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I will be on Pursuit's first Kimberly cruise in June. So I can let you know what expeditions we get then. Having done a Kimberley cruise last year I am not expecting them to use the submarine due to tides in the area but I might be surprised.

Agree with both these as we experienced this on our Jan/Feb '24 cruise. We ask the Sommelier for the premium wine list and take photos of the list so we could go through it later to make a list if some of our favourites. We also ask the Sommelier for recommendations because sometimes there are odd bottles tucked away not on the list. On longer cruises the list can be updated if they get new provisions loaded as happened on our cruise. We were lucky on our last cruise we had Joanne and Phillipe and their backups, though not as knowledgeable, were learning quickly with Jo & Phillipe's mentoring.

Maybe Keith and I are too out there 🤔. I am frequently surprised by crew saying hello. That's great your stewardess is a good one most are I think but the not so good do impact. I'm glad you are having a brilliant cruise as the previous one especially wasn't so great so you deserve a good one. Best regards to you and Alf. Julie

We are still called by our name on recent cruises and by new crew as well as by those we have sailed with before. There is admittedly quite a few new crew on the ships. On our recent sailings we have seen crew in the dining room and they seemed to be studying lists. In fact last September on Sojourn we had one of the stewardesses tell us laughingly that she sat a test the day before and our name was one of the few she remembered. She wasn't our stewardess either 🙂. Maybe it is our fairly common surname makes it easier?

Thanks for the reminder to pack our good insulated bottle with us. What you describe is what I have seen on the videos and when walking in hot climates I prefer my drinking water kept cool. For what it's worth reading SS and Regent none of their included water bottles are insulated either.

Your comments are about Spirit and @bohaiboy is talking about his problems on Muse. I think you are making the issue confusing. Different ships can definitely have a different feel at times.

Fully agree. I get their marketing emails. Though the ship is very tempting I would only do it if I was over in the Med and wanted a fill in for two other holidays as a chance to try their product.

I asked my TA this last week as she does a lot of Regent bookings and she indicated it is usually July.

On rereading the original post to me it isn't clear that he actually put his airline locator number into the airlines "manage my booking" to check his flight was still there. But was this to check any flight deviations or to actually check his booking with his PNR?

@Earthtones thank you for posting the menus as they look wonderful. I really enjoy the Mediterranean Menu.

Yes and it is very annoying. I sent a message to CC help to ask them to remove it. I also suggested they tell NCL if I had any interest in sailing with them this would put me off them completely.

A friend onboard sent photos of the ribbon cutting and then dined in Solis after and she said it was wonderful. She is European and enjoyed the ambience in TK but felt the menu was heavy whereas she was able to chose a lighter more Mediterranean meal in Solis.

I am sure I received something saying 23kg checked and 7kg carry-on so usual Economy Class restrictions. I have been looking for that document but I will also check with my TA if she has anything. Maybe I just read it on CC and it is stuck in my head. @texanaust I'm sorry to hear about your charter flight and hope the Pursuit pampering starts quickly for you. We have that flight at the end of this month.

🤣Like I said...colourful. So sad Barry Humphries is no longer around to entertain us.🥲

😅As an Australian I resemble that remark. Dame Edna was very stylish. A bit of colour can be a very good fashion statement.