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Denise, Thank you for this review. We are doing this sailing next week and were wondering if Charlottetown would be open. Now we know it is and we can continue to look forward to uor Double Decker bus excursion. Once you've sailed on NCL, you become quite a fan! It's our favorite line by far and we sail it often. I LOVE that petit filet mignon at Cagneys! If you go to La Cucina, their fillet is delicious, as well. Nice to know that Spinnakers plays music from the '80's. So glad you're enjoying your first cruise. Hope you are able to go on many more!

Thank you both very much for your help. I will probably do some laundry in the laundry room, too, which I don't mind. Want to keep the luggage to a reasonable amount. I bookmarked the Photo Review of the Marina and will look at it with my husband. Thank you for sending it.

Glad I found this thread and got some of my questions answered. Thanks Moosemarty for starting it. We're going on our first Oceania cruise in March - 20 days from Miami that hits many Caribbean islands we've never been to, as well as Charleston, SC, and Cape Canaveral. A great itinerary that isn't repeated as far as I can see on their website. We will be returning from a 9 day Panama Canal cruise on Feb. 13, so only 15 days to recover, repack, fly across the country, and get spoiled rotten again. Life is tough - lol. Because of the short turnaround time and this being our first time on Oceania, I'm anxious to understand the little details early. I know we get 3 bags of laundry done. Their website says "20 garments" in a load and I'm wondering if that is the specific number of garments you can send as a load or if it is an estimate of how much the laundry bag holds. 20 items isn't that many days worth of clothes for two people.

I got my information off of AmEx's site and I am probably reading too much into the word "gratuity". In my experience, Oceania is the only line I've cruised on that calls the daily fee a "gratuity"; NCL calls it a Daily Service Charge, Princess calls it something similar. Since no one has experienced a problem with this, I'm sure it's just me worrying about nothing.

We will be cruising for the time on Oceania in March and will have the $300 OBC from AmEx Platinum card. I read on another site that it cannot "be used for gratuities". Does that mean it cannot be applied to the $23 per person per day gratuity we are charged for our suite? Or does that refer to using it as a tip? Thanks, Cyndy

Thank you very much for your help. We've heard good things about Dora - always get the best advice on CC. We also thought the stop at the restaurant was a time waster for us, and we can't figure out why that tour is so much more expensive than all the others.

Hi, DH and I are going on a Panama Canal cruise in Feb. 2023 that stops in Cartagena, Columbia. We're researching the large variety of shore excursions that tour the walled city and are curious about one called "Exclusive Cartagena". It is $189, about 3x as much as the other tours, and we can't tell from the description why it is so much more expensive. Has anyone been on that tour and can you tell me a bit about it? Thank you, Cyndy