Is Oceania Cutting Back on the Shipboard Experience?

[Oceans&Rivers]

I have often wondered with the current cost of fuel, personnel costs, overhead, etc., how long will the R ships, as presented by O, be doable. Perhaps we're seeing the start of the decline. Which brings us around to O adding another larger vessel to the fleet.

 

I believe in the next 5 years a huge shakeout of the cruise industry will occur. In fact, it's already under way. What we see today in ships and cruises will probably not exist in 5 years. A friend just started a NCL cruise and his only email back says the ship is maybe 3/8ths sold out. Almost as many crew as passengers. Not sustainable. Even O is throwing everything except the kitchen sink at potential customers to get them to sign up for cruises this summer.

 

Things, they are a changing!

 

This is the exact week I graduated from high school blankety-blank years ago, and it's still the time many schools (even elementary schools now) have graduation activities. Lots of people are busy!

 

So the anecdotal "fact" that an NCL cruise may be largely empty doesn't mean much to me, especially when you consider that NCL targets a younger demographic.

[pacheco18]

Observation from my current cruise on regatta

 

Berries are amazing and plentiful. We provisioned in Vancouver and that could affect things

 

I have not noticed any cutbacks in any of the venues

 

Staff really helpful. Security people friendly (someone posted they were not on another thread )

Officers and executive staff are very involved with passengers

 

Everything is new new new

Mattresses, towels, sheets

 

Every cruise is different.

 

 

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[CintiPam]

Every cruise is different.

 

Very true.

 

It just was odd because our cruise started with two days in Istanbul, which itself offers so many wonderful fresh food opportunities.

 

Even with my posting regarding some of the minor nits, we find Riviera by far the best cruise ship on which we ever have sailed.

 

Cannot wait to return onboard next January!