silkismom

oooohhhhh Freddie--you made my day. What a sad lose.

Les, I feel your pain. You might try to rent a car for the drive--it's beautiful and you can stop along the way (we do drive on the other side of the road😉) I think our air situation is finally settled--unless it changes. We are now flying DEN-LAX on our own and catching a later JAL flt to Haneda, then Osaka. We will still have to transfer our bags from AA to JAL, but we have 4 hours to do it. It shows in MySilversea and Checkmytrip--so it should be accurate.😜

I doubt if SS has actually ticketed anything yet--I've heard its only 60 days prior to the flt. Our trip is in Apr.

BTW, my TA still hasn't heard from SS about canceling leg one from DEN-LAX, price wouldn't change, but if we didn't take that leg the whole thing would cancel--at least that's how it worked in the past.

Well, I guess I've learned a lesson. I sure won't book air with SS again. With all the cancellations, changes of ports etc the past several years, I just thought it would be best.

Well, no wonder I never heard of it.😉 Thanks for the explanation. The only time we fly is to a cruise or the Caribbean.

I'm sorry, pretty well traveled, but never heard about Concierge Key service until Stumble mentioned it. What is it?? DH will not get another credit card.

The saga continues--seems SS couldn't book the air with the Narita-Haneda by train connection. Then my TA was gone for several days. This morning she was working with someone at SS and there is now NOTHING available, must have had a run on JAL flts. For $1600 PP, on top of the $5000 PP we already paid for biz class, they could change us to the United one. NO WAY. So we decided to fly to LAX the day prior (I suggested this months ago), spend the night and take the original AA flt. Now TA is waiting for SS to get back that they changed 1st leg of outbound leaving from LAX instead of DEN. My hair is going to be white by the time this finally goes. Now my question, does anyone know of a decent hotel with shuttle service to/from LAX, I've heard some have stopped it. Are all cruise line air depts this crazy? We almost canceled today until I remembered that over 1/2 of the cost came from a SS canceled cruise in Mar 2020, which we wouldn't get back.

You have the same rank with Azamara, can't remember if you've done them or not. We prefer the smaller ships and the officers and crew are very friendly.

We are on the Silver Muse Apr 12 and haven't heard a thing.

Could I ask what ship and date? I thought Japan had done away with pre-cruise testing.

Well the latest--yesterday my TA said that now we have a longer connection in LAX, we get on JAL to Narita--but then Haneda to Osaka. I've found a train that connects to the monorail to Haneda. Of course we have to get our bags/ haul them onto/off train/ recheck and I assume security again. Why oh why can't they do something simple.

The lawn looks rather dried out, surprised they haven't put up the "sleeping" signs.

And can you reserve it?

LaCal, shuttles, like a bus? Where do you catch, within security or outside.

LAX question, do they have golf cart type transportation between terminals? We have a short connection in Apr.

Delta has an earlier one, then it would be changing airlines. I did mention to TA about flying day prior, of course then we have to recheck bags, security again as well as a hotel. I'm going to let her work it out, if she can't its "ba bye". Thanks for your suggestions, guess we can hope AA changes its flts before Apr

"I did hear back from Silversea and the requested United flight isn't available within their program. I'm now waiting to see if they'll change the current itinerary on 4/10 to allow more connection time. I'll stay in touch.' From my TA yesterday, I told her your comments which she passed on--didn't do much good.

Thanks Stumblefoot, no we don't have Concierge Key, we really haven't been flying enough, I do have 97,600 miles and they say I am Platinum. Silversea HAS to get you there, don't they???

I made a comment on the other SilverAir thread about our DEN-LAX-HND flt with only 59 minutes transferring from American Eagle to a 787 at LAX. My TA finally heard back and they said the nonstop DEN-NRT on UA wasn't available in their program. No way we 79 yr olds with bad bodies could make that change of terminal. I'm almost tempted to cancel the whole cruise which was originally booked in Jan 2020. Oh well, I'll probably have a heart attack from the stress and it won't be a factor. Anyone know if LAX has golf cart type transfers, can't imagine a wheelchair pusher could make it either.

Oh, I was so excited, I thought Bonnie was back---then I looked at the dates. bummer

Poor little kitty, heal fast.

We have a wonderful Vet Tech who comes over to do fluid infusions for our Sassi, every 3-4 days while we're gone, our kitty/house sitter couldn't do it w/o her. It takes both of us to do while home.

My cruise still shows the same as before the "improved" My Silversea, have to do some digging to find everything.

les, we're on Apr 12-26, Muse, Kobe to Osaka. Wish we could continue back to US, but can't be gone that long with 2 14 yr old kitties.