Eddie-Annie

jctdlt, what a wonderful cruise this will be. I hope you have a wonderful time, and safe travels! I have decided the world cruise will be too much for me...but it's a great dream.

This are the world cruise Segments on the navigator , they are open for bookings now,

NAV170121D Los Angeles Miami

NAV170105D Miami Istanbul

NAV170105B Miami Singapore

NAV170121A Los Angeles Singapore

NAV170105A Miami Auckland

NAV170403A Abu Dhabi Miami

NAV170316A Singapore Istanbul

E&A

YEA We love these guys and follow them around. So glad to know they will be on when we are on. Particularly enjoy Blue Suede Shoes. By the way, who is the CD during this time please if anyone knows?

This trio has been on the mariner for many years , I guess we first meet them in 2007 on the South America cruise and later on that year at our Asia cruise, we really love these guys , they are doing better and better every time ,due to long cruises , we actually became very friendly with them .

It’s always nice to see them again year after year on that ship ( yes we love the Mariner) but when we boarded on the Mariner last year November in Miami , no rhythm trio to see and there was no replacement foreseen , so we were very disappointed .

At the end of the cruise and disembarking at L.A. there was a long line of new staff waiting to go on to the ship and a certain moment one of them was yelling our names , we could not see at first where it came from but one of the band members came forward to greet us , we had bit of a chat and told us that they have been on holiday back home in the Philippines and now started a new 10 month contract , told us also the one member had left the trio and was replaced by a new member , we had only a few minutes to talk and have more than happy that we could say hello .

E&A

The question is , which person is wrong , the smoker or the non smoker , what was first , the chicken or the egg?

On Regent you only sniff smoke when passing the casino or the connoisseur club, that' s correct and that's it while on the Seabourn ships you get a smoke smell almost everywhere in public areas even in to our cabin, I guess it came through the ventilation system .

In some lounges , the joke is that one can smoke " only " on the right side of the lounge but the aircon or "open door" wind blows the smoke towards the non smoking passengers area on the left side , which person feels offended and will leave the lounge , the smoker ? no way maybe the reason that more people drop Seabourn and get replaced by heavy smokers.

When sailing 2.5 weeks on the H.L. Hanseatic in Antarctica -only the smokers have been occupying the observation lounge all the time ,doors have been closed due to the cold weather , result , no way for the non smokers to have a drink without catching the thick second hands smoke , beside the fact that both are fine luxury cruise lines , we decide that we will never go back on these ships as long as they don't change the smoking policy.

Eddie