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GeorgiaPeach51

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    Big Canoe, Georgia
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    granddaughters and grandson
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    Regent
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Europe

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  1. Great review! Really enjoyed reading it. Thanks for taking the time to do it on your vacation. Joanie
  2. We fled Celebrity to try Regent. Fell in love with the cruise line. It is our firm favorite. We have done three R cruises. We did one Oceania cruise and I would concur with @eroller I would say that the biggest difference in food is found in Compass Rose on R. It is hard to beat the extensive menu offered every single night in CR. There are pluses and minuses in other dining venues…we loved the Slocumb ice cream on O but love the cronuts on R. Lots of personal preferences. We missed the tablecloths in the veranda when on O. To us, R is a touch more elegant, more choice-friendly, more immediately responsive to passenger concerns. One experience of note….we were on the Marina and multiple people we met on tours commented that after very lengthy waits for their entrees, 30-45 minutes, they got up and walked out. In these multiple instances, the dining room staff just watched them go. No questions, no comments, no attempt to find out why. Based on our experience, I find it hard to imagine that in the same scenario on R you would not be chased by staff almost wringing their hands to find out why you were leaving and what could they do to fix things for you. O can say they have the finest food at sea, but I think R could say the same if they chose to do so. Based on our current impressions I would always choose R over O, but I enjoyed our one O cruise enough to go on O again if the ship and itinerary were both right for us. Joanie
  3. Really enjoying reading all the comments and looking at the great photos. Takes a lot of time to do it, and I appreciate all your efforts to entertain and inform us! Joanie
  4. “And I loved the cronuts, and ate 1 every morning at the Coffee connection with my cappuccino. I gained 5 pounds on the cruise, and I blame the cronuts.” Made me laugh! Yes, those cronuts are wicked good. Hard to resist, especially when they alternate flavors and you don’t want to miss one of those! Joanie
  5. @cruisevirgin24 I’m so glad you liked them! They are addicting, for sure, and I miss them when we leave the ship. I believe they are similar to custard type tarts they have in Portugal….but, you might be interested in this article. Apparently, according to the article, there is a bakery in London that makes them, and one in Tokyo!? 😃 Joanie https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-05-09/the-complete-history-of-the-cronut
  6. @taxman1 Next time you go to Sette Mari try their filet mignon, offered with different sauces night to night. We found those steaks to be one of the best things offered on Splendor, and Explorer and Navigator. Perfection every time.
  7. One of the things we most loved on Explorer and Splendor was the absolute quiet within the suite….just a regular suite. It was like being in a bubble and we never even heard a door slam, let alone adjacent noise or hallway conversations. I would be perturbed to hear my neighbors, their conversations or their tv. Joanie
  8. Oh, my. What a full plate of life you are dealing with. I’m so very sorry for so much devastating news, but touched to see that even with the devastating cancer news, a potential disastrous health issue was resolved. And on top of all this, to lose the cruise you were anticipating is just one more shove when you are already down, Sending you best wishes for skillful and compassionate medical personnel, and a good outcome for you both. Joanie
  9. Beth! So happy to see you here! I hate that you had an even worse experience with the noise. To me, the fact that the ac was left on in the breakfast room seemed an admission that it was too hot with no ac. I did post about it on Trip Advisor and on the Spain ports board, so hopefully that will save someone else the aggravation we experienced.
  10. Ray! So happy to see your post! We did get your mail, which arrived shortly before we left on this trip, on the 27th, so I apologize for not replying, but will do so shortly. Now, there you go…Crystal responded appropriately, while O just put their hands over their ears. Shows that it is possible. two follow up notes…my sister and her husband, who had been told they would get their $11,000 in airfare applied to their next cruise, are still fighting with O over that issue. Regarding the El Avenida Palace hotel…we were there three nights post-cruise. The weather was unseasonably hot, up to 78-80. We had specifically checked that they had ac, having had a few miserably hot experiences before we learned that lesson. Turns out that they hav ac…until they don’t. They refused to turn it on, and there were no fans. However, there WAS ac in the breakfast room. Hmmm. We had a corner room with no hope of a breeze and boy, it was really uncomfortable. Every day we would leave the room with the windows open and come back to it locked up tight and sweltering even after leaving requests to the contrary at the front desk. So, we had to sleep with the windows open at night. The first night I ended up with FOUR mosquito bites on my face! After that I tried to sleep with the sheet over my head. So, be warned! We will not stay there again.
  11. @Joanne G. I did, indeed do a Trip Advisor review! The interesting thing to me is that this hotel is pretty highly rated and has enthusiastic reviews. Puzzling, but perhaps they had ac! I am with you on the bugs. After the first night I had FOUR mosquito bites on my face, and after that I tried to sleep with the sheet over my head. 😵‍💫🙄 Joanie
  12. @Girr I believe starting 9 Aug thru the end of November a/c has to be set no lower than 80. We were there Nov. 13-16 and there was no ac for the rooms, but there was ac in the breakfast area, so I am not sure your info is currently correct. my point in posting is to make people aware that just because a hotel states they have ac does NOT mean you will have it when you get there. If there are governmental regulations about ac, they should state it in their advertising. The hotel at no time mentioned any governmental regulations when we discussed how hot our room was.
  13. Here is a word of warning about this hotel. We are just heading home after 4 days in Barcelona, Nov. 13-16. It has been unseasonably warm here with temps at 75-77 degrees. We checked carefully to see that this hotel has air conditioning, having had some unpleasantly warm stays in hotels without ac. This hotel has ac….until it doesn’t, They turn it off seasonally and will not turn it back on if the weather turns warm. So we would leave each morning to explore, and leave the windows open, only to return to the room to closed windows and absolutely roasting hot. This necessitated opening the windows at night, and in would come the bugs and mosquitoes. I currently have five mosquito bites on my face. So, fair warning that it is either close the windows and swelter or open them and itch. You can do MUCH better than this hotel!
  14. And, once you see Gaudi’s masterpiece, go a few blocks and enjoy Can pizza. They are the real deal. First, the caprese salad. The burrata! We split “the Italian job”. You can thank me later. 😍
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