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Gilly

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  1. Good grief! No wonder you are exhausted, @ysolde. Ready for a holiday I guess?! Here's hoping that all will be plain sailing from now on. What a journey! See you tomorrow!
  2. Good Evening from Rio de Janeiro where our flight landed slightly ahead of schedule. The Regent rep Celeste was there to meet four of us and we were soon on our way to the JW Marriott hotel in Copacabana. @Zqueeze1 we flew LHR to MAD on a British Airways Airbus A321Neo which was not quite full up front, left slightly late but arrived on schedule. A short walk in the same terminal took us to the S gates in Madrid, requiring a further carry on scan on the way. Fortunately the lounge was en route to the gate, so we stopped for coffee as we went 😉 Our Iberia flight to Rio was on an Airbus A330-200 with a similar business class offering to the most recent British Airways arrangement. The best bit was that onboard wifi is included in business class, so I had a quick update from Arthur, our grandson 🥰 when we were somewhere over the Atlantic. In flight service on both flights was excellent. Arriving in Rio was fine except for an incredibly long walk from plane to passport control! I'm happy to answer any further questions you may have! Edited to add that Celeste said there are upwards of 200 Regent guests in the Marriott tomorrow night and three cruise ships in port during the next couple of days. Busy!
  3. Thank you all for the warm response!! We spent last night at the Sofitel at T5 LHR, checked our bags (labelled MAD GIG 🤣) and were up at 4am for our 0620 flight to Madrid. We transited a terminal that was just waking up (as were we) and have just boarded a full flight to Madrid. Hopefully my next report will be from GIG ! @cwn the travelling companions thank you for your good wishes and are looking forward to the trip 😉
  4. Wow, Sue, that's a wonderful way to begin your trip! I hope you will have photos to share? (Don't we all love a wedding? 🥰) Congratulations to the happy couple and we will look forward to seeing you on board!
  5. As a means of putting off the task of packing my bags, I thought I'd kick off the conversation here. Later this afternoon we'll head off to LHR where we're staying overnight before an early morning flight to Rio tomorrow, via Madrid. There follows a couple of nights in the JW Marriott in Copacabana, Rio before boarding Voyager on Tuesday morning. As usual, I'll aim to update my Elegant Sufficiency blog daily, internet and time permitting, and will drop in here now and again. I hope others will chip in their thoughts here, especially those doing the pre-cruise to Iguazu or in Rio itself. We've had a lively roll call, so I'm looking forward to meeting everyone on board (and finding a Trivia team 😉)
  6. We did the jumping crocs tour years ago and agree, @crusin7 we could have made a better choice, too. Not only was our boat really full, it was all a bit of a circus show - when they had names for the crocs which were lured to jump with dangling pork chops over the side, it gave the game away, for these were hardly "wild animals" at all. Never mind, we live and learn, don't we?!
  7. Certainly doesn't. I'm with your wife on this one and feel similarly horrified. Smacks of buying favours.
  8. @Pcardad's highlight of the crew fund is excellent, as is the reminder of other ways of acknowledging excellent, personal service such as mentions on feedback forms and in conversations wtih senior officers. The impact of heartfelt acknowledgement and appreciation in the form of a sincere "thank you" should not be underestimated, particularly to those members of staff quietly going about their work in far flung corners of the ship (cleaners, deck crew, security staff et al) whose hard work is easily overlooked. Every member of staff wears an id badge, which makes it relatively easy to address them by name too.
  9. An excellent choice which we would have taken up, had it not been for the fact that we'd been fairly recently and spent a lovely day with dear friends...
  10. Last Summer we were given the information during the first leg of our B2B. Since our changeover day was in Southampton, we decided to enjoy a day having the ship to ourselves and had a wonderfully peaceful couple of hours (though not as long as we thought!) The tour offered was to Winchester.
  11. Excellent response @GOARMY summing up one of the most delightful aspects of being on board a Regent ship and one we have enjoyed and appreciated with friends on several occasions. "Of course" 🥰
  12. @SWFLAOK we loved the Jim Thompson House- hope you do too. But yes, Ayutthaya would have been a stretch though it's odd that Regent are still offering it having cancelled your booking. All sounds a bit of a mess - maybe the responsibility of the Thai tour contractors?
  13. Indeed. We did a really interesting tour of hidden gems in the city, including Jim Thompson's beautiful home, from Laem Chabang some years ago (just checked - 2011!!) and thought it well worth the drive. But worth the extra charge as well? Open to discussion!!
  14. No, @flossie009 we've always docked at Laem Chabang and had the interminable bus ride into the city. I hope you'll be lucky this time!! <<Of course if I was a conspiracy theorist>> But you're not, are you? 😉
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