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  1. JeffElizabeth
    A nice shirt and pants are usually good enough. No ball caps please.
  2. JeffElizabeth
    Great point earlier about big tables slowing down the dining experience. We don't mind long dinners and find them as entertaining as the stage shows.
  3. JeffElizabeth
    For a while on HAL, we would have a ship's officer join our big table for an evening meal. We really enjoyed that and they even supplied the wine. Do they still do this since the pandemic? One cruise we got to talk to the purser, it was interesting hearing about the challenges of his job.
  4. JeffElizabeth
    That is a real shame. Sharing a table with others is one of our favorite parts of cruising.
  5. JeffElizabeth
    Schnitzel is one of our favorite meals when cruising, but spatzle is almost never offered as a side dish. Might be hard to make for hundreds at a time.
  6. JeffElizabeth
    Our waiter told us we can make special requests. We order weinerschnitzel more often than it appears on menus.
  7. JeffElizabeth
    I miss the Neptune Lounge on the old Prinsendam, a deck off it so people from the other side of the ship could use it to see the sites while snacking.
  8. JeffElizabeth
    You just never know about weather, but the Bermuda and Azores voyages tend to be milder than the trips to Iceland and Greenland. We are doing Voyage of the Vikings trip in July and August, so we will be well stocked on sea sickness patches.
  9. JeffElizabeth
    Isn't that strange? You would think it would be the other way, but the old Amsterdam and Prinsendam Neptune Suites were so much better than the Koningsdam. There are some advantages to the newer, bigger ships, mainly restaurant choices and entertainment venues but overall I prefer the older ships and cabins.
  10. JeffElizabeth
    A full tux does take up room, but pretty easy to travel with a sport coat, often I wear it on the plane. The flight crew seem to take better care of you with it on. Back to the room service question, anyone else find it not as good? Seems like they always forget something or the food isn't as warm? And I hate eating hunched over the two of us on a tiny coffee table?
  11. JeffElizabeth
    On the Prinsendam, we got to dock in town. It was awesome just to walk around downtown. We ate at a second story restaurant right across from the ship.
  12. JeffElizabeth
    In March 2022, we were on a Oceania cruise that was scheduled to stop at Bermuda, but their Covid-19 restrictions were too draconian so the ship went to their private island in the Bahamas instead.
  13. JeffElizabeth
    Agree. One of the reasons we cruise is to talk with a new crowd of people. After the pandemic, I want to get back to the tables for eight.
  14. JeffElizabeth
    My wife loves the Club Orange restaurant, I am fine with the main dining room. I do admit the service is very good in the Club Orange.
  15. JeffElizabeth
    Holland is doing a great job discouraging people from paying the extra money for a Neptune suite. The suites are much smaller on the new bigger ships, and "suite life" isn't as good as it once was.
  16. JeffElizabeth
    Thanks for this thread. We like Oceania but have never tried Regent. Our travel agent says Regent is her favorite cruise line, but always good to hear different opinions. Regent is offering a cruise through the Kiel that you just don't see anymore so I wanted to feel them out. Sounds like Seven Seas is getting less formal than I remembered.
  17. JeffElizabeth
    I love that they posted a cruise through the Kiel Canal. We got to do this on Holland America's Prinsendam one year and really enjoyed it. All along the banks, families and towns came out to see us or have BBQ's. So few cruise liners can fit there anymore
  18. JeffElizabeth
    Very quick turnaround. Sometimes it is slower on the day before Gala nights as people get their evening wear pressed.
  19. JeffElizabeth
    I get up early every morning, (blasted internal clock) and never find it crowded. Most passengers are sleeping in. And many like my wife prefer room service.
  20. JeffElizabeth
    We got to take a tour on the old Rotterdam during our Panama Canal cruise during the pandemic in March and it was fascinating. The biggest soup tureen I have ever seen! And a machine to fold sheets. Really interesting to watch the bridge crew at work even when we were tied off in port. Constantly monitoring the wind and tidal conditions to prevent damage to the ship.
  21. JeffElizabeth
    Yes. Love to check out the locks on our cruises, both ocean and river. My hometown in Ohio was on the Miami and Erie canals and many of those locks were still in place.
  22. JeffElizabeth
    Great points! We thought about going on luxury lines with fewer passengers so we would see the more intimate ports alas, those ships are still huge. One of our last cruises on the Prinsendam was to these small ports in Cornwall and other British Isles spots. It was awesome. The townsfolk and mayors would come out to greet us, and we didn't feel like we were overwhelming the communities.
  23. JeffElizabeth
    Cheaper to use the old locks I presume. We used the old ones on the last sailing of the old Rotterdam during the pandemic in March.
  24. JeffElizabeth
    Next time we take the extended family on a cruise there we will definitely look into one of those. They are big beach people while we are fine just sitting in the shade sipping drinks.
  25. JeffElizabeth
    I agree. The three cruises we took last year all were disappointing in their own way, but new customers who haven't been cruising since 1997 might think differently. I am hoping that interest rates will start to decline and some of their debt can get refinanced for less. A mild recession currently going on in Germany might help.
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