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  1. @cruisemom42The hospital is on Viale del Policlinico. We decided to look outside the city is the area near Cornelia station a nice area? It seems to be away from tourists and nice to recuperate.
  2. A bit off topic of hotels but hoping @cruisemom42 might be willing to help me out. We need to be in Rome for a month with a family member needing medical treatment at the University hospital. Hoping you can recommend areas to look for an AirBnB or tell me areas to avoid.
  3. We just got off an expedition cruise with actual landings via zodiacs and found regular sunglasses to be sufficient.
  4. I am so sorry to hear your frustration with the lack of landings. I think a lot of it has to do with the expedition team and ship captain. We have Luciano Bernacchi as expedition leader. I don’t mean to make you feel worse but we are on the Pursuit and have had multiple zodiac cruises (opportunities to see icebergs and penguins up close) and 4 actual landings. Deception island was a beautiful stop with lots of penguins and seals hanging out a couple days ago. We didn’t even arrive until 5pm and last zodiac ashore went at 9pm. It was still wonderful. You will enjoy it.
  5. It definitely was a new experience to get that close to another ship!
  6. Yes, they were quite apologetic and I might say embarrassed. In fact with the issue on the pancakes he tasted them himself. Attributed it to many new staff in kitchen.
  7. Currently on the Pursuit heading to Antarctica. Ship is beautiful although some areas poorly designed probably due to limited space. Staff overall very friendly and accommodating. Discovery lounge for lectures impossible to see lower half of presentation unless seated in first couple rows due to spacing of rows. Handicap accessible suites (no tub 824& 825)have extremely small closet space and no dining table. But, very large showers and huge balcony which is a trade off. We have found the food to be “average” meaning many days menu items are not as described. Could be training new kitchen staff. Realize these are first world problems but didn’t expect issues like these on Seabourn. Jerk shrimp basically no seasoning just shrimp in cream sauce, arugula salad served with iceberg lettuce only. Told this was “Brazilian” arugula. Husbands same salad arrived made of spinach. When shown differences waiter just shrugged his shoulder. Pancakes next morning arrived sprinkled (hopefully by accident) with baking soda not powdered sugar. Agree really need two doorstops to keep doors open. Overall would sail Pursuit again.
  8. DC Traveler244 Which of the penthouse suites were you in? We are in 825 which is the handicap with no bathtub. Curious about difference in this suite. Glad the noise from the zodiacs wasn’t too bad.
  9. @likeadisguise can you provide further details on where you obtained the information regarding visas for Brazil.
  10. Another option is to privately book the Tundra Wilderness Tour via the park vendor then call Princess and have them refund your tour with them. We did this last September as was told we could not switch to the longer tour with Princess because it was full. The bus stopped to pick us up at the Princess lodge and we were on the same bus as the Princess tour just for a lower cost.
  11. Yes, we did stay well but we were very careful about masking indoors. Also lots of hand washing/sanitizer and avoiding touching our faces. My mother-in-law hates masks also but after several people on our land tour tested positive she understood my request for her to follow mask guidelines.
  12. Told me that bar didn’t have the longer straws and to check at a different bar to see if they had some.
  13. We just got off the Royal on the 17th. Even with announcements by the captain, signs and letters in the room many still not wearing masks. Ironically it seemed to us that those who were coughing and sneezing were the ones not wearing masks. After several trips in crowded elevators with individuals not wearing masks coughing and sneezing we avoided elevators when possible. (We had an 83 yr old with us so not always possible)
  14. I thought maybe this topic was about the issue that some Princess bars carry short straws for smaller glasses. I have ended up with one of the smaller straws in a tall glass. Totally useless! I do bring my own straws now along with a cleaning brush as they do collect “gunk” after a day of use.
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