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If, as you say, you booked it, they made the right decision to raise their price. They’re a business, publicly traded at that, and their objective is to maximize revenue and profit. If you and others stop booking, then it becomes a different story. But clearly that isn’t the case.

Promoting travel agents is against forum rules.

Interesting changes. Encore in Alaska and Ovation for Canada and New England.

“Slobs.” There we go 🍿🥤😂

Hooray, a dress code discussion! Getting the popcorn out! 🍿🥤

I can’t comment on this particular issue, but hull cleaning has been a major issue for many cruise lines the past 2 years, because ports and/or countries keep changing the rules on what’s allowed in port for environmental reasons. Google it, and you’ll find stories of Viking and Princess ships stranded offshore from Australia due to failure to clean their hulls prior to arriving. In none of these cases was it an “oversight”; hull cleaning had been planned, but ports withdrew their permission to do so because the rules are getting stricter and stricter. (Again, I’m not saying that’s the case here, but it’s likely more complex than someone forgetting something.) And the irony is, hull cleaning is - for example - mandatory prior to arriving in Australia, but Australia also recently banned hull cleaning in port for environmental reasons. So if Seabourn had planned to do this in for example Darwin…

Meanwhile Emirates serves me Dom Perignon, Dom Perignon Rose, Opus One and Chateau d’Yquem in First Class to LA for my upcoming Seabourn Sojoun cruise…

Have a fabulous cruise! I hope the weather improves for you.

I’m not sure this is accurate. On our recent cruise, both my iPhone and my laptop were connected to my WiFi account simultaneously without any issues. I did not have to log out the one to activate the other.

Given the ship is sailing half empty, it’s simply not needed. We had 2 tender ports on our recent cruise and every time there were less than 10 people on the tender. (We were in a Residence suite.)

Because Seabourn wants to sell out the ship and no sane person is currently booking a cruise from Haifa, regardless of its departure date.

If you read the daily programs he posted, and that were posted on the thread covering the previous cruise, you’ll know precisely what the activities are. The excursions are just like any other mainstream cruise line. Same vendors as MSC.

I think it’s operational but it was *never* open during our 14 night cruise from Quebec to Miami and I was told it’s unlikely to be opened a lot in the Caribbean as “it rains too often” and “we already have 3 outdoor pools”.

I think it depends on what you’re used to. They’re large compared to, for example, Azamara, but small compared to Seabourn. The bathrooms in particular are a joke compared to Seabourn, where all rooms have both a large tub and a separate shower, and dual vanities.

This is the correct answer.

Off menu - not when we were on board the previous sailing. They’re very rigid. Very different from Seabourn where they’ll literally serve you anything you ask for as long as you give 24 hours notice. Large salad - there’s a salad station at the buffet. Floris

Disappointing to read that Explora did not learn from past mistakes.

It honestly didn’t bother us. We don’t mind sleeping with earplugs.

The loud creaking noises were there every night in our suite. We slept with earplugs in.

Just disembarked this morning. It was bumpy enough to crack a glass panel on our balcony!

We’re currently racing down the US east coast much faster than we need to, I assume to get ahead of some weather that’s forecasted to build up tomorrow morning. The pics show wave height today at 2 pm and tomorrow at 2 pm. 4 feet vs. 14-18 feet.

Explora has no dress code. Wear what makes you happy. People focus way too much on what others do and don’t do. Regarding Anthology, nobody suggested that we wear a jacket, and hardly anyone does.

More Sakura and our arrival in cold, rainy New York this morning. It’s an overnight stay and we are dining in town tonight, so no food pics tomorrow, sorry! 🙂

It’s a stunning afternoon as we make our way to New York. The north Atlantic Ocean is being very kind to us.