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Technically you are still 'in season' as your research will have told you In practical terms and IMHO you will be unlucky to get a genuine TRS so late on. Could be a couple of blows but hey ho that is life at sea. Look at the repositioning threads on CC .. question has been asked numerous times.

Described to perfection by the one and only ......

You think you have a problem 🙂 I always wear a tie with a jacket, and again like you I wear a jacket after 6pm.

I'll have local currency ... I'm from the UK and I suspect the GBP would be 'frowned upon' 😵‍💫

Can't assist other than I am in the same boat so to speak. My research is leading me towards http://www.airportstaxitransfers.com/ All the companies seem comparable price wise and this place gets good reviews? Just a thought.

Subtle 😄

Crystal (Old Variety) once published an itinerary that was from Norway to Dover UK .... via the Florida Straits ...all in 24 hrs! 😁

..... and having them collect bread crusts to feed the mules at Panama 😁

Did you do the old 'fry an egg' trick on the hot deck? That was always one for the newbies 😁 50 degrees was par for the course wasn't it? Salt tablets for breakfast lunch and dinner .... or tea if you were uncouth and sailed on oil tankers😄

Mentioned Puerto Bolivar on another thread ... it it moves it is open to theft ... can't comment on my one visit to Jeddah ... it was public execution day and we were confined to the ship, to the point of an armed escorted on the jetty when I went to read the draft before we sailed.

A lot of my time was spent around the Arabian Gulf area. We used to frequent a place up the Shatt Al Arab river. The river was described as the @@@@hole of the world .... and the port was 40 miles up it 😵‍💫 Humorous anecdote ... Waiting time for a berth at some of those ports was extreme ... sometimes ships were waiting weeks, sometimes months. One story doing the rounds - and I can believe this - was set on board a ship that again had been at anchor for several months. Someone had managed to obtain a full size, replica, human skeleton. One day when the Port Authority boat was doing its 'rounds', of the anchorage, all personnel were moved out of sight and the skeleton was draped over the open bridge wing wearing nothing but a cap - and that was the only sign off occupancy that were seen by the staff on the boat. Rumour was they were not amused! 😁

Atlantides, plural.... is defined in various place as a feminine noun referring to Atlantis but elsewhere is a name given to the Pleiades, which were fabled to be the seven daughters of Atlas who were translated to heaven, viewed as the nearest star cluster to earth . They were the inhabitants of the legendary island of Atlantis. Perhaps it refers to just one of the sisters ... 🙂

Can't comment on the favourite ... too many have been good. However the worst was Puerto Bolivar in Ecuador. If it was movable it walked! Ships have been known to lose full mooring lines!

Agree 100% 😁🤪😵‍💫

I think you might struggle to get Panama and Suez on the same trip 🙂or at least on the same ship. Even then you might struggle. I managed it once ... but have been through both canals many many times. I am of course talking cargo ships not world cruises 🙂

A friend of mine was the same ....15 mins in a car and it was technicolour yawn time. Possibly started by fumes and claustrophobia? Put him on a ship, plenty of fresh air and totally different, a more relaxed and steady, motion to a car and he was fine. He never ever took any medication.

My peeve as an OOW was any lights that shone forward .. they were to be rectified. Lights astern of the bridge wing that were causing any issue with reflection from moisture in the air needed to be dealt with. One source of light pollution that couldn't be sorted was ' cats paws ' from the forward white navigation light. Passenger ships were a pain as there was so much light pollution that spotting the actual navigation lights could be difficult.

Mmmmmmm ..... Barrow in Furness = British Ambassador = metal fatigue = ooops! Same problem found on all her sister ships that were built there. Quite scarey when you think they buIld nuclear subs there now !

Don't even mention the Tyne builds when they were using rivets! 🤪 At times it was not so much a creek as a death rattle.

The last cruise I did with SS was just after covid so we had all the usual tests etc. SS clearly said that they would provide a comfortable waiting area and that they would supply refreshments etc. They provided nothing whatsoever ever. They made people wait in an unheated room and absolved themselves of responsibility from not providing refreshments. Apparently it was due to covid? The whole process, from failing to issue boarding instructions, to actually boarding was a shambles. I did 'offer feedback' but it was ignored. A phrase concerning parties and breweries springs to mind. Being that there were other issues with SS UK corporate, I wouldn't trust SS ever again .... and the OP's issues do not surprise me at all.

If you remember to write it down of course 😵‍💫

I once went to the USA ...many years ago ... and the ships agent was offering free tickets to the superbowl! No one had the slightest inkling of what a Superbowl was. Didn't affect our stay though people said it was somewhat busy ashore.

Offshore fishing boats and cruiseships are totally different kettles of fish as far as motion is concerned. As for the Med... can be very bad at times. Wherever you sail rough seas are part and parcel of the trip .... they can happen anywhere. Luck of the draw.

Awful photo, but the source website is playing up.