O Loyalty Cruise … ✔️

At the time we canceled our fall Bazaars to Beaches cruise on Oceania's [O] Sirena, we transferred the deposit to a cruise this spring on O’s Insignia … a cruise made possible only because Oceania has had to shift the itinerary for this year’s Round the World voyage. You know … COVID-19 complications.

Final payment was due for this cruise, which sails from Miami on 23 March, the same day we booked it. But because we wanted to claim this cruise as our free loyalty cruise for being platinum cruisers, the company gave us a payment extension until 4 February.

Well, we didn’t have to wait that long. I got my revised invoice today ... for the 12 extra days that we’ll be cruising beyond the 14 free days. Final payment's now been made!

We’ve been trying to claim our free cruise since we reached platinum in the Oceania Club in 2019. Our previous claims all fell victim to COVID-19. Keeping 🤞🏻 that we’ll actually get to board the ship this time and complete the sailing, which will disembark us in Athens in mid-April.

Of course, being that close to Turkey when we leave the ship, you know that we will squeeze in a couple of weeks of family time.

More on all this later.Read more