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it seems only Portugal , France and Spain so far doubtful it is legal as when a Dutch company is buying goods in Belgium it is without VAT providing a valid VAT number is given the Belgian supplier must provide a list with the Vat numbers of the clients of the EU to the Belgian Taxes and the other country can verify the purchases but paying french VAT in a italian port ??? so far no single company had the courage to go to the european court and that is lasting for years it all started with Spain...

the former representative moved to Explora and because my one and only EJ was a disaster and I did made it down rather seriously - it was also the end of a good understanding

for the moment on symphony cruise was departing from Toulon 20% taxes on special wines

sorry for late reply ; zeebrugge is a terrible cruise port imho one of the weakest on the line lisbon hamburg in december during weekdays there is one train to brugge every hour from zeebrugge station under normal circumstances i will be pax on queen anne dep 15th december 2024 maybe as a belgian i should do a consultation parlour 😄 blankenberge is a weak rather low classed village the upper classed village on the belgian seaside is knokke the opposite direction of blankenberge there is a statin as well ome train every hour being belgian i will not going to brugge but going to a nice restaurant either in knokke or heist unfortunately that day a nice and friendly place opposite the church of zeebrugge is closed during that december cruise call people from antwerp dislike zeebruggge heavily !!!

stlll nobody for belgium netherlands ... TA not aware of new C

" some owners" - yes that what is going on at Explora for the moment ...

the Star Pride - stretched former Seabourn Pride - is in Zeebrugge and no problems with bringing the pilot on board - actual force is BF4 to 5 tomorrow a Norwegian C L is due to dock , not a small one.

My last QV : I ( solo ) got a not so pleasant table and close to me a table with 3 Germans, refusing to talk ( they had problems with English : not understanding the menu in full ) , despite i do speak German fluently.

the weather forecast : for Zeebrugge force 4 - 5 BF north west winds and decent tugboats available another "easy " cancellation ?

and they forgot Rotterdam ... very broad no locks

read my review in "reviews" failure of luxury !

that is very true : Silver Dawn last year in July - Silver Dawn April a serious downfal in the F&B operations

I think it will be Milano or Roma airport ...

Good to hear - and pleasant for the guests - Bruno is back as CD !

i wish you good luck and take aa few bottles of your own wine with you !

ask the butler

some "bathroom" items do occur a payment - there is a - long - list ( shaving foam , brush... )

last year there was an IT man handling the "automatic " piano's and he did ask : do you like Mozart and i said yes , he put in some IT figures and there was half an hour Mozart music ...

that was usually served during embarkation lunch 😃

so then I have bad luck ...😁

I find it useful ... and yes I do avoid one hotel director !

C really should add the senior officers ( captain hotel director ) , cruise director and restaurant manager !

that really is depending on which country in Europe exception for weekend , we always had the largest meal in the evening ... and pastries were for the weekend unless there was a celebration , but in Germany during the week a lot of pastries are consumed . and in France in some area's 2 hot meals a day and in summer daily salad and in Italy cakes and tarts for breakfast ... the pastries we eat as desserts

You have to ask for Pommery !

around Christmas you can find DL Champagne 3 bottles for 50€ twice a year a promotion in an upmarket supermarket chain ( most expensive chain in Belgium ) maybe this year it will be 60 prices of bubbles went up