Two of the tours on our June 3 Mariner cruise were full yesterday, and in fact, they showed full when the site was accidentally viewable for a short time last week, before the site was even open to the public. In our case, those booked excursions are for small, private tours, so my guess is that someone locked them in talking to Regent or through their TA talking to Regent. Or another other possibility is that they have a contract with a tour operator to provide these tours, but haven't been able to get final confirmation, so they show as "sold out" when it really means "not currently available for booking".


Yes, your name is shown. In fact, under each available tour, the names of each passenger for your booking are displayed, so you are ordering excursion tickets by name, not just specifying the number you want. On the confirmation page, it shows each port each excursion under that, the date and time, and the name(s) of the passengers booked for the excursions.

By the way, being able to see and select the specific excursion times -- not just "AM or PM" as in the past -- is a nice improvement, in my opinion. It especially helps if a particular excursion is offered multiple times during the day, and you're trying to plan your day to do two different excursions. Of course the downside is that you can only book one excursion per port per day in advance, and then you have to hope your second choice will still be available at the time you board the ship -- a policy I really hope they'll change after they get some experience with this and all the bugs out of the basic system.

It does not show you cabin number however. I don't know if that's because this information is in two separate databases that they haven't yet integrated, or just poor design of the web site.

-- Eric