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1. Other than Solis, generally no reservations are required. Sometimes they'll do a specialty night at the Colonnade that requires reservations, but you do that once you're on the ship. 2. The selection of restaurants on Seabourn is more limited. Main dining room, Colonnade (buffet at breakfast and lunch, seated at dinner but more casual than the MDR), Earth & Ocean (poolside patio) and (on some ships) sushi. DH and I love Earth & Ocean but the menu is much more limited, and no reservations so sometimes there's a wait. 3. Other than formal night, there isn't really a strict dress code. Somewhat nicer at dinner in the MDR (no shorts, and only "elegant" jeans). You will be just fine in nice jeans and a button down. 4. All suites have a minibar with included water and soft drinks (tell your suite attendant what you like). 5. It used to be iffy, but now that the ships are tied into Starlink, I hear the WiFi is quite good. If you want the ability to use streaming services, you'll have to upgrade beyond the complimentary WiFi though. 6. Other than the expedition ships, no excursions are included on Seabourn. You will fall in love with Seabourn!

I think FlightEase might be able to parse the various airlines and connections issues easier than us doing it. I don't have any particular info re: a change in itinerary, but back in 2017 we had booked a Seabourn cruise specifically because we wanted to go to Istanbul and Ephesus, but Seabourn pulled out of Istanbul and deleted Ephesus as a stop. We ended up going with a completely different itinerary after that. Given the known instability in the region, it's not far-fetched to have it happen again. I'd rather have Seabourn and FlightEase deal with changing our flights if that occurs.

We have always booked our own flights, because when we did price comparisons FlightEase never seemed to be particularly competitive. But we have booked a cruise out of Dubrovnik in the fall of 2025, and looking at the difficulty of getting there from Houston, along with concerns about the possibility of this cruise changing departure point, has lead us to conclude using FlightEase makes more sense.

Not a Seabourn cruise, but we did a Dolphin Swim in either Costa Maya or Cozumel (can't remember) on a Royal Caribbean cruise last year. They also required you to leave phones and cameras behind and offered only to purchase the pics taken by the photographers. I thought it was money well spent because the quality of the pics was far better than what I could have taken down there in the water. Here are my favorites:

We are also booked on that crossing and we were able to book. Are you using the source app or thru the website? You could also see if your TA could assist.

We haven't done the cruise around GB, but we did spend a week in London last fall, and it was wonderful (although unusually warm for that time of year). It probably depends on what you like/want to see and do. For us, the museums, a theater show, shopping, plus a side trip to Chartwell (Churchill's home) were what we really enjoyed. I'm sure we'd enjoy ports of call around the UK as well, but it would be a totally different experience. Not sure if that helps.

They will re-stock when you finish a bottle.

Oh I adore Keller fried chicken! In the past I have asked them to save back a couple of pieces and then have chicken and waffles for breakfast the next morning!

As a proud Native Kansan, I think I'm glad I missed the post.

There is also a bar on the pool deck.

Wowza! I will have a very hard time deciding on what to choose!!

We have used LF twice, with absolutely no problems. And we could track the location of our bag throughout the process.

Why would you think those would be "tax free" dollars?

Not a cruise-connected trip, but this past September we flew BA from Houston (IAH) to Heathrow, first class both ways. Our out-bound flight was cancelled about 18 hours in advance (the flight from London to Houston had been cancelled so the aircraft was not available) and we were booked on a flight leaving about 6 hours later. Our return flight was cancelled about 12 hours in advance, and the initial rebooking had us leaving at approximately the same time, on American Airlines business class, with a connection through Miami, getting home about 5 hours later. I was able to change that to rebook on an earlier BA flight to Houston remaining in first class. We were not happy about losing the last half day in London, but it beat the hell out of having to fly American business class and have to connect to a domestic flight in Miami. Our TA told us the particular Heathrow-IAH flight we originally booked on cancelled fairly frequently, probably when it wasn't close to being a full flight.

It's 10:22 am here, so if at a port, we'd probably be out on an excursion of some kind. If at sea, probably joining firsttimers at playing Baggo badly, or at Seabourn Square working on a jigsaw puzzle or enjoying a good book.

Duh. But it still counters the Brit's contention that Americans love Indian food. Not necessarily so.

I hate Indian food.

Oh, I know it's popular, and I'm not suggesting Seabourn get rid of that. But having one occasional night devoted to Indian food isn't the same as having one of the restaurants dedicated to that cuisine every night.

This is great info, thanks! We will be on the crossing on the Ovation from April 12-26, so sounds like we will get to be among the first to test it out on that ship!

And I don't care for Indian food at all. If the specialty restaurant was 100% Indian cuisine, I doubt I would ever go there. I also have always skipped the "Indian Market" nights in the Colonnade. This is the inherent danger in having the specialty restaurant specialize in only one cuisine.

I will really miss the Keller Fried Chicken!

On one cruise, they also had a shuffleboard tournament. I was quite proud to take second place! <there were only two of us competing>

In St. Lucia 2 years ago (so still in pandemic "bubble" for excursions), DH and I did the aerial tram and Ziplining canopy tour. I think you can probably now book it independent of Seabourn through a number of vendors but that wasn't an option for us. The tram and ziplining was a blast and our guide was fabulous -- very knowledgeable about the flora and fauna we were seeing. My only criticism was that after we completed the full series of ziplines from the top of the forest to the forest floor, we had to hike all the way back up to the top. If I had known that I might not have signed up for the excursion, because the hike back up was strenuous (and I admit to not being in great shape for such a thing). So maybe it's better I didn't know. I felt bad delaying everyone else in the group because I was so slow going back up.

I actually read it that way the first time! LOL

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