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some of those TA usually are abusing the free drinks especially the bubbles !!

Well on Regent the special wines are very reasonable and the choice of complimentary wines is very elaborated - same on SS with reasonable prices especially for Champagnes and Italian white. After 2 days on Explora i refused to drink the complimentary wines and went to buy some extra bottles in Southampton aside those I brought already from home🤑

my cruise is only 7 days ... last time before covid on OC it was cancelled - only 3 pax were willing to assist

are they still doing a "Champagne lunch" ? many thanks already

thank you for all the information and pictures - really looking forward to join Symphony is Toulon on 3rd June !! I hope Sorrento will not be cancelled - what happened quite a few times in my cruise history but al least Symphony does have decent tenders

I never would be feeling sorry that Santorini is cancelled : ok beautiful but overcrowded and over touristic and those local tenders ...

I was in a bigger penthouse , it was just a big cabin with a rather small bathroom and no separate restroom . I did receive the Moet with a year - now already abolished and replaced by Mercier bubbles no other niceties granted to "penthouses" on other lines - was in PH on Hapag , SS and Crystal.

I hope you had a great cruise , sorry I was not there for the trivia was on another ship on another company - our team was able to win several times with some of my European contributions 😁 but was not aware that peace between the UK and the US was signed in Belgium Ghent 1812- despite i was aware in some mansion some treaty was signed ... but experience was of such a kind I will not go back to that company for sure !

reaching the center of valencia is a rather long and not so pleasant drive the shuttle will drop near the old town area -

actually it was the former representative of "old" Crystal for Europe who so strongly did recommend Explora to me " wonderful food , great Champagne , great wines a service to die for" , and she is aware that I am a gastro freak ... I met a friendly TA yesterday ( not my TA ) telling me a lot of complaints are issued on SS I will join new C on 3rd June , already aware of the closing down of the MDR and the onerous wine list ... ( will go and shop bubbles at Brussels airport , and in France Italy and Croatia 🤑 ) Friends of mine were on the SS Dawn for the crossing in a very expensive top degree -no more fruit the last days .... in Tenerife there is a great food market however ...obviously they had to wait to the containers in Lisbon - is that 5 starred ???

the construction of both ports are similar ? during my cruise same captain did cancel Marceille due to winds ?? The Dawn is not a sea monster - are SS ships not allowed to take asstance by tugs ? Yes they are expensive !!!

my Explora was a great disappointment - never again different tastes ???

I wrote several items about Hapag Lloyd

like you leaving the cabin and the ship so early was not a gift you are nearly whipped out the cabins and suites i was forced to take door to door to receive the upgrades and the 500 $ OBC SS did put me on a noon flight to Barcelona to reach the ship on Brussels Airlines a bad company especially in business - ( one must pay for second drink - yes in busi!!) some of the staff hired by SS at the airport did not speak English at all - so I had to eat some cakes in the Arts as lunch for the return flight at 5,40 pm a 4,30 bus excursion - so i did book my own transfer and a day room there were other and better and earlier possibilities over Munich or Zurich however those were somewhat more expensive another nuissance was the repeaters party - captain was busy ok but hotel manager did not show up neither - for all those "special guests" 😁 no Pommery Champagne available and poor canapes -had to use magnifying glass to see the caviar grains 🤑

I left SS Dawn 3 days ago and I decided not to go back