Regent Seven Seas Cruises
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Cruisers out of necessity
We are not cruisers by choice but by necessity due to my husbands increasing immobility. Most of our holidays have been spent cycling round the world,climbing mountains and skiing. This was only our 7th cruise.1holland America,2 Fred Olsen, 2 Azamara,1 P&O.all on small ships (which are getting less every year.) We like peace and quiet ,relaxing.days,early nights,good food,sunshine,a jacussi,a home from home,which all our cruises have been but the Regent one in November 24 was the best so far. Our cabin/suite was sumptuous, ,some would say a little dated by newer ships standards ,I would call it elegant and classic.The bathroom all marble and wood no melamine in site, not exactly my taste but beautiful The mattress was so deep and so comfortable as were the pillows. I drank more champagne than water,you didn’t have to have the wine on offer,they have a wine list you can chose from at no extra cost, you only had to ask( they don’t broadly advertise the fact.) The food was excellent in all the restaurants . Not being big fans of meat the buffet with all the salads, fruit,cheese, more than sufficed,We nearly always had a window table and the staff nearly always took the food to the table for us. We had room service twice, and what an experience!!! We had 2 nights in each port which made the excursions more doable.Rome,Florence ,Pisa, cinque terre,Marseille for the Provence alps,Lisbon. All the excursions were excellent. We choose excursions to visit places for their sites/ history, not to shop in overpriced upmarket shopping centres and drink overpriced coffee,which is what the moaners seem to do.Why would you want to go to St Tropez when you can venture into the Provence Alps,or visit a vineyard for wine tasting when you can see the cinque Terre. Each to their own but the most interesting people we met were the ones not moaning, who like us seem well travelled. Most of the staff went out of their way to be helpful, nothing too much trouble. Perhaps the moaners should look closer to home as to why they don’t get the best out of people. It only take a please/ thankyou,Hello and a smile. Speak to people how you would like to be spoken to,not in a condescending manner,(as I frequently observed). We will be cruising more frequently now, and I hope we can afford to cruise RSS again.One thing for sure we will stick with the smaller ships, even though they’re not all singing all dancing glitz and glamour,but then again, neither am I.
