Curious about pitfalls of 18-day cruise booked after shore excursion bookings opened up

[Bruce61]

We are looking at an 18-day cruise on Splendor sailing in July 2024 (Iceland to London).  I believe shore excursion bookings have been open for concierge level and up for about three months.  If I booked now, will there still be decent choices available?

 

Also. curious of on a longer cruise like this we are entitled to make more than one dinner reservation for each specialty restaurant in advance (obviously when the reservations open up)?

 

Thanks for the information. 

[mrstanley]

Additional dinner reservations can be booked once onboard. 

[jjs217]

Once you book your dining reservations - keep your printout showing the times you reserved.  On our last Regent cruise - upon boarding, we found they changed 3 of our 4 non-sharing reservations to sharing.  I don't know why they did this.  When I asked, the young woman who was working the dining reservation desk, she couldn't believe I didn't want to share.  Honestly, I felt a little ashamed.  We lost those three reservations in order to re-book a non-sharing table.  About 5 days later I found our original printout showing non-sharing for all 4 reservations.  I didn't bother to pursue, not that huge of a deal, but I have learned a lesson.

[Tsunami74]

We recently looked into booking a Great Britain cruise a few months after excursions opened,

Paid deposit and then had several days to look at excursions. 

None of the ones we would really like were still available, so we cancelled and got 100% of money returned,

[RELS]

5 hours ago, Bruce61 said:

We are looking at an 18-day cruise on Splendor sailing in July 2024 (Iceland to London).  I believe shore excursion bookings have been open for concierge level and up for about three months.  If I booked now, will there still be decent choices available?

 

Have your travel agent book you but don't put down the deposit. You will have 5 to 7 days to look at the shore excursions from your Regent account (use the booking number your TA sends you to add the cruise). You'll be able to see what's available, wait list, closed. You won't be able to actually book anything until you pay the deposit, but you'll know what's there. If you don't like what you see, let the booking expire or have your TA cancel it.

[Bruce61]

Thanks for the advice.  Seems sound.