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That was also the practice when we were on Azamara a few years back.

Some years back we did the island tour with eventual drop off at the airport. It worked out well. As I remember we bargained for the tour with a driver who was lined up at the terminal. Sometimes cruise companies will offer a transfer to the airport that includes some form of island tour. I don't know if Crystal plans to do this but would not be surprised. Incidentally, we are booked on that Quebec City to Barbados cruise next fall.

Don't know if this has already been covered -- on board now and falling behind on reading messages -- but another interesting restroom innovation -- the sinks have what appears to be three identical brass spigots. At first I thought "huh??" But if you hold your hand under the first one on the right it dispenses soap. Move on to the middle one and it turns on with water. Then place your hand under the third one on the left and it shoots out hot air to dry your hands. (There are also rolled up cloth towels for anyone not interested in an "air dry"!}

Just a little possible reality check here. The vast majority of the comments on other media sites are overwhelmingly positive. I get the problems (very real) relating to cancelled cruises and withheld reimbursement -- but the product currently being delivered is being praised by on board customers on websites other than this one. Anyway, I board on September 2. So I will see for myself.

Just for the sake of clarity, there is no restaurant listed in post #17 that opens for dinner at 9:00. All of the restaurants listed according to that post open at either 6:30 or 7:00 p.m. (For me, the only way I can decipher 24 hour clocks is by counting on my fingers!) 🙂

It's the second day out -- the Isle of Lewis. It's been listed on the itinerary correctly for quite a while but back when we first booked and tours were first available the second day out was a port on the Isle of Skye. I had booked a tour there but then cancelled it when they changed the itinerary and booked the new tour for Isle of Lewis.

I added a tour the other week for a substituted port on our Glasgow to NYC trip and also found that there was absolutely no payment button that would "click" to enter payment information. I sent Explora an email asking about this and they sent back an email letter with a link at the bottom for payment. When I clicked the link to pay, however, and after selecting "credit card" and providing my card information, the site returned a page asking if I wanted to proceed to payment BUT the amount shown on that page was the total price of the whole cruise (which I had long since paid), not the cost of just the newly added excursion. I wasn't going to click that (!!) so I emailed Explora again and was told that I had to delete the erroneous total cruise price on the page and insert the amount for the newly added excursion. That worked but . . . the experience indicates that all of this is still pretty much a work in progress. 🙂

Oops. Left the 70 bouy in the wake a few years back. They will have to take me as I am when we board on September 2! 🙂

We will watch you from the deck. 🙂 (Boarding in Glasgow on the 2nd.)

I have no idea. Just quoting someone who is on the ship. Ask me in 3 weeks when I am on the ship! 🙂

Curious also. (We board on September 2 for the 23 day sail from Glasgow to NYC.) On one of the Facebook Explora fan pages a current passenger posted within the last day "pretty easy to get reservations, the venues are of good size to accommodate the amount of people. Med & Fil Rouge were walk in for us no reservation needed."

Yep. Explora made a big deal of it when the they hired him.

Great compilation of pictures!

We board on September 2 also!

We will be on board for that as well!