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  1. Agreed. I learned from my TA that even when they only post Door-to-Door fares you can negotiate a Port-to-Port fare.
  2. Thanks to everyone's help, our first pass at Alaska tours for next August are in place. One was already fully booked! Well see how they turn out, but I was impressed by the variety. The one middle of the night mystery tour, turned out fine, it continues to say it left at 11:30pm right through the booking process, but in the end it put it on the calendar at the expected 11:00 am departure. I'm puzzling about the one 7:30pm departure for a three hour tour. Dinner seems awkward either before or after the excursion.
  3. That’s my guess. I hate to bother my wonderful TA over this, but I was online today with a SS rep for over an hour today who never got logged in. Maybe I should just book it!
  4. This worked for me - thanks. But now I have another question. For Icy Straight Point on the 8/17 departure, this Excursion: Whale & Marine Mammals Cruise (ISP-H) Says it begins at 23:30!!! but the ship departs at 19:00 Clearly this must be a typo, but when I select it it also puts it on my calendar for 23:30.???
  5. Is there a way to print the entire excursion list. I started cutting and pasting but it was taking forever, and the formatting was all messed up. We're doing an Alaska 14 day, and many of the tours sound very similar, so we don't want to duplicate, and we just like to sit down over coffee and look in all over at once.
  6. All of this info is precovid... Back in the day WS was fairly open to considering such things. We had a bunch of people who got off in Moorea rather than taking the last leg, but that was off early not on late. I've seen people who had transit problems catch the ship a day late, but that was with a schedule problem. You can always ask, and they can only say "no" We got off in Mubai rather than going on the Dubai, it took a special request, and there was no guarantee it would be allowed. One question might be is there immigration in Moorea, I don't know, but I think you clear in PPT. On our itit, several couples spend the night in Bora Bora offship, and I think the ship even offered such a plan. I don't know if they still do,
  7. At least they have it, there are reports that Silversea has been running out of tequila lately.
  8. I would think that a high percentage of the WS demographis is vaxxed. I would go with a proof of some medical reason they can't be vaxxed.
  9. This is very true, early conversations were around just moving everything forward to 6, but they could be extended, the question is how that would affect WSs staffing. They move them around on a schedule and they would need to adjust everything to make the schedule work. That's their problem, I guess.
  10. I guess part of my thoughts were that WS has a high number of frequent cruisers. I'll some some itineraries like "greece, untraveled islands" would be very popular.
  11. Thanks for the observations. For us, we really need that time between 5-7 to get turned around, have a cocktail (or two) catch up on email if needed, probably shower, put on nicer cloths (not fancy, just not what we've worn all day), look at the next day's schedule - reception will arrange to have a print copy delivered each day if you ask - get out tour tickets for the next day, and just relax. By then its time for dinner and we can relax with all the other stuff done. Our normal dinner time at home is 6:30 so 7 isn't really a stretch for us,
  12. Just have to ask. To how many is 7pm really a late dinner?
  13. The amazing crew deserves it. No issues here.
  14. I think it was more than a few months ago, my only data points are that it was not included last November, and was before COVID. I wonder if part of the process was that WS realized that there were several ways to get laundry included, high level Yacht club status and booking a B2B being two of them, and that people would maybe not buy the package since they already got laundry through another method.
  15. I've long been struck that dinner is sort of the same times at all locations. I say that I would never schedule a dinner out for earlier than 7, which makes it sort of special and "dining". I do suspect that part of the 7 opening is that WS needs time to reset for dinner, get preparing for dinner and for getting the right staff in the right places (and maybe a break) if you look closely the staff does actual change uniforms before dinner. It also gives 5-7 as a time for various meetings and a time to gather at the bar, which for many people is an important part of the WS experience - a time to decompress, especially if you've had a busy day or a long tour My suggestion would be that now each ship has more options, they change hours at the various locations day by day with something always open at 6. 5 seems to early for me, with the star grill finishing up lunch at 4.
  16. It appears that you no longer need the test for Greece. Mention is gone from the WS website. I saw some reference to beginning October 5.
  17. You won't need sunscreen if you go through in total darkness late at night like we did.
  18. We didn't see any on our recent Legend. Crew masked - some better than others. Virtually no pax wearing them, including us.
  19. This is true, but it isn't a substitute for grilled lobster with butter. I also didn't see lamb chops of the BBQ.
  20. Just to clarify - other than the Star Grill (if open) and sandwiches in the Yacht club, Veranda is the ONLY option for lunch.
  21. On our recent itin there was a sign by reception about asking about upgrade opportunities. I didn't ask but if sounded like they were for a fee.
  22. We explored the Grill this time. Tea Smoked Duck was amazing. Burgers the same as in Veranda. We did notice that the default portion size was smaller than in the past. Very small number of Fries - but they'll bring you more. The soft serve ice cream machine by the grill was operating most of our cruise, flavors were always vanilla, strawberry or the two twisted. Never anything else. Still no BBQ lobster - I think its gone for good. We've had mostly solid chefs and once in awhile one who is splendid. Out recent itin on the Legend we had an OK chef. It was all fine but sort of uninspired. Things labeled "spicy" had almost no spice, even the Indian. You could add Tabasco, but that's no substitute for real Indian spices. If you label one option as "spicy" you need to make sure it is, people will have been warned. We did have excelling pasta bolognese is Amphora, one of the best I've ever had. The beef was definitely a higher grade than they were using last November.
  23. I think it is $79 pre-cruise or $89 on board, so that’s correct.
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