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Typically the attendant cleans the bathroom, while the host takes care of the rest as well as being the primary customer facing one in terms of speaking with the guests and training the attendant, who is usually more junior than the host. They are a team and support each other, working equally as hard. I've also seen the host cleaning the toilet at times (e.g. when the attendant is off duty due to illness).

Flight Ease has fewer options. They only have contracted rates with selected airlines and on specific routes, and more often than not their rates are higher. I have only found good options through them 20% of the time at most.

in Post #10, she said that she had booked the extra night's hotel stay on her own, not through Seabourn.

Every guest should get an email survey a day or two after disembarkation. You may want to call Guest Services again if it has been more than 3 or 4 days.

How much is a pair of custom shoe pads that the fitness instructor tries to sell at the end of the complimentary footprint analysis? And are they durable & effective (in reducing foot pain)?

I've mentioned this before, but for me, cruising makes perfect sense for coastal expedition voyages such as Antarctica, Arctic, Galapagos, and other island-hopping destinations. For other travel involving more in-depth exploration and adventure, it goes without saying that land-based travel is more suitable. After all, how much can one see and experience in a day or a half day at a port, rushing around from one place to another and rushing back in time before the ship leaves? The worst is when people get off the ship for an overnight (or multi-day) overland journey and then rejoin the ship. Talk about trying to fit a square peg in a round hole! After all, most of the world's treasures, monuments and attractions are inland and not quickly or easily accessible from the coasts. So for me, cruising is mostly a lifestyle and is mainly about relaxing, enjoying life at sea, and socializing with other guests and crew. I don't bother running around doing and seeing everything at a port - I reserve that on land trips.

That is what I had thought. On some other cruise lines, expedition voyages also include shore excursions that are land-based, i.e. not by zodiac. (An example includes an Iceland circumnavigation voyage that I did on Silversea.)

Has anyone booked an extra night on their own at a different hotel and still got a free Seabourn transfer from EZE to that hotel?

Did you mean that, on the Venture or Pursuit, even though all zodiac excursions are included everywhere (including Stanley/Falklands), there are other land-based excursions which are available and not included?

If you need special ingredients to be brought onto the ship, you need to email guest services ahead of time, ideally 2-3 months prior to sailing. Otherwise, when you board, just talk to the assistant maitre d' who is in charge of looking after guests with special dietary requirements.

On the O-class ships, there are 1 or 2 public printers, on one or both sides in the middle of the PC stations. You just select the print driver to print to and collect the printouts yourself. On the E-class ships, the public printer is inside the little circular office behind the guest services desks. You select the print driver to print to and ask the staff to fetch it for you. Not sure what the setup is on the 2 expedition ships (but I'll find out soon).

Did you book the extra hotel night on your own or through Seabourn?

For itineraries starting in Buenos Aires, one night hotel (plus airport to hotel transfer) is included prior to the charter flight to Ushuaia on the next morning. Are you saying that you arrived on the day of the inclusive hotel, in which case, yes, the transfer from EZE to hotel was supposed to be included? Or did you arrive an extra day earlier (so that you had to arrange for that extra night hotel stay), in which case did Seabourn still provide you with a transfer from EZE to your hotel (which may or may not be the inclusive hotel)? I'm thinking in that case you would have been on your own to get from EZE to your hotel.

Another vote for stugeron (generic: cinnarizine), which works well without side effects for me. Not available in the US. I buy them in Asia or Europe.

Seabourn terminated its contract with Tiffany last year.