RachelG

Great write-up and brings back wonderful memories of our antarctica cruise 3 years ago right before covid hit.

My best friend and I have both not had covid, despite our husbands both having had it a couple of times, including early on when no one was vaccinated. And we were certainly exposed.

As Dr Ron said (thank you Dr Ron for answering first, so I didn't have to type all that out), you should be totally fine as she will be considered recovered by that time, and you will either not have it or should be recovered in that amount of time.

The drop off is of no concern to them. Trust me on this.

we were onboard in September. It was a Canada cruise, so really not lounging weather. The food was good to great however, and the ship is well maintained. The only times the coffee connection seemed crowded were on sea days in the mornings. We have another cruise scheduled for next year on her.

We are on this cruise. But flying out of Haneda. I am just going to hold tight until onboard as they will send a departure plans form out around the middle of the cruise with the options listed.

you should be fine with 1:40. I am comfortable with anything after 12:00. definitely recommend taking an uber. And yes, we did the immigration in San Juan and just walked off the ship and claimed luggage in miami--this was last January.

Looks like a great hike--but Stumblefoot and George would be gone within 5 minutes--maybe less.

Agree. Don’t like it at all. It was very disappointing

New year menu and festivities look spectacular!

Personally would just call an Uber. We have done this many times.

Just now getting caught up on all this and looks like you are having a fine time. Agree about throwing the facetimers overboard. We do occasionally facetime with family while on board, but only in the suite not in the public areas. And don't get me started on the chair hogs or the ones who move loungers into the walking track.

Just now catching up on your wonderful trip. as far as tea, with kettles not allowed in rooms, I just go down first thing to coffee connection and make my own. Yes, that does require getting cleaned up and dressed, but the room service tea has never arrived hot enough for me. After the first couple of days, the guy in coffee connection sees me coming and has the tea made as soon as I sit down LOL.

That is the card I use most often and am glad to hear that they really did refund your money!

I was just stating my observations so that people would know the history. I got attacked for doing so, so I will now go back to the Regent and Silversea boards where opinions are not usually attacked. BYW, my husband and I have been on VERY rough seas before, so much that an entire lunch buffet was thrown to the floor and on another occasion we were one of only two couples in the dining room at dinner, with chairs chained to the floor. And on very rough zodiac rides, so to suggest that we just were up for the expedition part of the voyage is false.

I knew I would get hammered for mentioning our past cruises with the captain on Silversea. But my husband and I are not the only ones who would not sail with her in charge again. One example--we were in Svalbard. She anchored the ship way far out, a good 3 miles from the landing site. It was very rough and windy with sleet. The zodiac ride was the roughest we ever experienced, downright scary, and we have over 200 nights on expedition ships, including 4 trips to the Arctic and one to Antarctica, so we are aware of what to expect. There were many elderly people who were getting bounced around in the zodiac and complaining. We had friends on another cruise on Silversea Explorer back in 2018 who basically just sailed around and never had any landings with multiple excuses made as to why-this was on a cruise supposed to go to Wrangel but they never even got close. Silversea ended up giving some large refunds on that cruise. When we sailed with her the last time, which would have been 2020 prior to covid, she was not the captain in charge, so I figured perhaps she had been demoted.

My husband and I just learned that the captain of the Viking ship was one who we had sailed with on Silversea a couple of times and who we and others we frequently travel with felt had issues with judgment. We vowed never to sail with her again.

I actually was in a cabin where the glass splintered due to high waves in Regent Navigator. It was tempered glass, and there were no glass shards at all, it was just little chunks of glass. And this was a huge glass lining door. Not sure how this incident could happen.

Explosion is probably not exactly accurate, but if one of the tubes ruptures, it is very quick and strong, sort of like an explosion

We had no issues with the Drake Passage either way. Pretty calm. Nothing in comparison to seas between Canada and Greenland. There, the food literally flew off the buffet at lunch, and we were the only ones at dinner except for one other couple.

The penguins we saw in the Falklands and in Argentina were a totally different experience than in South Georgia and Antarctica. I loved both, but for different reasons. In Argentina, I was in shorts and a t shirt with penguins all around who were lining up on the beach waiting to rush out and avoid getting eaten. In the Falklands, they were more solitary, so you could enjoy just one at a time. In South Georgia, it was penguin overload on land. In Antarctica, it was all about the ice and snow.

The hike would be great- and not that strenuous as the definition of mountain is a bit lax in the Falklands. I would do it inan instant. My husband and I were there on Regent,andi think we probably did the equivalent of the battlefields tour. We liked it , but the hike would have been better

Observation is definitely not in patient admission. I am a surgeon and do this all the time.

I guess you could add your own if you just dumped it into the washer with the clothes then didn’t push the button on the attached detergent dispenser.

Impossible. You have to call.