TRIPACIAN

How many passengers on your cruise?

Good luck to the ship and crew, may they encounter no problems and arrive in Athens safely.

Any word on the Symphony?

We were recently told that the Symphony is being retrofitted to enable it to enter the US. The electrical room necessary for dock connections is completed.

They are refunding the money. I just received 17,000, in my cc account.

We love transatlantic crossings and the sea days. Since we were previously booked on the crossing from Toulon, this cruise made our trip possible without flying home from Europe. Our trip was booked months ago and included 10 days in Greece island hopping. We replaced the Athens to Toulon Crystal cruise with a Seabourn cruise including Turkey and several Greek islands. We would have been happier with our original Crystal cruises but totally understand the reason for the change. All in all everything including flights ended up working and we only had to make a few modifications to our trip.

By the way, the ship must be pretty full, we had a choice of only three cabins.

We just finalized our booking from Las Palmas to Miami.

Has anyone tried to book any of the new segments? We plan on booking the Las Palmas to Miami crossing when it is available. We were booked on the Athens to Miami cruises.

Regent just issued a letter today to the guest on their world cruise so I don’t think Crystal will be far behind. Be patient it is a very difficult situation.

Same for us, Crystal did the right thing and we were 100% refunded.

Onboard Symphony now and there is no grumbling just speculation. I think everyone understands the situation. Once the decision has been made then we can expect criticism by a few but not many.

The word on the ship is that they WILL be in Athens for the April 13th cruise even if they have to go around Africa.

Actually this works better for us. We haven’t been to Darwin and Alotau wasn’t really a port worth visiting (except to check off another country on our bucket list)

A well done answer to the question. When you consider the problems with logistics, crew deployment, port availability and of course passenger transportation etc it makes you realize how difficult the situation becomes. Safety overrides everything.