Thanks Claudia and Everyone. By the way, Happy Halloween! I went back on Radisson web site and now the Diamond is back on for those dates but the Voyager is marked "charter" for 4 weeks in a row. If Radisson's offering is good enough then we will try the Diamond; otherwise, it will be Oceania PH. The photos of Oceania look realy beautiful. Working in an ER; I am used to smells but wouldn't really appreciate it on my cruise! Our first Istanbul cruise was booked through Renaissance and they went out of business a month after we booked. Then we booked on Orient a year or two later; they sold the Crown Odyssey to NCL and that cruise to Istanbul was canceled. Then we booked Radisson for last year to Istanbul and they canceled beause of a state dept. warning which I think still is in place. We rebooked starting in Athens and then the Voyager went into dry dock. So we tried agin for 2005 and now this. Maybe we aren't supposed to see Istanbul? <img border="0" alt="[Hammer]" title="" src="graemlins/hammer.gif" /> Anyway, we did the Baltics this year on Radisson and it ws truely wonderful. If anyone can; book the Moscow 4 night pre-cruise. It is someplace that you will never forget and we would like to go back and see more one day. Fabulous!!!