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Are these one-way fares?

The OP has asked for beach recommendations, not restaurants.

OK. Ta. The Marella Explorer 2 ones mainly show exclusiions for under 2s.

When you say "their insurance" do you mean TUI's insurance that you've taken out and paid for, or insurance that the shore excursion provider has? Do you have your own travel insurance? We're not doing your itinerary but as an over-65, I'm curious. I haven't noticed any exclusions, except for children, for our Ex2 cruise (crazy as it's an adult-only ship!!). I have seen over-65 exclusions mentioned by another cruise line (Azamara) though, and wonder if it's a shore-ex provider rule.

Tortola is a lovely island. I hope you enjoy it.

Hi, I wanted the same information and asked Marella via Messenger. They told me that I wouldn't know the departure times until the tickets arrive in our cabin. We've done numerous cruises with other companies and have never experienced this ludicrous policy before. As a result, we've not booked the (very expensive) excursions we were hoping to do.

Pennib ... I hope you mean 72 hours before boarding the plane, and not the ship? I have to go to my TA 72 hours before boarding the plane so she can print off all our documents. If it's before boarding the ship, I'm stuck.

Was a Tardis involved?

I contacted Saga again yesterday via Webchat. I didn't get very far in getting a definitive answer to the question about whether 2024 would be released in 2 phases and, if so, whether we need to pay 2 registration fees. Briefly I was told that releasing cruises in 2 batches was ALWAYS the case. Was it? I then rang and got through very quickly. (Thank you Saga.) I explained the query to the lovely lady and after discussing several scenarios. This included paying one advance registration, which we had, but not making a booking for the first release and where would we be in the pecking order for the second release, given that some had already registered for both releases. Initially she said that calls for both releases would be in the order of our original, single, registration. However, on further pushing, she messaged a manager with the query. She read out the query text to me to ensure it adequately reflected the question. Half an hour later, she called back. (Again, thank you Saga.) The answer was that, to ensure that we were higher up the queue for the May-Dec release, we should also register for that release. Therefore we paid an additional registration fee. Apologies for the long post, but I hope it helps.

Our letter is the same ....so I assumed it's for the whole of 2024. I'll be so annoyed if we're at the back of the queue for April onwards.

Having heard this a while ago, I contacted Saga Ocean Cruises via the webchat facility and was told they'd heard nothing about splitting 2024 into 2 releases. How can I verify this?

Star Flyer may be different, but (from what I remember), there were drawers under the bed(s) on Royal Clipper so a suitcase wouldn't fit. However it was a long time ago, so my memory may be incorrect.