PaulMCO

You can call one of those TA's and they will structure a B2B and probably give you some On Board Credit, something Explora does not do directly. It was that way last year too, now they have 2 ships to fill and and last year on Black Friday they had a 50% off sale on the OTs.

We just returned in April from a 14 day Tokyo to Tokyo cruise on Explorer. I have left a detailed review on cruise critic for Explorer. The only weakness are the shore excursions and the descriptions. Also the fact that they do sell out. This is no different than Oceania, which uses the same department in Miami managing the excursions. Same tour companies except Oceania may have more people per bus to accommodate the 1200 guests (Riviera was designated Tokyo to Tokyo ship). https://www.cruisecritic.com/memberreviews/memberreview.cfm?EntryID=713983

And wait until you book and your reservation disappears, later reappears and then disappears again. No rhyme or reason. If I want to look at a cruise on Explora to see availability and cabins, I will use one of the larger internet TA's that has a booking engine. Apparently that connects to Explora seamlessly.

We have been looking at this cruise or the similar one on Voyager. Book your included excursions as soon as you can. Regent tend to sell out of the more desirable one early. Pay attention to the activity level of the tours, especially if high physical activity is an issue. Same for the specialty Restaurants. We tend to book these on the sea days. Book early as you can. Regent has no mandatory formal nights. Dress nicely at night. Laundry is included. You do not need 4 suitcases of clothes (although some may disagree 🙂 Make sure passports have enough blank pages. Think about a post cruise land excursion that Regent is offering. Great place to do a 3 or 4 day safari, while you have flown all that distance. Enjoy -- Regent is one of our favorite cruise lines.

There is no product that comes close??? What about Regent and Silversea. Just as many food venues and space. Large suites comparatively priced (except for their 40% off sale). Both are continuing to introduce new builds that will refine their products. Going to small off the beaten path ports, is a Seabourn specialty. Good to see them compete, more cabins available will keep the others honest.

We have done Safaris 3 times with cruises out of Capetown. Shamwari (near Port Elizabeth) and 2 at Kruger. You did not mention the lodges that Regent is providing. This makes all of the difference as most of the lodges are located on private reserves, some better than others. Some of the better lodges have permission to go into the reserves of adjacent lodges. Shamwari was our least liked, mainly because the area was smaller. It was a good experience and our first safari. Kruger. Do Kruger and stay at two lodges. Suggest one in the North (drier) and one in the South (wetter). Fauna is different and we had different animal sightings. North suggest -- Motswari, as some stated earlier. Fantastic lodge, close to an airport that has flights from Jo-burg and Capetown. South -- one of the Sabi Sands lodges (we stayed at Lion Sands). Travel agent... If go private use a local SA Travel Agent, they can arrange everything from internal flights to land transfers.

Since you asked same here. This is cruise critic and I see the same persons espousing the virtues (and there is nothing wrong with that) -- just don't complain about those who do not think everything is rosy and that there are better lines than Explora Journeys. I would expect to see more issues later in the year when they bring Explora 2 on line and move significant Explora 1 crew there. I hope they do not do the same TA/Influencer nonsense on Explora II. That is really a downside as many were obnoxious. Still we will cruise again on Explora II in January.

Hotel 1898 reasonably priced. Le Meridien (if you want a Marriott) Mandarin Oriental for Luxury.

We had the same experience on Shadow this past November. Just off RSSC Explorer, food far superior. Only plus on SS is the Caviar, as much as you wish.

I agree, I just got on their site and tried to check my booking and magically it was gone... Known issues for over a year and "working to fix this" is always the excuse. Dreadful site reflects on the line. Imagine when they have 5 ships... I have been on the fence about canceling my next cruise with them, this may put me over the edge. Now compare this to Crystal. Spent 30 minutes to book two excursions and reservations each specialty, and enter my data. Today went back to update our new passports into their system -- finished in 5 minutes. Perfect. Went to Regents site and updated the passport info into our next cruise and the info filtered into all reservations. Now that is how a web site should work!!

No. None of the ships were owned by Crystal Cruises LLC. There were supplies and spares held in Holland and a settlement for these has already been made and accounted.

Certainly pays to be a the Administrator. Latest accounting. Latest fee bill is $5M. Prior bill was over $2M One interesting point is that so far almost $16M has been returned to consumer claims and $600K for back wages. There remains significant money for unsecured claims, but no indication of the size of these claims. 04.19.24-Motion-Motion-For-Assignee-Fees-Healy-2.pdf

In past no points or stay credits with Marriott. They did allow us in the lounge - also a lifetime Titanium elite. Just back from Tokyo. Regent used Hilton, had three pre-cruise nights plus 2 of our own. Only received points and night status for the two nights.

Because if you said -- I would NOT purchase to all 7 possible scenarios, you would want to keep the status quo. If you said yes to one or more of these, then they would know several changes to the current pricing which would be acceptable.

Actually quite a good survey. It really did evaluate what was important to me, doing it multiple ways and there were a couple of consistency got yous too.