We booked the Nov 17, 2023 Amman to Dubai cruise on the Ocean Odyssey as a last minute cruise for a price discounted by 75% off original price with free air. It looks like this may be the very first inaugural voyage of the ship. We have received the folder with the luggage tags, name badges and other docs about a week ago. They have upgraded us to a cabin $1400 more in value than the lowest price cabin we had booked. Our air is still confirmed and seats assigned so it looks like this will be the first cruise of this ship that actually happens and we feel extremely lucky because I just found this thread today and we would have been freaking out if we had found it earlier. My heart goes out to all of you that have either been cancelled, mislead or paid full price and can’t get your money back. Based on this thread we will only book last minute discounted vantage tour because anything else sounds very risky. Thanks for the heads up about these terrible business actions by Vantage.