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You can use them for the Spa, decent wines, decent champagne, transfers to the airport, and most shops (except for the watches). If your OBC is Travel Agent provided -- so called refundable, then you can cash this out on the last day of the cruise.

Are doing the check in using a browser or the APP. We could not get the browser to work, did the APP with no issues.

Likely Labor day.??. I would not book it now and hope it goes down because Regent generally does not match the price after final payment and being a Jan 25 sailing you are within the window.

We booked a Sydney to Papeete cruise for Jan '27. Was going to wait until August when we are on Mariner. But TA said he could get onboard savings, the OBC they give for an onboard booking and the $1000 down payment. Magically worked...Thought that only worked 30 days after,

They sometimes do. Date and how far out???

JUST A WARNING -- Who says that Regent's one night pre-cruise room will be at the Hilton??? This year (March), they split the hotels. The one night pre-cruise hotel was close to the Tokyo port. Three night pre and post cruises were at the Hilton. Hilton was near capacity as both Regent and sister line Oceania were using the hotel. We did a 5 night pre cruise, 3 by Regent and two direct. Since we arrived before the crowd, it was easy for them to arrange keeping the same STANDARD room. The Hilton rooms are large by Japanese standards.

You also have the Trident grill which is open all afternoon. Also Tastes is generally open to 1500h. I think Marketplace is open until 1400h

It is huge. And there are several places where you could meet up, including inside the terminal, outside by the entrance, at the bus drop off area and at lower garage area. I would suggest you contact your hotel to see where the driver will be, because some vehicles permission for all of the meet up areas. Also suggest you have a WhatsAPP account and the driver has you phone number.

Bookings are to be opened for purchase on Wednesday, according to my TA who will place a hold for us, until we can get pricing on several cabins. We are on Mariner in 3 weeks, so looking for on board savings for the cruises.

There are some cruise that are labeled as such...

Have you used Miami Uber's .. 🙂

Except half the Uber drivers have no clue where Terminal J is.

The big bible of 2026/27 cruises just arrived in the mail box. Hundreds of trees were killed 🙂

Second Welcome Pickups also. Very prompt and provide 1 hour courtesy wait time.

depends on which ports.... Caribbean is quite large.... We were on the Southern side including South America.. Experiences EX20240105MIACTG.pdf

We have done several Regents and 3 more booked. Just off Crystal. You should be able to find active excursions. I do think Crystals excursions are better planned. They always have a minder from the staff on each bus. If you have ever been on Oceania, you will find that Regents is the same level (very glitzy descriptions and less glitzy execution). The smaller group excursions that you pay extra $$ are better. Cabins -- any of the Regent cabins will beat out a Crystal equivalent. More room. Food -- I give the edge to Crystal. But Regent is good. Ship -- have not been on Grandeur yet, but Splendor is the older sister and it has a great passenger to space ratio with more modern decor than either Serenity or Symphony. In short, if you like Crystal you will likely enjoy Regent.

This is not NCL, Carnival or RCI... Paid upgrade -- yes but at full or near full price. Those empty PH's are reserved for the influencers or TA's to impress. 🙂 There was one braggart YouTuber in Crema who got upgraded. Very loud and of course several paying guests just shook their heads. I did meet one person at embarkation who got upgraded to a Cove from a Grand PH with some additional $$. He had his TA call them a few weeks before the cruise and they gave him an offer. That would be my suggestion.

If you believe the influencer paid 21K pounds pp - I have a nice bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale. That Champagne issue -- only a few weeks ago. They pulled that trash with us in January and the promised DP was removed from the web site also in January. What they could not change were the thousand of brochures they mailed to all of those influencers.

not a good suggestion. Many ports check this before you enter the check in area.

Nothing has really changed. Everyone is noticing the change because Regent instituted and it was visible to all. But they have been doing this constantly, every time a book by date -- passes. Contract fares are all over the place. I still do some biz traveling as a consultant and book my own. I seen flight to South Africa as low as $5K or as high as 9K. To the Middle East from 4K to 11K I looked at our Regent Tokyo of March 2024. Booked in Feb 2023, the air credit was $4200 return from MCO. By final payment the air was well over $6000.

No off boat excursions (none listed)? That was the highlight of our last cruise there.

It is. We were offered a pad, as my wife thought the mattress was too firm. They do not offer another mattress as that would be a nightmare to keep changing.

We were in the EU last time and he had Cousin Brucie "live" at 3am. Don't think so. His trivia quiz on his last performance is a good test. 60% won the prize the last time on Regent.

Has Bob Ray changed his presentation??? Have seen it three times 🙂 A large number of crew disembarked in San Diego. We saw several of them at the San Diego airport including our number 1 waiter Joshua.

Just to add an odd point about Regent. No paper cups for to go coffee. It has to be done in a normal ceramic cup. So bring your own travel mug if you like your to go to stay hot.