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Regent has a no solo supplement sale going on now.

Lol. I’ll take whatever balcony or mini suite I can get. We’re just lowly newbies. But this sounds like a great cruise.

OP, thank you so much for posting this! Our TA is going to put a deposit down for us. We wouldn’t have known about this in time if you had not posted, so thank you!

So deposits taken May 24, 2024?

Well at one time you were a newbie too?

This sounds great with a TSE to boot. OP, thanks for posting. It will sell out fast

Dine my Wine? Love it

I have been learning about this too. Try some searches on this board about dietary restrictions and allergies. i know on the website/app there is a place to put in both allergies and preferences. But then people say to let the manager of the MDR know. Now, I think you can do this right away, especially if you eat lunch at the MDR after boarding. if you are celiac, this is a whole different story because all your food will need to be prepared to avoid cross contamination. (I am GF but NCGS so don’t have to worry about cross contamination). There is a thread on here titled something like Goodbye Princess no help on dietary restrictions. Try to find that. The person was emailing and not getting a response but was using the wrong email. In that thread some nice people post the correct email address to send in advance. If you are celiac, I think going to the MDR and speaking to someone right away as well as filling out the info on the app and sending an email to the proper email address will at least get you started. Then I think once on board they will give you a menu for the next day so your food can be prepared separately. At least this is what I have been able to piece together from nice folks responding on here. I am in the same situation as I have not cruised a big ship for awhile. I have been reading some of the live blogs on here because people post the menus. I’m finding that I can eat many of the starters so am thinking many of my meals will be a lot of the starters. I do know they have GF bread and pasta. Good luck.

We were on Wind Spirit last year in FP. There was a man on there for a few days we got to know who was an environmental surveyor from Europe. He flies all over the world for various ships, both commercial and cruise, doing environmental surveys. Guy was amazingly interesting. Anyway he was doing an environmental survey on our ship, and he was saying Windstar has this as a top priority as a company. So it will be interesting to see these ships. I’m just glad they have some balcony rooms. Told ourselves we didn’t need it in FP because the whole ship is your balcony and that was true right up until…I got Covid the last two days and had to quarantine while they put my negative testing spouse in another cabin. So two days at the end of this cruise and no balcony. The balcony would’ve helped a LOT. Anyway can’t wait to see these new girls!

Loved loved loved Windstar in French Polynesia last year. Best way to see the islands ther.

We are through here in November and stumped. What did you end up doing? TIA

Same, also looking

Following. However we have also looked at the Aruba ports of call and seems like lots of both private excursions and also easy to get around individually.

I’m not on this ship but have done Tahiti by cruises before (as recently as last year on Windstar which was great). Moorea is the better snorkel locale so if you can get one there, far better. Just FYI

If you’re going to Moorea in the morning, it’s worth getting up early on deck and watching sunrise with some coffee as you make the very short trip over.

The food trucks will be parked down near there, great eats if you want to try off the ship since you have an overnight. Great street food!

Me too, I am now GF, mostly DF and 95% sugar free. Def has me eating healthy, I look at stuff now and instead of thinking I want it, will be more like yuck, I’ll have some fruit instead. I think the cruise will be easier than I thought! I def feel way better since my docs pointed me this way. Thanks!

Thanks to both you and Cruise Feen for the great info! Eases my mind. LawDog, my heart goes out to you as someone who has celiac. I do not have celiac but have other autoimmune diseases and am NCGS and eating it adversely impacts me. My docs have me off it. So feel for you because you have to worry so much more about cross contamination even a grain of sand portion. But I am also glad to hear that I can get GF pastry, pasta and pizza! Thank you both so much for brightening my day!

Yay! GF bread! That makes me happy. Thanks everyone

Although we will be on the Coral, I have looked at several menus posted by the Live people. I’m finding I can eat GF with many of the starters/appetizers. And many sound really good. I have asked on these boards if I could just eat these for dinner and skip the entree. But it sounds like if I have to order GF meals the night before I might have to pick an entree instead? Or will I get the full menu and then be able to pick? But I have to do everything the day before?

Thank you! It will work out great for me based on seeing some of these menus if I can get like 3-4 of the starters for dinner and skip the main courses. Now if they have GF breads will work out even better. I will try to look at the menus for Crown and the Italian place more closely if we’re supposed to get one thing from each section. And will take advice on the server. Thanks!

Hi so again, sorry haven’t been on a ship this big for 20+ years so don’t know if this is dumb. We have Premier package. When we eat in the MDR can I eat only unlimited appetizers/starters rather than any mains (maybe Premier is irrelevant to this)? The reason I ask is I have been looking at some of the menus the “Live” people are posting, and even though not our ship (we’re on Coral) I notice as someone with dietary restrictions I find 75% of the starters would be great for me to eat. So can I just have a bunch of those and not order a main for my dinner? Sorry so clueless. other thing is when we eat OUTSIDE of the MDR could I do the same if I wanted like with the Crown and the Italian place (Italian on a ship will be harder to do gluten free, ironically unlike Italy itself where it is amazingly easy to eat gluten free)? TIA

I’m not on the ship, just was looking for future reference.

😢 no gluten free pizza…

Thanks this is helpful. Sure wish someone else who has been through this could help as well. I mean I assume there are dairy free “milks” on board that I can get with coffee or room service, but are there? Is there GF toast and bread? Maybe someone who has been through this will see this thread. Thanks for the help, though.