Itinerary Revision #17

Last week, while trying to make plans for Ishigaki — our first port of call in Japan — we got a whiff of a change to the itinerary for the segment that will start in Bangkok in a few days. We would not be going Ishigaki. Instead, we would have an overnight in Keelung — the port for Taipei, Taiwan. News to us!

I went looking for confirmation. Indeed, the Oceania website showed an overnight in Keelung and no Ishigaki stop on the segment.

We posed the question to GM Laurence and asked her why those of us on the ship had not been notified of the change. Of course, we knew the answer. Miami HQ does not communicate changes to those already on the ship. Like we have no need to know. Laurence indicated that she would look into it, so we left it in her hands.

Today, we returned from our stroll in Saigon to find a letter advising us officially of the change … with an adjustment to our arrival in Okinawa, Japan also. Looks like we are arriving an hour later but departing a half hour later as well … a net loss of half an hour.

We will go with the flow. Luckily, we have no set plans in any of the impacted ports so no arrangements to adjust.Read more