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Good news indeed, although it'll take a while to roll through the fleet. We were never a fan of the whole TK diversion and have dined at Earth and Ocean in preference to other venues many times and love the concept.

yeah all back again now - as I thought they had to go reset all the pricing after the latest event. Prices not that different from before and they'll have another event in a few weeks. Can't always time our booking with Seabourn's desire to sell so we book when it suits us.

here's some fun and games. If you start at the Seabourn home page here and try to select departure month at least for me there are none in November and December has just two. However if you start at this homepage you will find all the cruises listed although as I said most of them are 'call for pricing'. I don't think Seabourn wants to sell any cruises this weekend.

No. Something weird is going on. I really think it's something to do with the end of their sale because it all happened at that time. I guess all the cruises which were discounted for the sale now need to have prices re-entered or updated and in the interim they are just missing.

ah but there is more to it. Most of those cruises, in fact all I think EXCEPT the few I found earlier on the Asia site, are marked "call for price" and selecting any suite type says "unavailable". And that's not just the sold out ones, it's most of them. So I feel Seabourn is still working things out after the end of its sale. I can at least see the dates and itineraries and can call the TA if need be.

Ah.. that's it .. I'm georestricted. Hit up a US VPN and I get all the things I had the other day. Thanks very much.

thanks SLSD. I've tried chrome, safari and firefox on two different machines and an ipad. Let me try a VPN into the US, wonder if seabourn knows I'm not a local.

We were looking a couple of days ago at Nov/Dec 2023 cruises. There were many, including a 14 night asia holiday cruise in Dec and .. all sorts. Yesterday they all disappeared. Hitting the webpage now shows ZERO cruises in November and TWO only in December. Coincidentally this sudden disappearance of all cruises coincided with the end of whatever event Seabourn just had. I'm pretty sure they didn't, in the last 6 hours of that event, sell out every suite on every ship on every cruise in the whole world for the last 2 months of this year. Am I being punished for not booking during the sale event? Does anyone see anything different? This is with NO filters applied at all, not length, not destination, not anything.

wow. That's sad. I've become a cycling since covid started and I remember this thread VERY well and had planned, the next time we cruise, to take one of my bikes with me and cycle around the ports in much the same way. That's is SO SAD that Seabourn now ban them. I wonder if it is possible to get an exemption .. this was on my bucket list. Also it's odd that this was just posted. I haven't been to the boards much in the last couple of years, ever since that fateful post about "a new disease which has been seen in China". Today I got my credit card statement to find that our last two on board cruise deposits had been refunded and indeed it was 4 years. So I jumped back on the boards to look for posts about getting extensions (there are none). So no 5% and no bikes .. I may put off my return to cruising for a little while longer.

I think there's a reasonable chance if you miss the Indian Market Dinner this time that you'll see it again .. oh about 19 more times. To be fair, the Indian one is my favourite of all the colonnade specials.

well you wouldn't have done as if you'd paid the offered upgrade price you'd never have known you were going to get an upgrade for free.

cannot find a source for NZ (or Australia) requiring it. Only articles like this which says it's Carnival doing it "out of an abundance of caution". https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/mask-mandates-return-on-cruise-ships-in-new-zeland-and-australia/JHERKBOFSVETRC3OTZZUVPG7UE/ does anyone have a link to anything which says that this response is mandated by either of those two governments?

We were getting tempted by the twice-daily mails entreating us to book another cruise. Clearly we need another year before the randomness abates so I think we'll hold off more.