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Is it realistic to be able to secure a cabin on a completely wait listed voyage on  Oceania's Simply More program that departs in two months?   They want $1000 to be put on the wait list.  

The South Korean president gets around - we saw him in Paris in Oct 2018!   I would have been bummed to miss the Vasa but one never knows.  A friend took the same cruise in summer of 2017 and the ship couldn’t even dock in Stockholm because of high winds.

 Your rooms are lovely.  

On 6/27/2019 at 10:24 AM, neilmae_ko said:

Day 8 - Nynashamn / Stockholm:

The ship was docked at Nynashamn, a good 1 hour drive to Stockholm.  In this trip, we used 

www.stockholmguiding.com as our private transportation.  We left the cruise port at 8:30am

and arrived Stockholm around 9:30am.  During this day, Stockholm was very busy and roads

have slow traffic.  Apparently, Former Pres. Obama was there and also the President of 

South Korea was also in Stockholm.  Many road were blocked for security reasons.  Our stops

was - City Hall, Drive around the City, Royal Palace, Old Town.  The City Hall is where the Nobel

Peace Prize awarding are held each year.  A good place to have a tour.  The Old town of

Stockholm is also great.  We were not able to visit the Vasa Musuem because of the traffic.  

We left Stockholm around 4:30pm and arrive at the cruise port at 5:30pm.  The Ship departed

7:00pm.  This time; we had our dinner at Le Bistro - French Specialty Restaurant.

 

City Hall

 

 

Royal Palace

 

Old Town

 

Review:

stockholmguiding.com - I reserved a minivan with them and when we arrived - a brand new bus were waiting for us.  

Although the bus was very nice, it is hard to use it since the bus is very big for just 7 of us.  It would have

been easier to tour the city if it was a minivan.   The guide was a local, however, she cannot speak english 

very well.  I would not recommend this tour company.

 

Le Bistro - our 2nd favorite specialty restaurant.  Food was great including the service.  A bit crowded since 

it is a popular restaurant in the ship.  

I enjoyed your review. We’re taking this cruise the end of August.  We’re not fans of big ships so I suppose we’ll spend lots of sea days on our balcony. 

Thanks Shmoo here, I'll do that.  

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Hi Zack! So happy to see that as of May, 2017 you'll be adding to your post. We're sailing to Alaska on the Pearl on 6/11/2017 and I'm eager to hear more from you, especially info on your shore excursions. Thanks for your input: the first post was very helpful.

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