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markandjie

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  • Location
    United States
  • Interests
    Texas Longhorns, Travel, Photography
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Seabourn
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Galapagos, Antarctica

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  1. People sometimes ask me why we travel so much. I always reply that it's a big amazing world and I want to see it all. Seeing this makes me realize it's even bigger and more amazing than I thought. Still want to see it all. <starts looking for cape to cape itineraries>
  2. Please do share your experiences and compare/contrast here. We've switched over to SS before based on making dates work. Several great cruise lines and love to hear from others what they think.
  3. Yes they do, and they are high quality. In the past on other SB ships I've been disappointed with the binoculars, but not so on venture. Note there's only a single pair.
  4. We've sailed with three people in regular verandas, spa suites, and WG suites. Your TA will be the best resource on what's available for your cruise, but i think it sometimes has to do with overall ship capacity. If there are more singles on a given cruise that creates more capacity for triples. But I could be totally wrong.
  5. So glad you had a great experience there even without a landing!
  6. Oh man, you weren't kidding when you said viewing areas are more limited than on SB Venture.
  7. That looks like the pod of Orcas we saw! Maybe they like cruise ships???
  8. Yes, hope one day our plans align! It will make for the most epic "Live from" thread in CC history... 😉
  9. I mean, yes, it was disappointing. But as I reflect back we had an amazing experience with some once in a lifetime sights. The Pursuit got MUCH luckier on landings, but I don't believe they had a pod of 10-20 orcas swim directly beneath the bow of the ship. Every Antarctica experience will be different but they're all amazing in their own way. It is Antarctica, after all. Venture and Pursuit are the newest and best luxury expedition ships you'll find anywhere. Some itineraries I believe spend more time in Antarctica, so if you want to maximize your experience you might look for one of those. The final thing is that as more and more ships go to Antarctica they are sharing the same number of potential landing sites. That gives far less flexibility if things go awry and the expedition team has to scramble for alternate sites. And that's true for every cruise line. Like highplanes says, it's a roulette wheel.
  10. This is the objective. Sometimes you even get multiple landings if things go your way. Or you can get unlucky, like we did in November with sea ice, and have multiple days with only a single activity. It is an expedition cruise, after all, and you just have to roll with it. I posted a thorough thread on our experience in Antarctica, which you can find here. @highplanesdrifters *just* posted a great thread on his Antarctica trip on Silversea, which you can find on the Silversea board.
  11. There is an obsession I think most folks here find quite annoying, and it's not that there are people who like caviar.
  12. The larger ships do not have a proportionately larger MDR, so the MDR is very crowded and busy. On the smaller ships the MDR is much better size for number of passengers and tables and provides a noticeably calmer dining experience. The biggest disadvantage of the smaller ships used to be the lack of a sushi restaurant, but with Sushi in the Club that is largely a non-issue now.
  13. Great new video posted to Seabourn social media channels showing off beautiful use of the outdoor space.
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