Daneite

18 hours ago, hoya68 said:

Yes she is. We had our honeymoon cruise on her 17 years ago. 

Hope that was a typo 😂

MV Seabourn Quest is a luxury cruise ship in Seabourn Cruise Line. It was constructed by Italian shipbuilder T. Mariotti. The vessel entered service in June 2011.

20 hours ago, cadburysmom said:

 

Hope you had (and possibly are still having) a wonderful cruise and wondering if you took this excursion and if so, please share your thoughts.  It looks so interesting!

 

We board Ovation next weekend and although we rarely take ship excursions, are seriously considering this one.

When we boarded Ovation we asked Destination Services for more details, we were told, half and hour drive, the pictures of the horse carriage did not look comfortable and held too many people, there would be 30 minutes in the woods looking for truffles and then back to the farmhouse for lunch and shopping. It did not sound at all as good as the description on the website. We gave it some thought and decided to cancel. If we go again we will look into a private tour, we too thought it would be a much smaller sized group.

Taken from our balcony on Seabourn Ovation just now. The Ritz Carlton ship looks very nice, it will be interesting to hear more about her.

I love the sound of that team!! Hope they will still be on in October!!!!

11 hours ago, DC Traveler244 said:

I believe that this same excursion was offered when the Sojourn called at Livorno last month. I thought it sounded very interesting, but it departed so early that (per Destination Services) the lunch would take place in the late morning. So, you might want to check the departure time.

It departs at 9.30am so it will be an early lunch but not too bad. I would not have booked it if it was any earlier than that, I hate early morning starts!

We should be ok, we go in October 👍

The marzuolo (spring truffle) can be found between January and April; the summer black truffle (or scorzone) between June and November; and the prized white truffle from late September to December.

The above is a shore excursion on our upcoming Ovation cruise, we don't do shore excursions but this one sounds fabulous! Has anyone done this with Seabourn?? if so can you recommend?

The truffle is one of the finest, tastiest and most expensive culinary condiments. It adds a wonderful flavor to any savory dish -- an automatic upgrade from delicious to outrageous. Take part in hunting for truffles today with some very enthusiastic canine assistance, learning how and why Tuscany stakes its claim as Italy's foremost region for truffle production.

A panoramic drive brings you to a truffle farm.

Ride by horse and carriage into the woods of Tuscany; then, begin your search for truffles in the company of a truffle-hunting dog. The dog hurries through the forest, sniffing about and digging for this edible treasure.

With newly-found truffles in hand, you will head back to the farmhouse for a delightful organic lunch. Farmers Davide and Francesca have lovingly crafted tagliolini pasta, with eggs from the farmyard chickens and lavished with shavings of truffle. Your simple gourmet meal is paired with three different Tuscan wines, including the sweet Vin Santo wine for dessert with tasty Cantuccini (biscotti).

We have had in suite dining many times, we love to eat on our balcony. We ask for course by course and request our wine of choice we have never been disappointed. Go for it, it is special!

When I open my boarding pass on my iPhone the one showing is my husband's, I swipe left and mine appears, maybe this is the same for you?

Look at your booking, then in guest registration go to your final documents and you will find it there. I am having trouble opening my booking on the app but have just checked ours on my pc. We haven't had the "important notice" from Seabourn but out boarding time is there.

5 hours ago, cruiseej said:

I am a member of the Seabourn Sailors Facebook group.

 

The one mentioned above is the Seabourn Friends and Family group. I requested membership about 5 days ago with no response. I requested membership again earlier this evening, so far with no response. My FB account is real, and I answered the questions. No response within minutes or hours.

Sorry I misread your post and thought Seabourn Sailors (ie 2seabournsailors) was the one that hadn't responded. Your membership request probably hasn't been granted as Mark, the admin on there is currently on Ovation.

6 hours ago, SLSD said:

It may take some time for the admin to see and act on your request. 

 

Well the admin is posting on this thread so she may see it here and hurry things along.

We have been in Barbados since Tuesday waiting to join Odyssey tomorrow, just received notice of cancellation for first 14 days bit nit for the transatlantic, we realise that will come soon. Very disappointed, managed to find flights home to UK on 22nd so grabbed them while available. Will try to make the best of our now short vacation while we can.

Hi Norman,

Good to hear that you and your wife are both OK and you are coming back to Seabourn. Brian and I remember you well and you get a mention when we are reminiscing. We still miss the triplets but have fallen in love with having a balcony so the Odyssey class ships are our ships of choice. Hope you have a fabulous cruise and your wife gets hooked.

Kathryn

Used Luggage forward several times now and all has been perfect. The little things that you don't think of make it worthwhile, such as getting to the airport and finding check in does not open for another hour, no problem, we had checked in online and didn't need to drop our bags off so walked straight through security, while all the other Seabourn passengers jockeyed for position for when check in opened. I don't know if Seabourn give it priority but our bag has always been in the suite when we board, even last time when suites were ready as we boarded at 12.15. whereas when we have taken our luggage ourselves it can be a couple of hours before the luggage gets to the suite.

Fabulous Paul, thank you!! Still trying to persuade Brian to do an Alaskan cruise, maybe one day 😁

12 hours ago, shefinch said:

What cards can you use Kathryn?

 

 

Hi Shelagh, the offer for us is on Brian's Platinum card and the supplementary card in my name. We paid yesterday so waiting now for the confirmation that we each have £150 back on our statement 🤞

20 hours ago, Jane21 said:

May be worth checking your Amex cards for Seabourn cashback offer.

 

 

Thanks for the heads up! Just about to do final payment and have 2 cards with the offer on 👍 would have missed this offer so a big thank you from us!!

 

 

 

23 hours ago, M&PGermany said:

Dear all, Odyssey has indeed had some work done to the public areas in dry dock. 

Has the Odyssey had the USB sockets installed at each side of the bed?

33 minutes ago, galeforce9 said:

Danielle

 

This is the place I finally decided on. 2 days in a 2 bed new villa.  Can I ask if there is a nearby shop (apart from the on site hut) available for a few provisions and can you recommend anywhere for informal eats, including breakfast?   We’ll arrive about 4.30 and I think the hut will be shut by then.   Any other tips appreciated, such as taxi costs, nearby places to visit, tours etc. would be greatly  appreciated. 

There is a petrol station nearby with a shop where you can get essentials, Beach View usually put a couple of bagels in your room and there is a coffee maker with coffee so a light breakfast is catered for. We usually pay for a grocery pack $40 I think you get eggs, jam, bread, butter, milk. Since the new villas have opened there is a new place to eat onsite which is open until late serving food, there is also a pizza place virtually next door, which is very easy especially the first evening! 

We usually take a bus $1 each up to Holetown, the bus stop is opposite the hotel, it drops you at the supermarket in Holetown where you can get everything you may need. There are lots of places around to eat, too many to mention!!

The whole team at Beach View are friendly and will point you in the right direction for whatever you want to do. We usually just chill, getting over the jet lag so that we are fresh for our cruise:-)

We like to stay at Beach View in St James, we usually stay 3 nights before joining the ship to adjust to time zone. They have just built new apartments that we should have tried this month but unfortunately had to cancel our cruise. It is beautiful and has great reviews on tripadvisor. 

Thanks for posting this Shelagh, such sad news. We often talk of Jean and Eric and wonder how they are. Our love to Jean at this awful time xx

I happen to have booked this 2019 crossing on board Quest last month and then had the Cruise Sales Specialist Mark (great guy- smart and personable, btw) pass it over to my TA whose record Mark had from our on board profile. I laughed about the disconnect of ending in Miami and starting the next day hundreds of miles away. Seabourn has known about their website accuracy problem with this matter for weeks. Now if they would just make it clearer online. But never mind... TAs know better. Go ahead, call one, and book!

 

Happy and healthy sailing!

Markham

It was a couple of months ago when we tried to book and queried the end port of the transatlantic and embark port of the follow on, out TA was told to ask us to wait until they had corrected this, we talked to the cruise sales on Odyssey and she is querying it with Seabourn but asked us to contact ou TA again which we have done, Seabourn told them that they are still loading the new itinerary but can’t say when it will be done and we just have to wait. Hopefully cruse sales specialist will have better luck! I thought you used the same TA as us the “Royal “ one in Reading?

That is bad. Presumably he had travelled Seabourn before, if he was a club member, and also I imagine the party was after 6 p.m.?

 

Surely a senior staff member should have had a quiet word.

It was a 6.30pm party and he had to shake hands with the Captain, Hot Man, CD etc before sitting down but obviously nobody pulled him up on his bad manners, dress code clearly states that shorts are not acceptable after 6pm in public areas. Who would turn up to an invitation to a party in shorts?

This did not detract at all from our enjoyment of our cruise, each to their own but as this is a dress code thread I thought I would post our observations.

Last night on Odyssey it was the club party and one man came in his shorts, t shirt and sneakers, I just found it disrespectful.