TRIPACIAN

22 minutes ago, Whipsnade said:

 The only real luxury ships are A&K Crystal. If they stuck to that they will have this end if the market all to themselves. 

The statement was made that Crystal/AK wanted to be positioned two levels above the rest.  Bold statement but indicates their commitment.

At our q & a session, it was confirmed that all rooms would have a veranda.

On 5/25/2024 at 8:37 PM, May B said:

Bon voyage!

 

I think you’ll have the Schuetts in the bridge room.

 

I hope they’ll still be on from San Diego to Vancouver on June 24th.

The Schuetts are on board!

2 hours ago, History&Wine said:

@TRIPACIAN.  @Ibis

 

Welcome aboard!  

Thanks, we woke up with the Serenity out our window.  Looks great!

We will be joining you on Monday 

2 hours ago, ryndam said:

And this is where the oft-repeated "choice is good" comes in. We find every alternative routing opportunity after Rio more appealing than the currently scheduled itinerary. We have no interest in the circle-South America cruise from FL or LA to Rio. Different strokes for different folks, as they say.

 

Rob

Are you booked on the cruise?

None of the options is appealing to me, we would fly home from Rio.

Sorry I could not read the other pages on my computer.

This is confusing.  The 2025 WC is in Rio from March 5th thru March 7th, and the is scheduled to go across the Atlantic to Africa.  This revision starts on April 22nd. What happens between those dates?

1 hour ago, Texas Tillie said:

 

Crystal's World Cruise is always on the Serenity. It's highly unlikely your cruise will happen as booked.

That may be a premature observation.

6 hours ago, Ibis said:

We look forward to boarding Serenity on May 27 in Las Palmas to Miami. Anyone else? Would love to have more reports here from those currently on board but we understand not everyone posts here whereas we are not on Facebook. In any case, counting the days😊

We will also be boarding in Las Palmas, looking forward to the crossing to Miami.

How many passengers on your cruise?

Good luck to the ship and crew, may they encounter no problems and arrive in Athens safely.

Any word on the Symphony?  

We were recently told that the Symphony is being retrofitted to enable it to enter the US.  The electrical room necessary for dock connections is completed.

9 hours ago, bitob said:

Thank you Nancy.  Shocking how clueless some people are about those who lost boatloads of money with the Old Crystal.

Good luck to all with your FCCs from the New Crystal.  Fool me once . . .

I do not understand how a cruise line refuses to give refunds for cruises THEY cancel.  They must need your money.

They are refunding the money.  I just received 17,000, in my cc account.

7 minutes ago, Keith1010 said:

This makes sense.  It certainly is a popular one for those in North America who don't want to take a cruise ending in the USA and for sea day lovers as this certainly has a lot of sea days. Glad to hear you  booked it and that there were a few rooms to choose from.

 

Keith

We love transatlantic crossings and the sea days.  Since we were previously booked on the crossing from Toulon, this cruise made our trip possible without flying home from Europe.  
 

Our trip was booked months ago and included 10 days in Greece island hopping. We replaced the Athens to Toulon  Crystal cruise with a Seabourn cruise including Turkey and several Greek islands.  We would have been happier with our original Crystal cruises but totally understand the reason for the change. All in all everything including flights ended up working and we only had to make a few modifications to our trip.

By the way, the ship must be pretty full, we had a choice of only three cabins.

7 hours ago, Keith1010 said:

I wanted to mention that that all of the revised WC 2024 segments on board Crystal Serenity are now on the website including pricing.

 

Keith

 

https://www.crystalcruises.com/search?itineraries[refinementList][departure][0]=202404&itineraries[refinementList][departure][1]=202405&itineraries[refinementList][ship][0]=CSE&itineraries[sortBy]=sort_departure_asc

 

We just finalized our booking from Las Palmas to Miami.

Has anyone tried to book any of the new segments?  We plan on booking the Las Palmas to Miami crossing when it is available.  We were booked on the Athens to Miami cruises.

Regent just issued a letter today to the guest on their world cruise so I don’t think Crystal will be far behind.  Be patient it is a very difficult situation.

2 hours ago, FlyerTalker said:

 

Well, we trusted it and filed for a full claim with Mockler.  Got 100% of that back in exceptional credits, along with the $2250pp. And all of those credits are fully applied at this time. Not quite sure why you ended up losing your money - unless you expected a full cash payout.

 

 

Same for us, Crystal did the right thing and we were  100% refunded.  

Onboard Symphony now and there is no grumbling just speculation.  I think everyone understands the situation.  Once the decision has been made then we can expect criticism by a few but not many.

40 minutes ago, Roland4 said:

Sure hope so as we are supposed to be boarding Symphony on April 13! First time on Symphony since the infamous 2012 Trans-Atlantic From Hell!

The word on the ship is that they WILL be in Athens for the April 13th cruise even if they have to go around Africa.

3 hours ago, Whipsnade said:

Just announced that we will not be calling at Alotau PNG due to continuing civil unrest. Substituting Darwin. Too bad as Alotau was only new port for us. Certainly no need for us to even take the shuttle to downtown Darwin. Besides, will be blasted hot and humid. 
Also sounds like we will scoot into Cairns tomorrow ahead of Cyclone Kirrily. 

Actually this works better for us.  We haven’t been to Darwin and Alotau wasn’t really a port worth visiting (except to check off another country on our bucket list)