drron29

Well our recent Silversea experience was that they divided our back to back cruises and put 6 days in Doha in between them the offered us 155 saving on the first cruise and $US500 each for continuing on the second leg. Or you could instead of those offers get 10% off another cruise of your choice. So going by their form you should get some compensation. I would certainly put it to Silversea that you would prefer a later cruise.

Indeed he was as he was the CD on our cruise. We boarded as you left. We enjoyed his activities.

Yes all waitlisted still on the Australian site. but in mysilversea absolutely no excursions on both our booked cruises.

Yes all have laundries that are free to use.

We loved the tourist train in Ushuaia. For Atlantide you can order anything on the Room Service menu. We often did that for desserts as they were limited on the actual menu.

We are booked on her 2 January cruises. November and December 25 have been grayed out for some time and i presumed for a dry dock but her last cruise before that is through the Suez canal which is also wait listed. It ends in Abu Dhabi which I presume is not where a dry dock would take place. So now I am wondering whether November,December 25 are charters and maybe considering moving those to January, February 26. Though the Muse voyage through the canal is now back on sale for May 25. We were initially on the Muse doing back to back Singapore to Athens but they changed it leaving a 6 day gap in Doha. wouldn't put us up in doha so we cancelled the Doha to athens leg. 6 days is probably a charter. Another possibility is that they are considering keeping her in the Mediterranean but hopefully have another ship cruising Africa. The only one close at that time will be the Moon but she is doing Australia, New Zealand cruises and so unlikely to be repositioned. Something funny is happening again.

You are right. since 2018 we have only cruised Muse class and they don't have Medallions.

I remember being held up on the Shadow in Petropavlovsk. We were held up due to "naval exercises" which finished as soon as the cases of whisky were handed over.

There is a lot of reference to laundry. Silver suites or above get free laundry. then if you look at their loyalty program you will see that after 100 days you get free laundry. No where in the inclusions listed do you see free laundry so why would it be included?

But what a voyage that would make. three Trans Oceanic crossings in a row!. And enough sea days so that you may never go back to cruising again.😉😃

Well it got me reading the reviews section. just Wow. just reinforces the fact that people will post negative reviews much more frequently than positive reviews. That Ship score is therefore screwed to the lower end. A bad way to choose your cruise ship. I really liked the fellow who gave the Nova a score of 1. the main gripe was with the excursions. why you would want to continue with the included excursions after a couple of really bad experience amazes me. But the clincher was saying at one port docking was delayed at one port so that all excursions could depart at the same time. Me thinks SS would not delay docking but rather dock early so that all excursions leave on time. But then goes on in capitals how he had to queue in the stairwell for an hour waiting for the ship to be docked. Obviously a fellow who doesn't read the Chronicles or listen to announcements which virtually every time say go to the gangway when your tour is called. I really dislike the crowds that cram the gangway area making it difficult for those that are called to get to the gangway.

So the luck has continued. We had the heaviest rain here on the Sunshine coast since 1992 when a cyclone crossed the coast near Bundaberg. And here you are just on the northern fringe so temperature drops but no downpour. The reain will be further north tomorrow and Bundaberg will get 2 inches of rain. Today we were close to 12 inches of rain. May your luck continue.

I do hope that DaveyWavey has been able to leave Lady Eliot Island as between there and Brisbane has been a solid band of really heavy rain. already flooding in Brisbane. Possibly may fly them to Hervey Bay or Bundaberg as it would be a very rocky ride flying to Brisbane in a small plane.

It is Splenda but you need Splenda Original to avoid stevia. A lot of their products now contain stevia.

And once again being lucky. Pouring rain down here on the Sunshine Coast but the radar suggests not much around Lady Elliott island.

Well on the Moon, Dawn and Muse it has been Splenda which now is Stevia. seems like it is a fleet wide policy. Al so some of the desserts contain Splenda but at least they tell you.

Dinner was at the Scarborough Harbour Brewing Company. W e were booked on the Upper Deck but obviously not many others had booked so we had been moved downstairs. Much more casual and all dishes brought out at once. But quite Ok food, good beers, my favourite local gin (Sunshine and Sons) and reasonable wine. The view. The Brewery. The food. Pork belly entree and Barramundi. Salt and pepper squid which was beautiful. Oyster with a gin,lime and cucumber dip. And to showcase an Australian pub and club favourite a Parmi. And I think a good night was had by all.

Now part of the job of the tour director was to fit in a visit to Bee Gees Alley in Redcliffe. Their songs are continually played. The tour group. Now the tour director knew that the road to the restaurant passed the boys childhood home but didn't know exactly where it was so stopped to check Google Maps. Looked across the road and I had puled up right outside. spooky.

Certainly young DaveyWavey70 has done a good amount of research for this trip. He has put together a very interesting trip. But I think he has possibly found the best Best Western in Australia. Lovely views. Lots of native bird life. And an Australian bottle tree.

Well I am not used to taking a lot of pictures but I will try and take 1 or 2.😉