Kwaj girl

31 minutes ago, RELS said:

Yes, but this tells you what the requirements are today, not when they’ll change and what they’ll change to.

True!  Thus the need to regularly review requirements....the same as one regularly reviews future airline reservations for any changes that may have occurred since last check.

And that "10 bucks a day" does not give you any faster speeds - it only allows you to stream.  Don't waste your money. 

You can also view travel and visa requirements for any country at travel.state.gov

10 minutes ago, carMOM said:

Interesting that they are not showing the second half of the cruise on the revised itinerary!  

Probably due to uncertainty with regards to Egypt today.  A very fluid situation.

13 hours ago, bebop bonnie said:

Ahhh, that’s it… I call it the 601 pole!!

And you can practice Pole Dancing in private! 🤣

4 minutes ago, Golf Mad Girl said:

WOW such great places...happy to visit again?????????????????

27 minutes ago, Golf Mad Girl said:

We are also on the Nov 10th Istanbul to Dubai cruise.  Wish they would give some indication as to what we can expect??? Maybe more of the med? Just dont want a lot of sea days please!!!

Regent, like all other cruise lines in the same predicament,  needs to work each voyage in the order of departure.  So it may be just a little while longer to wait...

Patience is a virtue?  🙏

29 minutes ago, CrushIt said:

You seem to have a good handle on what their challenges are. I’ve never advocated that Regent should cancel the entire trip and give everyone their money back. However, what I’m reading is that a very high percentage of the passengers made this cruise reservation for the express reason that it included Israel and Egypt. Some, like us, were also excited about doing the Pompey tours, as well. Plus, we had arranged for a very cool boutique hotel for three nights in Rome. The problem, from the start, has been the reluctance of RSS to do anything at all to compensate us for the loss of Israel and Egypt. We had a three-way phone call between us, our TA and Regent. We were made to feel like they didn’t really care about us at all. The attitude was: We have your money. We will do anything we want to do with the itinerary. There will be no refunds or credits. And, Oh BTW, we are going to charge your CC another $2k+ if you cancel. So, sucks to be you and have a nice day.

Where is this "$2k+" coming from?  You've already received your invoice showing 'paid in full' when you made your final payment.

8 minutes ago, PaisleyMello said:

Stoopid question:

What if I go to a bar, and my husband stays in the suite… Is only one of us getting “free” WiFi - and if he logs in first, I will still have to wait (to log in)?

TIA, mm

That is correct.

27 minutes ago, labonnevie said:

In 2018, we were on Navigator, Perth to Singapore (part of the WC). After skipping a port in Australia, we ran aground leaving Bali. Had to eventually return to port, stuck there for 36 hours, couldn’t get off the ship. As a result we missed Borobudur and were late to another port, canceling most excursions there.
We were not happy. 
What did Regent do? They gave everyone a fcc for 25% of the fare we had paid. We were happy customers. 

We were on the full World Cruise 2018 and hadn't problem getting off the ship during those extra hours.  Gave me the chance to get another one of those famous $10 foot massages in the terminal. 😉

Just now, mrlevin said:

No, and I'm not on it; I am Grandeur at that time.

Oh.  The itinerary you noted looked like Navigator 

1 hour ago, mrlevin said:

So, big changes to the 10 Nov Istanbul to Dubai itinerary.  Probably three more Med stops before going through the canal.  I hope they keep Luxor as they have maintained that stop even when Egypt was having their own internal problems.  

Have you received confirmation of specific itinerary changes for that Navigator voyage?

Using my android phone....I just clicked on "add files", chose one from the "photos" and clicked on it.  Let's see if this works.

3 minutes ago, fudge said:

I dont want to sound ungrateful and thanks to the Captain for announcing it however, I have seen better lights on my Christmas tree at home.

THAT'S the photo I wanted to get!

1 minute ago, rcandkc said:

That would be so exciting!  How did you not be fast asleep?

Oh, a little bird woke us up 😉

Around 415am we were able to clearly view the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) aft/starboard side. What a sight!  Alas, this Android did not cooperate to get photos, so I will just have to keep them in my memories.

22 minutes ago, cruisinchrissy said:

Quite right. I’ve picked up Covid on two different cruises now. It’s out there everywhere.

I did, too.  Could have been onboard...or while on an excursion or in port somewhere ...or on the flight.   Pretty much impossible to know when or where.

3 minutes ago, TheShag said:

A quick question on the afternoon canapes...What are the selctions [if any] available for the canapes? Thanks!

They change every day.  Always available are nuts and crisps.  Different daily items include mini quiches, mini gazpacho,  crab salad in mini pastry cups, mini spring rolls,  little meatballs.  All served by waitstaff  on a tray in individual tasting dishes - a bite or two, just perfectly sized.

14 minutes ago, Pcardad said:

Did you mean to quote Boatie?

Probably....🙄

1 hour ago, Pcardad said:

Cruise line staff are "discouraged" from discussing it...on all cruise lines that I am aware of.

What's there to be "up front" about it? Somehow I don't think that a daily report would be of much value......

On 9/21/2023 at 7:44 AM, pappy1022 said:

I will send a detailed review of my time on Splendor as soon as I get home next week from our British Isle cruise. Overall the trip has been very good. The captain just informed us of several people having respiratory illness on board. We all know what that is. 

NOT necessarily.   RSV is out there, too. There is a recently-approved vaccine for this one.  Just another virus.

Hi, Fudge!  We joined the ship in Seward last Wednesday.   Rainy, windy, typical Alaska weather.  Today is beautiful here in Vancouver.   We had a later arrival than usual this morning due to previous sea/wind conditions but all seems back on schedule now.  I promise not to drink all the 🥂 before you board.  🤣

Also.....keep in mind that the "complimentary" wines can vary from time to time based on supplier availability. 

4 hours ago, wineoclock said:

Looking to book Regent next year. If I’ve already paid for inclusive shore excursions (it’s in the fare) I would hope to get them so good to know about waitlists and turning up to the theatre however stressful that sounds! 

Why would this be "stressful?"  Simply walk in and ask if there are no-shows or last-minute cancellations for a tour you'd like to join.  Easy-peasy.

We are on Delta as we speak....enroute to Anchorage to join Explorer tomorrow.  One thing for sure...in our experience....Delta will get us there!  Have been $crewed too many times by that other airline beginning with U....

As a side note....today I reached MILLION MILER status with Delta.  Surprise public recognition at the gate in ATL.  I'd post the photo if I knew how!

11 minutes ago, SWFLAOK said:

PapaFlamingo,  almost all of what you've assumed is incorrect. We have a cruise TA that we have worked with for many years, and trust our agent completely. We never have "bothered" the Regent air employees ourselves. We have taken Regent air on every Regent cruise that we have take, and have deviated on air for all of them. We don't like to wait for our air reservations since it makes getting to the airport and back more complicated. Once we wanted to add a week to visit family who lived where our cruise ended, and had to pay a deviation to stay an extra week before flying home. That flight, of course, was cancelled due to a flight attendant feeling ill on the inbound flight, and no one being available until early the next morning. We were able to stay with family, but we were charged for upgraded seats a second time for our 2 flights home, and Regent wasn't responsible for them since we added the seat upgrade ourselves. Neither airline (one of them Delta, the other American) that we were on to get home, claimed any responsibility for us having to pay twice for our upgraded seats.

As I already said, we had to pay a non-refundable 75 dollar fee, each, back in July for Regent air to consider our deviation request, and we were charged at that time on my credit card. A few days after being charged Regent air told us that deviations for our cruise for flights that we needed for our pre-cruise excursion at the end of March would not be available until sometime in September, and that happened very recently.

When our TA contacted Regent air, they were able to book flights for us, at the additional cost of the deviation, plus an additional fee for not having 2 stops rather then one, with our departure and return from Miami. The airline was a contracted airline. It was not an airline we requested, and the return flight required us to pay Regent for a post hotel with transfers due to Regent restrictions on when we could disembark, and we will arrive home a day later than we expected.

I have always thought that you, PF, were a Regent TA, but now that I know you are retired airline (probably Delta), I know why much of the information you've given in the past seems suspect.

After our many travel experiences, with both cruises, and otherwise,  our only request to cruise lines when we fly is that we never fly on Delta, and that we never fly through Atlanta. We don't live in Georgia, and have never had a good experience flying to it, or from it, and the problems have always been on Delta. We used to live in upstate NY, and had several problems with Delta way back then, so it's a problem that started way before we started taking cruises, but continued after that. And the Delta business class lounge in Atlanta is the worst lounge we've ever experienced anywhere that we've traveled. After they bumped us from our business class flight because their feeder flight that we were on was late (too many bags brought to the gate and gate-checked, I watched from my window onboard for over 20 minutes to load them) they gave us a hard time getting into the lounge since we were downgraded to delta one. We showed them our business class tickets from our scheduled flight, and after a phone call they let us in. We were sorry we asked. It was filled with screaming kids, with few seats available, and long lines for food. Definitely not where I wanted to sit through our 4 hour delay for the next flight.

 

"Downgraded to Delta one?" HUH?