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We’re thinking about going on the complete 2026 world cruise. Does anyone know about how many duplicate bridge tables there have been throughout the 2024 Oceania world cruise?

Does anyone know if smoking in the casino on the Volendam gets out into any of the public areas?

It's only word of mouth since it is a privately sponsored program--but open to everyone. For the 2024 World I found someone who also has a laptop to help me. We're alternating sea days to take care of the videos. Maybe you can do the same? Lots of time to talk before 2025 World. Bonita

Thanks, Pete, for mentioning my "video" zumba classes. (I download YouTube videos and we all dance to those on a big screen.) HAL is the only cruise line that I know that never contracted with Zumba to offer classes. Therefore, they allow me to provide what they called an "aerobic dance" class--not allowed to even use the "Zumba" name. Let me add, that for those who love dance classes, on the 2023 World Cruise some of the ship's singers and dancers lead a class for passengers. They taught us some dance routines similar to ones that they were doing on stage. It was just so much fun to pretend to be performers like them --even though many of us (including me!) were nowhere close to being any good at all! 🙂 I am hoping that they will have the same class on the 2024 World Cruise. I'll keep you posted. If all goes well, we'll be on the 2024 and 2025 World Cruises. If you are interested in an "aerobic dance" class, you can email me, Bonita: no.name.at.all.2018@gmail.com if you like. I always provide the details at the first meet and greet on the ship. Bonita

You might want to check Post #30 by The Nurse before you go. They did attend and reported back. All those $99 each "refundable" deposits and $99 each "refundable" reservation fees seems like a lot of money to give for a "free" cruise to a company no one has verified is legitimate . We opted to cancel our reservation after reading that post. If you do go, let us know if you have the same experience or not. Good luck in whatever you decide!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for writing about your experience with this 2023 Travel and Cruise Showcase. We just received the same flyer here in CT and thought --like you-- that we would give it a try. In the past, we went to so many Timeshare talks to get the freebies--Disney tickets, free hotel stays etc.--which were real. We were always very good --unlike some of our friends--at saying NO at the end of each presentation. We actually take World Cruises on HAL each winter since we retired (except during COVID 😪) instead of buying a vacation home. At one Timeshare talk we actually convinced the agent that our cruising idea was something he wanted to do when he retired! 🙂 In any event, we thought, like you, that we would give it a try and definitely say NO to any promotion. I am so grateful that you kept posting about your experiences. The nerve of them to make you go through so many hoops to get the reservation. Sending them $99 a person twice is utterly insane. Might as well kiss that money goodbye. Oh, well. We love cruising so much that we hoped the offer would be for real. THANK YOU for doing all the leg work for us and saving us the hassle. So glad you didn't get suckered in like the other people you saw at the event. There should be a way to have the police stop scammy events like this to prevent people from making dumb decisions with their money. Hmmm.....I think I will call the town police department to alert them of the event and give them the pertinent information from BBB and the scam websites. Worth a try.