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spikemom

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  • Location
    New Orleans LA and Cambridge MA
  • Interests
    travel, music
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Pandaw
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Asia

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  1. On the list of charter cruises that was supplied for 2024 you will find that most of those are run (and sold) by a few production companies. I have reserved a cruise in Jan 2025 on Nieuw Amsterdam with one of them and their 2025 dates are easily found by looking at their websites for the 2024 cruises. Sixthman, Star Vista Live, Inspiration cruises are a few.
  2. We have reserved on the Reflection in March 2025 - light yers away but a family event so needs advance planning. Anyway, have a question about timing on buying drinks packages. Right now the packages are offered at 20% off for drinks and water packages, and 10% for various experiences which may or may not be of interest. Will the discount prices remain? Will it get better, or disappear? and does the same thing happen later when excursions and dinners are available? Thanks for your advice! Carolyn in New Orleans
  3. We are booked on the Bella Vita hotel barge next year. Our experience with hotel barges has been stellar, twice in France. European Waterways is their agent.
  4. We are dealing with the insurance company at this point. The (very expensive) plane ticket was bought through a consolidator and is non refundable. It is on TAP and I don't know what we would ever do woth a voucher on TAP if we were to get one. Variety Cruises finally sent us a letter saying the cruise was cancelled, I'm sure others must have complained as well. We will not cruise with them in the future. They have refunded our deposit. Thank you for your inout and I will let you know how this proceeds.
  5. My husband and I booked a cruise to Senegal and Gambia for January 2023 on Variety Cruise' Harmony G. We have just been notified the cruise was postponed to December 2023 due to epidemiological reasons. There are no particular epidemiological issues in those countries other than the usual diseases in West Africa, and the US does not have travel warnings on them except for polio. I assume they had few reservations and decided to cancel. Because they call it a postponement, not a cancellation, will I have trouble using my travel insurance? I have spent nearly $6000. on business class flights to Dakar and the tickets are non refundable, so need to make a claim. Anyone have experience with this? I'd appreciate input.
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