Truro001

Many thanks for the feedback. Some months ago I was told by Saga that "Selected" cruises in 2022 would have the Premium package but at that time they couldn't say which cruises had been "Selected". Good to hear from you Windsurf boy. All is well with us. We thoroughly enjoyed the Eastern Med cruise (plus Premium drinks) and are about to sail on the Discovery for the Christmas cruise as too is JoJo1947. Enjoy the Caribbean in November.

When we were on Spirit of Adventure for the Eastern Mediterranean cruise in May/June 2022 Saga included the premium drinks package on this and some other selected cruises. We understand that the Premium drinks package is included in all 2023 sailings but we wondered if Saga are including the Premium drinks package on their Christmas cruises with the Spirit of Adventure and Spirit of Discovery. Does anybody happen to know whether these particular cruises are amongst the ”selected” cruises?

On our last cruise with Saga from Southampton the driver went via the A35 and the return journey was via the A303. Not much difference in the route mileage wise so it is a case of where the traffic is lightest. Thanks for the tip. I think we stopped closer to Southampton simply because we wanted to allow plenty of time for the pre boarding Covid checks. As it turned out, we were actually on board within an hour of arriving at the port. We cancelled the Black Sea cruise with a heavy heart but felt that the new itinerary didn’t justify the premium price we had paid. A few days after cancelling we saw the new pricing structure and felt that it was too good an opportunity to miss. The saving paid for our forthcoming cruise to Iceland in August and our cruise to France / Spain in September. As you quite rightly said a few weeks ago - there are no bad cabins on the Spirit of Adventure and as there seemed to be about 180 empty cabins we thought it highly unlikely that we would be disappointed. We weren’t !

Thank you Windsurfboy. As things turned out we still probably meet up on this cruise. We cancelled but then rebooked and are quite happy with our allocated "guarantee" cabin. The overall saving pays for our next 2 cruises. Our pickup is at 10.20 so we are probably in a convoy from the Southwest.

Just phoned Saga (again) to ask why they still haven't refunded our fare for the cancelled Black Sea cruise .FYI they confirmed that the Premium drinks package is still included on this cruise. It applies to a few selected cruises this year but will be standard as from 2023.