Robisan

I wish SB would contract day pass excursions to some beach clubs or resorts on the Caribbean cruises with round trip transportation included. The crowded tourist beaches usually have very spartan facilities/amenities and are often beset with pestering local vendors. Beaches away from crowds usually have no facilities at all. There's always the nagging concern whether your return taxi will available. Etc. At our age, we prefer real facilitates, real food, ideally real cocktails and no worries. Second this. The Lululemon ABCs are light and comfortable enough to wear daytime on excursions yet still dressy enough for evening elegant casual wear.

Perhaps you should reply confirming your new, lower HAL pricing.

IMO if you wear a blazer/jacket it will absolve the "sin" of wearing a polo shirt and of course a dress shirt w/o jacket is also fine. Polo shirt is fine at Colonnade and E&O, and frankly you won't be turned away from the Restaurant either if you're comfortable not caring if a few diners snootily choose to be offended. Honestly, most won't care.

This is ridiculous. They hand you a wide-ranging menu that requires a multi-lingual cryptologist to decipher and then they restrict your choices? Other than chef's prix fixe menu dining there isn't a fine dining restaurant in the world that would impose this restriction. At this price point unless the request is untenable the customer should never hear "no."

Try Netscape. Don't think they've updated their website since that era browser.

Assuming this was not a typo, spot on!

This and the wait staff can be overly taxed handling both drinks and sushi, especially during the pre-dinner cocktail hour. If you're going to have sushi as a meal your experience will likely be better if you wait until the pre-dinner cocktail crowd has moved on to the dining venues.

So I take it you were "near tears" of joy? Surely not tears of sadness.

Acknowledging that some places can only or best be seen by ship and the advantage of seeing multiple places w/o packing/unpacking, nevertheless one could put together many extremely luxe land-based travel itineraries for that kind of money (and less) that allow multiple days per location at the finest hotels, Michelin level dining, private tours, limousine transfers, etc. Plus you never have to worry about missing "all aboard" deadlines after just mere hours per location and most of it can be cancelled within days of the travel date without penalty. Perhaps there will continue to be enough cruise addicts and/or people for whom money is no object to remain successful, but IMHO the cruise business structure, especially at the high end, is dated and out of touch with online generations currently reaching and becoming an ever increasing percentage of the retirement travel market.

So, Panda Express?

The whole cruising sales models and pricing gimmicks are such an antiquated racket. The worst part is the virtual requirement to pay a +/-10% commission surcharge to TAs (less what you can claw back from the TA in discounts, rebates, OBC, etc.). If you book direct with the cruise line they just pocket the unpaid TA commission and flat out refuse to credit any portion of the unpaid commission back the purchaser.

"Sail of the Year" has been going on since January and the offers have been, shall we say, evolving. In late January we were looking at the 11-day late March crossing from Miami to Canary Islands cruise on Quest, had the pricing nailed down and decided over the weekend to book it. Contacted the TA on Monday and soon found out that the previous day SB had revised the offer on the cruise, adding $500/pp OBC - and had increased the fare price by $600/pp! The new OBC was promoted as a limited time "sale" offer. Needless to say, we declined their offer to pay $1,200 for $1,000 of OBC and too clever by half Seabourn lost a booking.

I also didn't know they offer espresso in the dining venues. Thanks! Perhaps we need to compile a Seabourn Secret Menu.

These two sentences are self-refuting.

I wasn't aware of this. Thanks! Still, it would be nice to have regular, non-Americano coffee available to go, especially when the dining venues are closed. Ah well, the first world problems of having to make do with cappuccinos.

+1 on this admittedly small nit to pick. For those simply wanting a regular coffee or tea to go, a busy Seabourn Square preparing time consuming, custom ordered lattes and cappuccinos can be maddening. After 8am there is no other to-go alternative.

Did you need a VPN to access that US-based content? If so, what are you using?

"Available now for past Seabourn guests. Please call [ph#] or contact your travel agent today for pricing. Welcoming new Seabourn guests [date]." Problem solved. This is not rocket science.

Just baffling why Seabourn would affirmatively turn away people to look elsewhere for their December 2025 travel interests. Why not just disclose when booking will be available to new guests? Encourage people to come back or have their TA's check for them. Tout the early booking benefits of being repeat guests. Etc. Somebody should be sacked for this stupidity.

Non-personalized listserv emails offering "invite-only" cruises might be peak Seabourn home office.

I'm struggling with the concept of anyplace serving drinks being an unpopular location.

As just one example, Costco has certain items that display on their website as 'Member only pricing' and require logging in to verify membership to see the price. I'm pretty sure a freshman IT student could write 'If this, then that' code for Seabourn club levels so that appropriate pricing could be shown (or not shown if the member is not a past pax). While better pricing can usually be obtained from a TA it's very helpful to have the SB website pricing as a baseline to decide whether to bother your TA. Additionally, whether it's TA's doing needless legwork or Seabourn having to devote employee resources to compensate for lack of basic website functionality, we pax pay for the inefficiencies in marginally higher prices (which TA's/Cruise lines set, in part, by the cost of providing services). Home office idiocy, bad management, bad websites, etc. are not cost free and nor is 'you can remedy it later with someone in Seabourn Square' cost free. Finally, as an aside, if they don't want to display prices yet, wouldn't it be better to show it as "Coming Soon!", not as unavailable, or worse, sold out? Lost business resulting in steep discounting later, while beneficial to those getting deals, is paid for by higher prices elsewhere and/or lower quality onboard product.

Someone should go to the MDR for lunch and order off the room service menu just to see what they say. I would very much like the club sandwich for lunch somewhere other than in my suite. Sadly our next booking isn't until November. ...adding, if they build it people will come.

"Yes, since it's still being sourced from a 'snack' supplier, I'd like the 32-oz Porterhouse for one, medium rare please." The ghost of TK Grill would be proud.

Since your cruise embarks in just a few days it would be wise for you and/or your TA to advise Seabourn ASAP that this is a needed medical accommodation (not just a preference request) to best ensure they have adequate supply of what you need earmarked for your use. Additionally, the onboard purified water is delivered in unsealed, reusable bottles, so it's likely not usable for your medical purpose.