Cruising Maryland

It says it is for 225 cruises.

I found this: Club Members qualify for Oceania Club level status based on the number of cruise credits earned. 1 CREDIT up to 24 days 2 CREDITS 25-34 days 3 CREDITS 35-44 days 4 CREDITS 45-54 days 5 CREDITS 55-64 days 7 CREDITS 65-99 days 10 CREDITS 100-157 days 15 CREDITS 158+ days My next cruise is 50 days, so I should be earning 4 credits

I believe the free gratuities don't start until 1/2025

I agree @Woodrowst. Our 50 day Grand Cruise came with Business Airfare as one of the perks. I was happy about that. Coming back from Rio, they booked us to JFK and then down to Wash DC. They gave us 1 hour and 15 minutes to get to JFK, get our luggage, clear customs, and change terminals. There is no way we can do that in an hour and 15 minutes. called up my TA and she agreed, not enough time. There was a later flight down to DC, TA tried to get them to change our flight back to DC to the later flight. Everyone that she spoke to at O agreed that it wasn't enough time, but they wouldn't change it. We would have had to spend about 6 hours in NY to get the connecting flight, but we were OK with that. TA finally got to somebody higher up at O, and we finally got it changed. Of course, not to the later flight, but we are flying in to Miami and have 2 hours to clear customs now. I don't understand why they couldn't just change us to the later flight, but it turned into a total pain.

I thought we were talking about dinner reservations?

You can add another couple to your reservation as long as both parties are paid in full. And no charge for specialty dining. It will count against the other parties specialty restaurant count as well as yours,

Yes, they make everyone in the room upgrade if you purchase in advance. But you can buy individually if you purchase onboard,

Where did you eat last night? That would help.

They don't allow any reservations until final payment

I'm right there with you re: chopsticks. I've never been coordinated enough to use them.

Well, Alaska is a huge rainforest

I don't think the walls are magnetic, but they are metal. So you can get a magnetic hook on Amazon or elsewhere and stick it to the wall.

I think the number of excursions you have to do for the 25% depends on the length of the cruise. I know for my 50 day cruise in December/January we needed to do 12 to get the 25% off. That is if you booked with Simply More.

You can get the discount, but you may have to call and get them to credit you. When I booked my excursions, I didn't book them all at once. So I asked my TA about the 25% discount, and they credited the 25% back to me. It may not be a problem if you booked them all at once, just thought I would let you know.

You can check at the reservations desk every day and see if they have any openings, many here have booked extra specialty dinners that way

The 9/26 cruise on Regatta is LA to LA, it does go down to Ensenada, but also up to SF

Lol. Not really much re: perks Instant membership to the Oceania Club Membership pins Exclusive Oceania Club cocktail reception Exclusive member-only offers Advance notice on new itineraries 10% savings on Oceania Cruises logo merchandise

You are still Blue Club members, as soon as you step on the ship

So since your cruise would be less than 24 days total if you did the B2B, it would still count as 1 credit.

Club Members qualify for Oceania Club level status based on the number of cruise credits earned. 1 CREDIT up to 24 days 2 CREDITS 25-34 days 3 CREDITS 35-44 days 4 CREDITS 45-54 days 5 CREDITS 55-64 days 7 CREDITS 65-99 days 10 CREDITS 100-157 days 15 CREDITS 158+ days

Interesting, I just looked at the Regatta schedule and there are 2 Vancouver to LA cruises, 1 is 12 days and 1 is 19, both on Regatta and they both start on 9/14.

I assume you are doing the Vancouver to LA cruise. Are you doing the 12 days or 19 days? I don't like to assume, but that is the only cruise on Regatta that leave on 9/14. The 19 day is a B2B cruise

The problem with this answer is that O always included specialty dining, water and soda, at least as far back to 2015 which was my first O cruise. They try to sound like that is something new.

I think that it starts for cruises booked as of 10/1.

That used to be one of the 3 options you could choose from. So if it goes back to a purchased package, They are going back to less for the same price.