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Any new folks wanting to offload their carry ons till their room is ready I’m offering to store them in my cabin for $5 a bag. 🤡

Thank goodness!

We booked one of those double credits cruises over a month ago. Where you been Gerry?

Ok, actually I’ve been on here for the past ten days, but will be on for another 10. I don’t do regular reviews. My mind is not that structured. I do post random thoughts and happenings. According to what I heard there are 275 passengers continuing from the previous cruise. We started Dec 13 from Miami and are currently in Cartenga Colombia for turnaround day. We are going back to Miami on all different ports. Very odd arrangement for disembarking and embarking. You get on a shuttle bus with your carry on luggage and ride about a football field length to the immigration building to collect your luggage. Glad I’m not doing it. At any rate I invite anyone from the previous cruise or the current one to post thoughts. I know there’s a bunch of you. So far the service has been fabulous, the food has been very good with a lot of excellent dishes, and a couple of mehs. We have a new Executive Chef for this cruise and I’m hoping the high quality maintains. He is Kevin Symes. We also have a new cruise director. Her name is Amelia Welcher. She was an entertainer on Regent and this is her first CD gig. I have high hopes for her, but at least I can understand what she’s saying. That will be a big plus for me personally at trivia. Julie James just left and is supposedly retiring. Any questions feel free to ask. Also feel free to post here. PS. It’s hot here.

And just like that. POOF

Our card with each time and place was in our Sea pass holder when we checked in.

Ill have her watch for it.

Ok, don’t know that much about it. On Nautica my texts are working fine. I don’t use any VOIP apps but I’m curious if you did do the upgrade would it work for you? I do know I’ve seen people talking on their phones on sea days. Then again some people aren’t aware they’re going to have a huge bill when they get home. I figure if they don’t have enough sense to not be talking on speaker phone at dinner in GDR then they may not know about those apps.

On Nautica the Dover Sole is no longer in Toscana. Doesn’t bother me, but made my wife unhappy.

Is this with the paid package? Oh, wait, I see you said you had the basic. I really don’t think you have a legitimate complaint. They offer the paid upgrade package exactly for people like you with additional needs. Perhaps if you do the upgrade and then it doesn’t work for what you need then you have a complaint. If I worked for Oceania that is what I’d say.

If you will set this up in advance they’ll fall all over themselves taking care of your needs. If you wait and talk to the waiter you’ll be very disappointed. If you use a TA go through them.

With OLife the OBC option was the worst. It was a dollar for dollar trading refundable cash into non refundable. The only way it made sense was for those that wanted to have things prepaid.

I had Osso Bucco in Toscana on Nautica a couple of days ago and definitely have to take exception to those that don’t think Oceania has the best food at sea. If it was any better I couldn’t have eaten it. Fabulous

Hands down the best choice is Olife, which is not an option. Maybe someone else mentioned that.

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