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1 hour ago, edgee said:

Ship needs to go in for repair...maintenance issues ...so two Alaska cruises on Mariner were cancelled..July 20 and July 27 one week cruises.

Thanks

15 hours ago, edgee said:

It has been 35 days since Regent notified us our July Alaska cruise was cancelled. My TA inquired today about the status of the refund. Was told it has not been processed yet and will not be for another 6 weeks..total of 12 to 13 week wait to get our $13,000+ back. Am I being unreasonable to ask my TA to escalate this to try for a quicker time frame, or is a wait of this length a reasonable time frame? 

Why was your July Alaska cruise cancelled?

Thank you Bella, really enjoyed your thread.

6 hours ago, TrulyBlonde said:

Here in Pitkin County CO, we have an online registration. When they finish with the 1st group, they move on to the 2nd group and so on. This was just implemented last week and hope to see it go well. Eagle County (Vail area) will begin next week with vaccinations for 70 plus etc.

It seems organized, also. 

I got mine yesterday here in the Denver area, arm hurts a little today but that's all so far.

1 hour ago, chivatosteve said:

 

Thanks Dottie, miss you.  Sandy and Peter

21 hours ago, jeanine said:

If you have visited Greenland, would like your opinion. We are looking at a cruise that spends 3 days there. What about Iceland? Thank you in advance.

 

Jeanine

We took the Oceania Riveria cruise last year starting on Sept 10th in Reykjavik, Iceland, then to Isafjordor, Iceland, Denmark Strait, Prince Christian Sound in Greenland, Qaqortoq, Greenland, Paamuit, Greenland and Nuk, Greenland.  We had beautiful weather except for one day in Iceland.  We really enjoyed Greenland, its people and the beautiful scenery.  The scenery was exceptional when we cruised through Prince Christian Sound. I am sure that you will have a great time.

Thank you Terry,

I enjoyed all of your wonderful pictures and great commentaries

2 hours ago, TLCOhio said:

Now at LAX/Los Angeles airport on our way back to Central Ohio.  Nearing the completion of our 2020 "adventure".  So much to summarize, great sights, excellent food, nice people, fun experiences, etc.  Plus, sunshine and warmth!!  Many hundreds more visuals to review, check and fine-tune, etc.  Then post, hopefully, only the "best of the best" for those various sights and activities. 

 

Below are just three quick photo highlights from our last day in Tahiti.  We departed Papeete at 11:15 pm on Thursday night.  Arrived in LA Friday am on Air Tahiti Nui.  Was going to do the Getty Museum during this LA afternoon, but with all of the virus concerns, we decided to rest up and take things easy before our Saturday morning flight back, non-stop, to Columbus.  Was surprised at LAX that there not more checking/monitoring of arriving passengers as to travels in China, etc., and/or doing some type of touch-less temperature checks as we did each time when returning to the Regatta after a port stop.  Clearly, the cruise/travel industries are facing now some serious questions and challenges as this China/virus situation plays out, hopefully in a decent, fairly safe manner.  

 

As always, welcome any and all questions, comments, info needs/sharing, etc.  Don't be shy!!   Happy to learn/share more.  Have many additional visuals to post of this ship and some changes after its September 2019 "make-over".  

 

Since we finished with four-straight, busy, intense days of activities, I am backed up with many dozens more pictures to post.  Hope to complete those reviews in the next week or so.  On our flight back to LAX was with our Oceania Regatta Cruise Direction Corry Powell.  He has two months off in vacation time. My understanding is that he'll be headed to St. Louis near where he lives across the Mississippi River in southern Illinois. The ship's General Manager also rotated off of the ship a couple of days prior to our final docking.  The Regatta was starting a series of four-in-a-row, ten-day cruises, Papeete to Papeete, around the different islands of French Polynesia.  Then, in April, the Regatta will sail to Hawaii/San Francisco and then up to Alaska for the summer.  

 

THANKS!  Enjoy!  Terry in Ohio

 

AFRICA?!!?: Fun, interesting visuals, plus travel details from this early 2016 live/blog. At 48,912 views. Featuring Cape Town, South Africa’s coast, Mozambique, Victoria Falls/Zambia and Botswana's famed Okavango Delta.

www.boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=2310337

 

During our all-day tour with Dominic and Tracey of Unique Tahiti (www.uniquetahiti.com), we super enjoyed many various locations along the western coast of these two joined islands.  Just two quick photographic highlights are below . . . waterfall and colorful flowers. Many more to follow later.  For us, doing this tour to explore more than just the urban area Papeete was great to understand more on their history, culture and variety for this central "heart" of Tahiti and French Polynesia.  This March 5 date in Tahiti was a holiday to celebrate when the first missionaries came to these islands to share Christianity.:

(Open your screen/viewer wider to see these pictures larger/better!)

 

 

Here was THE final sunset from Tahiti.  Our flight did not depart till late Thursday evening and their airport is limited/marginal in certain ways for sitting and waiting.  After our all-day Tahiti tour, we enjoyed drinks with two other couples from our cruise at this waterfront bar/dining location that has great views over the waters.  Like this visual with the sunset, boats, people celebrating the conclusion of the day, etc.? :

Thanks Terry, really enjoying your pictures and commentary.  We have friends that used to live in American Samoa, I will have to tell them about you be denied going there.

9 hours ago, cruisemom42 said:

I'm considering two slightly different Oceania 20-day itineraries in August 2021 that both have similar stops in Greenland (3) and Iceland (3), as well as both stopping in Dublin, Belfast and Copenhagen. Both start in Southampton and both end in Stockholm. The different ports on each are:

 

Nautica: Plymouth (England); Torshavn (Denmark); Lerwick, Shetland Islands (Scotland); Haugesund (Norway); Kristiansand (Norway); 

Sirena:  Alesund (Norway); Visby (Sweden)

 

What I'm most interested in are the Greenland/Iceland stops, which are the same on each ship, as well as cruising the Prince Christian Sound, which both do.

 

Is there any big reason to select one of these ships/itineraries over the other one?

 

Also, in general, would Oceania have lecturers or naturalists onboard who would provide good information about the ports -- wildlife, culture, history, etc.?  That is very important to me -- otherwise I may consider a less expensive line.

 

We were on Riviera from Iceland to New York City in Sept. of this year.  The cruise was great but the lecturer wasn't that good, he didn't give that much information about wildlife, culture or history.  

1 hour ago, Cruzin Terri said:

Jeepers!  Give the lady a break.   If you don’t want to hear her and you’re in your cabin just close the door and she’s gone.

I was on one cruise with her and frankly I really don’t remember her taking over the mike.  I had a great cruise and found her to be friendly and helpful.  I ran the M&G and she stopped by and asked if we needed anything, spoke for a minute and left.  She greeted me every time we met on the ship and was lovely.

 

I really don’t remember the infomercials at all.  I do remember that I had a lovely cruise.

Terri

I totally agree with you.  Leave her alone, we were just on Riveria with her and I don't remember any infomercials, she is very friendly and helpful.

16 hours ago, kitty9 said:

We did a 22 day B2B in May, and when we went to the first trivia, we saw a couple who’ve been on , it seems, well over 100 cruises.  On a previous cruise, we saw the husband had a notebook with every trivia game they’ve played, and they won every time.   We partnered up with a great group on our cruise and we warned them that the particular group would get 20 out of 20 every game.  Yep, that’s exactly what happened.  Participation dropped until a very vocal member of our group spoke to the CD and told him that they really need to change up the questions and not use the same ones over and over again.  He did just that and the perfect team was not so perfect anymore.  

 

Dottie celebrated her 60th in May, and she told us she had 5 more years and then she was pulling the plug.  She’s back on Riviera in Sept. for only 3 months, and after a vacation, she’ll be assigned to one of the R class ships. 

So you are saying that Dottie will be on Riviera during the month on Sept?  Is Tom with her?