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Easy... Have you ever had to provide the name of the cruise line when purchasing travel insurance? I haven't.

Thanks. Any reason given for what appears to be a tiny table?

Hope that's correct! We're sailing in the same numbered suite on the Grandeur as we did on Splendor and that one had the lounge and large table. 🤞

That's disappointing. We enjoy dining on our balcony and wonder whether that small table will work for a full meal. My DW will be disappointed that there's no lounge. Guess there were no funds available for guest comfort after the purchase of the Fabergé egg...

True...and Stephane mentioned that management on Splendor could not institute a policy for only that ship. It took a few days, but he told me the policy would take effect fleet-wide on February 1st. Grandeur, being a member of the fleet, should observe the policy. I emailed Mike Moore. Hopefully he can go to bat for us.

But the problem was essentially solved! Why did Regent simply not institute the policy on Grandeur? We sailed on Viking Sky this past fall and in 55 days never had an issue finding a couple of available lounge chairs by the pool.

A group of us on the January 21st Splendor sailing were instrumental in getting Regent to set rules fleet-wide regarding saving lounge chairs. Here's a link to a thread I started regarding this issue last February. Stephane Carriou, Food and Beverage Director, was instrumental in getting the fleet-wide policy activated. I believe he's onboard now, so I'm puzzled why the policy is not in effect. We're on Grandeur for a B2B2B beginning January 26 and really don't want to have to reinvent the wheel. I've written to Regent regarding this and suggest anyone who is sailing on Grandeur in the next few months to do the same.

You've assumed correctly. It may be a minute or so after 8:00pm

Come on over and join the Roll Call for this cruise. We could use some activity...

No, the word prime is not used to describe the rib eye on the menu. See previously posted menu.

Here's another article by BUSINESS INSIDER...

We disembarked the Sky on November 30th. Below is the laundry form we used onboard which shows dry cleaning as available. Chemicals are still used but are not as harsh to people and environment as those previously employed.

Our experience is that balcony cleaning doesn't take all day. However, although cleaning an individual balcony might take ten minutes, it will be unusable much longer. We sailed on Viking Sky this fall for eight weeks and balconies were cleaned once each week between 8:00am and noon. Balcony dividers were opened to give access to crew and allow a hose to be pulled through. Our balcony was effectively unusable as everything was waterlogged for a few hours along with crew walking back and forth.

Beautiful ship...excellent photos! Thank you...

You'll be happy to know they do.

Here you go...

Here's a review of the Grandeur by The POINTS GUY...

We thought the Parmigiana di Polo was excellent. We were on the Sky for 55 days this fall from Rome to Fort Lauderdale and shared the dish many times since the serving was quite large. Ossobuco was on the menu in The Restaurant during our cruise.

That's disappointing for sure. We sailed on Splendor for 32 days last winter and never heard a thing from our neighbors. We'll be on Grandeur during January and February in the same numbered suite so we'll be able to compare apples to apples. Hoping for the same quiet we previously experienced.

@rcandkc... It appears you responded to quoted text. It's best to add your reply to the message you quote outside and below the quote box. If you add your response within the quote box, readers do not know where the quote ends and your response begins. 🙂

We're well, Don & Diana...thank you for asking...hope you are also. The 18-Day Maiden Venetian Passage on the Royal was truly an excellent cruise! Can you believe it has been ten years? Magical is certainly the best description of our sail away out of Venice...with Andrea Bocelli singing Time To Say Goodbye...can't be beat! We were fortunate to experience that more than once, but sadly mo more.. Enjoy your time in Umbria and Tuscany and your cruise out of Civitavecchia...

I could very well be wrong, but having never seen a private vehicle being driven within the port, I'm guessing it's not allowed. My suggestion would be to hire a limo from Rome directly to the cruise terminal or a taxi if you were to stay in Civitavecchia the night before embarkation. In either case you would turn in your rental the day before.

Stick with Celebrity! We have done 50+ Princess cruises and for a number of reasons we won't do another one.

My suggestion would be to monitor each other's flights with free apps such at FlightView or FlightAware. Each would require Wi-Fi or cell service. If either is delayed, you won't want to spend time waiting in the baggage claim area. I'd much rather wait in the cafeteria as suggested by @euro cruiser.