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Like several others planning on the Jan 8 cruise in 4days, we are already in Argentina. We don't know what we will do yet. But I'm not planning to run home. Argentine entry was no big deal, if you can read directions carefully. We are here,  and all of Patagonia and the Pampas are before us.

So my question... will the travel insurance that they bought for us still be valid? Or dies it get yanked too?

I'm interested in booking a South America cruise around bottom of cape horn. Oceania has a good itinerary that goes to antarctica also.  I'd like a balcony room. But I have difficulty sleeping with extraneous light in the room. Antarctica has long daylight hours during thier summer.

So my question: does Oceania have good quality black out shades at balcony curtains?

Royal Caribbean owns a private port at Labadie, Haiti. Do they allow tourists to exit the port and go into the real Haiti? Nearby are ruins of Sans Soucis Palace and the Citadel at Laferriere. I'm more interested in legitimate historical and cultural sites, then a company owned amusement park.

We are considering a river cruise in the Bordeaux region of France. We've never been to that corner of the world. However,  my concern is a possible over focus on wine. I enjoy a glass occasionally, but we are not wine freaks. I don't want a cruise that focuses on wine tastings at every stop. Would I be better looking at a different European River? [We have previously done Danube twice and the Rhine] Or are there plenty of castles, and history and cobblestone street villages to keep me happy? Will I have to listen to other people non-stop gibbering about their last wine tasting all week long?

So the question: is a river cruise on the Garonne River Bordeaux region of France, good for people who don't particularly crave wine?

Holland America has an interesting 22day South Am cruise from Santiago to BA. They spend about 4 days on what they call Antarctic Experience. It appears that these are  scenic sea days only. IDK. Can you get off thee ship? Do they have zodiac trips to get closer? From a big ship, penguins and such will be a speck on the horizon , wont they?

Most of the Mekong river cruises appear to not really go to Ho Chi Minh City. Instead they embark from My Tho, which is a village on the Mekong River. HCMC is actually on the Saigon River (not the Mekong). There do exist canals for boat travel. So my question is are there any river cruises that actually go up the canal and really dock right at HCMC? That would be my preference to avoid an 2hr bus ride, unless someone has a reason why docking on the Saigon river in downtown HCMC is a bad idea.

On the other end of the trip, it appears that most of the river cruises stop on the SE end of the Tonle Sap lake, usually around the village of Kampong Chhnang. Of course, it will depend on season and water level, but there are any river cruises that cross the lake toward Siem Reap's port village? Again the cruise boat all the way, sounds better to me than a bus ride.