Ladys Mom

It is a function of what is your suite level and how many nights you have cruised on Regent. I believe at your level you would chose shore excursions 365 days ahead and select your dinner reservations three months ahead. The best thing to do is go on Regent’s website and go to my account and select your booked cruise. Then select Manage My Cruise. On the right hand side it will tell you the dates for everything.

If it is like what they did for the Oscars, they will set up something festive in the Constellation Theatre with food and drink.

There are Man Jong sets on every ship but you may want to bring your own current card. It is not an officially sanctioned Regent game, like bridge, but every afternoon there is a time on the daily schedule for people to get together and play. The only problem is that it usually conflicts with a lecture.

They sure do. They are called Regent Rewards. I suspect the swag that you can use the points for hasn't changed much either.

Try doing the new fares as a solo traveler. Rapidly it may be up to $2,000 per night. I stilll don't know if I will get one night or two for each night I sale.

You probably are better off doing it yourself. On aExpedia there are several airlines with short connections in Boston for $3500 per person.

I’ve been looking at international airfares lately through the winter and spring. It appears that the fares are about what they were more than a year ago. I agree that over the last year they had gone up a lot. But the airlines have taken notice that the public is only willing to pay so much for business class. It seems to be running about $4-5,000 per person which is what it had been for quite a while. It may be that when Regent tried to renegotiate their contracts the airlines thought they could get more than Regent would pay. Now we are left with this new system on top of already higher cruise fares. This is making Regent’s ultimate fares less attractive when compared with Viking and Silversea newly all inclusive fares. I for one Regent goes back to a “reasonable “ all inclusive fare.

In point of face you can get a specialty coffee anywhere on the ship at any time of day. All you need to do is ask your butler, call room service, or ask ne of the waiters in any of the venues. Regent staff will go out of their way to get you what you want. If you want a specialty coffee in your suite to wake you up just add it to the breakfast menu and hang it on your door the night before.

About how many kids are on the ship?

I suspect someone has mentioned this already but NCL’s action is in response to what RCL is doing as of June 5th. They are merging RCL, Celebrity, and Silverseas loyalty programs. Silversea has been part of RCL for years and their loyalty program was always separate. Even when Azamara was part of RCL and its loyalty program Silversea was not. Now they are merging. Same as what Regent is doing to copy Silversea. Could it be that the execs at NCL are looking at the stock price of RCL and saying that what they are doing must be the way to go. I for one am not happy with the changes

And if you are applying for shareholder onboard credit you only will get half the amount.

So sorry you have so many bad weather days. Is this normal or unusual?

That is three bags of laundry per cruise. Regent is unlimited washed and pressed laundry at all levels.

Thought I would put in my two cents worth since we have sailed both Oceania and Regent pre- and post-Covid. Prior to Regent our favorite line was Oceania. We have only sailed Riviera and Marina so I don’t know about the older or newer ships. We found the service and food excellent pre-covid, especially in the Specialty restaurants. We switched to Regent because when my husband did an apples to apples comparison for the same itinerary and found that Regent was about the same price but with more included. Once we were on Regent we were hooked. We took one more Oceania cruise to the Amazon post Covid. The quality of the food and service had dropped precipitously. The main dining room was so bad that it was always empty because people gave up on waiting for poorly prepared food. We have taken several Regent cruises post Covid and all were wonderful. I am booked on the Mariner on the Sydney to Abu Dhabi segment this March. I cannot wait.

I feel really bad for those whose cruises were cancelled and for the World Cruisers whose trip of a lifetime turned upside down. For once things went in my favor. I board in Sydney and disembark in Abu Dhabi. I look forward to meeting many of you when I get home on.