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Thx for your posts!

Wow! Wrong place to cut!

I see the same in my account. Hope they can pull their IT systems out of the dark ages…..

You nailed it! Thx!

Great See you onboard! Sign up for the Meet&Greet. I wasn’t able to include a link to the Roll Call for our itin in this post. Must be a “crowdstrike” issue. 🙃 Pls introduce yourself on the Roll Call and sign up for the M&G! CU soon!

Russiamomm, on 10 August I’m embarking Sirena in Oslo for an 18-day cruise. When is your 18-day cruise on Sirena?

Please don’t expect us to assume that you are a heterosexual couple, whereby referring to your “wife” means you are not the person who generally posts using this cruise critic handle. To the extent I pay any attention to a poster’s gender, I generally assume that the person using this handle is a female, knowing that might be an incorrect assumption on my part. But when someone using this handle talks about their wife, that still does not tell me that it’s not the female that usually posts usually this handle. I don’t keep track of the gender of everybody’s spouse.

Since Covid, I travel solo. Oceania Does a great job of organizing solo get togethers. The first scheduled get together is probably the evening on embarkation day, if not then certainly on the following evening. It is always listed in the Currents schedule. IIRC, when I was traveling solo on O, the solo get togethers start around 5:30 ish (don’t quote me on this!), it was hosted, meaning it’s an open bar with a Associate Cruise Director as Host.*. I’m always surprised by how many solos are on board. The Host organizes dinner ressys in the MDR for any solos who would like to eat together. We generally had 2 large tables of diners. Again, 2 complimentary bottles of wine were provided to each table (1 red, 1 white). This was my experience traveling solo on O. I thought it was a great experience! *Last time on Sirena, the solos were hosted by one of the dancers, a lovely young woman. It was her first experience hosting the solos, so hopefully she is now more experienced.

I was on Voyager in February for the Super Bowl. Regent did a fabulous job hosting Super Bowl coverage in the constellation theater. All the officers, or at least several of them were there to greet passengers. I am not a Super Bowl fan, but it was a great time. I enjoyed my hotdog and sides and cold brewski Before heading back to my state room for an early night. It was quite festive night. I’ll bet they do something special for you for the Olympics.

The specialties offer some drinks (beer/wine) that are not on the regular list, thus resulting in a charge to the pax. Be sure to ask your server!

I wholeheartedly recommend that you select the four days cruising Antarctica. I had a ressy this past February on a different cruise line w 4 days cruising Antartica. I was very skeptical that we would be able to get close enough to be able to see anything other than a white blob on the horizon. Boy was I mistaken. Later I told folks we were close enough to shore that I could have reached it swimming, except that I would’ve died of hypothermia. 😂 I was quite the skeptic, but it was great! Incredible! Here is an iceberg we passed, estimated 51 million tons (the iceberg, not me!). (Sorry 1 pic posted upset down - a southern hemisphere thing? LOL!)

Methinks O should treat good customers like you better than you have been!

Since COVID, I find the response time to be varied and unpredictable. I suggest submitting forms after FP date, and follow up every few weeks……. It gets there eventually IME.

I also have had a similar experience. I had a guarantee status for a penthouse. Later, I noticed that penthouses were available however I had never been contacted by Oceania. I asked my TA to assign me the penthouse cabin and all was fine. I really think that, O’s IT systems are not known for being high-quality. In fact, they have a reputation to be user unfriendly IMO.

I’ve been in a penthouse cabin on sistership Sirena, quite close to the elevators. Never heard any noise.

If you have Simply More excursion credits, use them to book your excursions on the first available port. Then, if a port gets canceled or a tour gets canceled, hopefully you’ll have a chance to select an excursion in a subsequent port. There are no refunds for SM excursion credits; there is no alternative use for them (that I’m aware of). Enjoy your cruise!

Thanks! Hope y’all are doing well!

Pinotlover, pls email me at RobinKPhD at icloud dot com. Would love to hear more about your wine tour. I am a nice person and (almost) everybody likes me! 🥰

The shareholder benefit is per stateroom, not per guest. Enjoy your cruise!

I have 3 O cruises under my belt with several more booked, and 2 Regent cruises under said belt and 2 more booked. I’m conflicted bc I would prefer the a la carte pricing O used to have, but I’ve had a better experience on R (food, service, suite, fellow pax, itineraries). R is not stuffy! R Ships are fabulous, and I love O ships. You can’t go wrong (unless Corporate gets involved).

Thanks so much for this. I think I am now less curious about sailing on Cunard..

If you get a chance, pls come back and let us know how things went. Enjoy your cruise!

I hope you will be able to get some information and direction on your issue. It’s very good to proactively Try to figure this out in advance. Myself, I have no experience in this area, but just a thought. What if you called or visited the nearest Canadian consulate or embassy here in the states to ask them? Enjoy your cruise!

Does anyone have a feel for when the rest of the 2026 schedules will be released? THX!

He said the “flight itself still exists”, not that his booking is still there….