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On our Marina cruise in March, all of the B and A verandah cabins show as available while all of the Ph and above ones show as Wait Listed.

Most private tours have a language option so you can choose ones in English.

We booked the cruise on Jan 3, 2023, I do not recall if this was a sale or not.

That's what we were told on other CC posts. We booked it through our Chase United CC Luxury Hotel program. This program has luxury hotels all over the world. We get included breakfasts, Wi-Fi, free upgrades and a $100 food and beverage credit with all bookings. We booked with them for the same price we could book with our Marriott Bonvoy account and we got more amenities. We also booked on the Ritz Club level with club access. We used them for our Hotel in January in Sydney at the Shangri-La Hotel and the included breakfast was worth $35pp each day.

Doing the same with our 18 day Marina cruise next March. We booked this in early 2023 with O'Life choosing the House Wine and Beer package with no air, for $366pp per day in an A3 cabin. When they came out with SM our TA was able to change our booking to add it for no additional cost. Today the same A3 cabin is selling for $420pp per day with SM or $972 more than when we booked originally which is a 15% increase. Taking into account not only US but global inflation, that is not much of an increase. We saw Celebrity raise prices in the same time period by 30-40% which is why we left. In the same time we have seen international air fares rise by huge amounts. In 2022 we flew BC to Italy for under $2500pp, last year BC cost us $3800 to Italy. All travel has gotten more expensive, but it looks like Oceania has been reasonable with their pricing, but no one knows if this will change next week when SM ends.

We will be in Santiago in March for a cruise on another line for 3 days with another couple. We booked our hotel directly at the Ritz Carlton Santiago. We also booked a day tour of the city and an all-day Chile wine country tour, both through Viator. We also booked a private transport to the port with Welcome Pickups.

We have a 14 day cruise booked for 2026 of the British Isles. We are going to come a week to 10 days early to see London and more of your country before the cruise. We spent 10 days after our Australian cruises in January driving the Great Ocean Road in Australia, we enjoyed that part of our trip more than the cruises.

Any of the wines by the glass listed in the wine menus are included in the SM wine by the glass. Price per glass doesn't matter, the same for beers any listed are included. If you upgrade to the Prestige drinks package all wines by the glass, beers, cocktails and spirits are included any time of the day. We upgraded to the Prestige DP for our Marina cruise next March.

The same kind of idiot who sits on their cabin balcony and smokes knowing it is not allowed and throws the butts off the ship. We had an issue on the Oosterdam on a Mediterranean cruise in 2022 with a chain smoker one deck below ours who seemed to be chain smoking all day long on his balcony. After being caught several times he and his wife were escorted off the ship in the middle of a 14 day cruise.

If you have walking or mobility issues you may also find that the tour operator will not allow you to participate in the tour because of liability issues. In 2021 we were on a cruise to the ABC Islands, I had purchased a scuba diving tour in Bonaire. When I arrived, I was denied participating because I was over 70, I was 71 at the time and in excellent health. When I purchased the tour there was nothing said about age restrictions.

No problems he will be conforming to the current suggested evening attire. For formal nights I wear golf slack and a button up short sleeve shirt. All other night is golf slacks and a polo shirt with a collar. I am retired and all of my suits, jackets and one tux went bye bye when I retired in 2020.

He must have been the same guy on our Volendam cruise last month, he was so bad people would get up and leave the Mix bar. We heard his contract was not going to be extended after our cruise ended.

That is our favorite entertainment venue on HAL, we would rather be there than the theater shows most nights. Really missed not having BOB on the Volendam last month. Instead, they had a horrible piano player/singer at the Mix bar. He was so bad hardly anyone would stay in the bar to listen to him.

We got off the Volendam in Montreal last month. We spent the night in a hotel for one night. There was a Montreal city tour that ended up at the airport on disembarkation day. BTW this was a fabulous 11-day cruise and we loved the Volendam, even though the cruise was at full occupancy, the ship never felt crowded anywhere.

Our cruise next March on Marina is our first O cruise, so I am not sure how the gratuities will be paid by our TA, OBC is what I assume.