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Just wanted to follow up with the following email from our TA. You have a mini-fridge in your stateroom where you can keep the shot. They have been advised you are bringing the shot and needle onboard. There should be a sharps disposal in the bathroom As we are planning to pick up her shot at a drug store in a Miami when we arrive the day before and store it refrigerated overnight and just bring it to the ship in a ziploc with some ice, I think this will take care of everything. I will report back after the cruise to let everyone know. Thanks again.

My wife takes a monthly migraine shot and the date will be during our cruise. We are coming into Miami a day early so trying to arrange a local CVS pickup so we don't have to fly with her shot. This shot needs to be refrigerated until about an hour before she takes it. At home it is no big deal, 1 minute one morning a month and done. it is not a major issue when she takes it that day. Wondering if anyone else has done this and the protocol. We plan to check in with our TA this week but hoping to hear from anyone who has done this. Assume we need to let Oceania know. Will they take the shot upon boarding and store it for us then dispose of the needle afterwards? Thanks for any guidance.

I just wanted to throw Out our experience. We have never taken a cruise before and never used a TA before either. We wanted to take a relaxing cruise and we wanted a smaller ship, great food and a luxury ish experience without being able to afford the "luxury" lines. After much research here and on the web in general, we decided to find a TA. Maybe we are fortunate to live in the Dallas area but it was pretty obvious pretty quickly which ones in our area specialized in luxury cruising. We believe we have found one of the "preferred" TA's. We booked well in advance after a nice half hour in person meeting with our TA. It is clear to us that we are not in the main demographic she works with. Combination of a little younger (I am early 50's and my wife a little younger) and probably a lot less financially well off but we wanted to splurge after we became empty nesters and hope to continue at this level in the future if only a cruise every other year. We were fortunate to book a B3 extended balcony for our cruise in January and our TA is giving us free gratuities and a check for 5% back before the cruise. We chose cruise only and made our own flights and are fortunate to have friends in the Miami area for pre and post cruise stays and transportation. I hope to post a full report including all costs afterwards but we figure our costs for a 10 day cruise should be in the $6,000 to $7,000 range max. We are not big drinkers and plan to keep our bar bill below $200 including happy hours, captains party and bringing some liquor for consumption in our room. We are not planning on any excursions and as we are in the Caribbean just walking off the ship I to town at most ports. We plan to eat most, if not all our meals on board. So, for us, we believe the this is more than we would spend on a higher mainline cruise line but we think not absurdly so after all the extras you have to pay for. We believe Oceania fits this niche very nicely and will report back. We also believe our TA was not that hard to find and even if they do nothing else (hopefully we will have no hiccups) was worth using. I hope this helps some of you.

No idea who they will be but my wife and I will be that cruise. Our first cruise ever and hoping we get to say hello.

Well, that one sold out. I signed us up for the modern Mediterranean instead. Looking forward to it

Good morning everyone. We have now made final payment and are starting to get very excited about our first cruise. Question: I am thinking of signing us up for the Culinary class Florida meets the Carribean. Has anyone done this? There are only a few classes left and this is the only one on a sea day. Love to hear some thoughts on this or other available classes for our cruise. (the only other available options are modern Mediterranean the day we are in St Vincent's (Ship leaving at 7.) and Most requested St Ginger the day we are in St. Barts.(Ship leaving at 6)). At the moment we have no shore excursions planned and basically plan to just walk in and tour each island I think that maybe the Civic changes to these classes may be gone by January? Also it looks like I can add this to our cart, do I have the option to pay now or at the end of the cruise? Thank you.

Thank you.

I just confirmed this with CVS but figured I would double check. Original Pfizer Covid double shot April 10 and April 25, 2021; Covid booster October 2021. I plan on getting the newer Omicron booster in October. Caribbean cruise in January 2023. Just making sure I don't need to get the original Civic double shot again. Thanks.

No problem at all.

I am not doubting this is what you were told but I was not aware that seabourne gave an entire ship a full refund and a free cruise for an itinerary change. I cannot find anything in these forums or on Google and I would think people would have at least mentioned it here. That would seem to be unprecedented. Can anyone else confirm this?