debijaynes

I suggest a nice Lilly jacket, preferably with lemons and limes. But that's just what we would wear. Of course Madras is always correct.

Look at Regent instead of Oceania--cheaper in the long run. Love the small ships.

The reason for utilizing Holland America, over others lines like Oceania , Crystal or Regent. is the fact that this a larger group, where other guests will be purchasing Ocean View staterooms, and the consensus of the group was they wanted the most amount of friends to attend.

Thank you! That makes perfect sense.

I have a hard time with Holland America's policy change with Wine.

From one extreme of allowing unlimited wine without any corkage fee, to the polar opposite where you can only bring one bottle wine for the entire voyage. I really wish Holland America does view the negative response on cruise critic, and revise their policy to allow for guests to pay for a corkage fee for their wine ($20-$30 USD per bottle). Even contemporary cruise lines like Norwegian & Royal Caribbean have revised their policies to allow wines aboard their ship, subject to a corkage fee.

 

I hope Holland America, recognizes that they may lose high end guests, to their policy. Right now, I am working with a group of looking at Holland America, where we have guests that are looking acquire Pinnacle Suite & Neptune Suites, and are looking at bring bottles of wine in the range of $300-$500 per bottle, and when reviewing their wine list, nothing comes at all comparable. Disappointing Holland America may lose over $50,000 of revenue because of this policy, when they could just invoke a corkage fee.

 

I had prepared a proposal with other Carnival Corp brands, but I am looking at supporting a Non-Carnival Corp, as I believe their viewpoint, as long as we are booking with another sister brand, the money is coming to the same family. I really hope they evaluate their policy, and allow guest to bring bottles of wines, and do charge a corkage fee.

Just an innocent question--please don't attack-- BUT if you are drinking $500 a bottle wine, why would you be sailing on HAL? Just an innocent question. Why not a "luxury"cruise line? I know that HAL is not shall we say Carnival or RCL but it certainly is a Mid Tier line. And who wants to drag cases of wine or ANY beverage with them on a cruise? We like HAL for certain voyages but book the Neptune Suites for convenience utilizing the Pinnacle Grill for dinner each night. I don't claim to be a wine connoisseur so maybe that covers my lack of understanding.

So, In looking forward to our first Seabourne cruise maybe this will be an easy question-

Is the dress code similar to Regent? We are doing both this year and are very happy with the Regent dress code. Any comments would be welcome!

Hopefully.:)

As a fellow Floridian, very different. Those of us in South Florida hate to wear jeans due to the sweat gluing them to our legs. And after all, why would one wear jeans with all the lovely options available!