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We sail the Nova next summer, June 20th Vancouver to Seward. Our first post Covid cruise and we are more than ready for it. If anyone has insights into the Rocky Mountaineer Train from Calgary to Vancouver, would love to hear from you. We are in the early stages of looking at pre and post cruise adventures. Also Share any must pack items unique to cruising to Alaska....our first trip there.

Appreciate your thoughts on Culinary situation on SS. We have only done one SS cruise and the food was very good but certainly not up to the standards of the fine cuisine you were expecting. Not sure why you were expecting it, as we were not. We did expect very good food but that was it. Certain dishes at La Dame we’re a cut above. We are not sailing at this time due to uncertainty regarding Covid restrictions on board, but for the price of a cruise we rented a gorgeous villa outside of Cortona in Tuscany with a full time chef for 20 people for a full week and Francesco’s farm to table meals would put a Michelin star to shame. Cruising at this time is not the place if you are looking for a foody experience IMHO.

As an aside, if you purchased self test/monitored test kits, as I did.....here in US most insurances will reimburse you for them. We bought a boatload of them, so that is good news.

This will be a really big help to all the Travel Agents who work so hard to make our trips easier. They were suffering terribly. Their lobby group and the lobby group of the airlines worked hard to make this happen. We are more than overjoyed as we have a family of 15 headed to Tuscany for a few weeks in two weeks. The thought of all that pre entry testing was very worrisome. Thank the Lord & pass the meatballs!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-drop-covid-testing-incoming-travelers-2022-06-10/