RaeGordon

Thank you! A lot of hotel beds won’t even fit a carry on size piece underneath, and I have two good sized rollerboards. But If the beds have 8-10 inch clearance, I should be good!

Totally in the weeds now, as we are leaving in 2 days! Meeting 3 other family members for the cruise. I had to work until the last minute, they are pretouring for a week. All decided they could leave me a “few” things to bring over. So now, instead of one modest bag and a carry on, I’m bringing two large suitcases. Am I able to store these in our room? Or is there a luggage room? They took all the duffels!

Is it possible to do zoom meetings from aboard the ship? If not, is anyone aware of any device or service that can be purchased to allow that level of connectivity? We are a few weeks out from sailing and a family member, in grad school, just had a significant wrinkle thrown in their summer plans, and I’m trying to do my due diligence on this.

We are doing our first Ponant cruise in June. It’s a Smithsonian expedition sail from Glasgow to Bergen. For context, we’ve done two Lindblad cruises in the past, Glapagos and Iceland. Perhaps swayed by the word expedition, we booked this cruise as Lindblad didn’t have a similar itinerary. However, I’m now having some concerns I hope people can help with! Most of our party (extended family) is very active. I enjoy the luxury aboard cruises, but it’s not as crucial for others. Lindblad was a great line for us, as it had very active options for some and more relaxed options for others! Specifically, there was almost always an excursion option that was quite active - Galapagos was different, of course, but there was always snorkeling or kayaking. Iceland had several very intense hikes of 5-10 miles with lots of elevation gain: I was rather surprised when we got the excursion list from Ponant and the most active excursions are a 4 mile flat walk and an e-bike tour (with no option for regular bike) This area has some of the best hiking in the world. I’m really surprised there aren’t options for those who like to exert themselves. I’ve compiled a lot of resources so, hopefully, we can set out on our own several days, but, frankly I’m nervous. The older folks in our group will be happy, but we have several who would rather chew off a limb than take a bus tour. Any thoughts or suggestions about making this work!