Harry Lake

Have you asked for the thread to be closed?

It seems that OP is using points so it should be no problem getting them refunded. At least that's what United told me when we booked for next summer.

Good. That should answer OPs question. As well as the contract language.

When you canceled did you get a refund?

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Considering that at the beginning anyway Oceania must have been pleased with their reaction to this brouhaha. Grain of salt???

Two friends of ours have traveled with them a few times lately and liked them very much I'm going to be looking at them and other non-O companies. I don't like companies who choose to do the very wrong things.

Don't I remember that insurance doesn't cover "war" and Netanyahu declared "WAR."

Perfectly said (written). Thank you.

Well said. We visited Turkey and Israel about ten years ago. Not a cruise. We wouldn't go now. Ten or 20 years from now? I don't know. But not now.

Like in restaurants, there are FOH and BOH - front of house and back of house. I'm betting the ones who wash dishes work just as hard as the ones who clean your room.

Did you not see my post above about "why don't you call corporate"?

I'm assuming what you are but you know what "assume" means. Isn't a cruise ship a "commercial vessel"?

I saw that also this morning and am glad you shared it. I really believe that there may be people who cruise regularly who are unwilling to not cruise. Whereever they want.

Why not call 'corporate'?

This!

And now we have Google and plenty more! I'm an info junkie so I go to the good sources. Makes me happier than reading an anonymous source. No wait. Not "happier." Safer.

I know for sure that different GROUPS define it differently.

We've done most of those, some not enough. We're thinking about France and Italy on trains.

I just realized that, as few cruises that we've done, none of them were the Mediterranean. We've done a bunch of those places but not by water. We're 'port people' so maybe that's why.

Oh my goodness, I'm sorry that your focus has gone that way. Maybe try a few of these. https://www.forbes.com/sites/berlinschoolofcreativeleadership/2017/02/01/10-journalism-brands-where-you-will-find-real-facts-rather-than-alternative-facts/?sh=66973408e9b5 " But even in the day, we never read papers at the dinner table." Now that's a funny mental picture. I've never seen anyone reading while they're eating. Before and after, especially with the person that you eat three meals a day with, gives us something new to talk about. Chuckle.

Wow, you must be hanging out with the wrong "younger folks." Day in and day out, I don't have that experience. At all.

Would you have the same reaction - and sadness - if they were reading the paper version of a newspaper?

Are those generally older people...and I'm one of those. I find younger people make little to no noise. Ear buds in place, quiet talk. They've been at this a long time now.

I test out as an "extreme extrovert" but my interest in "creating new friends etc." is between slim and none. There are people that I have short exchanges with and they're pleasant but that's pretty much it for me.