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sfvoyage's comment shows how variable (and unpredictable) the Covid situation still is. On our recently-concluded 14-day Odyssey cruise to Alaska, there was no evidence of Covid as far as I could see. In fact, I rarely heard passengers coughing, probably less so than I would have heard on a typical pre-Covid cruise. I asked a higher-level manager on board about Covid and he told me that no passenger or crew member on Odyssey had contracted Covid for the last several cruises. A lot of factors are at play here, including location of the cruise, time of year, current testing and masking requirements, and how full the ship is. Now that the flu/cold season is about to begin, I wonder if the testing and masking requirements will be adequate.

Have you tried swiping side to side when viewing your wife's boarding pass? I didn't see the second boarding pass either initially, but then I swiped to the side and there it was.

I, too, worried whether my first Seabourn cruise, which was on the Odyssey last month, was the right decision. My worry stemmed entirely from reading complaints on Cruise Critic. As it turns out, I would have been better off (and would have slept a lot easier) if I wouldn't have read those complaints. I am picky, especially when it comes to food and to service. But after 14 wonderful days on board, I can say that the cruise was truly outstanding. Do yourself a big favor and don't worry. If you go with a positive attitude, you should have a great cruise.

The new dispensers for sugar and for artificial sweeteners are a total joke. The sugar dispenser gets clogged up and is unreliable. The small dispenser which has the artificial sweetener is even worse: you would have to shake it for five minutes (really) to get enough out to equal one packet. I asked the barista in Seabourn Square which artificial sweetener was in the container and he didn't know. I guess it doesn't really matter because you're not going to get any out of the shaker anyway. A hundred bucks to a donut that these dispensers will be replaced soon.

The wording of the Worry Free Promise itself (and the Q & A that is included with it) clearly states that insurance is not required for the benefits to be had.

I feel horrible about this, Jackie. Foremost, I hope you recover quickly and are back at play soon. For what it's worth, I'm glad you were able to enjoy the cruise until now and I hope to see you onboard a Seabourn cruise in the not-too-distant future!

Nancy, It was such a great cruise that I booked another one after just five days onboard. I'm now looking for a third cruise (because waiting until April is too long to wait!).

Looking to book a suite on Sojourn, probably 530 or 526. Not many other choices available for the cruise I'm interested in. Would there be any noise from tenders in these suites? Or any other issues in these suites? Thanks!

A wild guess: After your 10-day Seabourn cruise, you will book another cruise with Seabourn, and you'll book it onboard.

Maybe Manfredi Lefebvre and Geoffrey Kent could swoop in and purchase Seabourn. By combining Seabourn's ships with the two Crystal ships they recently purchased, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Among other things, it would take the pressure off of the new Crystal to build new ships right away.

Sunset. Btw, what is this "sunrise" that people sometimes talk about? When I wake up, the sun is straight overhead.

Just returned from a 14-day Alaska cruise on the Seabourn Odyssey, our first non-Crystal cruise in more than a decade. This was taken last week off of British Columbia.