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Your status will be ‘B3’ as you booked your cabin as a ‘B3’. When it’s upgraded to an A2 it will carry the concierge benefits.

I asked my TA to contact Oceania about the repair to the aft lift. “… they aim to have it fixed by the end of October”. At least I know that there will be a problem when we sail early in October. I can take suitable mobility equipment so that if all else fails I can use the stairs!

It’s all in te ‘terms and conditions’ of booking. Unfortunately not many people read them thoroughly.

Yes on our 10 Oceania cruises the Americans have always been the majority. In saying that it was the same on our Seabourn cruises and on RSS and Silversea. I think it has to do with the size of the ships amongst other things

NCL and Oceania may be under the same ‘umbrella’ but they are very different ‘creatures’. The fact that Oceania ships are very much smaller means the passengers are different, often more well travelled, who enjoy the smaller ships because they can dock in ports that the huge ships can’t. When you have travelled on your first Oceania cruise you will have a better idea of how different Oceania is to NCL or other large lines with huge ships. The fact of the matter is that on Oceania, in general, the majority of passengers are from the US so the staff know what American’s expect!

Yes and that will be exciting for them I agree but …. ‘American’ cruisers…. they will definitely already be familiar with them!

Can’t understand why the crew will be ‘excited’. They should already ‘know’ what ‘American’ cruisers are like because they are nearly always the majority on ‘European’ cruises! Enjoy your first time on Oceania!

Maybe even a double! Enjoy your cruise Orv.

Ahh! You take me back to a heart shaped pizza served by a dishy Italian waiter in a tiny restaurant on the Adriatic coast in 1966! Memories!

Definitely a different screen to the one we get in the UK! However, as I said above if it’s only to praise staff I’m sure you could use the address provided above. The staff will still be ‘praised’.

Can I just add that I have contacted guest services recently at GuestServicesEMEA@oceaniacruises.com I wanted a particular speciality restaurant booking and I was able to contact guest services at that address. Given that the object of the email is to praise some staff I think you would be able to do that via the email address above.

Bottom line of section “Call Centre Hours” underlined address is GuestServicesEMEA@OceaniaCruises.com

Sorry you have lost me! Why not wait until you board to then get the benefit of the silver level?

Your experience mirrors ours. We had to cancel the cruise that should have taken us from bronze to silver. Despite having paid in full for this cruise we were still classed as bronze until we actually ‘set foot’ on our 10th/silver cruise.

We are due to sail October 2nd and although we are mid-ships I can’t use the stairs. Hope we have considerate fellow passengers!

The ‘benefits’ of the new cruise level are applied when you sail ie. bronze goes to silver when you sail on your 10th cruise not on your 11th if that makes sense!

We’ve booked onboard and then passed over to our agent for a further discount. We’ve booked at sale prices and still got the agents discount. We’ve gone back to our agent if there’s a sale after we booked and got the reduced price. The only thing we haven’t done is to try and get a reduction after ‘final payment’ because there has never been a reduction on our booked cruise. To me it seems to be a no brainer!

Yes I agree. We usually book through an O rep then transfer to an agent and save 10% on average!

Enjoy!

Pickled with chilli are my favourite!

The Captain’s cocktail party is different to the ‘Returners’ and ‘Newbies’ parties which usually last around an hour and are by invitation. On our last cruise on the Marina in May the Captain’s cocktail party was on day 3 day 1 being embarkation day. It is advertised in Currents and our was from 5.45 - 8pm in Horizons and 6 - 8pm in the Grand Bar & Martinis. From memory the Captains party usually lasts that long but in saying that you don’t have to arrive at the start and stay to the end, unless of course you want to!

Food is so subjective! I always have the duck and watermelon salad but the miso glazed seabass is just not to my taste, it’s too sweet. In fact on our next cruise I’m going to see if I can pre-order ‘plain’ seabass!

The ‘old’ ones, as you say, sent out quite recently (eg. 11/2023) weren’t being sent out to UK passengers! Hence we only had online check in and print out your own labels etc. So for us now the ‘blue’ package arriving in the post is a real ‘bonus’!

The ‘blue’ package is definitely better than ‘nothing’ which is what we had for a couple of years. BUT, if you hark back to the ‘olden days’, and I don’t, then the ‘blue’ package lacks the personalisation. Personally, I still get a little thrill whatever ‘package’ arrives because it means my cruise is just around the corner …. in fact I’m expecting a ‘blue’ package any day soon!

Sailed on Marina first cruise after refit and have to say the furnishings in our Concierge cabin were nether ‘scratched or dented’. Dated… that’s a matter of opinion.