mumcat

We will be disembarking our cruise in Miami and will be flying home to France the same day. I presume that there will be immigration formalities onboard before we are allowed to leave the ship? Does anyone know how long this should take? I don't want to miss an early afternoon flflight nor do I want to spend hours at the airport waiting for a late night flight. 

4 hours ago, dodgerdoug said:

Hi MUMCAT, We are on the Explorer cruise leaving Miami 12-20 for 14 days as well. Our last vacation was spent in your lovely country. Some Americans still value its beauty and culture. Hope to see you on board so you can listen to our fracturesd French. We plan on renting a chateau in Bordeaux in September of 2023 for a month. Hopefully things will be calm and you will be welcoming some Americans. BTW someone started a rollcall for our Holiday cruise. Not much activity as of yet. A bientot.

Ho Dodgerdoug, although we live in France, we are not French. I am English and my husband is Canadian. I have basic French but my husband doesn't speak it much at all so, there's not much chance of us speaking anything but English!  I'm looking forward to actually understanding what's going on around me for a change! I hope we get to meet you on board, we are in suite 807. I'm off to check out the roll call. Bon soir. 

What a performance! We live in France and after having 4 Regent cruises cancelled we were determined to book something!  So, as I wanted to be away over Christmas we booked the December 20 cruise out of Miami. I must admit that at the time, the ban on EU / Brits entering the States escaped me but I got more worried as time passed.  As the time to pay drew closer I chickened out and yesterday morning I cancelled the cruise - just a few hours later the ban was lifted.  I could have spit feathers! So, this afternoon I spoke to the long-suffering agent at Regent and rebooked it. Fingers crossed there are no more pit-falls. 

We are considering doing a part of the 2022 WC from Cape Town to Singapore and we have a hold on a suite.  However, I just now checked the requirements for an Indian visa and discovered that at the moment ,visitors to India are not allowed and they don't know when this will change. They said we can apply for a visa online now but they can't say how long it will be before India allows tourists again. I've asked to be informed when this changes but for now, we cannot book this cruise.😥

On 6/29/2021 at 9:18 PM, flossie009 said:

Had Regent offered a little more flexibility over the changes they made to our booking we might have been on the same cruise.

 

I hope that vaccine partiality will not become an issue when international travel starts to reopen.

We are in the same boat (or maybe not!) in that both of us are double jabbed - one of us with AZ and the other with PfB.

At least for boarding the ship we should be OK as one of Regent’s FAQs states: "Vaccines that have been authorized for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will be accepted"

On 6/29/2021 at 9:18 PM, flossie009 said:

Had Regent offered a little more flexibility over the changes they made to our booking we might have been on the same cruise.

 

I hope that vaccine partiality will not become an issue when international travel starts to reopen.

We are in the same boat (or maybe not!) in that both of us are double jabbed - one of us with AZ and the other with PfB.

At least for boarding the ship we should be OK as one of Regent’s FAQs states: "Vaccines that have been authorized for emergency use by the World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will be accepted"

We may be allowed on the ship but will we be allowed into the USA!

On 6/27/2021 at 5:02 PM, flossie009 said:

On May 26 two of our eagerly anticipated Regent cruises were cancelled 😕

 

First to go was Explorer next March in the Far East. Partially understandable given the itinerary but we were still surprised that Regent chose to cancel 10 months in advance of the sailing.

This week we were pleased to receive a refund of our deposit invested with Regent for two years; but of course that doesn’t compensate for the disappointment of losing the exceptional cruise itinerary and 3 day pre-cruise. 

Also this was one of two cancelled cruises on which we had the benefit of the “Return with Regent” promotion which included $1000 shipboard credit on each cruise. Those benefits have now been forfeited as they are non-transferable 🤨

 

Our second disappointment resulted from Regent’s decision to defer the re-start date for Mariner to December 18.  Unfortunately our 28 night booking straddled that date. 

The only offer made by Regent was to replace our 28 night Panama Canal Christmas cruise on Mariner with an 11 night pre-Christmas Caribbean cruise on Explorer. Although there was an equivalent B2B cruise on Explorer available (taking in Christmas & the Panama Canal), Regent would not offer that as a replacement.

Eventually Regent agreed that we could retain the second segment of our original booking - 18 nights on Mariner - so we are thankful to still have Christmas transiting the panama Canal, albeit on a shorter cruise. 

 

We still do not understand the rationale behind the decision to replace the Mariner cruises but are glad for those who benefited from the changes to similar cruises on Explorer.

 

We are now hoping that the USA will allow us Brits to enter the country in December and that NCLH will have settled the spat with Florida so that we are able to join our cruise in Miami 🤞 

We are also seeking a suitable replacement cruise for next March …………. but no joy thus far.

 

Let’s hope we are now at the end of the monthly round of cruise cancellations and that Regent will return to providing their excellent on-board experience as scheduled 😎

We are Brits living in France. We're booked on the Explorer cruise out of Miami on December 20. Like you I hope that we are allowed into the USA but today I have read that the States have not yet approved the AZ vaccine so may not accept travellers who have had it. That will  be bad news for me although my OH had the Pfizer vacc.

Thank you for your replies. We decided to take the Explorer cruise largely because I really want to be cruising over Christmas and New Year but we will be sailing on Navigator in November 2022 so after reading your comments, I will look forward to being on board.

We have an option on a 30 day Navigator cruise. I have read various reviews about Navigator from which I gather she is old and has fewer amenities - restaurants etc. We also have an alternative option on Explorer but for a much shorter cruise. I have sailed on Explorer and loved it and would want the same kind of luxury experience again although I realise she's newer and bigger. I would love to hear from people who have sailed on Navigator - what is the opinion - is the Regent experience the same despite lack of amenities?  After being cooped up for so long I need to get out and dress up!!

Like many others who have posted we have had 4 cruises with Regent cancelled. The 3 most recent were all on Explorer which is now being re-routed to the Caribbean via the Med. One cruise was to OZ /NZ over Christmas and New year so because we want to be away over that period we found another cruise in the Caribbean but it is wait listed as are all cruises until early 2022. So I called my usual agent at Regent to discuss what this means. He said that this cruise is in fact empty but they are not releasing bookings until June 2. I feel that those of us who have been cancelled should be given priority over the general public. Likewise, I pointed out that when we booked our cruises we had had the protection of Regent Reassurance including onboard credit, lower deposit etc . His response was that Regent did that because of Covid but it seems they no longer think that covid is an issue.  I think they are dreaming about that. Am I the only one who thinks that Regent could do more to recompense their loyal customers by giving them priority and some incentives to rebook?

28 minutes ago, toolworker said:

RSSC just cancelled our Asia cruise on Explorer in March 2022. The first cruise listed on their website for Explorer is May 14, 2022.

 

The cancellation email blamed COVID, but that can't be the reason for cancelling cruises a year off.

 

Anyone know what's going on?

They have just cancelled our April 6 2022 cruise on Explorer too . They have today also cancelled 2 other cruises on Explorer later this year. 

This afternoon we have had 3 out of 4 cruises cancelled by Regent.   The first was on Explorer to Japan in October, the second was on Explorer in December to Australia and New Zealand , the third is Explorer in April Singapore to Dubai. I am not  surprised about the first two being cancelled at this point but I did not expect the April cruise to be cancelled yet. Very disappointed .😪