Cindy - thanks for letting us virtually join you! Glad to hear Mark Conroy's still so responsive one-on-one to passengers .. or that he really likes Aussie beers and wanted to know where to get one! It's good he's onboard to hear directly from passengers. What's the old saying? That's why they pay him the proverbial big bucks.

Glad you are catching up on your sleep. The hop to Sydney is a big one for jet lag (at least for me). Doing it in December/January or June/July is also when the amount of daylight is most different from the US. Difference in length of day seems to throw me off more than if I make that hop in March or September when daylight is relatively constant.

If you know, I'd be interested in who is the hotel director, food & beverage manager and cruise director on this sailing.

I hope it's a similar shade of red in the hallway carpeting to what they had in May. I thought it worked really well on the ship .. not all aboard agreed (of course! that's what makes a market.)

The canopies on the sun deck are a much-needed improvement. I may have brunette hair, but very fair (and burnable) skin. I didn't sit out on the deck except for mornings and late afternoons to minimize sunburn.

The cigar bar no more was just above Apicius on Deck 6 and just below La Palette - same sized venue. It is now the four C cabins at the back of deck 7. I'm wondering if the folks in the new stern C cabins are finding it noisy when other passengers use the back outside stairs.

Let us know if they do announce the name change to Regent on the sailing. Does the smokestack have the harp logo or is a stylized R?

Anxiously awaiting your next check-in, and very glad you are tolerating the bouncy seas so well.

Cheers, Anne