MOssyLedge

I follow the progress of Ocean Odyssey almost every day own Cruise Mapper and see that it keeps moving. I was really hoping that Vantage truly had a data breach and was only slightly going broke. If social media says that land excursions are being canceled for non payment, I wonder if they have paid their docking charges and paid for the food that gets delivered almost daily to the ship. Because they canceled my trip in August 2022, I did my own fabulous trip using my own airfare (somewhat modified) to spend 4 days each in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen (all fabulous cities). As a result, I'm, doing my own tours in Oslo and Copenhagen when we start there or dock there. I could just see us having an insurrection onboard if things go that sideways. We'v ell paid a lot of money for these trips. I wonder if the cruise director or anyone else will make mention and apologize for the conduct of Vantage. I echo Rare's comments above for Donna and Mike to let us know how they are doing and their impression of the actual cruise experience.

My friend just called me from 90 Canal Street. There is absolutely no construction/excavation work in and around the building. So that was just another inaccurate story by Vantage. in fact, the concierge was streaming a movie on her computer which shows that there is NO internet breach. The lobby folks wouldn't let my friend up because he doesn't have an appointment with Vantage. So we don't know if they are there or somewhere else. But we do know, that although there may be a data breach as per the news report above, we must remain vigilant because the truth will not always be obvious. Good marketing always tells the truth because once trust is lost, it takes years to regain. I hope to see a bunch of you on the Odyssey in July.

This is the info I had been looking for in my previous post.

This is the email that I was looking for that indicated that there was construction in the street. I guess it vaporized or never existed. After my friend gets to 90 Canal Street in Boston, I will tell everyone what he discovered.

I am so thankful to all of you for your 223 posts. I have followed all of them with great interest and due to some setting in my profile, I have not been able to answer. Cruise Critic, actually fixed that for me. Interestingly, Vantage claimed that the problem was caused by construction digging in the street in front of their building. Then they changed to a data breach - how interesting. Which is true? In fact, Vantage, answered me within 55 minutes this morning on their new email address saying that "yes.. they are still in business." Kudos to them. I have a friend in Boston who is going to go to their office to see if they are still there and not working from a trailer at a remote site and still collecting money from folks who don't know that they will never see a refund. My wife and I, like many of you had several trips unceremoniously canceled at the last minute. They cancelled a 2022 trip (made in 2019) and rescheduled it for 2024. I wanted to know if they had a life insurance policy on me because I don't know if I'll be alive then based on my health and age. They said I should leave it in my will to a friend or relative or child. Ha! Ha! It's hard to take anything that Vantage says at face value when they have no integrity or moral compass. We are scheduled on Ocean Odyssey for the Ports of Timeless Wonder (Copenhagen to London) for July 15th to July 30th. We made our own extension in London until August 3rd. We are in Cabin 414 after they switched us around a number of times. Luckily for us we have made our own business class airfare, roundtrip from Copenhagen to London on Virgin Atlantic from NYC using points and some money because Vantage took so long to confirm everything (that's why we had to add money as the fares went up). Is anyone else scheduled for this voyage? Bev & Ira Nerenberg