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Yes, I know it was mentioned before. I posted the link because it was just written yesterday and I thought it had a lot more detail to it. Sorry I bothered.

Found this link today. Guess we'll be looking elsewhere after fall 2025. https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/2024/06/seabourn-introduces-enhanced-groups-programs-for-travel-advisors/

Completed 14 day Vancouver to Vancouver on Explorer this past Wed. Boarding was no problem at all. After reading all the horror stories about waiting over 2 hrs to board we were pleasantly surprised to be on board in less than 45 minutes from the time we were dropped off. Unfortunately due to a surprise coast guard inspection that morning none of the rooms were ready until around 4pm. Our cabin was F2 forward. Very nice. Had a minor problem with the deck doors not closing all the way but that was taken care of quickly. Met our cabin attendants and like all the crew they were wonderful. We like having a drink in our cabin before dinner and my wife has hers with OJ and Cranberry juice. On other cruises they would put a couple of glasses in the fridge in the am. Here our attendant gave us a carton of OJ and a bottle of cranberry juice so it was always fresh. Dinners were excellent. How can you complain about dinning in Compass Rose when if you don't see anything you like in the specials you can always opt for a filet along with a large lobster tail which we did on several nights. Pacific Rim was wonderful as were the steaks and Lobster at Prime 7. We are not big fans of French food so one night there was enough. Breakfast was good and we liked that lunch was always available in Prime 7 if you didn't feel like eating it the buffet. I will say that the burgers at lunch were pretty bad. Don't ask for them well done they are literally like shoe leather. Also the pizza is pretty bad and cold by the time you get it since the pizza oven is at the pool grill. The entertainment was much better than we expected especially the Whitney Houston CGI show. That was incredible, it was really like she was there. The tours were hit and miss. We chose to cancel a couple due to the weather especially in Victoria when it was very cold with a strong wind and going to the gardens and having tea didn't seem to make much sense. Now for the bad part. On the day we departed I was feeling a little off. Felt like I might be getting a cold. When we got home It was worst and yes I tested positive for Covid. Now my wife has it too. I really wish Regent would follow Oceania's example and have servers dish out the food in the buffet rather than help yourself. By the time you grab the big spoon it's probably had a 100 hands on it. It didn't seem like anyone was washing there hands before going in. One day right before the end of the cruise there was someone stationed at the entry insisting that you wash. She said it was mandatory. I asked why it wasn't mandatory before. She said that there were a few cases of the Flu. I wonder now if it wasn't Covid. Lousy was to end the cruise but at least if wasn't during it. All in all a wonderful cruise on our favorite cruise line.

Have to disagree, we were on ovation last summer and you could hear the tv from the stateroom next to us every morning and evening without fail. This was not a connecting stateroom. I think the soundproofing could be better. Could be the people were hard of hearing but it was very annoying.

We are on Explorer in two weeks and I can't find anywhere to order liquor for the room "pre cruise".

I should have said that we were thinking of taking our bags off with us so we can get to the airport in time. Ramps are not a problem, stairs are.

Does anyone know if when disembarking from the ship with your bags if you walk straight across to the customs area or if you have to walk down the flight of ship's stairs to get there? I ask because at another port we had to do that and it was very difficult for my wife and that was years ago.

We have a Alaska cruise in May beginning and ending in Vancouver. Didn't realize until recently that you clear Canadian customs when you arrive in Vancouver at the end of the cruise and that you than go through US customs at the Vancouver Airport instead of when you arrive in the states. Does anyone have an idea the time this will take when we get off the ship. We have a 12:30 flight. There is only one other ship (Holland America 1600 pass) in port when we are there. We do have Global entry, which from what I have read will allow us to use an expedited line going through US customs. Was hoping to leave ship around 8-9. Ironically when I booked the flights back I made sure to have plenty of time in SF to clear customs.

We are flying Vancouver to Dallas next month after our cruise and they have a flight that leaves at 11:40 am. Plenty of time to get from the port to the airport.

We also received e-mail, but in our case Klawock is replacing Wrangell, not Ketchikan. Considering there are 7 ships in Ketchikan with possibly 11,000 people when we are there I would rather have skipped Ketchikan and went to Wrangell.

Just had to cancel a cruise 175 days out and got hit with the $500 pp cancellation that I knew nothing about (my fault for not reading the fine print). I think it is very short sighted of Oceania to not allow you to transfer that amount to another cruise. Had we been allowed to do that we would have already booked a future cruise. As it is they have lost us as customers permanently. Would never even consider Oceania again.

Hope this isn't true. My wife and I really love listening and dancing to live music such as Seabourn and Regent have in there clubs before and after having dinner. The last time we were on a cruise where they had a DJ all he did was play the tunes he liked and the fact that no one was on the dance floor at all and were asking for songs they had heard of before meant nothing to him. Obviously this is a cost cutting move. Judging from the amount of people on the dance floor on our last cruise I don't think it will be a popular move.

This was also our recent experience on our first (and last) Viking cruise over the Holidays. This ship was nice and the crew were wonderful however the food was not. Some of the worst food we have had on any cruise. The tours were so-so. We are going on Seabourn this August and unless they have come way down it will be more enjoyable than Viking.

Anyone know what the taxi fare from the cruise port to FLL would be. We have an early flight and are trying to decide between a taxi or Lyft.

We are in a PS2 cabin if that makes any difference

This is our first Viking cruise. We generally like to have a drink or two while getting ready for dinner. I know that we will have some small bottles of alcohol in our mini-fridge. We both drink Vodka but I drink black russians which is Vodka and Kahlua and I'm sure that won't be available for the fridge. My question is can we order drinks from room service ? We have purchased the drink package if that matters.

We are cruising on Viking for the first time this December. Our last cruise in the tropics was on Oceania. Unless you went out and "reserved" a couple of chairs by the pool by 6:30am you were out of luck most days. Even though Oceania had a sign up stating that, if the chairs were unoccupied for a certain length of time the items would be removed, this was never enforced. Is this a problem on Viking also ?

Thanks everyone. Since this is our first Viking Cruise we are looking forward to the Abba & Beatles shows. Never thought we would take a holiday cruise but thanks to Viking's no children policy we booked it.

Thanks for the info, do they ever have anyone singing or is it just instrumentals ?

Have a quick question regarding late night entertainment. This is our first Viking cruise. We just got off a back to back Regent cruise we enjoyed very much. After the show (if we bothered) we would always go into the club where they had a duo playing each night. They were wonderful singers. Does Viking have anything like this or is it just a couple of band members playing instruments ?

We are on the Splendor.

We have a Penthouse cabin on our upcoming cruse. Anyone know if the cabin has a Blu-ray player in it ?

We are on a back to back cruise on Splendor starting Sept 5th. The first northern Europe cruise has great availability while the second British Isles has been sold out for a long time.

We are on this same cruise followed by the British Isles cruise (same ship). If we get tested before boarding in Stockholm would we have to get tested again at sea before we arrive in Stockholm ?

We are also boarding on 9/5. Our first Regent cruise and yes we also are on deck 8.