sheldondusty

I see what you're saying but I feel what they are ADVERTISING is a door-to-door, luxury experience. We have booked a concierge suite, this isn't a mega ship cruise line, I felt we were purchasing a curated, individualized experience. I found two reasonable flights for our scenario and assumed they would book us on those flights. we did get the one on the way out to the cruise. I was certainly not expecting to have to change plans twice, overnight, on the way back. There were seats available on the route that required one change of plane, but that was outside their discount fare arrangement and they wouldn't give it to us. That's not what I expected from a concierge suite cruise itinerary. However, now I know better.

Hi Val, We are doing the reverse cruise on 9/6. All I can tell you is that I've never cruised Regent before and I made two errors (so far). The first was not doing the cruise the way you're doing it- apparently air is quite difficult to obtain out of ANC on the return. The second was flying out of Montreal and not Newark. We decided to take our chances with the assigned air rather than pay the deviation. I'm guessing they will use Air Canada for that flight for you as they did for us; it is cheapest for them and they stick you with the seat assignment fees. We have to change planes TWICE on the return and I had to pay almost $500 for bulkhead or exit row seats on SOME of the legs, the rest are standard economy. There are no other flights available at this point without paying over $1000 premium. We are United Silver and we could have gotten all that for free, just would have had to drive the 280 miles to Newark (we normally do for a flight of that length). Probably doesn't answer your question yet but I feel they will put you on the cheapest flight that they can get. I would never book air with Regent again.