milepig

Northern Europe later in the season can be very dicey. We are doing mostly private excursions and the operators were all very understanding, we were doing a back to back and we had a stop in the same port on both legs and the operator just switched dates. WS will certainly reimburse you and it will show up as a credit on your final bill.

He is great - got a little bit into ecologial politics but that was easy to ignore. Really had to work to find the dolphins on our trip, there weren't were he through they'd be, but he found them and it was amazing. We saw the blue eyed eels on, I think, a WS tour that included a stop at a pearl farm out in the water that was better than expected. The tropical fish were all around us.

Is the dolphin guy still around? Dr. somebody.

This is a report from 2022, so should be fairly current. https://eatsleepcruise.com/complete-guide-to-windstar-cruises-drink-packages/ I am not away of a better quality wine-only package. There is a Topmast beer and wine, but I believe that is a sub-set of the full package. As far as my experience has been (over 20 itins) is that the wines are from the "by the glass" list, and there are some perfectly fine choices on there, but they'll pour you as many glasses as you'd like. Booze is most things from the bar, although there are a few exceptions mostly things like higher end scotch. Some things I thought weren't included, like Hendricks, were gladly poured for me. All in all, it is a reasonable list of offerings. You also get 30% off on bottled of other wines when you have the package.

On our last trip the Lobster was MIA from the deck BBQ and everything, especially the dessert bar, seemed very downscale, no more elaborate carvings, etc. Is this still the same. It was all still tasty, just not quite as elaborate.

It's been "scheduled" to come on line several times, we'll see if "end of May" with the grace period holds.

It appears to not yet be live and without a firm date (that I can find) This page offers you the chance to be notified when it is. In any case, following past practice your airline should notify you when it is. https://etias.com/etias-application#:~:text=The ETIAS will be live,apply for ETIAS until 2023.

Hang up and call again (HUACA) Even better, book through a travel agent. They handle all this stuff.

Star grill is really the place to go for dinner if the weather is nice and where you can be completely casual. A nice option.

It is sometimes open for dinner. The tea smoked duck is amazing. The usual schedule is lunch, then it switches to burgers and such late afternoon. Then it may or may not reopen for dinner. That deck tends to be pretty busy during cocktail hour, which would, i think, may service difficult.

Yeah, I was puzzled at first since all those things have had "good to go" checkmarks, and then this one popped up with the not complete message but then didn't go anywhere.

I just logged into my windstar and noticed what I think is a new option coming? Under passenger information, the headers are: Immigration Information Guest Information Household Information The Guest Information is labeled "not complete" and when I click on it it just pops up an "under construction" box. I don't recall this option in the past.

I've not seen a pillow menu as such, but I have a hard time sleeping with a foam pillow, and when I ask early enough they do have some down pillows but not many.

Windstar maintains a list of tender (or Zodiac) ports, I'm not sure it's 100% accurate: https://www.windstarcruises.com/accessibility/

LOL. From the map it looks like there are maybe 2 streets. My TA has contacts with tour companies in case WS doesn’t come through. The price is very high for the WS option, but in this case the convenience means a lot. I’ve told my TA that we expect the Yacht Club discount. That should be a hoot.

Was this the continuation of the itinerary from Singapore to Doha? If so, we were on board for that and it was indeed magical. SW had just taken ownership of the Pride, and that part was a bit rocky with much reworking to do, but the crew was absolutely top notch, and the passenger load was light. All sorts of top brass were onboard.

As in part of the price? Now it's extra.

Thanks. It's less the thought of "not doing the tour" and more of if WS doesn't add more space. I have now seen that there are various day trips you can book privately and that may be my backup.

No, not security. I just pulled the trigger and made a deposit for Arabia next fall. A large part of the reason is that Luxor is a bucket list item. The Luxor overnight is already waitlisted, with no other options. My TA says not to worry WS will work it out, go ahead about pay the $2000 to get on the waitlist. Would it be better to just cancel and do somthing else?

Never underestimate the ability of WS to get something wrong.

Have you all confirmed that the WS count is correct? At some point they lost some, I'd done all trips with the same TA, he went through and found a couple that were missing, called WS and all was well.

We had one of those mattresses with no stiffening on the legeng in 11/21. For us, it was miserable, indeed it felt like the bed was trying to throw us off and I sort of had to take a leap to get beyond the end. This September, also on the legend, the mattress had a sort of band all the way around the edge that sort of held things together. Not great, but it was much better. On the 2021 trip the cruise director was someone I've known for a long time and he said that they'd had lots of complaints.

Thanks for the info, I hope it was a gut rehab, and not lipstick.

Is the Hilton a newly building property, or is it a conversion?

My TA recently got an unpublished P2P price and it seemed to put it spot on for what it should have, give or take a few bucks.