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The Nieuw Statendam sailing from Barcelona April 22, 2023 to Rome April 29, 2023, is included in three different roll calls, One for the April 22-29 leg, another for the April 22-May leg [Barcelona to Barcelona] and another for the TA April 08 from Miami to Rome April 29. There doesn't seem to be a great deal of activity on any of the three RCs. Is it simply too early, or are passengers just not in a Roll-Call-Frame-Of-Mind these days?

My wife and I thought we were booked on the noted cruise departing Miami August 6, 2023 and arriving Rome August 27, 2023. We were ready to make the final arrangements for this cruise when, BAM, we didn't have a cruise booked after all. Our travel representative, not a direct employee of Oceania, told us were only booked Miami to Barcelona. Regrettably, it was the Barcelona to Rome segment of the cruise that was, to us, the major "draw" of this particular voyage. In any event we are on "stand by" how ever Oceania defines that. This brings me to the reason for this post. I assume there are some seasoned Oceania travelers on this site, and I wanted to ask if there is a particular time when bookings may not be finalized? In other words, will cancellations usually occur 30 days prior to the cruise date, or 60, or 90, or even 120? Orr perhaps there is no particular time at all and cancellations are purely random? We're not holding our breath that there is much hope of getting a booking on this cruise, however, if anyone cares to comment on experiences they have had with "stand by" on Oceania, I would appreciate it.

I mistakenly posted a flight question on P&O cruises rather than this topic. Moreover I don’t know how to move the post I made. Could someone explain how to move the post to this topic, or look at P&O for my pist “visibility unlimited”. Posted it a few minutes earlier than this post. Thanks for any help.

My wife and I are older [70-80] and we would like to book a TA cruise in the Spring of 2023 [Oceania or Celebrity or Holland America; Florida to the Netherlands or the Med.] . However, we can’t nail down a flight itinerary to return home to Cincinnati because we are unable book anything for early May 2023 [our time to return home] this far in advance. Additionally we are not in a position to “leave it to chance” what the flight arrangements could be.. I’ve looked at some hypothetical dates as far in the future as I can find and many of the flights home are , for folks our age, dreadful with multiple layovers and long delays at each stop. Some of the searches I’ve done have a total time from the European departure city to Cincinnati in excess of 24 hours. So we’re in a conundrum. If we book a cruise, Oceania at least, wants a $3,000 deposit , which we would have at risk, to say nothing of other pre-payments, before we could confirm flight arrangement, and our possible future claim for canceling being “unacceptable flights”, isn’t going to be in insurable unless we could find some esoteric insurance that would likely be too pricey for us. Any thoughts?