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Your photos look amazing! We’re very much looking forward to the evening excursion. Which daytime excursion did you choose?

I have a question not related to elegant jeans but to the dress code at least… though I have chuckled at this thread a lot and enjoyed the levity (in places) of the post. This is my husband and I first seabourn cruise, we’re wondering how necessary a jacket is on formal night? My husband is more of a shirt and nice sweater kind of guy in the evenings, or even a shirt and tie. We don’t particularly want to travel with a jacket for one night, if we don’t have too? Perhaps this is another hotly debated topic a long with elegant jeans 🙂

Does anyone have a recommendation for a day time Ephesus tour? Seabourn offer a few at varying prices, but we’re stuck on which one to go for.

Thank you! We’re visiting the following ports - Spetses - Agios Nikolaos, Crete - Kusadasi - Skiathos -Bozcaada

Hello, my husband and I are booked in our first seabourn cruise this November Athens to Istanbul, we’re incredibly excited. But please excuse our newbie questions. I’ve been reading the boards quite extensively. I have read about and seen mentioned on YouTube, ‘shopping with the chef’ is this something that is offered as a shore excursion, or do we need to wait until we are onboard to see if it is offered? Perhaps it isn’t offered on every sailing? Currently, the shore excursions selection for our cruise is very light with some ports only offering ‘a stroll around xxxx’. Is this because we are close in, and excursions have sold out? Or maybe because we are going so late in the year? I know shopping with the chef is something my husband would really enjoy.

This will be our first Seabourn cruise, We’re booked for the Encore in November! The only reservations available for TK online are the night we’re in Kusadasi. Will we have more options if we call, or wait until we get onboard? We really don’t want to miss TK or the evening in Ephesus.

It is brewed, I’ve seen them refilling the pots and the filters they use are HUGE 🙂 I’ve always enjoyed their brewed coffee. I don’t particularly like Starbucks, but I like HALs brewed coffee. my husband is a coffee snob and he much prefers the coffee extra charge coffee at the Dutch cafe/Explorations cafe.

We did a great cocktail tasting on the KO last year. It was $15pp. My husband has done whiskey tasting on the pinnacle class ships, they can range in price from $20-$50pp. There is usually wine and beer tastings too. I haven’t seen a bar crawl on HAL in many years.

Glad to hear breakfast is back at the NY deli!

I haven’t seen the NY deli offering breakfast post pandemic on either the KO or the NS. I hope they bring it back one day, it was a great option.

Once you select add a security photo, then you’ll be able to see each guest listed, click the pencil in the bottom right corner and it’ll give you the option to take a photo or choose a photo. Pick choose a photo and it should take you to your camera roll, and you’ll be able to select the picture you already took. I’m 7 days out from sailing and the option to add a security photo only came up sometime in the last week.

This is fantastic news, Thank you everyone!

There was a thread a while ago that why were testing ‘just pay the difference’ for drinks over the $$ allowance for the signature beverage package on the Westerdam. Has anyone had any experience of this being rolled out on other ships yet? I think it’s be a great addition. We’re leaving on the Rotterdam next week.

Dining room lunch should be available, it was on my last cruise on the Eurodam. A great option on the koningsdam is the Dutch cafe, my husband and I love the food there. Both New York Pizza and the Dive In should be open on embarkation day too.

We got the same email for our Caribbean sailing. I already have the app from previous sailings and completed it anyway, though with restrictions lifted I’m not sure it’ll be needed. my experience using it on other sailings pre covid requirements being lifted, it was MUCH quicker to get through check in with VeriFLY vs without.