Lonedaddy

Looks like cruise ended in Athens, April 26th, unless OP is doing a B2B should be home soon. Will we get a follow up?

I believe you will lose transfer to ship if you deviate and stay night before unless you in a concierge and have the extra night include which they will fly you a day before OR if you book a pre night on regent. Heathrow is about an hour and a half to 2 hours depending on terminal and traffic. If you stay in central London probably an extra half hour. Transport it Southampton is not cheap so factor that in the regent hotel decision. There are some shared ride options but I will let others speak to that. we have been to London several times so last cruise we opted to just take private car to Southampton and stay the night there as hotels were reasonable. if your desire is to spend some time in London it would be best imhop to do it on one end or the other and spend 3 nights as there is plenty to do during the day and shows to see or dinner cruises at night west end abbaworld….

DW said they had yoga stretching pilates spin classes she doesn't recall chair yoga but it is getting more popular so they might add. Space was somewhat limited though. You sign up the day before. The only chair yoga I do is on the pool barstool.

If you are going MIA to YVR that will beclose the longest leg and not in lie flat for sure. Have you looked at routings to LAX ?

Excellent point

Perhaps the regent agent was uninformed. Would not be surprised at this point.

And there you have it: From my T/A: "I spoke with Regent just now, and they told me that only certain sailings offer culinary classes as activities you can book during your cruise, and unfortunately this South Africa sailing in December is not one of these select cruises." I'm surprised that RSSC would build a ship with the Culinary kitchen they advertize and not utilize it. The SA sailing has basically 6 sea days I would think they would sell out. Do they think they aren't going to fill them? Or perhaps they can't get the supplies they need? I'm befuddled.

The nonstop from Toronto is pricing at around $3900 on kayak. So, their price isn't awful. Unless you can use milage it will be hard to beat that. It is certainly worth the extra $150 to go no stop. Are you leaving on the 14th for the Nov 15th navigator and going to Rome to Miami? If so and you depart on the 14th without a night in Rome any hiccup and the boat will leave without you. I also believe with the regent option you will transport from FCO to the ship. If you book on regent air, they will get you to the boat. Not that much a risk since they overnight in Rome the first night. There are some 1 stops in the 1360 - 1600 range on condor/Lufthansa or Turkish depends on when you want to arrive you may need to leave on the 13th and get a hotel. Just some things to consider. Did they give you an no additional cost option?

If you don't mind sharing what were the upcharges and were they Non stop. How much is the air credit?

That is pretty bad not know how many hotel rooms they needed and I would think that many that were on board may have had a room reserved at local hotels.

Seems to be the case. I presume OP is still on the Voyager so we will see if we get anything after the cruise.

Do you have a choice on the ride that you can use it anywhere on the trip. for instance, instead of using a ride from home to the airport can you choose a ride from airport to a hotel at your destination? or Port to hotel? as long as it is less than the 50 miles they specify?

What a novel idea, I'll have to try that.

Bingo! The coverup is always worse than the crime.

probably start the old town tour and then venture off then and uber back. Thanks

periodically check to see if something opens up people cancel for various reasons.

There are plenty of books sitting around on loungers on warm weather cruises, it's a second library sometimes. 😉

Kayak still showing the COPA fares on the 24th and 25th

what are the air credits for each leg I see this on kayak https://kay.ac/41D6rK 2659 1 stop on AA.

If you fly from Minnesota (MSP?) you will definitely have a connection. Regent uses TK, QR, AU, EY often and all nice airlines TK if you fly the 789. I just used miles for my Trip QR DFW-DOH-CPT with a 4 hr layover in DOH (perfect for shower and a meal in a nice airport) and then returning QR JNB to DOH 3 night stopover and DOH-PHL-DFW on AA. You will have lots of choices there.

I think the biggest frustration for some is it could have been handled better. It seems regent just isn’t equipped to handle major issues or even minor ones in this case. Like ww2 when Germany invaded France the French didn’t know what to do and stood around waiting for command to instruct them on a plan. They just have everyone in the files waiting for corporate to figure it out and they just aren’t wired that way.

The more we drink the more that becomes our belief

Also you may look at deviation might not cost anything to go tues Or wed maybe spend a night or two earlier hotels probably not too bad tha time of year in Rome

You can download on kindle or phone like Nord vpn and it makes it seem as you are a location other than you are but Amazon does have software that sees through it so prime video doesn’t always work ymmv