Portolan

Thanks. I actually knew most of that, but a bit too much preamble to my attempt at humor...

a bit...just sloppy reporting from a cruise-oriented web site.

a bit of crap reporting though since they reported Voyager as displacing 138,000 tons...unless she has gained a LOT of weight since we last were on her (42,000 tons actual).

However, the calories seem to show up the moment I step off the ship...

Where is "here"?

Concierge level suites and above

Croissant + Donut = Cronut (as in a pastry layered fried treat)

The point being that all suites on Regent enjoy access to all facilities and activities on the ship. There is no "executive level" only open to some. Very egalitarian.

Hambagahle: Yes Just take them off as soon as they arrive in your suite as the adhesive can gum up your handles if left on too long...same advice for any airline tags...remove as soon as you can.

You asked about the Coffee Connection hours: 6:30-11:00 AM with breakfast items and then open until 6:00 PM with light snack items. Coffee (including spiked concoctions) all day (6:30-6:00). On Explorer, Splendor and Grandeur, both inside and outside seating/tables. Inside only on the other ships.

No. Regent chose the 8 PM time a few years ago to level the playing field since a midnight opening was difficult for some to manage. 8PM works pretty well for all in the US (and not so well for Europe and Asia). We have also found most to be OK or better (not barely OK).

But, actually, now back up as I just booked our dinner reservations on Grandeur where we will have the opportunity to meet the posters above!

I stand corrected...the web site is now working less than an hour from when I posted. Also, if you were wondering about my math, this was for dinner reservation for a September cruise on Grandeur in the Northeast.

Dining Reservations opened tonight for our late July Alaska cruise. After logging nothing works. All personal date is blank, and no cruises listed. Given it's a weekend, I don't expect things to be fixed until next week. Not particularly concerned since we're flexible on dining. Now if it had been excursions...

Actually, for a class it should be Prestige, Prestiger, and Prestigest.

The best Regent phone app is to take a picture of each page of the daily bulletin and, if desired, the in-suite on-screen menus for the venues.

and, the "Prestige" is the first of 2 new ships. Maybe the next will be the "Opulence"?!?

Pcardad's post says the size will be 850 pax versus 750 for Explorer-class = 13% more while the displacement will be 77,000 GT versus 55,250 GT for Explorer-class = 40% bigger! Should equate to both larger suites and public areas especially with the mention of new dining option(s). Regardless, our favorite Regent ship has always been the one going to where we want to go.

Despite being described as the first Prestige-class ship, it very much resembles the Explorer-class ships. So, the changes may all be internal since as already noted, there doesn't appear to be an outside forward-facing area...pretty much the only thing we really don't like with the Explorer-class.

For several years now (as recently as January), we've received the tough plasticized paper tags which have a loop at one end through which the tag passes to secure it to the bag. Yesterday we received tags for our July cruise and they are the self-adhesive type where you peel off part of the back and join the ends. This is a minor change from our perspective...not good or bad. Haven't seen the pleather tags for several years (Platinum), but those were never the boarding tags, just baggage tags.

All the Regent ships have pool bars. But, as the OP lamented, they all face inward to the pool area and not outward. All but Mariner's are on the port side at the forward end of the pool deck. Mariner's is midship at the forward end of the pool deck.

None of the Regent ships have what describe. Mariner and Voyager have lounges at the back with chairs and loungers where the inside bar staff will serve if you make it clear where you are.

It does according to the deck plans in the same location as Explorer and Splendor. Perhaps the OP meant that there wasn't a sail-away deck party (which we've only encountered in bad weather). Also, the Pool Bar on the other ships close early, but always stayed open through the sail-away...unless it was an evening departure (>6:30 or so)? (In rereading the OP, I think they were referring to an outside stern bar).

I've seen that disclaimer fairly often, but not as the OP seems to state(?), as a blanket comment for all excursions at a port. In our experience it has been (for instance) when the excursion is a harbor cruise where Regent doesn't charter the whole boat and we are just a group on the cruise. Interested in what port this was since that might provide more insight.

More often than not, the Culinary Kitchen classes aren't posted until after the excursions open for booking. On many of our cruises, there isn't even a header for Culinary Kitchen...until there is. Someone may have evidence to the contrary, but we've never been on, nor heard of, a cruise on an Explorer-class ship where there weren't Culinary Kitchen classes offered. Just keep checking.