zalusky

Here is what I am talking about. The first is the website display of my pre-purchased tours. The second is a display from the PDF sent to my TA from Oceania. You can see the first one is just weird. It does not show the 25% discount and only one with some sort discount. Nothing really matches up. It does not show what I got for free with the Olife excursion. I got the first one online by going to manage my booking and then clicking view purchases. The second explains everything. Now if there is a way to display the second screen under manage my booking please tell me how to do it

Exactly. We had a cruise booked and in our case the minimum to get the discount was 8 tours with 4 under $200 being free. The cruise line then cancelled one of the >$200 tours and suddenly we were under 8 and everything got out of whack. We found a cheap tour at a port we had not booked and then everything reshuffled. As mentioned the prepurchased PDF explains what is 100% covered, what gets the 25% discount. I actually made a spreadsheet for our cruise with all the days and all the tours and tried to see if I could program the shuffle game and I failed at it. The worst part about it is that the online listings don't show this nor do they show your credits that hit when you make the 25% cut. Example you book some initial tours some paid and some not paid. You pay full price. Then another day you book some more and pay some more. Finally you hit the threshold - 8 in my case. Suddenly all the paid tours are 25% cheaper and you effectively have a credit but it is not explicitly spelled out. It feels like a shell game. There software gets it right but its very confusing.

Those get marked with a 100% reduction. The thing is it can vary which ones they are. On our longer cruise we have to take 8 excursions to get the deal and 4 are free. The decision as to which are free is the 4 top valued items under $200. If for example you add another excursion that is $199 it may replace a lower price free excursion and be part of the free 4. The replaced excursion goes from free to its original value and then gets the 25% reduction applied. It’s crazy math and you can wind up with credit that does not show up in the online tools.

You should get the 25% reduction on all tours once you make the count.

My experience on this. First I had to get them to mark my booking with a YWC. It did not seem to automatically give me the discount. Second when I looked at my purchased cruise detail is a bunch of gibberish when it comes to excursion pricing. Their computer figures it out properly but they don't show it properly online. My TA did get an itemized list and it did show full price, discounted price, and payments properly but the online was off. There is a lot of weird stuff that goes on with this kind of promotion. It kind of works like this: 1) First look at all the excursions $199 and take the highest 3/4/what ever free amount you have. 2) Second look at the remainder and lower them by 25% So if you subsequently purchase a new excursion the rankings can change because its possible the new excursion will fit into the free ranking but more expensive than one of the ones in the free count. This will then push that down into the paid category. Once its in the pay for category its price is adjusted 25% and changes completely your whole bill. It would be nice for the online system to show this all in a spreadsheet as you try out different scenarios before committing. So far Oceania's IT seems to be the worse part of my experience.

We are going on a cruise thats starts in Bali. I paid for the return flight from Sydney using points. My TA and I searched around and could not find a good deal for the SFO to Bali flight. Oceania price was a better deal.

Maybe they decided they had to allocate more rooms to quarantine possibilities.

Do Oceania ships offer decaf coffee? I don’t see it listed on the Barista menu.

We have cruised RCI, NCL, Princess, and Celebrity. Coming up Oceania and Viking. We did a Celebrity cruise to Australia and New Zealand. I agree with the above comments and I have also seen a lot of changes on Celebrity over the last 15 years comparable to the industry. Our first Celebrity cruises in 2004 and 2005 had a more upscale vibe to them. People wore tuxes on formal night. The specialty restaurant had pancake sized Foie Gras on top of my steak. They revealed everybody's plate simultaneously. Midnight buffets galore. Now its more about nickel and dimes with upsell options be it the food or even the excursions. There is the regular excursion or the small van version of the same excursion. Oceania is really good at unusual itineraries. Celebrity goes with conventional itineraries similar to the mass market lines.

Are you equating gun control with no guns?

Agreed I almost never wear tucked shirts anymore. I even wear untucked shirts with suit jackets.

Thanks for this and your upcoming pictures. We had to cancel our London to Bergen trip this summer because we tested positive shortly before sailing. We will reschedule at some point.

So it's about the rules then which makes little sense since Oceania apparently doesn't care. Times are changing and people don't dress up like they used to. They just don't and all this is like pushing a rock up a hill or trying to hold a wave back. All it's going to do is make you unhappy worrying about it. And as I said we don't know the reasons behind some of the downscale dress reasons.

Why can't you just relax and enjoy your vacation. Now if these people are making loud noises and spitting and harassing you I can understand but who knows maybe they were rushed back from an excursion. Maybe there luggage got lost in flight. Maybe it just does not matter.

In general it’s always a good idea to login to your Amex account and look at available offers and get them added to you card. Sorry it’s not available for our northerly neighbors. I got a triple whammy for our upcoming sailing with this offer, followed by shareholder credit, followed by some TA credit, followed by credit card points.

We paid our gratuities up front now because Amex has an offer if you spend $800 on Oceania they will give you a $250 instant rebate. I had to use the offer well before our sailing date!

If these people can relax about - we can relax. Live and let live. Michelin Restaurants that don't really have a dress code: https://www.gojourny.com/stories/michelin-starred-restaurants-that-don-t-really-have-a-dress-code/

A lot of fancy restaurants around here such as the old school House of Prime Rib show lot of people wearing jeans. There are a lot of nice looking jeans.

How about shoes? During the day we probably wear a lot of tennis shoes. Do people pack multiple pairs of shoes?

I wonder if they will target them for certain itineraries based on what ever feature changes they might have.

Will they still be twins or will there be something new in layout?

Lots of FTF cards: Chase Sapphire, Chase Amazon, Costco Citi. I will probably use the Costco Citi since I will get 3% cash back in February.

The trade transaction appeared under statements this morning. I generated an email and got the credit showing up on my booking in less than an hour. Nice! Thanks everybody.

American Express had an offer this period that if you spend $800 on Oceania they will give you $250 credit. You have to do it by Sep 26. So I had our TA prepay our Gratuities

I use Schwab as well. So when you say you print are you printing a monthly/quarterly statement or are you bringing up the current position list on the account and clicking the print link on the upper right near the "Refresh Help Export" links? I don't have a quarterly statement yet with the stock as I just bought it today.