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They sometimes do. Date and how far out???
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Pre cruise Tokyo Hilton Hotel question
PaulMCO replied to bebop bonnie's topic in Regent Seven Seas Cruises
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
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Disembarkation at Galataport, Istanbul
PaulMCO replied to Jamboroy's topic in Regent Seven Seas Cruises
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. -
Second Welcome Pickups also. Very prompt and provide 1 hour courtesy wait time.
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Explora Destination Experiences Caribbean
PaulMCO replied to cruisingxpert's topic in Explora Journeys
depends on which ports.... Caribbean is quite large.... We were on the Southern side including South America.. Experiences EX20240105MIACTG.pdf -
Crystal cruiser considering Regent Grandeur cruise
PaulMCO replied to LNugent's topic in Regent Seven Seas Cruises
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.
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An Interesting Video Review of Explora 1
PaulMCO replied to Dr. Cocktail's topic in Explora Journeys
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.
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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.
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No off boat excursions (none listed)? That was the highlight of our last cruise there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Impressions from Crystal Symphony from Istanbul to Monaco:
PaulMCO replied to travelberlin's topic in Crystal
Enjoyed your narrative. Have a great remaining holiday. -
750 passengers - Emporium was chaos this morning
PaulMCO replied to casperthecat's topic in Explora Journeys
@boooomer those prices are consistent with the 23/24 Dec/Jan cruises 14 days were 18 to 19K for PH and 23K for Residences. The reason the OT1's are sold out is because of last November's sale where OT1's were $350pp per day and OT3 (which we booked) was $400. -
Might I suggest you try the My Explora APP and do it on the phone to check in. Never could get the Web version to work. Do you have a B2B itinerary?? If so you need to wait until that one is also within the window. The APP says the Window is 90 days - last year it said same and was actually 60 days. @Sthrngary love it... We have two English Bulldogs, one who is named appropriately Churchill.. @Waltershipman logged on for our January cruise, it was missing on the weekend and appeared today LOL. Was able to set the bedding and liquor preferences as well as update my passport.