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On a regular year Rome is always packed, I can only imagine the zoo 2025 will be. I visited early February this year thinking it would be empty and found it surprisingly full. Make hotel reservations now

I recently cruised on Vista, the newest Oceania ship. It’s an aesthetically pleasant ship with decent food and service, but I find there’s no comparison with Regent. To upgrade to a cabin the size of Regent, plus pay for excursions, drinks and tips makes it basically the same in price, plus you’re sharing the ship with more people. Service in the lounges at night, unless you were seated at the bar, was pretty bad. I’ve been on all the Regent ships( except Grandeur) and I would pick any of them over an Oceania cruise

Or arrange for late check out from the hotel where they were staying

I don’t understand then if Regent knew way ahead of time that embarkation wouldn’t occur until at the earliest 5 pm, why did they bus those people to the terminal at 1 pm!! ?? They should have given them a bus tour or something to kill time!

I agree, and I base it on what Frank Galzy, GM of Splendor at the time, told me when I complained during a Caribbean cruise last year. I suggested that the Captain himself should make an announcement over the loudspeaker, I think that might give people pause to continue with this behavior

I love the Navigator! Cozy with a great staff, I would not hesitate if it was the right itinerary/date

If you dump and run, providing no details, you get no sympathy or credibility from me.

Either I’m not very observant or this is a new thing. I haven’t been on Grandeur but don’t recall piped music all over the place on the other ships

Yeah, that's what I said before I was on Voyager. Good luck

My first time on Voyager I suffered from the vibration in an Aft cabin. Never again, next two times was in a mid cabin, would never accept an aft cabin there

People are already doing that .

My opinion? They don’t really care to read what we have to say. I refuse to spend valuable time while still on the cruise trying to deal with their cumbersome survey. I don’t even try anymore

I’ve been on Splendor two times and never experienced that, or heard of anyone that did. On Vista it was quite bad

Yes, I think you were mistaken about Gold getting anything

Never got them

Not correct, in our December Splendor cruise San Juan was just a stop. It could have been because it was our last stop before Miami and its a US territory we had to do immigration there. Maybe thats the only place where they have such facilities

I’ve been Gold for ages, have no idea what special tags I’m supposed to get?

Boy, do I wish I was as lucky as you! Hate getting all the brochures and advertising, it clutters my mailbox. I’ve tried having them stop to no avail

I have been cruising with Regent since 2000, when it was still called Radisson, and the luggage tags I received were always like this, just the deck number, I had to fill out my name and cabin number. Don’t see what’s the big deal

What ship are you on? In December we were on Splendor and it docked at Pan American pier

Not always . Early December we were on Splendor and the ship docked at the Pan American pier. They offered a shuttle to Old San Juan, took about 10 minutes

Yep, I do too. I’ve been on all Regents ships more than once and I’ve never heard a peep from cabins next to us, nor heard anyone complaining about it. As I previously said I was just on Oceania’s new ship which has this same problem and I now learn that coincidentally they were built at the same place

And trust me, if you can hear your neighbors TV you’ll hear other noises as well….

You’re absolutely right, I was on Oceania’s new build Vista for the New Years cruise and the lack of soundproofing is pretty bad, day in, day out. I have a b2b reserved on Grandeur in 2025, 26 days , and I’m having serious doubts. interesting you didn’t have any issues on Grandeur, maybe some locations are worse than others?

Do you like martinis? Then Vesper martini. Another gin based drink I enjoy is Negronis. I don’t know if they are “ girlie” but they’re good!