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i can see your husband being entertained and mine was too....but then thats maybe because it doesn't happen too frequently .....when it happens more often than not ...less entertaining

 

but we never use a TA and in fact most documents/booking systems you never announce your relationship to the other person.....names of travellers are requested....so no reason to assume married....

 

another gentleman was on here saying when travelling with his husband... people would ask where their wives were......

 

so just seems part of a culture thats very narrow minded....we all need to fit into an 1920's narrow minded box ....

Oh I totally agree that the reason he was entertained was because it doesn’t happen often. The two of us have had multiple discussions about how it’s funny when his name gets changed by accident but extremely irritating when mine gets changed (even my own family tries to call me by his name because they are upset that I never changed my name).

But the only time that I noticed Seabourn staff try to call us by the same last name was the one trip I specifically told them we were celebrating a special occasion (in the special occasion comments section when we booked we stated that we were going on a honeymoon). The other two cruises the staff all called us by our correct names.

I was wondering if some of the errors were because of TA issues because some of the name problems other people were noticing (hyphenating names that shouldn’t be hyphenated for example, or selecting a different person as the main contact person of the group). As far as the underlying culture of Seabourn being chauvinistic, I have not noticed any of the things described (from the staff at least) and I usually am very sensitive to this issue.

I wonder if these errors are being done because of information that people’s TA’s are giving Seabourn. I do all the travel planning myself and my husband comes along for the ride, plus I don’t use a travel agent, so Seabourn gets all their information directly from me. I have never been called by my husband’s name in any of our three Seabourn cruises (we have different last names), and on our most recent cruise I noted that all written correspondence to us has my name first on the cards/letters. Now the order could be because I go by Dr Jones and he goes by Mr Smith, and their programming may state that Dr goes before Mr, but they also seemed to not be thrown off by it when greeting us.

The only time Seabourn staff got confused and thought we had the same name is on our first cruise when we were on our honeymoon. I think they assumed that we would go by the same name since we wouldn’t have had time to update our travel documents with our recent marriage. The funny thing is that because I did the travel arrangements, they thought we were Mr and Dr Jones (my name) rather than Mr and Dr Smith (his name). He never corrected them the entire time because he was really amused at getting called Mr Jones by everyone!

We just got back from Alaska on the Sojourn, and they make it very clear that you cannot bring fish that you catch back on board with you. However, there are two other options if you want to enjoy fish that you catch:

1. if you live in the US, most of the charter companies can clean/fillet the fish then vacuum pack it and ship it to your home address for an additional cost. You tell them when you will be back home so that they know to wait to ship it until that date.

2. Some companies will cook your fish for you right near the dock if they are set up for it. Most won’t, however, so you do need to ask in advance if you are interested in that. We had a great experience with Baranof Charters in Ketchikan where they did a “Cook your Catch” trip for us - we spent 3 hours fishing and then they filleted our fish right on the dock and brought it to their chef who runs a kitchen overlooking the dock with a semi-private dining area. He then made us a multi-course meal from our fish which was quite delicious, and was quite a lot of food! We also got to ship the remaining fish back home to us since we caught way more than what we could eat in a single meal (or even in a week!). For those who don’t want to ship their fish or who can’t get it shipped, they said they would donate the rest of the fish to a local charity.

If none of those sound like good options to you, but you still want to go fishing, you can do catch and release, which some of the guests on our ship did.