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[Here2Sea]

So looking forward to cruising on Oceana Marina in June. All stops of call are intriguing with St. Petersburg being the highlight!

[Host Kat]

4 hours ago, Here2Sea said:

So looking forward to cruising on Oceana Marina in June. All stops of call are intriguing with St. Petersburg being the highlight!

 

Howdy Here2Sea and welcome to Cruise Critic!

 

Thank you for your first new thread on the Holiday Exchange - Jingle and Mingle 2019 forum!  👍  This forum is only available at this time of year for members to celebrate the holidays of the season with their fellow Cruise Critic members. The forum will not be available soon. It will be back and available again at holiday time toward the end of 2020. 

 

To help you out, I have moved your thread to the Oceania Cruises forum where your post will be more on-topic. The majority of your fellow Cruise Critic members that have or are going to sail Oceania frequent that forum. Now that you are on this new forum, please browse through the other thread titles here for all things regarding cruising Oceania. You may find your fellow Cruise Critic members have already posted questions and received answers regarding helpful information.

 

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The Roll Call thread for your cruise is the place for you to get to know the other Cruise Critic members sailing with you before the cruise. Also your fellow Roll Call members may have important information posted in your Roll Call thread, especially ones that have sailed Oceania or on Marina before. Your Roll Call thread is the ONLY place on Cruise Critic where you and your fellow Roll Call members may post personal ads about sharing tours, excursions, transportation etc. with each other. There is a "captive audience" since you are all sailing together!  You will receive a much better response to your share request if you take some time to read the entire Roll Call thread, post an introductory post about yourself, and continue on to get to know the other members and allow them to get to know YOU first before you post your share request. That is the spirit of our Roll Calls.

 

Since you did not mention your Oceania Marina sail date in June, I cannot direct you to the specific Roll Call thread for your cruise in the Marina Roll Calls forum. That is, if one has already been started by another Cruise Critic member sailing the same cruise as you. If no one has started one for your cruise please start one yourself with the directions in How To: Create A New Roll Call . That will get the ball rolling so others can join with you on the Roll Call thread.

 

As for St. Petersburg and your Ports of Call, I suggest you start by researching the Ports of Call - Europe - Northern Europe & Baltic Sea forum. Please browse through the thread titles there looking for threads of interest. Again, you will probably find your fellow Cruise Critic members will have already posted questions and received answers that will help you.

 

And don't forget, after your cruise be sure to go to our Member Cruise Reviews section and submit your review for publication. Many cruisers will benefit from your experience, and you might win a prize from Cruise Critic! See the latest list of winners:  Submit A Review And You Might Win A Prize; These Members Did! (January 2, 2020)

 

I sincerely hope all this information will be helpful to a new member! So sorry this is such a long post, but we are so glad to have you aboard Cruise Critic and wanted to give you some of the highlights about being a member!

 

Happy sails,

 

Host Kat

 

Edited January 4, 2020 by Host Kat
Typo due to fat fingers & skinny laptop keys!

[Here2Sea]

Thanks Kat!