Robisan

No problem. It's frustrating that too often it takes Apple years to add features found in Android devices.

Again, the iPhone hotspot is using cellular data... ...and the Macbook shows the hotspot is cellular data. There's no wifi indicator in sight. What we want (and what the Android phone does) is to have the iPhone share the ship's wifi as a hotspot.

"With Personal Hotspot, you can share the cellular data connection of your iPhone or iPad (Wi-Fi + Cellular) with another device. If you need help with Personal Hotspot, follow these steps." (emphasis added) Both the video and the Apple link are using cellular data as the Internet source for sharing. If I'm at sea there will be no cellular data to share. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Respectfully, I've been doing Google searches and I don't see this. Are you using a third party app? I'm Running iOS 17 on a 13 Pro and it appears that you cannot enable Personal Hotspot with Cellular disabled. Furthermore, enabling Cellular and Hotspot disconnects wifi (the wifi symbol in the upper right task bar disappears, replaced by 5G) even though wifi toggle in Settings is enabled. If you toggle off wifi and then toggle it back on (i.e. try to reengage a wifi connection) a message pops up saying Hotspot users will be disconnected if you enable wifi and asks whether you want to proceed. So I'm stumped. If you would, can you explain how you use your iPhone as an extender of the ship's wifi? I (and I'm sure many others) would love to avoid paying for additional logins. Thanks.

I've been reading this thread with interest. While I agree tipping in advance for preferential treatment is distasteful and something I will not do on principle, it's also hard to abide long time patrons of a line claiming to receive treatment (e.g. multiple TK seatings, prime table locations, etc.) not generally (let alone always) available to first or second time pax, simply due to good manners and a smile, as though all the money they've spent with the line has no bearing. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with long time patrons receiving this type preferential treatment, but let's not pretend exchange of money had nothing to do with it or that prior patronage doesn't impart an expectation of treatment akin to (even if it's not in kind to) that of an advance tip.

Finally got a chance to browse through these photos. Thanks to everyone who took them and posted them. Looks lovely throughout. If I have one nit to pick it would be the preponderance of armless, low back, almost utilitarian-looking seating in the public and dining spaces. Some did not look at all inviting or comfortable.

It's amazing how some people so blithely show their arse. It's a mystery why some people dispiritedly drift away unwelcomed. When an operator chooses to offer hotel accommodations they become an agent and party to the transaction. That choice also comes with some service obligations, particularly for top shelf lines where delivering impeccable service and experience is central to their brand and expected by their patrons. A derisive 'sorry, sucks for you, should've used a TA (or maybe you're just lying!)' is not an appropriate response from a cruise line or any reasonably compassionate human being.

"We want to give the cruise lines the best possible authentic experience..." Would be very interested in his definition of an "authentic (Saudi) experience."

Wow, labeling anything short of absolute purity as sophistry is, well, sophistry. There is an identifiable and quantifiable difference between wholly owning an entity vs. holding a non-controlling minority stake, particularly in publicly traded companies where anybody can buy shares. By your logic, if the Saudi fund purchased a large holding in an S&P 500 index fund purety would obligate that we no longer patronize any S&P 500 company. Likewise, since you've previously mentioned petroleum, because it's literally impossible to know where the barrel of oil that became your gasoline originated, I guess purity obligates us to no longer consume gasoline. Those are insane expectations. It is perfectly reasonable to avoid patronizing Saudi holdings where it is practicable, particularly when they are the clearly identifiable sole or majority interest owners, while recognizing that it would be impossible to avoid every last entity in which they have any level of stake or interest. Finally, I'd also add that my five figure cruise purchase warrants a higher level of scrutiny and decision-making than my choice of filling my gas tank or which airplane I may fly on. We don't live in a binary world where every decision is clearly black and white. Sorry to be long-winded about this, but those of us who feel the Saudis taking full or majority ownership of Seabourn would be a deal breaker prefer not to have our integrity impugned.

German and Thai food on St. Patrick's Day is a chef's kiss.

Try Netscape via AOL dial-up for better handshake with their circa-Y2K web coding?

It's The Seabourn Difference™.