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Our 2018 Holland America sail away from Sydney advertised local beers. The local beers were from Alaska!

I heard that Cunard required cruisers to show that they could step 18 inches over hash marks on the floor before being allowed on a tender. I have seen any number of cruisers look at a bouncing tender and decide to stay onboard. Use your best judgment, suron, remember that the ride back may be rougher than the ride in.

What a great term, thanks sciencewonk. I hope I can remember to call them wet suits.

Ah, pinky ring behavior.

Northernroots, the search function link is the magnifying glass icon at the top right of the page on my laptop and smart phone. There are options to search by topic, title, date, etc. The search function does always return the info you want,and Earthtones and Techno123 answered quickly.

Can it be a really nice hot tub, if someone else has used the water before you?

Our guide in San Diego could spot the midwesterners in the group. We were in shirt sleeves while everyone else was wearing parkas.

I am sure I would pick up one of those NYT eight page papers, if they were available. However, it is as unnecessary to me as a ship library with printed books, I get what I really want digitally. Instead of reading the eight pages over my morning cup of coffee, I read a book on my Kindle. With internet access I read the news onboard on my laptop just as I do at home. The e-edition software my local paper uses is superior, provides a beautiful facsimile of the print edition, although the newspaper itself gets worse and worse as its staff gets smaller and smaller. The large city paper I subscribe to (I won't mention the name, the fact based media annoys half the US population) has excellent crossword puzzles in addition to national and international news and more stuff than I can possibly read. I can do without the mini New York Times.

Things may have changed since we cruised in February 2020. Seabourn provided free access to a number of newspapers via the PressReader app, there was no additional charge. I do not recall which newspapers were available. There were larger format printed copies of parts of major newspapers WSJ, NY Times, Financial Times, USA Today available in Seabourn Square. (I subscribe to a couple of newspapers and was able to read them online.)

Artificial intelligence? There ought to be some certification involved before calling something artificial intelligence. Without certification it is just artificial stupidity.

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Ah, marketing speak. You say Nutella and HAL says hazelnut cream.

You are correct, mawvkysc. My mistake.

Thanks, Wehwalt. Looks like it arrives two days later than the original itinerary. I am keeping an eye out for bargain prices on revised itineraries.

Sorry kids, but I would hard pressed to say Prinsendam was any better than Noordam, was surprised how much I liked her even after two great cruises on Prinsendam. I sailed Noordam when she still had a piano bar, though. We were lucky enough to sail on Rotterdam twice before HAL added cabins to her. We enjoyed two Veendam cruises despite the added cabins, lanais and poolettes. I was surprised to check my notes and find that we'd sailed on Volendam in 2006, I have no memory of the ship. We'd also sailed Zuiderdam in 2006 and she was our least favorite, but it might have been the full ship with lots of children, including ours. (Their children were a negative, ours were a positive.)

Thanks, DTtravelers, that clears up my questions.

This might be the thread you are seeking: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2966893-quasi-live-westerdam-oct-1st-japan/ Great start to you live thread, Tigerlily. I look forward to your posts.

The travel agency website that I prefer lists the single supplement on Antarctica sailings on Venture and Pursuit as 25% for 2024 sailings and 75% for 2025 sailings, I cannot guaranty the accuracy.

I hope the return to normalcy is permanent. The change added nothing for me and I missed seeing the time stamp on the last post in a thread.

We're considering an Alaska cruise. Port descriptions list a number of Zodiac tours. I thought I had read here that Venture was not allowed to use Zodiacs in Alaska, something about not being a US flagged ship, maybe. Anyone know if Quest will use their Zodiacs in Alaska in 2024? Are these land based Zodiacs? The excursions are listed as $300 and up. Thanks in advance for any expertise you can offer.

I have seen cruising couples where one of them is obviously suffering from dementia. Think what would happen if the care giver partner were to die.

Route A gets my vote. Cruising south of Australia keeps you farther from equatorial heat and I would also love to visit all those countries on the west coast of Africa. Itinerary B is a close second. Too much heat along the equator on this one, but I would cope. Itinerary C spends too much time in the Mediterranean, nothing new there for me. Itinerary D is the worst. I do not want all those 23 hour days and it is not a complete circumnavigation of the globe. Itinerary E is second worst, too much time in the Med and Europe and nothing new for me. Is it immigration problems that keep cruise lines away from India? Cruise lines seem to avoid the country.

When you see how often 'hot and humid' complaints come up in world cruise blogs, a Japan and China route is tempting.

I have suffered through something more horrible than ventriloquists, magicians, hypnotists, and clowns put together... A mime.

Agreed, cruisemom. A world cruise for North Americans does not need to visit the Caribbean or the USA. Look at the possibilities, though, of El Salvador and Nicaragua, US cruise lines don't go there. Visit Marshall Islands, Chuuk, Guam and Saipan for WWII history and the Germans visit places in the Philippines and Malaysia that I never heard of. Unfortunately, I think the seniors who take world cruises want safe, familiar places.