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Next Tuesday morning at 10:30 I will be getting a call from Scenic’s manager of customer care. I emailed on April 30 and received an automatic reply that a response could take 7 days but I was notified of the email today, just 48 hours later. I will let you know how it turns out.

Our first family cruise in 2011 was on the Volendam. I “won” a treatment on embarkation day. There was a message on our cabin phone to book my free treatment. The hard sell was uncomfortable for me. Top it off that it was Glacier Bay day and when the hard sell wouldn’t stop I said I wanted to go outside. Her reply “why, you can see glaciers any day”. I said maybe you can but not me. Then she presented me with a bill. I said I won the treatment. She said she had no record of that. She went out to the manager who said she didn’t believe me. Needless to say, I never stepped in the spa on any other HAL cruise.

Thanks for the name. She lives close to the waterfront so I’ll give her the name. She said it was only 4 degrees today.

I would be interested in the name of the restaurant you dined at in Halifax. DD may be close by. She moves to Charlottetown this weekend for 2 months so I will tell her to pack some woolies.

I currently go to physiotherapy weekly for vestibular therapy so it will be worked into my current appointments. Because of balance issues, many traditional exercises are out for me (wobble board for example).

NO SURGERY!!! I’m so relieved! The doctor said that since I walked on it for nearly 2 weeks (I had a cane/stick) I can now get rid of the crutches and it will probably speed up the healing of a notoriously slow fracture to heal. No more sleeping in the air boot either. 😊 I go back in 3 weeks for another X-ray and consultation. I will be contacted about getting a home ultrasound machine that will enhance bone regeneration. I searched for photos last night on the web. None were the Jade but it reaffirmed my memory that the railings end before the last step when going down. The stairs I fell down were from the upper Sun Deck to the lower Sun Deck and they were covered in an astroturf-like carpeting that was saturated from rain. Thank goodness I only missed the bottom step. So good news all around. I will email Scenic this afternoon on what happened and measures they can consider to improve the steps to hopefully help avoid future incidents.

Yes. You are welcome to use the lounge and the public bathrooms. You can eat in the lounge too. We were asked to be out of our cabins no later than 8:30. That said, when we returned from breakfast about 7:45 our room was being turned over. I wasn’t too happy as I had electronics charging and our luggage was still in the room. The day before, with no notice, our toothbrushes had been removed from the glass we had them in inside a cabinet in the bathroom. That was more than 24 hours before departure. I understand the pressure to turnover the cabin but don’t touch my toothbrush!

Yes it is my left ankle! Right now I’m not allowed to put any weight on it which was real fun when I went for my 3D head MRI Sunday. But tomorrow morning is coming quickly and I will have my answer. My travel agent found the correct email to inform Scenic. They don’t want me to phone and prefer an email. Her opinion was if they aren’t informed then they can’t fix it. Thank you. I now have the correct email to use for Scenic. I’ll write it after I get back from the fracture clinic tomorrow. That way it will have (hopefully) more information.

Unfortunately, the survey is/was time sensitive so I didn’t know I had 4 fractures when I filled it out. As for the wheelchair, my husband didn’t recall the exact reply when he asked if I could use the wheelchair onboard but the answer wasn’t an outright no, but it wasn’t an outright yes either. He returned to the cabin without the chair saying something like he didn’t think the captain would allow it. thanks for reading. I hope to do another next year. I find out if I will need surgery tomorrow morning 😬

Scenic has a single cabin on most of their boats. They also have no single supplement on some voyages.

Thank you, very helpful.

Honestly, I find hiking poles more stress on my shoulders and back because they are taller than my cane. I can’t walk outside my house without using a cane because of balance issues. So I have been told collapsible canes are not for me as I do put weight on it, not just casually place it down while walking. That said, canes need to be fit to you for proper posture. Too tall and they become a walking stick; too short and you walk slumped over. I just worried about your question “are they strong enough to support me”. Think what you will do if one breaks and if that would ruin your vacation. My occupational therapist said no to collapsible for me.

Typically river cruises do not offer laundry, or laundry packages. You can pay per item, and pay for pressing. Scenic offers 1 kg of free laundry per cabin per voyage. The Royal Suites get unlimited laundry.

I saw it mentioned on our evening news from Toronto. DH and I both had the same reaction: why?! 😂

I think you left Amsterdam the same day we did on the Scenic Jade. We are looking at a sailing from Amsterdam to Basel in 2025 or 2026 if I get bad news about my ankle. We were told that water isn’t an issue on this route onboard the Jade but it sounds like it could be. Were you told anything onboard about water levels?