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Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 #253863 10/22/20 01:25 PM
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Roll call
"AFRICAN"
A Fabulous Regent Itinery Crusing Afican Nations
Seven Seas Voyager
11/12/2022 to 12/06/2022
Lisbon to Cape Town

Ngaire and Ken----------
Jan and Jim B------------ # 651
Helen and Jeff------------ # 647
Mary Ellen and Jim-------
Joan and Dave----------- # 644
Helen and Jerry---------- # 750
Mary and Jim------------- #711
Pam and Jim------------- # 833




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Re: Roll Call Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #253864 10/22/20 03:04 PM
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Re: Roll Call Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #253866 10/22/20 03:26 PM
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Hey, Jim! Don't forget Tim (Ajax) and TBD!


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Re: Roll Call Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #253867 10/22/20 03:34 PM
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Just FYI 58 people on this trip. Safari afterwards at Mala Mala. Going to be fun. I need a contest for the name - should be African oriented. Wil ask Karen to start that for us.

Re: Roll Call Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #253868 10/22/20 07:59 PM
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Please add Sheila and Ken


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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #253927 11/12/20 10:42 PM
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Has anyone noticed?
In the new Regent catalogue we recently received on page 27
is the information about this cruise.
At the bottom in red it mentions pre and post tours included.
Then go to page 31 and it talks about them.
I know we would be interested in the pre tour of Lisbon.


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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #253932 11/13/20 02:12 AM
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That info is also on the website. If you look up the cruise and click on the pre cruise and post cruise options it’s there. Jerry and I are signed up for the Lisbon pre cruise but I’m not sure we will do it. This is already a pretty long trip for us so mostly we signed up so as not to get shut out should we decide to go. Guess we would need to make that decision about the time we start to shop for flights.
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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #253934 11/13/20 12:36 PM
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I will check BUT I believe it is a Free Pre OR Free post program. It is one or the other. You can get one free and BUY the second program though if you like, so you can take two programs but only ONE is free.

Copied from the web
FREE LAND PROGRAMS IN ALL SUITE CATEGORIES
Guests in all suite categories can enjoy a FREE 3-Night Lisbon Landmarks and Beyond pre-cruise land program OR FREE 3-Night Winelands and Wildlife post-cruise land program on this voyage.

I don't have have a copy of the brochure with me but I will check when I get into the office.

UPDATE - I checked the brochure it shows the following

+Free 3 night land program
Pre Cruise: Lisbon Landmarks & Beyond
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Post Cruise: Winelands & Wildlife

Very easy to miss the OR in the information.

Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #253948 11/14/20 12:45 AM
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Well I know Jan and I want to do the pre- tour of Lisbon.


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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #253949 11/14/20 02:59 PM
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We're with you; Jim and Mary in Cabin 711 and doing the Regent pre-cruise tour. Haven't decided on post-cruise activity as we've been to Cape Town and will do the safari with Ngaire in 2021.

Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #254453 04/18/21 10:37 PM
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Just checking to see if we have anyone who needs to be added to the roll call.

Oh and I know that Helen & Jeff, Jim & Jan, & Tim & TBD want the Lisbon pre land program


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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #254454 04/19/21 04:09 PM
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Jim, just FYI Jerry and Helen are in 750. We are signed up for the Lisbon pre cruise.
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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #254456 04/19/21 09:10 PM
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Jim, please add 644 to Dave and Joan’s roll call entry. Thanks.


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Been since April since anyone has joined our roll call.
Who is joining us?


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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #254733 07/06/21 06:52 PM
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Sold out cruise but we have a lot of people on the waitlist hopefully many will clear.

Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #254740 07/08/21 01:15 AM
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833 Pam and Jim turner

Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #254824 07/18/21 06:58 PM
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Thanks to Jim B for encouraging us to sign up.

We were waitlisted for about six weeks and cleared last Wednesday, tho we're in GTY now.

We're booked on the Silver Explorer for Cape to Cape, then Cape to Zanzibar (East Africa) next March. So this Voyager Shining Capitals of West Africa will be a nice book end on our visit to Africa in 2022.
Frustrated in March 2020, due to Covid, was stuck on the Silver Cloud for five days off the Capetown pier. The South African government finally cleared us, but to go directly to the airport--so never got to see Capetown but from the Cloud's deck and the jet's window.

Looking forward to cruising with Jim and Jan and few other roll call members that I have enjoyed reading their posts for the last decade plus.

Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #254825 07/18/21 08:00 PM
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Wes, are you still on 2023 Mariner World Cruise?



Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #254826 07/18/21 08:04 PM
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Alas Marc, we cancelled.

We (read Ida) decided instead of one long classic cruise we would do multiple expedition cruises along with classic voyages to places we have not been.

Love the itinerary, agree with your comments on the 2024 itinerary.

Hope Arlene and you have a terrific WC!

Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #255231 10/30/21 11:44 PM
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Just wanted to check and see if we have new cruisers to put on the roll call list.

Would appreciate comments from anyone, about using the regent pre Lisbon excursions, or or just use regent air, and do our own excursions in Lisbon.
Struggling at trying to price it both ways.


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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #255232 10/31/21 02:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim B

Would appreciate comments from anyone, about using the regent pre Lisbon excursions, or or just use regent air, and do our own excursions in Lisbon.
Struggling at trying to price it both ways.

Jim,

We are using the Regent pre-cruise excursions and hotel included with the cruise. The excursions look good and will give someone who has never been in Lisbon a good overview of the city and surrounding area. The hotel they are using is top notch. If you decide to do excursions on your own, I recommend you use Diane Dias as your tour guide (rideforyouportugal.com). We used her along with another couple three years ago and were pleased with her services. We recommended her to two other couples and they were also very happy with their tours.


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Please remove our name, we are no longer booked on this cruise.


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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #255234 11/01/21 08:30 PM
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OK. Sorry you won't be joining us. waah


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Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #255235 11/02/21 02:04 AM
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Thank you. We’re sad we’re not joining everyone too.


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Thursday 11/11/2021

At 10:02 pm tonight we get to try and pick our excursions. Hope it works.
Sometimes this Regent web site is difficult and slow to work.


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At 12:05 am est everything showing sold out. Regent drops the ball again.

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Pammy,

Everything opened for online booking at about 12:07 AM est. If every excursion shows sold out when excursions first open for booking, that usually means that the system is not yet ready to take online bookings. In that case, just wait a minute or two and try again. If you are still awake and see this message, go back in and you can make your excursion bookings. With the exception of Mindelo, every excursion is available for booking as of 10 minutes ago.


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I was on at 10:02 pm and everything worked fine. Able to book everything we had on our list.
In fact I was surprised at how much faster the web site was from previous encounters.
Still slow, but just not as slow. LOL.


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Yes! An easy effort to reserve excursions. Maybe there's hope for the Regent web site's functionality. We're also the following cruise; so in early December, I get to try it again.
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Us too! No problems and able to reserve anything we wanted.
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OK let's talk.

November 19th, 2022 Mindelo ( Sao Vicente)

1/2 day private tour. 15 people $1,199.00 ( $79.94)
1/2 day private tour 8 people $699.00 ( $87.38)

Personally I am not interested in a full day private tour but wondering if anyone might be interested in a 1/2 day tour?
Since there are no free tours at this port it is the only options.
Course maybe someone who has been there could tell us if it even worth while to think about something like this.
Let me know your thoughts.


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Hi Jim, Never been and don’t know anyone who has but it doesn’t sound like there is anywhere to go that you need a car for? At least that’s my impression.

If you find out there is something of interest to drive to, we would be interested in joining you for a 1/2 day tour.
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Jim, The excursion PDF for the cruise shows three “free“ excursions and one paid excursion. Sometimes it takes a few days for excursions to show up on the website. I am going to wait a few days before considering a private excursion.


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Thanks for that info Dave. There are a few excursions that sound interesting. Weird that they are not available to book? I am still trying to grasp the notion of the excursion called “sunset Yoga” that occurs at 10 o’clock in the morning . What!?
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Originally Posted by Ms Understood
Thanks for that info Dave. There are a few excursions that sound interesting. Weird that they are not available to book? I am still trying to grasp the notion of the excursion called “sunset Yoga” that occurs at 10 o’clock in the morning . What!?
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That is weird, Helen. Maybe they plan on putting up a screen and showing a video of a sunset. 😜 Hopefully it is just a typo. I just looked and we are in Tenerife until 11 PM so a true sunset yoga excursion is possible.


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Question:

Anyone know where to fine the requirements we will need for this cruise? Like visas, shots etc.


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There will probably be two or three visas required BUT you just do them on arrival usually on the ship. Ghana, Gambia and South Africa I know require visas but nothing you need to do ahead of time.

Pretty much yellow fever is not required these days unless you have been in an endemic country. We will not have been to an endemic country. Things constantly change of course and we will be advised if yellow fever is required. My instinct is that it will not be required.

In the past nothing special to be concerned about on this cruise.

Re: Roll Call "AFRICAN" Lisbon to Cape Town 11-12-2022 to 12-06-2022 [Re: Jim B] #255558 02/16/22 04:03 PM
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I see it is time for us that are using Regent Air to make flight arrangements. dance


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