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Our final payment date for April 2024 is November 2023. We will deviate as soon as we can, but we haven't always had luck in getting booked tickets soon after deviating. No booked tickets means to us that we don't want to pay in full.

Will they be delaying cruise payments by 60 days to make up for this? If I can't book a flight that's acceptable until 210 days out, then I need to be able to cancel without penalty until 60 days later than usual as well. We already have a cruise booked for April 2024, with a waitlist after that. which could be affected by this since they're long flights each way, and we're not going if they're not what we want. Changes in policy like this for those who already have reservations, and have made significant down payments well in advance, are really not acceptable to us.

We've used a good TA on all of our cruises after having problems booking on our first cruise directly through a cruise line. Since that first problem, we've booked on a number of cruise lines, all on ships less than 1000 passengers, and we haven't had a problem finding answers from our TA. Build a relationship with a good TA, and your problems will be solved.

Yep! And to both ronrick and Wendy, better late than never for my 12/23 reply: But that's my point. If someone has 400 nights onboard, why shouldn't they be given some consideration in that long line to eat at Setti Mare than someone who has been on their first cruise? There are plenty of other perks for those with that many nights onboard. As I've mentioned elsewhere, and maybe that was read recently in another thread, we would never stand in line for Setti Mare. It did not appeal to us at all. We're not big fans of Italian food, large portions and dessert buffets. That's not the way we eat. But what we tasted was good, and I'm sure that most people enjoy it. That's why it's always busy. We just prefer Compass Rose for the lighter dinners we prefer.

If we're going to fly, we like to take a long cruise, so we often do B2Bs. Our cruise TA takes care of booking this for us, and we have always had just one price, one cabin, and one deposit for the entire trip. I know that the cruise line will move you if you have a different cabin, but I would still find that to be a "lost day" on my cruise. I would rather move everything myself than have the crew do that since I'll need to stay out of their way in both cabins so we'll be "homeless" on board. And that day, I'll need to carry my safe items with us, which isn't very convenient.And I won't know for sure where all of my "things" are in the new cabin. I also don't necessarily like someone touching all of my things. I'd feel a need to pack many of them for the move. But maybe that's just me.

Our first Regent cruise was an Alaska cruise. There were quite a number of children and they seemed to be having a good time. We did see a group activities for them. We've also been on a Silvesea cruise, from Barbados to Manaus Brazil to Barbados. There were no children onboard, but that was a very different itinerary, and in November when many of them are in school. Silversea has a much more formal dress code for dinner than Regent. On the smaller Silversea ships, there are only a few restaurants, and they have quite a few formal nights (more than most of us want but we dress up). So, if your daughter likes to dress up for dinner, she might really enjoy Silversea. As mentioned, the destination and time of year will determine whether there are other children onboard. If she doesn't need other children onboard to have a good time with you, then don't worry about it. We have been on a number of cruises where there were only a few children who behaved well, and they fit in just fine with everyone else onboard.

I'm a meclizine fan. My brother has a prescription for it for vertigo, but it's sold OTC as Bonine, and there are store brands as well. It was offered free at reception on 2 different cruises we were on, on 2 different cruise lines, when we had high seas for the size of our ship. My husband needed to take it both times. It's the only 2 times he's ever been seasick in his life. We had boated on our own for just over 30 years, including offshore. I started my boating experience with Dramamine which I took for car sickness. As a passenger in a car, drowsiness isn't a bad side effect. But as the only other person onboard our boat, I switched to Bonine since it didn't make me drowsy. I take it on cruises any time the Captain announces bad weather is likely.

On our recent cruises, we've been shown our muster station on our way to our cabin. We've watched the video (twice each time), and located and put on our life jackets. Whenever we passed our muster station we pointed it out to each other to make sure we could quickly locate it from our cabin and the other places we frequented. We boated for 30 years, half of that time on larger boats where we traveled long distances by ourselves. For 7 years we spent 6 months in the Bahamas, living on our boat, and traveling back and forth from the US on our boat. We always had a ditch bag ready to go in case we had to abandon ship quickly. That was at the dock, as well as underway. Since selling our boat and replacing it with taking cruises back in early 2017, we bring a waterproof bag and have it ready as a ditch bag on all of the cruises we've taken. The clothes we hope to wear before going to the muster station are placed on top of the ditch bag. I still don't find the actual muster drills useful. While there are usually plenty of staff directing you to the muster station, there always seems to be someone who normally works in the boutique or as an entertainer near the end of the drill who is really interested in having a neat line before we can go out to the life boat, and they often have trouble figuring out if everyone is there once we get to the lifeboat.

On our Regent cruise last September, we had included a 3 night pre in London when we first booked the cruise long ago. We had a cancellation due to covid in 2020, and postponed again in 2021 when our final payment was due since it was likely we would be on the very first Splendor cruise post Covid, and didn't want to be. Since our 3 night pre at IC wasn't part of the current 2022 itinerary there was no one obvious to meet us in Heathrow when we arrived only slightly late. After wandering around the area after customs, we found the Regent representatives standing in a small circle with their signs not displayed only to each other. They seemed to be having a great conversation. We did, however, interrupt them, and ask about our transportation to the IC. Only one of the group knew what we were talking about, since the others were only familiar with the big bus that went to a different hotel. Luckily, the one who knew where we were going found our shy taxi driver who was standing in a corner with a small sign with our name written in something that was quite illegible. He told us to follow him to his taxi, which we did, and never spoke to us again on the way to the Intercontinental Hotel Park Lane. But it was a great hotel in very good location, despite being there between the Queen's wake nearby. From our Regent experience, if you take their flights, and stay in their hotels, you will most likely arrive at your hotel before your room is available. Only once, at the Fairmont in Barcelona, were we offered a room upgrade that allowed us to check in early. Since the room was bigger, with a better view, we paid for the upgrade. Otherwise, we've always had to wait until the normal check-in time of 3 or 4, but they've kept our luggage stored until then.

Ugh. I hate going to the muster drill. On our last cruise in September, we were shown our muster station on our way to our cabin, and then just reviewed it on the TV. We were also asked to do that online before boarding, and that was enough for us. Too bad they couldn't rely on people watching the E-muster, and reliably keep a record of that. Another bad experience added back to cruising.

We had one upgrade offer from Regent. It was on our first cruise. The offer was made on Mariner, and came after we were already in the hotel that we had to pay for ourselves. The transfers, hotel room and breakfast were no longer in play. And they couldn't tell us what cabin we would have until we boarded. There was no additional charge, and if I remember correctly it was only a slightly bigger cabin (penthouse vs deluxe veranda on Mariner) so we declined. On our next 5 cruises on Regent, we've always booked at concierge or penthouse, and have never been offered an upgrade at all. We have 2 more cruises booked, one concierge and one penthouse, both on Navigator, which has mostly small cabins. I'm sure we won't be offered an upgrade. We had trouble on our last cruise on Splendor getting them to acknowledge that we reached gold status. The TV in our room showed it. But we had to log into Regent on our phone, and show it to them at the desk, and then they had to check with a higher authority before they agreed. We got our 100 dollar cruise credit the day before we disembarked, but managed to spend it.

We currently have 79 nights onboard Regent ships. We went to Sette Mari once, and have never returned. Since it's always been the 2 of us, we did not find it worthwhile. Since no reservations are taken for this restaurant, we had a short wait, and after being seated, we were served a huge amount of appetizers that we were mostly not interested in, and not very good. The entrees were large portions, and not what I would normally order. We don't normally eat more than one dessert and most times we're happy with the selection of small bites in Compass Rose are enough to us, so the dessert buffet wasn't something we were interested in. We have an upcoming cruise where there will be 2 singles in their own cabins along with us. We'll see if they're interested in Sette Mari, but I think Compass Rose will have the choices that they are going to prefer, just as we have.

We were on Regent Splendor for B2B cruises for 24 nights from mid September to early October. We did have crab legs available, and I enjoyed them. They were smaller than in past years. But I think the problem going forward is the decrease in crab population, and harvesting restrictions going forward, which will make it even worse than it was when we were on board. Here is an something I found: "Why is there no king crab season 2022: In reaction to extremely low Alaskan snow and king crab populations, the state has decided to cancel the fall and winter harvest of the crustaceans for the first time in history.Oct 20, 2022." In our local grocery stores in Florida, we have trouble finding reasonably priced Florida fish and shrimp, and Maine lobster (as frozen tails only) are extremely expensive. We stopped buying rack of lamb in the grocery store at over 20 dollars a pound, and we rarely eat our anymore. Publix did, however, have a great bargain on prime rib over the holidays at 5.99 a pound and whole tenderloins at 14.99 a pound. We considered our meals on our recent Splendor cruise to be excellent, and weren't disappointed on our 6th cruise with them. Our only Viking cruise so far was a River cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest last May. It took us 3 years after we paid in full due to Covid cancellations. We enjoyed the cruise, but the food was not a highlight, nor was their dining experience. We have, however, booked a Viking Ocean cruise next December through the Panama canal, and the restaurants and cabins look like something we'll enjoy more for our onboard experience than the River cruise ship.

The properly made french toast with custard through the bread is why I never order French toast anymore on any cruise line. I think there are many people that just want a thin coating on each side of the bread, and that isn't what I want. From the "maple" syrup that we've had on cruise ships, it's not what we use at home. We no longer live in the maple syrup producing part of the US NE, but even in Florida we can buy real maple syrup produced from maple trees in the NE. While on a cruise, I can settle for eggs benedict for breakfast, and wait until I get home to make French toast with real maple syrup.

We have done a number of B2B's and for some reason, it never seemed to give us any significant savings. We've also looked at rebooking when there were new offers after we had booked (since we always book early). We have always found that the new offer was offset since there was something already given to us for early booking, that we lost if we rebooked. On an upcoming cruise, we could have rebooked and saved a few hundred dollars for our cabin. However, our 2 fellow travelers each had their own cabins with a 50 percent single supplement. If they had rebooked, the single supplement discount was lost, and they would have been charged much more than they had already paid. We didn't want to scare them away from the cruise by mentioning it, so we decided not to rebook.

Or any cruise ship.

Thank you cwn. We have been on many Regent cruises, but never on Navigator. We had already booked a 2024 cruise on Navigator from Bangkok to Abu Dhabi. since we like smaller ships. We recently booked the Navigator Miami to Miami in late April so I was following you all the way. My brother and one of our best friends will be joining us in their own cabins. We have all been to the Caribbean before, but for each of us, there will be new islands that we haven't visited. We are all looking forward to it, and your posts on this board helped us feel good about our upcoming cruise.

From the FAQs on RSSC, but we have gotten into our cabin earlier than 2:30 when in a penthouse or concierge cabin with Regent transfers from their included pre hotel: Category or Seven Seas Society Status Embark Time Suite Available Regent Suites, Master Suites, and Grand Suites 12:00PM 12:00PM Navigator Suites, Mariner Suites, Voyager Suites, Seven Seas Suites, Horizon Suites, and Titanium Seven Seas Society Members 12:00PM 1:00PM Remaining Suites 12:00PM 2:30PM

We were on Splendor for back to back cruises in mid September through the first week in October. We had Diet Coke in our frig throughout our cruises. I don't drink it every day, but any time I did, it was replaced the next day. We spoke to the bartenders, and they said that they had been unable to get certain beverages for a long time. They said that they requested the out of stock liquors and wines every time they submitted an order, but they were not receiving what they requested when their orders arrived. One of the bartenders was experimenting using combinations of other liquors to give the same flavor as those that weren't delivered to them. He did a very good job.

There 's a difference between a loyalty reward and promotions. Regent, and many other ocean cruise lines, have loyalty programs that are separate from promotions. From our experience, you cannot have multiple promotions, but you can have a promotion as well as your loyalty rewards based on cruise nights.

I didn't see anything that would make me think that they were looking for a River Cruise. Regent doesn't have those. We have taken a River Cruise on Viking, and having encountered Uniworld ships along the our 2 week cruise, I would avoid Uniworld.

My brother sometimes travels with us and a 25% single supplement makes him happy. For the 2 of us, we often book early since we like to have a good choice of cabins. We often see a better deal after we book, but when we look at what we might lose from our original reservation, it hasn't been worth it. In fact, we have an upcoming cruise where we have 2 people traveling with us who will be in single cabins with a 50% single supplement. We saw a better deal for the 2 of us, if we rebooked, but if they rebooked, it would have cost them much more. Since we wanted cabins close together, and didn't want to lose ours to save a few hundred dollars, we didn't rebook.

We were on Deck 6 in 615 for 24 nights in Sept/Oct for a back to back cruise on Splendor. We were just aft of the Atrium, with the Atrium elevators just in front of that. The tenders are stored on Deck 5, in front of the elevators. We were more worried about noise from the Atrium than the tenders. But the Atrium is enclosed so while you can see through it, we heard almost nothing. We heard a band playing once, but they stopped shortly after we returned to our cabin on our first cruise. We never heard the tenders since we weren't directly over them. Similarly, 661 is aft of the elevators and the last tender is next to the elevators. I would not expect to hear the tenders from 661. That cabin appears to be over the spa and should be quiet. We enjoyed our location, with easy access to the Coffee Connection, and Compass Rose. We had a number of days with high seas ane since I get seasick, I was wishing I was further bqck on deck 6.

Yes, but I always forget how hard it is to make yourself understood on a forum.

If I had 400 nights onboard, I would expect to be seated before someone who was on their first cruise and had not made reservations. That's why Regent has a loyalty program to reward repeat customers We're only gold members after 6 cruises and never expect to make it to 400 nights. Unless we've made reservations in advance, we eat at Compass Rose and always enjoy enough of the meal to overfill us.