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Google "Families of 4 killed in Misty Fjords floatplane crash sue cruise company".

One last thought... "If it's free and on the internet, you are what's being sold." Take a lesson from GMail and how they mine your emails to target ads. I don't know that Facebook is actually snooping, but encryption does not protect against the folks supplying the encryption and Facebook does not have a reputation for doing anything that doesn't provide a revenue stream.

Seems wise.

Likely too many passengers trying to share too little satellite bandwidth. Tried 3am uploads? ::braces for incoming pillows:: 😉

There is another possible option. When Vista had to scale back to only 1 day in Norfolk in Mar '24, she added a second visit to Nassau. Then she replaced the first visit to Nassau with a day at NCL's Great Stirrup Cay. #3 applies, though.

Yup. ...except the other guy gets an ordinary call/text and doesn't need any app.

Android: https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/2811843?hl=en Apple: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/make-calls-using-wi-fi-iph78f4697ca/ios Be very sure Airplane mode stays on lest you connect via the ship's piratical-rate cellphone tower.

Isn't it the custom that mechanical issues get compensation, and weather doesn't?

It's possible for a ship's firewalls to recognize and block VPN packets like they do "streaming" packets for basic internet accounts. That may well be the case because VPNs wrap streaming packets so they don't look like streaming packets. Otherwise, your traffic with a website is encrypted and sent to your VPN's server of your choice and looks to a website (and it's advertisers) as if it were coming from wherever that server is.

If you're asking what I think you're asking, you don't print your luggage tags for O -- they mail them to you. (at least for US pax?)

Our experience on Regatta last March: The GDR opened at 6:30 pm. If you queued up at 6:15, you would reliably be seated at a window 2-top by 6:35. If you queued up at 6:25, you should figure on sharing or waiting until the first-seated folks finished desert.

Uhh.... But it is. It's even being sold as a B2B2B. O is selling: Santiago → Buenos Aires, 20 days Santiago → Rio de Janeiro, 30 days Santiago → Miami, 51 days All departing Santiago, 14 Feb '24 on Marina.

Methinks by and large, cruise lines go where and when they can sell the most tickets, no? 😉

Uhh... No. Pretty much same-old, same-old. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml

Hmmm. You're right. I'd have lost my beer money on that. 🙄 Interesting Sirena fact: Between sailing for Renaissance (as R Four) and Oceania she sailed for Princess first as Tahitian Princess and then as Ocean Princess.

Yep. I suspect the many complaints are from folks who sing in the shower and swing their arms opera-style. ::braces for incoming snark:: The R-class ships are 8 ships built for the now-defunct Renaissance Cruises. 4 (including Sirena) are sailing for O, 3 for Azamara, and 1 for Hapag Lloyd.

That's really a "would I prefer chocolate or pistachio ice cream?" question. Personal opinion: If you're for destinations, go R class. If you're for shipboard, then O class. ...unless you're claustrophobic in the R class showers 😉

AIUI, O has a significant number of B2B passengers, so they run a 14-day repeating menu in the GDR since one passenger's "last night" is another's "mid-voyage meal". As @jondfk said, more likely just a significant number of folks busy packing.

AIUI, O's ships run on a 14-day menu, and since they have so many back-to-back folks, they just let it run, fortnight by fortnight. I'm not sure if non-Oceania URLs are welcome, but "asking for forgiveness rather than permission" 😉 here are two websites that have published most of the 14 days' menus: • https://eatsleepcruise.com/oceania-cruises-restaurant-guide-with-menus/ • https://www.thepreismans.com/marina19_menus.htm#Grand

If you really want to interrupt the good times you said you expect to have? You don't need a cruiseline app -- your smartphone you'd need to install it on already comes with such. 😉

::blush:: I'm on Vista next. Isn't everyone? (Yeah, Deck 9 and Oceania@Sea)

You might want to visit the LINK center folks on Deck 14 and talk about uploading at sea. Possible problems: • AFAK, Insignia doesn't have Starlink yet, so your problem *might* be the ship being connected via an old, narrow bandwidth, geosynchronous satellite, and *might* get better when you get farther south *if* Insignia shifts to a faster, MEO satellite. ...meanwhile try uploading at 3am when the competition for bandwidth is hopefully asleep. 😞 • Alternatively, O's basic plan blocks connections to "streaming" ports at the far end. What port does your upload method target?

Until a ship comes up on Starlink, internet-at-sea will vary by ship's latitude. By the time a ship gets north to Seattle/Southampton, it has already had to shift to a legacy, slow, expensive GEO-orbit satellite. The best thing about Starlink is that it's satellites are in polar orbit instead of equatorial and therefore skip the latitude issues. 🙂 BTW, a shipboard app would use an onboard server and work just fine, nevermind satellites or latitude ...not that I see a need for one on O. 😉

Confirm for yourself since it's medical advice, but my pharmacist tells me to keep meds out of bathrooms because of humidity from showers...

Datum: Princess Patter was going to be discontinued when their app went live. After some ...customer feedback, they decided to have it available at the Purser's. Before we gave up on Princess, they were back to a copy in each cabin each night.