tiny_traveler_15

Tiny traveller

 

We had a similar experience on Feb/Mar Asia Bangkok to Bejing Cruise

 

Customer services at O sadly could care less

 

Even more annoying was the itinerary changes we experienced were clearly planned long before final payment but not notified or we would have cancelled and also if they had offered us a buy out we would have taken it

Actually there was a change in our itinerary before we had sailed as well. They switched two ports without any notification. Someone's TA noticed it and they posted it on our Roll Call. I went to the Oceania web site and the itinerary was changed on there but there wasn't any point made in any of our travel documents that it had changed. I guess it's the passenger's responsibility to be aware of the itinerary but I would've thought that the cruise line would've mentioned the change. I'm naive I guess.

Hello Tiny traveller, I'm really interested in the fact that you know that other ships were tendering at the ports we missed. I know they missed Delos and Mykonos on the previous cruise. We certainly wouldn't have landed at Santorini, if we'd been using our own tenders as the sea state there was worse than at the Amalfi coast. When we did eventually tender at Taormina, the crew had real difficulty getting the tenders back on the boat -its very interesting to watch the video!

One of our fellow passengers was in Santorini talking to some others from another cruise ship. The other pax said they had tendered into Sorrento without problems the same day we were in Naples for the second day. I'll see if I can find out more but don't see any reason those people would lie so I'm taking it as truth. I know the other cruise ship in port that day with us was a Celebrity one, not sure which one.

World-citizen - We took the Oceania Black Sea Cruise last year - great itinerary. We had a fabulous time. WIth that said, Sochi, Russia is a bit too close to Georgia, for my liking and I worry about the Russians sending their war ships into the Black Sea. I would probably hold off on the itinerary for a little while and do the Greek Islands instead.

Benita,

We just returned from an Oceania Greek/Italy cuirse on the Nautica in Aug. It was less than satisfactory, even though I truly liked Oceania.

You should read the Aug 12-24 Rome to Athens thread started this week.

We missed 5 out of 11 ports on this cruise and got 1 extra hour of 'Happy (!) Hour' plus a $125 USD credit on a future cruise. There is more info that I want to type out here so feel free to read the other thread before booking with Oceania. I think the kicker for us, not mentioned in the other thread, is that other cruise ships were tendering in some of the Greek ports we missed, supposedly due to the sea conditions.

TT15