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The ship is going around Africa to Venice. 34 days of which 29 are sea days. Various comp offered.

Last night on the Onward there were less than six tables in Prime C. The lamb chops were delicious. I previously said it was $30, it’s actually $35, we get the packages.

Not for the Onward. We are still awaiting an update.

Its $30 on the Onward right now

We had one a few weeks ago on the Onward. It’s not a “standard” dinner. We asked the chef and he agreed to do it. I think there were about sixteen people, it was delicious.

Ok you get the 10,000 page second menu 🙄.

I have no problem with that.

We supposedly will here something on the Onward in the next few days.

This clarity on items you can order in advance is funny to me. It would be a document probably 10,000 pages long to attempt to cover every possible combination of things they can make. If you can articulate it, they attempt to make it. So far on the Onward they have made me delicious chicken parmigiana twice and veal Marsala once. Sorry if you need a menu to order such things, I don’t.

Just get some money from the local ATM.

Be interesting to see how that statement holds up. we are onboard the Onward and I am fully expecting a major itinerary change any day now.

Yes, wrapped in banana leaves. We have not had it but the our friends said it was good but a different consistency.

Embarkment stop.

We are currently docked in Barcelona at the regular dock.

I agree with this, it baffles me that there is a difference, must be the oven.

We are currently onboard. The staff and service have been very good. We have found the food to be hit or miss, somethings very good, others not so much. By the way, our trivia mates told us that the Sea Bass is gone from Red Ginger replaced by Black Cod.

Our account online doesn’t reflect the reservations anymore but that maybe because our reservation has already sailed. No on Starlink. We will still be onboard when you get on.

Beware that O has apparently installed a new specialty dining reservation system that has some problems. We are currently on the Rivera, the new system went live on our turn around day in London a few days ago. We just found out that the new system has dropped all sixteen of our future dinner reservations so when you show up, the restaurant says you don’t have a reservation. I have copies from our O invoice showing that we do indeed have a reservation but they have disappeared. Apparently we are not the only ones impacted. They are working to rebook but times and sharing options booked may not be available anymore. Quite irritating, I am always amazed how poorly companies test new IT systems.

I suspect every ship at sea has some Covid onboard.

Azamara doesn’t include excursions 🙄

We are currently on the Rivera and I asked the Future Cruise person if they was any chance SM would become optional. He said they were trying to make that possible as they were getting negative feedback from many guests. I told him to add us to the list as we will not be forced into O excursions. We are on for 78 days and have two O excursions booked and one of those is a transfer. If O sticks to SM we will be canceling our 100 days on Regatta in 2025 and concentrating our trips with Azamara.

We are on the Rivera and did have one at 9:00 but the standard is 9:30. On the late side for us but that ok as entertainment is not an important item for us.

La Reserve has a fee, a fairly steep one, I think $140/pp.

Agreed.

Mines the same, she knows it will take hours on the phone.