We are currently on Nautica sailing from Capetown to Mumbai, and received notification of revised times only a couple weeks before sailing.
We only book private excursions, and they would have been greatly impacted by Oceania’s changes since they affected tender ports. 1 of these ports didn’t matter because it was canceled due to a tropical depression. This is understandable.
Tomorrow, we are scheduled for Madagascar. This is a port that Oceania changed the arrival time to 1 hour later. It is also a tender port. Given Oceania’s policy of giving priority tendering to passengers booking their excursions, we do not know when we will be able to get ashore to see the lemurs with our private guide. Viewing the lemurs in the wild was a high priority and reason for booking this cruise. We already had limited tIme in Madagascar before Oceania’s revision. Now, we will only have a couple of hours. Hopefully, everything will work out.
This is our 19th O cruise, and we are not happy with O’s new policy!
