore without our passports. All passports were literally handed to us by Seabourn staff at the top of the gangway as you went out (and re-collected upon each return to the ship). So that is the only reason these poor people were carrying theirs. Please stop the implicit suggestions that you are somehow smarter / more experienced, as you all would have been in the exact same situation - unless you would have opted to stay on board in all South African ports.

nleahy@seabourn.com Floris

It’s for everyone on board. Cheers, Floris

We didn’t do anything. The ship is handling it at a fee of $70 per visa. Floris

Odyssey doesn’t have its own staff, staff moves from ship to ship with each new 3-6 month contract. Also, Seabourn (and all cruise lines) are currently struggling to hire enough staff for their fleets. Anyone working on Odyssey in its final months will quickly reappear on a different ship.

And if you don’t see one on the program, just ask Guest Services to schedule one. Easy.

The ship is almost always at least 12 miles out to sea so that it’s allowed to take in fresh water and discharge waste water. 12 miles is too far out to see any land.

At 4:30 am apparently. As there’s nothing to see I think I may sail through it asleep 🤣

How it is handled and what guarantees you have depends on whether or not you’re within final payment, what country you are from (in some countries consumers have stronger protections) and indeed whether or not you have a good travel agent that goes to bat for you.

Steve is Seabourn’s Chief Commercial Officer so yes this is legit. He posts in Seabourn Sailors quite regularly. Seattle is clearly following the commentary in that group.