marinaro44

Ocean Suite is ideal for doing the Panama or Kiel Canal, sailing into Kotor or Venice, going in or out of the Seine or Guadalquivir, etc. Only location where you can see forward and not be behind glass.

$300 OBC per person, IIRC.

Same on the Pride.

Agree. Nice way to get the point across. Still had a guy wearing a hat (not a cap) in the dining room and at enrichment lectures.🙄

Try Azamara. Dinner at 6. 600+ passengers. Small ship vibe.

Also Dec. 12

Cancel and re-book once onboard. Azamara debits OBC when you book online.

Agree. Another reason is so no one can try to reduce the amount they pay.

I've seen a California Table. Not a Chef's Table,but they've done a rijstaffel dinner in the past at times.

Might do it twice if enough people want to sign up.

Puzzling that some can't seem to understand this. Would be chaos if reservations weren't required.

The large elevator to the tender loading area was out of service on our September 6 and 20 Pride cruises. Other elevators can take you to deck 3, however. The forward elevator is nearby. There are four or five steps down to the loading platform. All in all, a big improvement over the old arrangement. We board Pride again Sunday and will see if the new elevator is in service.

And better to complain to someone who can fix your issue than to an internet message board.

If you give people reservations at 7 in a limited capacity venue you reduce the number of people who can dine there. If a table is seated at 7 you can't seat anyone at that table at 6 or at 8, so you turn the table once instead of twice that night. Scheduling for two "seatings" is common practice in cruise ship specialty restaurants, especially on ships where the specialties are very popular. If you start seating people at 7, then you'll get complaints from those who can't get a reservation because you've effectively reduced the availability of tables. Is it really that big an issue to go at 6:30 instead of 7, or at 8 instead of 7:30? Just go a few minutes late or early as is your preference.

Agree. And changing menus.

Ran into the distilled water issue in Istanbul back when I still needed CPAP. Local tour guide took me to a medical supply place and they only sold it in something like 5 or 10 gallon containers. No, thanks. Then I remembered distilled water was used in car batteries so we went to a service station and bought enough in small bottles. This was back in the day on the Renaissance R5.

Has the Chef's Table fee changed?

Bermuda now let's you in unvaxxed but you must show proof of medical insurance coverage.

260 on our Sep 20 Pride and saying the same for Pride's October 23. Keep the mandate at this time.

As I understand, he's on until sometime in January.

Quest had one in February. Also several ellipticals.

They were on Quest in February.

Could still dine at 7 if Amphora opened at 6. Azamara's main dining room is open from 6 to 9.

Sounds nutty. So you commit to booking your flights with Azamara (and pay) without knowing what the flights are and then you're stuck with whatever they give you? Why would anyone do that?

If you try booking flights through Azamara, surely you can say "no thanks" and go elsewhere if you don't like the flight routing. Yes?