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This is very exciting news! We love the motor yachts, so I can't wait to see where the new ships are sailing!

I'm guessing it depends who's cooking when you are on the ship. Our first Windstar cruise was on the Star Legend in December 2021 and the food was very good to excellent. Next was Star Pride in December 2022 and the food was good to very good, but we had few, if any, dishes that we thought were excellent. We sailed again on Star Pride this past December and to our surprise and delight the food was much improved! Back to very good to excellent! We are also going to give Oceania a try this summer. They had an itinerary that I loved!

On our last cruise there was a very nice cooking demonstration on the sea day. The chef was quite funny! I usually watch a movie or read a book on sea days. Oh, and sleep in late!

Thank you for your excellent review! We will be first timers on the Riviera this summer so I really appreciate your dining reviews.

Hi Queen of DaNile! We are on the Roll Call already! We do have a hotel and excursions booked for after the cruise, but I had been hoping to make it to Cappadocia and that seems a little more complicated with many transfers, plane rides, etc. I guess for now we'll just keep our plans as they are and hope that we do indeed make it to Istanbul (we've never been!). We will fly back to the states from Germany and thankfully I haven't booked the leg from Turkey-Germany yet, so I'm going to wait until we are within 90 days as others seem to think if there are changes they will be made by the 90 day mark.

Thanks for your reply. I guess I'm hesitant to plan my own post-cruise excursion because now I'm wondering if the port is going to be cancelled. I am all for doing what is safest, best, etc... just would like to know because if we aren't going to end in Istanbul I'm going to need to change some plane tickets.

Hi! We are on the July 7-17 sailing from Athens to Istanbul on Riviera. I asked my travel agent today to see if there was any availability for either of the post-cruise extensions (mainly wanted to do the 4 day option that included Cappadocia). He called me back and said that Oceania told him that currently both post-cruise extensions have been cancelled. The person he spoke with said it was possible that they might open the post-cruise extensions again or might add a different one, but they didn't know if/when it would happen. Has anyone been on a cruise like this where the post-cruise extensions were cancelled and then added back later? This is our first sailing on Oceania so we don't have any experience with how the line works.