SusieQft

Having just booked my very first cruise on Silversea, I would like to thank everyone for their comments on this thread. I realize that dress codes tend to be "done to death," probably on all the forums. But some of us are new here and a current thread is much easier to find than digging through the archives.

Our boarding time in Vancouver wad originally 4, and changed to 2:20. We arrived at ~12, and there were no lines. We had numerous stations spaced out with lots of walking between. So it took a while, but no waiting.

I can't answer for Regent, but the Walgreens NAAT test just worked perfectly for us to board Seabourn Odyssey in Vancouver yesterday.

We boarded Odyssey yesterday, and I am posting this from the ship, at least if you see it I will have. We had booked a window cabin on Deck 4, and discovered at check-in they had moved us to a balcony cabin on Deck 5. That was a relief, even though I finally had to go on a scavenger hunt myself to find our luggage on Deck 4. Deck 4 is an isolation/quarantine area, complete with red warning signs, PPE, etc.

Sometimes if the internet connection goes out for technical but non-nefarious reasons, you will get the message "This website is not available." Perhaps there is a benign explanation.

We board tomorrow for the same. I would prefer to have low expectations and be pleasantly surprised than vice versa. This board has certainly adjusted my expectations downward. This will be our first time on Seabourn, so future bookings hang in the balance.

We rented a private mail box (PMB), and get almost all our mail there. Ours is PostNet, but we used to use a UPS Store before we moved to our current location. They hold all our mail until we get home. When we are gone for more than 30 days, we have our mail forwarded there from our house address. I think you can forward the mail for up to one year. This solution does have a cost, and is less convenient for routine mail when we are home, since we have to drive about a mile to the mail drop to pick it up. But it is next door to a convenient grocery store, so it is usually not a wasted trip. And besides the travel security, it also allows us to receive packages in a safe location away from the weather (usually heat in our case) and porch pirates. At our previous house there was no obvious place for the delivery person to leave packages, so sometimes it took us a while to notice we had received one. Once we found a package several months after it had been left under a bush. The PMB was our solution to that problem, and it also works well for extended travel. BTW, the USPS Informed Delivery is not available to PMB customers, but some mail receiving companies will provide a similar service, and also mail forwarding on a selective basis or just all of it.. The post office does everything they can to make things difficult for PMB users.

I find this thread disturbing because we are booked in Splendor 934 for 67 nights starting in Dec 2023. I just reviewed all the Splendor and Explorer reviews on Suite Guru, and there is a paucity of reviews in that part of either ship except for the recent one from 2012_Alaska_Bound for 932. If there is similar vibration in other areas as some have mentioned, then trying to second guess a cabin change in advance may not be that helpful. I am hoping that this is a maintenance issue on Splendor that Regent will resolve well within the next year and a half. Am I being too naive? Since Explorer has been sailing a lot longer and no one is complaining about a similar issue there, that would support the idea that it should not be a design flaw, and hopefully something they can fix. Certainly they have been made aware of it. If not, then Navigator is not the only Regent ship with a reputation for uncomfortable vibration issues. That would be a shame. We are also booked on Navigator in December 2022 (in a forward suite), so we will eventually be able to make our own direct observations and comparisons.