Haleca33

Oceania 180 ATW, Menu was not generally repeated, except in the specialty Italian and steakhouse restaurants. Indeed, our chef would go ashore and buy local foodstuffs and play his menu off what was available.

Some smaller recharging batteries and short cables to recharge your phone ipad etc on long day excursions when you won’t be near power plugs.

I get my hair cut about every 4/5 weeks. I used the ship once but got haircuts in American Samoa, Japan and Istanbul. I recommend getting a cut ashore. In Samoa, while waiting, we got into conversations with locals which were fun, interesting and memorable. The cut in Istanbul was in a little shop on the second floor complete with TV soaps in Turkish, a local gossip dropping in, and a precut massage that was worth the price of admission. Same in Japan. This all goes in the category of most of what we remember from traveling is the people we meet, not the things we see.

I use the Costco Visa card. It is a cash back card and pays 3% on travel. I have gone away from miles cards because I can’t figure out the true return rate and getting qualifying good routes has become a real pain. I use the same payment system as above. Pay a percentage of the balance, immediately pay off the card, rinse and repeat until paid.