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  • Location
    San Marcos, California
  • Interests
    Cruising, cooking
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Crystal Cruises, Regent Seven Seas, Silversea (?) Paul Gauguin
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    South Pacific, Med & UK

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  1. “ >Is that very far from LAX ? That distance is best measured in traffic, not miles. Figure 30-45 minutes, "plus or minus a day or two". 🙄” Spoken like a native😂. We have boarded and disembarked ships of Crystal (Symphony, ) Silversea (Silver Shadow,) and Regent (Voyager) in San Pedro. It was always amusing to see our small ship tucked away amidst the Carnival behemoths 😉
  2. We stayed many times at the San Pedro Doubletree (by Hilton) the night before boarding. It is very convenient and comfortable and runs a free shuttle to the various docks. Also, for Southern California residents who may elect to drive to San Pedro, they allow free 14 day parking. Highly recommended.
  3. Before my wife died recently we sailed frequently, first on Regent (100 or so nights) then Silver Sea (about 80 nights) and finally Crystal (27 Crystal cruises). When we started we always joined a table and somehow i usually ended up the last to order. I always quietly asked the waiter how many courses others at the table had ordered and made sure to not order the most at the table. That worked well for us (although i always managed to work in that sherbet “palette refresher.”) As time and our age moved on we began dining at a table for two, and as my wife’s health declined I naturally tailored my courses to hers, finally settling on an app and entree. Being with her came to be more important than the food. The waiters and dining manager knew us and the service evolved with us. We were lucky and never had a dish we had to send back; better lucky than smart, but true, and that applies to each cruise line we sailed. my wife has been gone just over a year and I talked to our TA about a solo world cruise. To her credit she talked me out of it until I sailed a short “test” cruise. Not a test of the line or ship but of myself. So I am booked in a solo cabin with a window on Regatta June 9, r/t Seattle. It will be my third Alaskan cruise (both on Regent) including one with two of our grandchildren when they were very young. I just returned from visiting our son and his family in Texas. It was my first “solo” trip anywhere since my Mary passed and I think I did ok. I look forward to this cruise on Oceania. I have always heard good things but honestly its Oceania because they had the right cruise at the right time in the right place. I look forward to it. please don’t beat up on the OP. I think she knew the loyalists would come out with guns blazing but yet decided to share her experience and opinion. I value hers and others but I try to remember that the 9nly opinion that matters, now, is my own. The vast majority of our fellow travelors on this planet never can even conceive of leisure cruising. Lets be kind to them and us. Bon voyage friends.
  4. I haven’t sailed on Regent in years but fondly remember Navigator. Our first Regent cruise was on Paul Gauguin (when Regent operated it) and then an unplanned B2B on Navigator in the Med. we absolutely loved it and although we have often sailed on “nicer” ships since I still fondly remember the wooden ship touches throughout Navigator.
  5. Please thank your friends for a terrific review!
  6. So, you don’t recommend loading up a plate then descending those stairs and asking, nicely of course, ifit would be possible to borrow someone’s eranda, especially if its unoccupied? Would that be considered bad form? 😎
  7. Wouldn’t the occupants of that Oceana Suite have something to say about it? 😉
  8. Somehow I missed reading about this place for dinner. From the menu , I could dine there every night!! 😊
  9. “On any given night you can enjoy as much lobster, shrimp, steak and lamb as you can consume at the top of the stair case, looking out at the wake of the ship in the night air.” is this in Barristas? Every night starting about when? Thanks
  10. That wasn’t our experience at all. The included spirits were top shelf and more and the bartenders very expert, professional and friendly. On our last. Crystal cruise, for example (about 2018) there was a “gin and tonic” menu with 11 variation and 4 choices of tonic. I never came up with a drink they couldn’t make quickly and well. There is no need to build up one company by belittling another. I look forward to my first Oceania cruise. It will be different than my last Crystal cruise. That’s what makes the world go ‘round. 😊
  11. that is great info, makes sense, and thanks. I merely posted a hypothetical not something I would do. I’m used to Crystal’s policy which provides each guest with a bottle of their choice upon embarking to be consumed when and where the guest chooses. It can be wine, champagne or hard spirits, and replenished if requested. With the premium package I have purchased the only difference is if I want a cocktail in my cabin I will need to call room service jot wander out to a bar and bring it back. No big deal. I was mostly interested in the conflict between your comment and the FAQ and you answered that for me. Thank you.
  12. Thank you. So the FAQs are incorrect? I have purchased a premium drink package but just for fun . . . How often do you think a wee bit of vodka or gin spills into a water glass on the way out of the suite? 😉
  13. Me, too. Can I bring a bottle of a single malt (for example) on board to drink in my cabin? As the OP says the FAQs say no.
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