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Woo hoo! Congrats! I got a message from my Primary Care doc on Sunday night saying she could complete it and asked if I wanted to pick it up this week! Will feel better once I get the doc in hand. Fiancées doc hasn’t replied yet but like you, with the same medical group. Kept the 8/9 appointments with the dive doctor just in case.

Thanks everyone! Will get a sense of how full the ship is and if we hear of tickets, will get one or just head down. @TheDarkestBlue August 26! So excited! how you described the large cruise ship mess is our prior experience with the exception of Windstar which was pretty smooth. But small tenders.

This is perfect, thank you! We will only be there one night but have a decent amount of time and no plans before embarkation so figured I’d head to the mall and check out what they had. Def want to grab a snack and really want those Hinano glasses so thanks for the tip on those! My thought is the same as yours; I don’t really dedicate much time for shopping during trips unless we just happen to be somewhere with thighs to buy. But I do want a pareo and fiancee wants a men’s shirt of some sort.

Hello, Reading back on a post from Oct 2022, there was mention of getting tender tickets from the piano bar. Is that still necessary, as of recent experience, if we don’t have a ship tour booked? Or just go down and line up early? Didn’t see anything in the dailies posted by the darkest blue from June but did notice that a scheduled tender was earmarked for booked ship tours. We’d like to be aboard the first or second of the day. Thanks!

Hi! Did you end up going to the shopping center near the Papeete (Tahiti) Hilton for a pareo? We will be there pre-cruise and was just thinking about best places for pareo and souvenirs. Thanks!

I saw this posted on the Daily Activities thread from a recent PG cruise. Looks like shorts are permitted during Polynesian night.

We’ve got a tour booked on Huahine with Marc’s and will just be diving in Bora Bora and Moorea (7-night itin). If something changes and we do dive on Huahine, will definitely report back. I was going to post on this thread during the cruise on dive stuff anyway 🙂

Ahhh ok…I couldn’t recall and for some reason I was thinking Baja. We just got back from PV and had some great dives at Los Arcos and Majahuitas. I’d bet you’d have good chances finding a doc in PV!

@Leejnd4 seriously thank you! Not great news but to your point, had we shown up without the new forms and doctors sign off, we would have been devastated. I had the old forms all ready to go! Thank you to @sjkoen for tipping us off to look into this further. Fingers are crossed that you can find someone local to sign it for you! Worst case, not sure how far down you are in MX but worst case, you can get it signed off in San Diego for sure.

woo hoo! We sent the forms over to our PCP via message and will see what they say. Much closer to home as UCSD is about an hour+ away but keeping those 8/9 appts as backups. are they going to sign, scan and send back or you'd pick up the original from their office? Just wondering.

@sjkoen May I ask, did you check the boxes yourself or have the MD do it during your appt? I was able to schedule an appt for 8/9 with the UC San Diego Dive Medicine office. No idea what it will cost but all relative since we leave in 4-weeks haha

Thank you for that link! Looks like there is a Hyperbaric medical center at UC San Diego although our insurance will likely not cover it. I’ll give them a call

Wow, ok! @Leejnd4 Thank you so much for taking the time to do this! Not great news and as @ltdemptynest noted, our dive forms were different as well. ok well off to search for an MD that can sign off. Not sure our primacy care physician can sign off but I’ll start there. We sail on 8/26 so I need to get working on this!

In addition to Boston, Pride also calls on San Juan and the USVI during the Caribbean season. The Star Breeze calls on Alaska (at least for now) so I’d assume they’re in scope too.

Any idea if they are doing Anau on the 7-night? We will be in Bora Bora overnight. Thank you!

All of my dives are logged on my Shearwater Peregrine dive computer that upload to an app on my phone. We dove last week in Puerto Vallarta and the BVI in June so we’ve got very recent dives. Our cruise is Aug 26. Anyone presented their logs digitally on an app? I think I can print them too but I don’t have a physical log-book.

This was my understanding too…just like the PADI disclosures, if you answer yes to certain questions (like lung issues or heart condition), then you must get clearance. Otherwise, no MD sign-off is needed.

I was wondering the same. Got an email with our “tickets” last week but nothing yet on the mail.

Here is the info on drink packages, all in and internet options https://www.windstarcruises.com/BlankSite/media/pdf/gift-order-form.pdf

If you have your heart set on a particular day and time, book it right when you arrive. They usually have a table set up at check in. We’ve been able to squeeze in without a reservation at times but we called the restaurant or saw the reception desk first to see if they could get us in.

A post on another page yesterday, Windstar tried to rebook them on another airline and wasn’t able to. Their cruise was leaving today (flight would have arrived yesterday). They just ended up rebooking for January. Looks like it started July 4 and currently ATN has flights cancelled through tomorrow at this time. https://crisis24.garda.com/alerts/2023/07/french-polynesia-indefinite-work-stoppage-by-unionized-air-tahiti-nui-cabin-crew-disrupting-flights-as-of-july-10-update-1

@Mercruiser We are getting closer to our trip in August on the PG and made myself a note to revisit this wonderful thread. Question about the Avis rental car. Is there a fuel station nearby the ferry dock to fill up before returning the car? Did you have manual or automatic transmisson? Thanks!

@TheDarkestBlue Mystery solved! Thanks so much for sharing your experience and now I can stop with the hunt on my booking page 🙂 When you call, will they also provide the time (of day) for the excursion? Besides our dive trips, which we will book onboard, we really just wanted the sunset sail (bora bora) before dinner but wasn’t sure what time it happens.

We are now 60-days out (woo hoo!) to our August 26 sailing! Before I call my TA, is there a trick to finding a way to book excursions online? Logged into the account on the PG site, seeing our booking is 100% complete (paid for, personal info on file, etc) but no indicator/button for excursions. Went to Trip Details, not seeing anything there either. I see "Packages and Additional Services" but it says "To book additional arrangements or make changes to your booking, please contact the reservations team" Any tips? Thank you!