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Slippers on Marina. I asked to swap one pair to small. Much more comfortable.
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Yes thank you Paul. We too had a great butler and cabin staff were the best we have had too. New staff amongst the ships crew did their best and achieved a lot. But yes…. That disembarkation was very worrying. Unless you were there you cannot comment on the disorder. It was packed, Squashed and dangerous. You only have to see in the news the disaster that can happen when many people are herded from a large space into a small walkway. There were thousands, possibly up to 10 thousand in all from the 3 ships.
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The disembarkation today was dreadful. Our cruise ship and 2 massive ships all emptying at the same time. Thousands and thousands going in the same terminal at Rio de Janeiro to collect luggage and herded together through a narrow gate. The air con was really poor on board ship as previously said. Another cutback for the environment? We will miss many members of staff from Marina who spoilt us.
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Tomorrow is Rio de Janeiro dock at midday(12). Captain made some babble about 11.30 which we believe was something like “on stand”?? But Hilary the social hostess just let out we will be arriving at 1pm. !
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Waves GRILL is open until 4pm. Pizza in Terrace in the evening, here on Marina.
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That day Paul was very bad. it is extremely hot down here and very high humidity. Making late arrivals at port/dock and pushing tours back is not very nice in the heat of the day. As you know by now there have been many delayed dockings. But we have not been informed about most of them. communication is very poor. As I have said before, arriving late then leaving early is thoughtless to the poor staff who hope to get off for shopping or even seeing family.
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Currently on Marina for the first time….impressions
janecambridge replied to YoPhilly's topic in Oceania Cruises
Yes we have seen a reduction in choices the last few days. e.g. A lot of tinned fruit. Instead of berries. Less cheese choice. etc. garnishes on meals are poor. Frozen bananas?? -
We all wonder that. The air con in many places is poor..
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No LHT28, culinary classes are paid for (unless you have a large obc) and artist loft is free. But yes, I believe it should be limited.
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Well we wondered if this would impact any other ships? Today scheduled 09.00hrs and ETA is 10.00hrs. Not bad!! It is a blow at times for private tour users. Especially when two days running we tendered instead of docking! The first day was over 2 hours late plus the extra of tendering. Mutiny on the ship. But seriously it leaves such little time for the crew to exit the ship and relax or do necessary shopping .
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On. Marina now and we just completed our first culinary class onboard ever. A great experience. Sad to say that some people have booked many classes and others cannot book one. This happened in the Artists loft too. Some people booking lots of free classes so others have no way of getting access. Maybe they should limit to one of each per person??
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December 18th cruise from Miami. This cruise has been consistently late in leaving ports and arriving in others. We ran aground at one point. We have just been given this note which seems to cover the continual and inconvenient lateness.
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Apologies. I was referring to The grill.
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You will manage somehow. Whilst travelling down the Amazon, the self use laundrettes were closed!
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On Marina now and it’s open until 4pm. Some days the terrace has stayed open until 2.30 due to tours returning around 1.30-2pm
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Thank you. We are going in March with a few days land tours first. On Star Clipper and doing Panama. Grateful for your input.
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Would love to hear regular reports on this trip if possible please? We have a sailing this year too, to Costa Rica.
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Currently on Marina for the first time….impressions
janecambridge replied to YoPhilly's topic in Oceania Cruises
Strange how diners vary. We love Jacques and it used be our least favourite. Polo is good and Toscana is a bit chaotic but good food. Red Ginger- 2 sittings and not going back. Hubby had crispy ginger chicken and full of fat laid on a couple lettuce leaves. I had Asian greens with satay and it was kos lettuce. We mentioned we didn’t want the beans to start and got a grilling of questions as to why not. Husband ordered broccoli which came with shiitake mushrooms. He asked to not have mushrooms. It arrived with mushrooms and again a grilling as to why he didn’t want them. It feels very disorganised there when we go in at 7.30pm. Non crispy non ginger chicken: -
I think so!
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Yesterday the staff gave us a British autumn fayre on the pool deck. They worked so hard and we had lots of stalls if games. Each stall ran by a different department. Raffle tickets were given out for a grand draw at the end. We came first and won a small silver plate. It was beautifully wrapped and I have to say we thought it may be another cheese board!
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Currently on Marina for the first time….impressions
janecambridge replied to YoPhilly's topic in Oceania Cruises
Great meal in Toscana last night- redeemed themselves. Trouble in Red Ginger, extremely busy. They seem to opening specialist restaurants alot each day to those that haven’t booked. By the time we get there at 7.30pm, they are very busy and over 90 minutes in red ginger with just the appetiser. Another good lunch in MDR and very quiet. -
Currently on Marina for the first time….impressions
janecambridge replied to YoPhilly's topic in Oceania Cruises
All the restaurants cater very well for non meat and non fish eaters. Don’t worry! -
Currently on Marina for the first time….impressions
janecambridge replied to YoPhilly's topic in Oceania Cruises
Rogerb, a huge improvement. Hope you enjoyed it -
We are on Oceania now. Christmas Eve was carols. Christmas Day was goose in the GDR. Santa came Christmas morning with gifts for the children. We had a gift left on our bed Christmas Eve. Specialities don’t have special meals over the 2 days. You can’t get good old roast potatoes anywhere. We actually ordered them and got wedges! Christmas Eve is staff party night and so things were pretty bad in the terrace for breakfast, Christmas Day! Nice to see people dressed up. Marina lounge had a Christmas film showing. We brought gifts for some staff of which they were very grateful. Not super exciting I’m afraid, but the shifts have to carry on as clockwork for the staff . They did very well overall .