ToxM

I am surprised Tunisia is on the new itin. I am sorry you are upset, the world is a troubled place at the moment, that area many times more so.

not at all

From my research on the Regent board, I’ve suggested to marital Unit to brings nice slacks and collared shirts for the evening, and I am going with trousers and a nice top. Doesn’t sound too different from O tbh.

I would say that if you sit on the right hand side of the balcony your view would be the same as any other PH view looking forward.

8000 is a penthouse - if you aren’t troubled by seasickness its a great cabin. I have done a TA on it and its location is great - nothing above that is noisy and nothing below to trouble you, close enough to the lifts to make everything accessible. You don’t hear anything from the officers quarters and as those cabins don’t have a balcony there is a good windbreak because of the layout so it’s lovely to sit on the balcony whilst at sea. My favourite cabin! Edited to add: I am surprised it is available - as it usually snapped up 🙂

Capetown to Rio - with the elusive St Helena, which has been top of my bucket list forever.

We are on Voyager - I am very much looking forward to it - possibly as a one and done, but I am a little sad at the lack of buffet in the evening! I have high hopes though, and it’s a lovely itin that I have never seen the like of from O sadly. I’ll do a good side by side review 🙂

I am very interested in LHT’s review of their cruise. O isn’t perfect, but for us at least it is a much better fit than anything else we have tried. Regent is our next cruise, I am interested to compare - already the evening food offering is looking a little sparse from my research. We shall see. Also, and whilst a small point, an important one. It is a forum, not a blog. Some on here would do well to have their own blog.

PH on R ships are fine, bathrooms are a serviceable size and the cabins are very nice.

Good luck, seems like thy are at fault , but … well you know how that can go.

You haven’t been here very long - the cheerleaders are strong on this board, it has got better lately, but this board is famous on cruise critic for it. I think a better MO would be to use critical thinking, harvest the information, file it away and compare and contrast. It’s relatively easy to strip down the information and peel away the layers of +ve or -ve.

Due diligence is so important. I am often flabbergasted at the pickles some people get into when just doing a bit of research or even just reading all the material presented to them regarding a pretty major purchase is just not done. In all fairness, the information you quoted would have given me the plan to do a simple search online, find the best route to take to get the visa and job done. If I didn’t feel confident or were nervous about doing such things, I would have let O do it for a few dollars/quid. So there are two option - O can’t sort it for you, or help you sort it, or you can sort it yourself. Some people like their apple unpeeled, and some like to buy it peeled, I suppose.

If I want to wash my car myself, I do it myself, if I can’t be bothered, or have a bad back or don’t know the best way to do it, I take it to a car wash. The same thing applies here. The companies that offer services that we could do ourselves wouldn’t exist if people didn’t use them. This is why you can buy peeled and sliced apples as a snack. Edited to add: This is really the same as people allowing O to arrange airfare to an extent, we always sort out our own airfare as I do my own due diligence around flights. This is really down to the due diligence people are prepared to do for their trip. I am an over diligencer (!), so this works out in my favour - I understand that people don’t realise or don’t want to do this, and this is where O sees this as a profit point and takes advantage (as is their right).

I don’t know the answer to this, but I would imagine the logistics of meeting everyone arriving early at all different times, and different airports would not be cost effective - plus organising transportation and the logistics involved would also be prohibitive.

So I put a hold on a cabin for a trip in ‘25, and will follow it up with a call to O tomorrow to find out when the ATW itins are out, and to find out if they have a policy about a cruise cert deposit cancellation if they can’t give me a definitive date about ATW itin availability. It seems silly that I am using a certificate to leapfrog bookings, the ATW 26 announcement seems to be later than normal.

Yeah it was … not sure the outcome, as she was ,owning so much I had to stop reading.

I saw a post complaining about this on the other place - no canal …. Just around Mexico. I am unsure of the date of the trip though.

I’ve just put a cabin on hold, with the intention of using it as a placeholder for ATW segment. So I will cancel this one without penalty (as I have an FCC I will be using for the deposit), my question is this: IF the ATW segments offer me nothing I am able to use, will I be able to get my full deposit back from this FCC if I then cancel this booking?

I suppose, and maybe this explains why they bought in SM, so they can then add this “extra” in.

Just seem a spam mail from my TA - up to $1000 onboard spend. Maybe the non board regulars are quite unhappy with SM. It’s quite an interesting move.

That quite a back step if they include onboard credit as well as excursion credit.

Yeah they have til next November to get themselves sorted out as I am jumping ship to Regent til then LOL

Maybe we need a thread regarding the hot buns at breakfast, what was a very happy memory that pretty much kept me going during the height of covid was a sad shadow of their former self and possibly the only letdown during my glorious Sirena restart cruise.

Imagine if you reserved judgement on everything until after your cruise 🙂

Does anyone have any info on when the 2026 ATW itin will be released? I have a FCC expiring in December, and nothing taking my fancy for 2025. If I can’t book something by the end of December I lose the deposit, so need to get a shuffle on or I may just cancel and get my money back. It’s probably going to be South Pacific on a segment of ATW or Vegas for me in 2026.