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I received the email today as well. It was disappointing to say the least. We had some acquaintances that bought a “condo“ back in the day on the old “ world ship”. They told us times got a bit challenging financially for the world and they received board approval to host groups when space permitted and not all owners were on board. They told us a horror story ( their words) about a car company that hosted an incentive sales event on the ship for a week and said it was a nightmare. They said everyone was loud, drunk. And acted like they owned the place. They said it was just awful. They were looking to sell their condo. I don’t know what happened but this is a huge turn off for me! I’ll be looking elsewhere if this comes to fruition.

Thank you for writing about your adventures! It was lots of fun to read.

Yes, scuba was available at Chuuk as well as snorkeling and the submarine. The people I spoke with that did the diving were happy with it. Typically only one tank dives and they didn’t do it everywhere but they said they were happy. In a couple of places ( I think Cook Islands) they set it up with a local shop as it wasn’t offered there from Seabourn, but may have been due to local rules.

Have a great time on your cruise! I’m sure you will. We already miss being on the ship! and when you can let us know what’s happening as we are still signed up for Kimberly to Lautoka Aug 2025!

End of cruise Part 2: Suite: one more thing we really enjoyed to add to my previous comments is the dry closet. I know it was designed for cold weather cruises like Antarctica, but we found it really useful for drying bathing suits, rash guards, water shoes, etc from snorkeling. It’s a terrific feature. Dining: One more comment. We enjoyed sushi a lot even though it wasn’t quite the same as enjoying when it’s fresh at restaurants. We had it for dinner twice and it worked out really well. It’s served in the club on deck 9 which also has a very nice atmosphere. It was usually crowded from 6-7pm so we’d go about 7:30 and service was quick and by then people who were going to the other dining venues were gone. Entertainment: We aren’t big on it but did enjoy listening to a cup on occasion when they played in the sushi bar. There was a piano player ( never saw or heard), sail away parties, trivia, and a big selection of movies in the rooms. If you are looking for a good critique on entertainment I’m not the one to ask but there were various things going on but seemed pretty low key. Lectures: There were some very good lectures by various members of the expedition team. Lots on the culture, the geology, fish, and at long last a few on WW2. We enjoyed them and they could be watched in the discovery center on deck 4, in your suite live, or a recorded version on demand. Expedition Team: Individuals were quite good. But the organization and communications was very poor. We were not informed of any excursions at all before the cruise, even in ports that are well traveled by large and small ships and are clearly non expedition ports. In many ports during the first two week segment, there were only third party excursions allowed so why did we find out what they were the night prior at the 6:15 briefing? Also a number of the third party tours were at a cost to the passengers. Not complimentary. It was a mix. Then everyone had to scramble to sign up on the app or at guest services. This just didn’t make sense. I had called Seattle numerous times trying to find out about tours of WW2 sites in Guadalcanal ( Honaria) and Rabaul but nothing. So before we left we booked private tours in both places. As it turned out the night before group tours were out on but we stuck with our private as decided 200+ people on tour buses would not provide the kind if experience we’d enjoy despite when I had talked to Seattle before leaving they had claimed tours would be small and intimate. I must admit I’m a planner so I typically looked at other expedition ship websites like Silversea and Ponant to see what we’d likely do and people were amazed I knew in advance. Now to be fair some of the other ports we visited were quite remote and the team really didn’t know what we’d be doing til we arrived in the morning. These usually consisted of a village visit and various water activities in the afternoon - kayaks ( charge), sub ( charge), scuba ( no charge on this cruise but limited to small group I think 6-8), snorkeling ( free and all snorkel, mask and fins provided), and sometimes a beach. Overall the activities were great, just seemed very disorganized and this was the consistent comment across all guests we met. I hope they get their act together on this as it is an important aspect of the cruise. The other disappointment for many was the lack of WW2 emphasis but they did add 3 lectures toward the end of the cruise ( after we’d visited most if the key sites). HQ: I had an extremely concerning situation with Seattle. I almost always book my own flights having many miles from traveling internationally for business for many years. When I saw the Seabourn price on the business class from Guam to Honolulu I jumped on it. Seabourn booked me on the flight to Guam leaving this morning from Guam at 6:55 am. Two days before I left my home for this trip I received a call ( on a Sunday) from flight ease saying they needed to change my flight and I’d need to overnight in Guam as the ship although arriving at 10:00pm the night before could not disembark passengers until after 6:00 am the next day so I couldn’t make the flight. I was not happy as we’d already made plans to stay in Hawaii for a few days and then I’d booked my onward flight myself. I asked them to wait til the next day ( Monday) so I could verify with mgmt at Seabourn. They said yes but an hour later my flight had been changed. Anyway I very reluctantly changed my Hawaiian plans at great expense but they were my plans so I had to live with it. Late in the cruise I find out half the cruise is on the flight Seabourn moved me from and they are now as I write this all off and on their way home. By the time I found out Seabourn refused to change us back as the cost had gone way up as only a few seats left! So for me, I won’t be using Seabourn air again! Not a great end but we did have a lovely time on Pursuit and do have another booked for next summer ( Broome to Fiji). Now hanging out in Seabourn Square to our Guam hotel transfer! Luckily they are letting us disembark the ship at 11:00am so we don’t have to wait long hours to check in! If anyone has any questions please let me know. I’ve been terrible about not posting photos - my husband is the photographer. Maybe we will add some to this post later! Thanks for following along on this wonderful adventure!

We did not receive the letter but did tip the crew fund and received a nice letter from mgmt thanking us. We are still on the ship, getting off soon.

I don’t recall ever having a problem with the bedroom window and light.

We have stayed almost exclusively in the Penthouse spa suites. On the O class we prefer the corners although as mentioned if the area is windy the deck is not as usable as the inner suites. Our neighbors who we met on board in 1091 preferred the inner suites as they use it for sunbathing and it’s more protected. The window on the side in the bedroom is small ( compared to the suite we are in now on Pursuit where it’s a full half wall of floor to ceiling windows) so to me it’s nice but the thing we really enjoy is the deck although we don’t mind bundling up if it’s cool or windy. So a lot depends on if you want more space and wind protection or prefer the side with the peak around the corner view and the small window in the bedroom. On the larger ships the views are not as good as they only have the smallish door and window that is identical to all the smaller rooms. We actually moved our couch under the tv as we could see out the smaller windows that way. The inner suites were configured differently with the furniture better located to take advantage of the view. Anyway we aren’t crazy about the larger ships so prefer the O class. And do remember there are stairs to get up to the room. There is an electric chair but I’ve never seen it used. On one cruise a gentlemen was injured and it was broken so they had to move his room. So keep that in mind too. There is an elevator to the spa suites on the larger ships.

Here is my almost post cruise summary of Seabourn Pursuit Papeete to Guam. Actually it was two segments : Papeete to Honaria and Honaria to Guam. A bit over half got off in Honaria and flew by charter to Sydney. This first segment had a bit over 200 passengers. The second segment was almost full and seemed it. Dining room was more crowded as were excursions. Part 1: Ship: Beautiful, lots of outdoor space, lots of places to sit outside or on the various indoor venues. Seabourn square was pretty busy indoors and sometimes outdoors ( some days just to hit and humid to sit there). But you could also go to the forward lounge on deck 6 which wasn’t crowded, or even the forward lounge on deck nine ( no service but a nice place to sit and read or catch up on work or email with a coffee or tea from the square). It had very few people during the day. We did not us the pool but others seemed to enjoy a dip. It’s small but people used it. There are sun loungers located all over the ship and many other than those by the pool were empty. But it was hot and humid so only a couple of handfuls of people were sitting in the sun. Suites: We had a signature suite on the aft of deck 8 and loved it. It’s a beautiful suite with a living area, bedroom, large deck and a hot tub, We didn’t use the hot too much as it was quite warm and humid but did use it a few times. You do need housekeeping or maintenance e to adjust the temperature. They kept ours like warm which was fine for this trip. You can hear noise from the club on deck 9 sometimes ( thump thump from music) I’m a light sleeper - did not effect my husband at all. You can also hear the ship’s positioning system as they rarely need to use anchors on this ship. And you can hear people walking around upstairs in the morning - I’m assuming moving furniture around and cleaning as the club is closed. None of this was too bothersome and would not prevent me from booking this room but good to know. We did often have drinks in the evening on our deck and a few times breakfast. We really liked it and would book it again although since this was a pretty active cruise we probably didn’t use it as much as one could but since I had to work part of the time it was a wonderful spot for working! We met some people staying in the two story Wintergarden Suite and it was beautiful. Gorgeous floor to ceiling glass with killer views. Deck smaller but views fantastic. I can see this would be very popular as well. Other suites we saw looked very nice and on an active cruise like this more than adequate as you don’t spend a lot of time in your room ( except those of us like me that had to work some of the time). Starlink was great and with the upgraded package more than adequate. Even was able to do some zoom calls and if course FaceTime. Dining: It was fair to very good depending. It seems we are at a point now where we are running out of some things. I think it’s pretty hard to provision on many of these ports. I’m sure they will stock up in Guam. We had a couple of special meals which we enjoyed. I asked again the other night and was pretty much told no - don’t know if the issue was provisioning or not but I didn’t push it. ( I had asked for Dover sole). The MDR tended to be the venue of choice. We ate occasionally on the patio outside the Colunnade for dinner which was also popular but inside was rarely full at dinner. I personally just don’t care for the atmosphere in the Colunnade indoors as it reminds me of a college cafeteria. And the food was typically only fair although it was nice to sit outside on occasion in the evening. Lunches got old fast as the MDR was only open on sea days. When only the Colunnade was open it was very crowded and the patio seating where we would sit always had a wait. Lunches in the MDR were never crowded but I’d say they typically had a between ten- twenty tables depending on the day. It was a much more relaxing place to eat lunch. We had room service breakfast most days and it was very well done. We often had caviar in our room in the evenings and did room service lunch twice. I asked a couple of times on the patio if I could order from the room service menu and was told no but I saw several others did so I suppose it’s possible. I think I wasn’t assertive enough when asking. Now I’m off to a lecture. Part two to come later.

I mean leaving morning after tomorrow!

Hmm, I’m on the ship and leaving tomorrow and did not receive. But was planning to contribute.

We had another fantastic day in Chuuk Lagoon. I wouldn’t mind repeating this port in the future. We did the submarine again and if this is something you want to try it is a great place to do it if you are interested in seeing old ship wrecks. They received permission so my husband jumped on it. I was reluctant as we’d done before earlier in the trip and I thought it was a one and done experience. But he talked me into it and it was really interesting. We saw the San Francisco Maru, a very large Japanese ship sunk by American forces during Operation Hailstone. We could see the ship clearly with tanks, ammunition, etc. There was also some coral and fish. It was much more interesting than our previous sub experience on Jidari island, Ghizo in the Solomans where the snorkeling was much better. The snorkeling in Chuuk was good too, but nothing surpassed the snorkeling on Orluk Lagoon. We thought the best of the trip but I’m sure so much if it depends on the weather, the current, etc. Tons of fish, reef shark, beautiful coral and fans. We talked to some of the scuba divers and they dive a different wreck and were happy too. There was also a last minute addition to Chuuk for those interested in seeing the WW2 airfield. We couldn’t make the hike as it conflicted with our sub experience but I’ll try to find out if it was worthwhile. Well, we are at the end of the line, two sea days and we will be in Guam. I will write up a general overall report on things in the next few days. I have to say we are sad to leave despite the issues so that’s a positive! We did sign up for August 2025 trip from Kimberly to Lautoka in Fiji. It’s 34 days and covers a few of the same ports but mostly different - lots of the southern Indonesia area. I’m hoping with feedback ( which I will give) they will greatly improve the way they organize and communicate the activities and expeditions. I believe a lot of the logistics have been left to the expedition team , many who have never been to some of the stops, so hopefully it will improve in time. For many of the places I read other competitors sites that clearly showed many things offered and yes that’s what we did. We all know things can change but being able to sign up for activities in advance and planning your day is something almost everyone I’ve spoken to desires. I’m signing off for now bit I’ll be back with a summary, and finally some photos!😎

Yesterday we were in Orluuk Lagoon, Micronesia and it was a really nice day. The island really only has 6 inhabitants. It’s tiny but located in a great spot for snorkeling. We snorkeled off the zodiac platform on a beautiful deep reef which had terrific clarity. Lovely coral and lots of fish including reef sharks. I’d rate it in the top two snorkeling spots we’ve had so far. They did not bring out the submarine and didn’t dive. Today as I write this we are entering Chuuk Lagoon ( aka Truk) in Micronesia where we have a day full of water activities. Submarine has permission to dive the San Francisco Maru, the scuba group will dive another ship wreck, and there will be snorkeling over a shallow airplane wreck and another location. We are doing the submarine again as that wreck is quite deep and then will snorkel as well. More later!

@Nillah the lectures have been good. We have marine biologists, geologists, anthropologists on the ship. We are lacking a WW2 historian which is needed in this part of the world but one young guy studied up and dud a three part lecture and did a good job. It wasn’t planned but with the large number of people on the ship who had expected it they put it together. In regard to the scuba diving program, they can only take a small number of people as they only have so many tanks. I think it’s been 6 or maybe 8 so you need to sign up early before the cruise. The people we’ve talked to have made some individual arrangements and done some one tank dives with Seabourn. Not at every stop but they seem to be happy with what they’ve experienced. You do need to bring your own gear other than tanks and weights.

Despite the delay we will arrive in Orluck Lagoon, Micronesia tomorrow before lunch. The lagoon island we will visit has only 6 inhabitants. Hmmm. They evidently will not take dollars from the ship but food? How can they preserve it? There is another island close by that will provide crafts for sale! Should be interesting. The fantastic news is the next day we go to Chuuk ( aka Truk). Normally we don’t hear about anything a day in advance but the expedition team is excited about Chuuk so we did find out tonight we will be able to use the submarine and scuba. Both options will have wreck dives and there will be snorkeling above a shallow sunken aircraft. So passengers are very excited about this highlight. My husband has signed up to do the sub again and I will likely snorkel the aircraft. Once in the sub was perfect for me….. I know I’ve been bad about posting photos. Since my husband does most of the photos I will post some after we wrap up - only four more days…..has gone by too fast and that’s a grid thing in my mind.

We are on our way to Micronesia. There was a bit of a delay but luckily only 24 or so hours. There were officials that were supposed to join the cruise a few days ago in Rabaul, but due to missed flights etc we could not leave yesterday so the ship stayed near Ponam island literally moving around in circles. About 15:00 today the officials showed up. I happened to be in Seabourn Square and saw them walk in. Only a few days late! But the good news is it only delayed us 24 hours and the Captain is moving the ship at 16-17 knits so the ETA in Oroluk Lagoon, Micronesia may be only a about a half day late. Let’s see. So today was a sea day with lots of passengers speculating as to whether or not we’d make it to Micronesia given we can’t land there without these officials. But we are now on our way and I think if we get there before noon we will all be happy as we will only miss a half a day! Nothing much to report on the ship. Service continues to be very good in housekeeping, dining, and guest services. Food - well tonight we had a bit soggy veal piccata in the MDR but service great and bought a good bottle of Burgundy off the reserve list so it took care of the food! We did have lecture number two on WW2 which took us to Guadalcanal by an ambitious young man on the expedition team who I have to say continues to do a good job even though it wasn’t what he was hired to do! Tomorrow is another sea day and given we will only have 5 days left I will start getting organized to leave the ship. Time goes by quickly. Hard to believe we are nearing the end of our 30 day cruise and 5 weeks of being gone. Micronesia, a forced night in Guam, a few days visiting friends in Honolulu and then home to San Francisco. It’s going by too fast now! Keep running into people I’ve met but didn’t spend enough time with on the journey. Isn’t this just the way it is now that we are reaching the end….

Update: we still haven’t left Ponam island Anchorage. Turns out PNG officials left some time ago. There were officials from Micronesia that were supposed to board today but haven’t made it. So now we are motoring further away from the island in hopes the officials arrive tomorrow captain said at noon, at which point we will proceed to our two stops in Micronesia. Given they had planned it would take more than 2 days to get there we all hope we make it before ending the cruise in Guam. Evidently we can’t go to Oroluk Lagoon or Chuck without the officials……now we are waiting to hear the plans from the expedition team in an hour or so but likely that will just be for tomorrow which will be a sea day.

Today has been a quiet day. We are anchored at Ponam Island, our last stop in Papua New Guinea. The plan was to have morning snorkeling from the zodiac platform, followed by a village visit and a 14:00pm departure for Micronesia. We awoke early for the snorkeling to heavy rain. Not just the occasional squall we’ve experienced - it was coming down hard and the seas were churning. Zodiacs were already out scouting for a snorkeling location but I told my husband it didn’t look pretty. Sure enough at about 7:15 am we were told the snorkeling was canceled due to the weather. The village visit still took place a few hours later despite the weather and churn of the sea, but we gave this a miss along with quite a few other passengers. Finally the MDR was open again for lunch so we had a quite good chicken tikka masala - not as spicy as we’d like but very tasty and I’m sure the right spice profile for a ship of 200+. It was nice not to be jam packed on the patio or in the Colunnade. ( or waiting for an empty table). It’s now 16:40pm and we still haven’t left for our next destination. Evidently there are Papua New Guinea officials on board. Since this has turned into what I’d call a “guinea pig” cruise for Seabourn and its expedition team in this area, and we were told last night that since they hadn’t been here before and they introduced a local ground operator, I would hope this is a discussion on what worked and what didn’t. A number of people on this cruise are staying for the next leg that repeats some of what we’ve done as well as going to other spots in PNG. We’ve enjoyed the cruise but the expedition and excursion piece has been pretty disorganized and with no communication until the night before even in std ports. Guests we have spoken with pretty unanimously have expressed this is an area that needs to be improved even if some things need to change as they do on all cruises at the last minute. It’s like there was no planning going into this. Maybe that’s not the case but it comes across that way. As I think I’ve mentioned I’ve gone onto other expedition cruise sites and looked at the excursions they publish and sure enough those mostly match what we’ve ended up doing in similar ports. We had our first proper lecture this afternoon on WW2 by a young man from the expedition team. He noted he wasn’t a historian and I don’t think this was originally planned but I think ( and more importantly my husband who is extremely well read on the subject thought) he did a very good job. He gave us a quick history of Japanese history to 3 months into 1942. We will have part two tomorrow ( we think but schedule still not finalized but it’s a sea day). Only wish we’d had this earlier in the cruise when we were visiting Guadalcanal and Rabaul. Better late than never! I’d say they are learning as they go along!

Since I last posted we have had two days of “ expedition” cruising. Yesterday we went to Garove Island which is in a volcanic caldera. The village had only been visited once by a cruise ship and it was pre Covid. The excursions were: - Paid kayak, submarine - diving - afternoon village visit up some steep stairs to a lovely area with a school and lots of excited villagers. - no snorkeling or beach. It rained quite a bit in the morning so we had been warned it could be quite slippery walking to the ceremony but the sun came out just in time and it was lovely. Today we did two landings on two different islands in Rambutyo ( PNG). The first was a village visit and in the afternoon there was snorkeling, beach, submarine and kayaks. The snorkeling was very clear water with lots of beautiful coral and fish, The waves were up so given it was a beach entrance it was a bit of a challenge for some to get in and out but was beautiful. Only issue is everyone is staggered on the zodiacs but as it was a small beach and fairly small but beautiful reef it was crowded. We had the first color call so got on the first zodiac but over time it was crowded with people. I think one way to improve this is to have multiple limited time snorkel sessions for the groups. I’m not sure how other expedition ships handle this but if you are in a limited snorkel space on a relatively small beach it might make sense to do like Antartica where you have a time slot where a limited number of people are there at the same time. I’m not sure but with 200+ people snorkeling at the same limited place it can be a bit crowded. Anyway, we had a great time as we’re in the first zodiac so we’re there early! The food becoming a bit repetitive ( we are ending week 3) and is only IMHO fair to very good but then I realize food is subjective. We have still experienced excellent service from the dining and housekeeping staff. I do think the food is better on the larger ships and was not surprised to hear @texanaustcomments about food not being a priority on the expedition ships. I think it should be! One great piece of news for those interested in WW2 we will have a lecture tomorrow afternoon from one of the young expedition team members who lives in Micronesia ( an American). It will be one of a series of three - wasn’t us but I think there has been feedback on the lack of this so fingers crossed it will be good! Tomorrow we depart PNG at 14:00 followed by two sea days to reach Micronesia so it’s hopefully good lectures on a subject the passengers desire. BTW, I do stand to be corrected on one comment I made earlier about JFK’s PT 109 ship. On the island we visited owned by a private individual he evidently made reference to it briefly while talking about how and when he bought the island. But it was in passing. It was only a few minutes but we didn’t hear it. I’m glad it was referenced as that was an important aspect historically to the location.

Your photos are great. Along with the terrific commentary.

BTW, the expedition team has given some excellent lectures on fish, photography, the local cultures and history of the local cultures, plants, etc. so are some worthwhile interesting lectures. Just nothing on WW2 which we also relate to the Pacific Theatre.

We have had no lectures on WW2. We were at one point less than 20k from where PT 109 ( JFK’s) boat was sliced in half by Amagiri in 1943 and it was not even mentioned. My husband is a WW2 buff and said we could see the opening of Blackett Straight and again it wasn’t mentioned at all. I don’t think anyone on the expedition staff has the knowledge or expertise on the WW2 history. We had expected lectures on this to be featured prominently as did many other passengers we’ve met.

Apologize for the horrible spelling mistakes. Between my fingers and the rogue spell check on my iPad I’m embarrassed, but hope you get something out of this!

Don’t know who is the corporate executive chef. Agree and disagree on the food. Colunnade is pretty poor so agree on that point. Lunch outside hot and humid, limited menu, good service but poor food. ( of course we don’t care for buffets and these don’t look good). Service good but we only sit outside as I just don’t like eating in the cafeteria. And given the weather and crowds on some days would make sense to open the MDR but only on sea days and I think maybe staffing the issue. MDR IMHO - fair to very good. Dinners at Colunnade fair but sometimes nice to sit outside at night since weather nice and tends to be cooler if the ship moving. Breakfast we have only had in our room and we don’t eat a big meal so it’s been fine. Croissants actually really good. But we dint expect much for breakfast. i will say the service at meals has been great for us. Just getting tired of the food and after the first two week segment its repetitive. So I’m not surprised they don’t focus on the food as it is apparent although we have had some good things. Just not consistent. I think at these price points food should be very good. Regarding the cruise. Today we were in Rabaul. There were three excursion offerings: 1. WW2 excursion - third party complimentary 2. Hike - paid not complimentary 3. Mask event in the afternoon - complimentary As we did not know in advance about the tours ( except thanks to this website did have a heads up), several months ago we had booked a private tour of the WW2 sites and we were glad we did. I also dint like to commit to something and nit do so didn’t cancel. We left early, set at our own pace, had a really good guide and saw a few extra things. The roads are in terrible shape after the end of the rainy season so everything takes longer to get around. But the people are extremely friendly ( may help that our guide Rose seemed to know everyone on the island) and very welcoming, The town of Rabaul itself was damaged completely with the eruption 30 years ago. So many of the people and businesses are now in Kopoko which is a good hour from Rabaul partly due to the road situation. So if you are planning to visit many if the sites are a good hour away so keep this in mind, One fun thing still in Rabaul is the “ New Guinea Club” where expats in the olden days gathered to have drinks. It’s still there in the town of Rabaul with lots of old photos of days passed, but just a museum now. The actual town of Rabaul is pretty deserted. Yes there is a market ( closed today as Sunday) and a few things but our guide said here is where the cinema used to be, etc, I could only imagine that this was the bustling town that is now pretty run down. There is an hotel, the club, and the Yamamoto bunker and of course near the port but it’s in sad shape. Everyone moved away including Rose with the big eruption and not many moved back. Rose did despite the fact she was 9 months pregnant with her youngest son when the eruption happened and had to live in a shelter for two years. Most of the ship did the free tour so there were numerous buses lined up to take 200+ people around the island. The hike only had about 8 people the remaining 200+ did the bus excursion. I must admit we did not attend the mask dance ceremony. We saw lots of masks with our guide and she gave us all the information about what the real ceremony means. I’m sure it was a great event but we were tired a decided to just relax on the ship once we got home from our tour. Tomorrow’s planned stop at Kavieng has been substituted and we have found the expedition team not really focused on the WW2 pieces of this part of the world. Instead we will visit Garove Island which is a volcanic caldera. There will be a cultural visit show and a walk around the village. Many of the guests we’ve met ( primarily USA, Britain, and Australian) are interested in WW2 in this region so there is a bit of a disconnect as this is not really the focus of the lectures or excursions. But nonetheless it has been interesting and just good to know if WW2 and history in general is of interest this is not the focal point. Nonetheless we are still enjoying the cruise!

Love it! Really enjoying your adventure! Sounds like you chose your excursion wisely. Spent a day in Banjul on another ship not long before the Covid mess and we did not choose that wisely. Did a taxi tour and although we weren’t out long worried we would miss the ship as there were demonstrations and tire burning in the streets - the President that had taken the outgoing President's place promised when he was elected he would not stay in forever like his predecessor. Well funny how that changes - after he was elected he changed his mind and that’s why everyone was burning tires. Anyway the good news was we were back in plenty of time as all the tours had the same problem and we actually beat most of them back due to the crazy driving of our local driver.