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[LHT28]

2 hours ago, clairol said:

This is typically our MO as well... wonder if a leisurely, self-appointed stroll aboard will still be possible with, as Oceania puts it, "enhanced, staggered embarkation process"... potentially "assigned" embarkation times?

Maybe next year  🙂

 

[DrHemlock]

Contrary to pinotlover's boarding procedure described in #21 above, we try to board as early as possible.  Here's why:  

 

It's not for the buffet lunch, although that's nice (or would be nice if there were any tables available, which there never are).  We get on early so's we can hit the library before all the interesting new books are picked clean from the shelves, mostly never to be seen again until Disembark Day.  Plus, the R ships that we prefer have such beautiful, comfortable libraries!  O ships' libraries are less satisfactory (or were before OceaniaNext which we've yet to experience), as if added as an afterthought.  

 

Yes, I know: Kindle/Nook/whatever on an iPad screen would solve the issue but that's not for us, thank you.  We like to turn real pages in real books, and those can be tough to find ashore in foreign ports.  We certainly don't want to schlep them from home.  

 

But that's just us.  If it weren't for that one detail -- if we preferred to spend our free time during the cruise socializing, using the spa, going to lectures and demonstrations, etc. -- we'd follow pinotlover's example every time.  So civilized!