sixnotrumps

we are travelling from Australia to join this cruise - look forward to meeting many of you

My husband and I are keen bridge players and we have now been on 3 Oceania cruises. Only the one through the Greek Islands didn't have a bridge director - but we were at a new location every day. The other 2 had quite a few sea days - San Fran to New York and Hong Kong to Dubai. The directors on both these cruises were of a very high standard. We recently took a 25 day cruise with Regent (owners of Oceania) and unfortunately the bridge director allowed one American woman to monopolise his time and to rule the play to the extent that many players just stopped attending the sessions. I guess it's just the luck of the draw as to whether you get a good director or a poor one. I know a couple of local player who direct on cruises (not with Oceania) and they are very ORDINARY players - we wouldn't be happy to have them as directors on our cruises. Our next cruise is Sydney to Papeete with Oceania and it advertises a bridge programme so we have our fingers crossed for a good director!:)