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Although relatively insignificant, hasn’t this saga of sticky buns demonstrated the huge inconsistency of foods offered? This inconsistency is witnessed not only on individual dishes, but in the restaurant s themselves from day to day.

We have done the DP dinner twice. Fortunately, both before the price increase. Food wise, it is by far the best and most delicious meal prepared anywhere on Oceania. Just an outstanding meal. The pairings are done by the Executive Chef at Dom P and are perfect for each of the courses. The wines are Dom P and of a very good quality. The pours are very generous and the wine stewards will give you refills on anything you desire. There is no shortage of wine offered. 😜🥂

If the OP has a TA, then they could easily obtain the answer.

We have some communities that are only getting a priest every other week or once a month! How many you planning on taking for the cruise industry? Which communities are you telling “ tough luck “ to?

I have never met a chaplain aboard that was either an active or retired catholic priest. So no Catholic mass. As stated above, a non denominational service.

I believe we all are!! Probably an impossible question for any of you IT guys, but here goes: When in port, We’re mostly off the ship. Otherwise, during waking hours we’re there. What would it actually take to significantly and noticeably improve internet service during regular high usage times? Would doubling or even tripling the bandwidth do much? A ship’s system running twice as fast as normal would still be painfully slow!! To get a system TonicTraveler might be happy with, what would it require system wise?

A quick search of this forum will provide unlimited information on this subject. Let me add that the greatest issue to your question revolves around how long ago the ship was restocked with said whisky. Our bar menu listed multiple whiskies and bourbons, however very few were actually in stock including most all of the premium brands. Jack Daniels Black was in good supply however! 🙄 My recommendation is to actually go to Martinis and Horizons and ask ( or look) to see what is actually available for your cruise before deciding on buying the upgraded premium package or not.

I wonder if we will be able to have a new option when making Specialty reservations? Sharing with phones; or Sharing without phones? 🤔

The Privee is indeed wonderful and it works so well because it is a private enclave with out all the surrounding noise. Even the eight tops are to large, imo, to be able to hear and enjoy the conversation of all table occupants.

Great news for Vista cruisers, if it’s ready by sailing time next month . People must remember that Musk doesn’t yet have the world covered by satellites. Some areas will be fine, others blank.

For those listening to the OCA at the repeater party, a lot of information is often given out. They don’t always say the same thing at every event but those listening can pick up quite a bit. I’ve had people ask, how do know the % of repeaters on the ship?” Well, the OCA said there were X, and elsewhere we were told there are Y cruisers on the ship! 🙄. They also quite of give a detailed breakdown of the % of at least the top 3-4 Nationalities aboard, and sometimes even the breakdown by age. For those listening. I find it interesting, some just go for the free drinks and never quit talking the entire time. Of course they never comment on how many are 65 that look 85! 😂🥂Or vise versus. 😇

Probably Not! As I posted up thread the median age of passengers on our Sirena cruise in October was 80+. That’s half the passengers! So the 50’s aren’t dead to them. However, very few of those upper median age cruisers appeared to stay up until 9:15-9:30 for the shows. Mostly tucked away in bed. So the majority of actual cruisers that were attending the shows were far younger than the median age of the cruisers. Those actually in attendance predominantly did think the 50s dead, thus the negative comments on Peggy Lee and the Brill Bldg are accurate. To me, the question becomes: should Oceania be developing its shows around those that actually attend and show interest in doing so; or around the demographics of the ship, whether those demographics show up or not? We attend the shows and would live to hear CCR and the Eagles., but I’m not 80 something .

Same as the OCA in Marina told everyone. That’s still two years before sailing!! Perhaps some of the confusion centers around the announcement that the 2025 itinerary for the new Allura is supposed to come out this month or next.

We have a service call center locally that represents about 20 different brands and products. Any one Rep may work on 5-6 of the brands/lines. The Reps know by the incoming line which product you’re calling about, plus with the information gathered. Different companies, different policies, different outcomes, same rep working them. NCL/Regent/Oceania Air Department is the same. They don’t have to have identical policies for the same umbrella organization to function.

The Air Departments were one of the first groups consolidated.

Joe; Miami and Lisbon are two examples of major restocking ports, but not non exclusive obviously. Buenos Aires is the major restocking port for SA. It’s why when certain commodities weren’t restocked there in our cruise, the staff said the ship would probably be out until Miami, 40 days later. I willing to bet your ship did a major restocking in Miami shortly before it sailed on to Aruba for your TA.

Actually this case is so flimsy, if winnable, there probably won’t be any punitive damages. How many hours do believe a lawyer would dedicate to get 1/3 of the possible award based on Cruise costs? Attorney fees could easily outpace any potential judgment, and that’s if you win.

Each of the restaurants have a couple tables for eight and several for six. The tables for eight are horrible in that you can’t easily hear people talking across the table from you. This sometimes leads some to feel the necessity of shouting which disturbs those at surrounding tables. No tables for ten. Break them up into 6&4 and rotate.

I’ve enjoyed this live critique visiting some of the ports we did last fall. Let me explain some of the discrepancies reported on various cruises. Oceania/NCLH has several major restocking ports. Miami, the home port is obviously one. So any ship, such as this one on a TA, starting from there should reasonably expect to be completely restocked. In Europe, Lisbon is another major restocking port for the NCLH fleet. The issues arises when one’s Embarkment port is not a major restocking port. How well was the ship last replenished and how hard have certain items been hit become ms the issue. As JPR, and others, have stated our cruise had a multitude of out of stock items because significant items were not delivered to the ship in Buenos Aires. I believe others reporting shortages likewise embarked at non priority NCLH ports, and the ships had to wait until it hit a major NCLH warehouse port for a complete resupply. This is not to say that minor necessities were not brought aboard In minor ports, but that major resupply of certain food stocks and alcohol products didn’t occur.

It’s very comfortable to sit on as a sofa. It’s a pull out bed, how comfortable is any pull out bed to sleep on?

😂😂 The original Crooner from the late 30s! I’m sure several of my cruises had multiple Rudy Vallee fans, but do any of them stay up to 9:30 to watch a show? 🤔

Absolutely people understand that. You also understand that people don’t disappear into quarantine for a common cold, and a 100% mask mandate for the crew isn’t issued because of just coughing. If one wants to know what’s happening aboard, try politely talking to your room steward instead of the front desk. Other good sources, for those of us that have sailed frequently, is talking with the waiters and bartenders that you know from previous cruises.

One must be in one of the dining facilities. A bit of leeway on seating for the pool side venue, but you must be eating. But no, one can’t sit in Horizons or Martinis and have a liquid lunch.

When we got off the ship in Lima, the full staff were still required to be masked all the time. They had been for about half the cruise. Perhaps enough disembarked the Captain felt comfortable lifting the masking order. As JPR implied, the ship ran out of lots of simple staples. Not sure how much restocking was done in Lima.

Facial recognition and the temperature thermometer. Catching those not willing to self report.