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Roll Call,TBD Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 #256594 07/14/23 08:14 PM
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Roll Call: ( Taylor will be working on a new acronym for us)

Seven Seas Voyager
Stockholm to Hamburg ( 14 days)
August 19th, 2025 to September 2, 2025

Ngaire and Ken-----------???
Miriam and Tim----------- 738
Jan and Jim B------------ 663
Rachel and George------ ???
Meg and Jim-------------- ???
Helen and Jeff------------ 665
Kim and Alice------------- 655
Joan and Dave----------- 748
June and Ralph---------- 915 * ( back -to-back)

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256595 07/14/23 08:38 PM
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Hi Jim

Dont get a cabin until the last minute. Like Forest Gump - Like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get.

: Roll Call Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256631 08/01/23 07:10 PM
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Hoping we are able to get more cruisers to sign up.

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256639 08/08/23 08:43 PM
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We are planning to book this one.

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I don't know for sure, but Jan and I are thinking about making this a back - to - back cruise.
Stockholm to Lisbon looks like a really good cruise.
Anyone else interested? We really hate being on a cruise where we don't know anyone.

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256845 04/10/24 11:35 AM
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Jim,
Book it before the prices go up again. Grab seats at a bar before 6:30 and ask for sharing tables. You'll get to meet really nice people right away, even if they aren't LCT.

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256847 04/13/24 02:25 PM
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Decided not to sign up for the 2nd half. Disappointed in the quote from Regent.

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256848 04/14/24 11:35 AM
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George and I are on this one, Stockholm to Hamburg. Interesting ports

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256855 04/24/24 10:33 PM
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I was working on my groups and getting things set up for 2025. I had forgotten what a great itinerary this cruise offers. Cruised this area many times and could not believe there were so many ports I had not been to before. Best ship has basic itineraries, the smaller ships have the best itineraries. Really looking forward to this one!!!

REINDEER is too long for a pin and I am changing a lot of names now to include something about the crew. They are so good and get really excited when a pin has something about them.

Changing a lot of names two recently

CHEERS = Cruising Happily Enjoying Excellent Regent Service
CELTIC = SCOTS - Super Crew On The Splendor.

Taylor is very good at these pin names and we having fun figuring out things for the crew.

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256857 04/25/24 06:08 PM
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So we are changing it to ?????

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256859 04/26/24 06:59 PM
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Dont know yet got a lot of trips before this one.

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256861 05/02/24 04:17 PM
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Add June and Ralph to this cruise. 915

This should be a very interesting and unusual itinerary. We are also booked on Hamburg to Lisbon . A back to back.

Roll Call Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Ralph W.] #256862 05/02/24 07:40 PM
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So are you doing Stockholm to Hamburg / Hamburg to Lisbon. Correct?

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256863 05/02/24 07:49 PM
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Yes. I did not want to go to Europe for only 14 nights and liked the ITN of next cruise so did back to back.

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Jan and I actually had Nancy give us a price for back to back, but decided we would rather do 3-day pre-cruise and 3-day post-cruise instead. Probably do a Viator, or Tours by local.

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256906 06/19/24 03:08 PM
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Kim and Alice : 655
Stockholm to Hamburg

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So excited Kim and Alice are coming!!

Roll Call Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256914 06/21/24 02:28 PM
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Wonderful to hear Kim and Alice are on board. clap

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256940 07/24/24 11:04 PM
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Jim, Joan and I just switched to this cruise. Please add Joan and Dave in Suite 748 to your list. Thanks.


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Wonderful news!! clap dance

: Roll Call Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256973 08/13/24 07:25 PM
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Sure wish Regent would list what possibly could be excursions for this cruise.!!
So far they show the bottom half, but not the top half.
Like to do my homework and be ready when they open on line.

Thought we were going to have name change on the acronym?
Did I miss it?

Roll Call Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256976 08/19/24 07:13 PM
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Here we are less than 5 hours from when we can book excursions.
And we still can not see what might be some of the tours from previous cruises, on the first 4 ports of call.
Would not surprise me that there will be a hiccup and they still won't be listed.
Sure would have been nice to be able to do our homework so we would be ready to pick the excursions.

Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256977 08/19/24 08:47 PM
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I do not see ANY excursions for ANY port listed as of today.
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Re: Roll Call REINDEER Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256978 08/20/24 01:35 PM
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Tim -
I see excursions starting in Turku. But none for the previous days. I suppose they are new ports and the excursions haven't been put together yet.

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You need to go to find a cruise. put in month and ship. click on the ports and it usually shows you what previous cruises had for excursions.
Course as of today they still don't have any on the first four ports when you go to your account.

Re: Roll Call,TBD Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256981 08/23/24 05:42 PM
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When she has time Taylor will be working on a new acronym for us.

I have taken Reindeer off the ones I can do.
You can edit your posts and take it off if you like to. I can not do it. :LCT:

Re: Roll Call,TBD Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256982 08/25/24 01:06 AM
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No worries with earlier posts saying reindeer. We are renaming cruises when we start working on the paperwork for a cruise. The staff are so great and we are trying to name the pins recognizing the staff. That has been a hit so far they love it.

But we will work at on this cruise one for you next week and let you know the new name.

Re: Roll Call,TBD Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256983 08/29/24 03:06 AM
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You can for sure count on June and I on this cruise.

We have air booked.

Going to arrive a little early so we can see more of Stockholm and get over the jet lag which impacts us more these days. Really like that BA puts up award seats on a regular basis when the schedule is released at 355 days before the fly date.

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Jan, Jeff, Helen & I plan on having 2 -days in Stockholm early. Also day we debark and 1- extra day in Hamburg.

Tim & Miriam plan arrive earlier than us, but not sure their post cruise plans.

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Ralph and.I are very much looking forward to this cruise and catching up with cruise friends we haven’t seen for awhile, and also enjoying new sights and sounds. Always a good experience.
Ralph, as usual did very well with air reservations using miles - I guess the “early bird catches the worm” is a true saying!
Rachel and George, it will be good to catch up and enjoy some more challenging trivia, inter alia!
Ngaire and I of course will just love resuming our scrabble - keeps the grey matter going that’s for sure!

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June, I was just going to ask what airline you were able to get away seats on so early, ,but then read back and saw Ralph's post. Yes, looking forward to trivia!

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June, I was just going to ask what airline you were able to get away seats on so early, ,but then read back and saw Ralph's post. Yes, looking forward to trivia!

Re: Roll Call,TBD Stockholm to Hamburg 08-19-2025 [Re: Jim B] #256988 08/30/24 06:45 PM
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Rachel, You may have noted we are using BA. The schedule worked well for us. We don't prefer BA but we use it a fair bit. I move Chase points to BA which most often happens instantly. BA has a policy that is fairly well known by bloggers , etc. that they release seats that can be purchased with points at 355 days before the flight date. One issue with BA is that they always charge some fee for each ticket also if you want seats assigned you need to pay for those as well. You can use points for the seats in lieu of cash. When you are doing your own air for a cruise you usually know your required schedule so it is not too risky to book so far ahead.

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BA is not our preference either. George doesn’t like the business class seating. Question—since we are in Tulsa, if flying BA , we would have to fly AA to somewhere to connect to the BA flight. Do you know if those flights would open up at 355 days too? If not, it wouldn’t work for us. I do have a Chase card.

Planning on using Finnair for this trip. We have never flown their international business class, and the seats look weird, but they usually have availability with AA miles.

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No, I do not think the AA flights open until 330 days if I recall correctly. My guess is you would need to buy an AA ticket to like DFW and then book the BA flight using points at the 355 day point. I suppose another option would be to fly to Chicago and take BA from there. I do not recall if BA flyies from Chicago.

AA releasing seats so late does make it a challenge. I still use AA from time to time as I used it a lot in my working life and have been a platinum flyer for decades. One of the things I did back in the late 1970's was buy a lifetime Admirals club membership for something like 350 or 400 so have gotten my monies worth from that purchase.

I have read good thinks about Finnair so that seems like a good idea. Playing the mileage game is a challenge. Good luck.

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just checking

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FYI:

The first 3-cities we stop at are now on line so you can book your excursions.
Hopefully you already did the rest of them when they were available August 19th.

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Jim - I had been trying to check every once in awhile. But I missed that they had opened them. So, thank you for letting us know!

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Made our excursion reservations for the first 3 cities today. Looks interesting.


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