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I believe the Regatta will be upgrading its internet to Starlink shortly. Hopefully this will help. 🤞🏻 I suspect our cruise up to Alaska and then across the Bering sea to Japan will have abysmal access. 😬🤷‍♀️

🙂 As a soon to be first time Oceania cruiser on the Regatta, I am now actually looking forward to the challenge of the ship’s bathrooms. It will be a badge of honor “I survived the Regatta showers!” Haha! (Not very high on my priority list😉)

I use Chrome and couldn’t access the boards yesterday until midnight or so. Fine now.

Wow. I’d be terrified if any alarms went off while we were sleeping! Sounds like the situation will be resolved. Extra time in beautiful Dubrovnik will be lovely but I’m sorry you are missing Kotor.

*sighs. Thanks for the honest review but man o man am I bummed. Have booked our first Oceania cruise on the Regatta for October (25 days). Sounds like it will be a floating nursing home with poor food. I convinced my husband to try this line since we’ve become disillusioned with Celebrity. Full of regret now. 😟

The pace of meal courses aside…I am becoming more and more worried about the observation that Oceania ships become ghost towns shortly after 10pm! I think I’ve made a horrible mistake. What exactly is the demographic on these ships? Some “go to bed at 8:30pm” 😳

My apologies - I DID misread your post. I was shocked at the rate Oceania gave me and it’s coloured my opinion on their hotel packages! Haha! 👍🏻

Ah! Yes I misread that post. 😬

Interesting. I was quoted a price of $898 for a pre-cruise hotel night in Los Angeles and $1,040 for the night after our cruise in Tokyo. I declined 😳 If those rates are half of what you would normally pay - my hats off to you, I’m not paying that for one night.

I am interested in this also. We really enjoy lectures (not a fan of bingo or trivia). First time Oceania cruisers and hoping interesting lectures are part of every cruise. Yes?…No? …You better buy some bingo cards? 😬

Yes I don’t understand the 1 connection per stateroom. I think that issue is resolved with Simply More.

No I believe it has been reduced to 14 days. (I transferred mine over - I didn’t like my Oceania rep either)

I must say that now I’m a tad apprehensive about our first Oceania cruise. We have booked an excursion package which used all of our shorex credit and an additional $1000 or so on our CC. Most of our tours are scheduled for the last week of our cruise (Japan) because we’ve done most things “Alaska”. If rumblings are correct it is likely (or at least a good chance) we will have ports/tours cancelled near the end of the cruise with no opportunity to use the shorex credit. This is a worry - one I hadn’t really considered. 😕

Haha! Point taken. We are trying Oceania because we have become disillusioned with Celebrity, but I have always enjoyed the warm welcome, and yes, the proffered glass of bubbly…whatever it is! 🙃

Geeez Celebrity even greets you with sparkling wine. It’s a nice touch.