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Embarked Monday 12/13, later than planned due to Bollywood excursion running late. Immediate safety briefing and port talk followed by dinner. About 104 passengers, typical foreign mix of crew. All friendly, relatively young’s. Not sure of total crew count. Lounge spacious, well done, multiple TV screens for talks and lectures. Dining room also fine. First night meals and wines (complimentary) were acceptable. Need to check out wine list. Internet spotty- no surprise. Will explore ship tomorrow morning. Our first stop - Goa - isn’t until noon with a 10AM lecture.

For those interested I have started a new topic: Live From Vantage Ocean Odyssey Mumbai to Singapore December 10, 2022

We will be embarking the Ocean Odyssey today December 13th and, time and internet permitting, will post about the ship and the rest of our journey. We arrived in Mumbai 2-1/2 days ago. We elected to book flights through Vantage that theoretically got us in a day early. What it meant was we added a night on our own at the Taj Tower in Mumbai so we would have a room waiting for us upon arrival. Many of those that did not do this had to wait in the lobby or restaurants two to eight hours for their room to be ready. We also booked through the hotel the airport transfer. Unless Vantage takes into account the early arrivals of flights into this part of the world I highly recommend you do this. Our first day of sightseeing in Mumbai - a city bus tour with stops as per the itinerary was fine. As was the welcome dinner and initial briefing. There will be about 104 guests on the journey. More later after our planned day visiting Bollywood and onto the Ocean Odyssey.

Wondering how the inaugural journey is doing. Are any of the passengers posting or blogging?

We will be on the third trip - from Mumbai to Singapore. Looking forward to hearing more about your experience on the inaugural journey.