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Just love how threads get hijacked. Funny thing is I find the discussion on the flights very interesting, but down the road if I would want to refer to some of the suggestions I’d have absolutely no idea it may be in this particular thread. 🤷🏻‍♂️

That crossed my mind also.

Looking at Vista’s schedule I see a cruise ending in Miami on 1/3 and the next cruise starting in Miami on 1/8. Not sure if they could do some spray insulation during that time or not.

One thing I noted is both of Regents and Norwegian’s loyalty programs are based on number of nights instead of number of cruises.

Same thing happened with Vista.

See post #2 above. Perhaps you can find the video that someone staying in a PH on the current voyage had posted. I was able to find it yesterday but for the life of me can’t locate it since I watched it yesterday. But….per the video the PH had been completely refurbished including the updated bathroom with the large shower and corner storage unit similar to the Vista verandah staterooms. It looked really nice.

Just used for a final payment and it worked. So have used two AMEX offers on same cruise, both months after the initial deposit.

Not been on Explora, but they have a club onboard for kids and market their multi generational and family friend aspects on their website.

Also noticed they have updated the photos for the PH suites.

The bashing thread……or the bashing website??? I’m going mostly with the latter. I’m truly amazed at the things people worry about…not sure how they could possibly enjoy a cruise…..or anything……

We were in Stockholm to start a cruise. The pier was quite a distance from central city. We were there a couple days before and actually used the Hop on Hop off bus to get around…worked out well as we had a stop right in front of our hotel. We loved the Vasa Museum. We passed on the ABBA museum….quite literally on the HOHO bus! Long story, but we ended up taking the HOHO bus to the port and the driver drove us right up to the ship instead of the usual port HOHO stop. lol

Ok….so yes you can make both reservations at each of the two specialty restaurants when you are available to do so at 60 days out.

Which ship are you on?

There is also a several page thread on here started in April, 2023 called Oceania Specialty Restaurant reservations. I’d recommend reading through it for much more information on the topic and various tips.

1) You can make them online when in your account on Oceania website at 12:01 est the date they are available. 2) I believe on all ships the answer is yes, most definelty on the O and A classes..someone else may remark on the R class ships.

Sounds like a great start…no boardamania. Hmmmm. With regard to no updates at all in the Concierge stateroom….that is really not surprising to me. I had mentioned in another thread on Marina refit that in their statement that Oceania put out on 12/8 (which is still on their website) that they made zero reference to any stateroom updates to anything below the penthouse.

Honestly I get better results using google. For example if you are wondering about the PH suite on Vista….try googling ‘cruise critic Oceania vista penthouse’. This manner seems to work best for me. Obviously not foolproof for all….also with regard to a specific ship search threads for that specific ship on here and then go through the pages. If not ship specific I’d recommend the google manner. Just what seems to work best for me.

There is already another thread on this topic which is fairly recent. ‘Big Brother is watching’

Are you really sure it was same amount of time???? Last cruise ended I believe on 4/28 and starts 5/18…..approximately 20 days. There is a thread here on CC with regard to the Riviera refit. The first post in the thread is a photo of it in dry dock in Marseille and that is dated 11/9/22. The first cruise after its refit was 12/7/22….so around 28/29 days….would assume a lot of extra refit could be done in those extra 8/9 days.

This is the way it worked for us on a January cruise.

Get a PDF version sent to you by either your TA, or contact Oceania directly and request if no TA.

Per Cruisemapper, Marina has left Palermo and headed to Barcelona for its first post refit cruise to start 5/18.

Perhaps they gave you the price of the A2 at the price it was when you booked the A3 originally since you were upgrading? I know this happened to us before….we upgraded and we received the upgraded stateroom at the price it was when we had originally booked the cruise and the prices had already increased.

I believe will be 2 per specialty restaurant regardless. Per the FAQ on their website….for PH on Marina….17 days or less 1 per specialty…18 days or more 2 per specialty. So the b2b, each segment would only be 1 or 2 total for both segments. Again, the way I am reading it.

The only article I’ve seen was in Travel Market Report from 09/23. In that article, Del Rio advised that all the fleet would be upgraded to Starlink by the end of 2024. It was pretty generic and did not include any other specifics such as specific dates for each ship. So who knows…..dates do have a tendency to get pushed out.