Aloha All,  I was not planning to write a review of our trip, but I thought that since there was recent review in the discussion forums for the Mariner in which the poster was quite disappointed with his experience, I thought that I would briefly share a few thoughts on our cruise (on the Voyager) which occurred at roughly the same time as the Mariner cruise reviewed here this week.

First, we learned that we could do a ten-night luxury cruise with only carry on luggage as we never received our checked luggage--just mention this as a general warning to all--take enough extra clothing in your carry on to make three or four outfits in case this happens to you. I will comment in a different thread later about how Regent Air (who often get a bad rap here) saved our cruise while we were traveling from Hawaii to Rome. I'll also comment later on how the onboard staff went out of their way to help us in every way possible! The travel-related problem, due to a Luftansa wildcat strike in Europe, resulted in our reaching the ship in time, but our luggage not being as fortunate. C'est la vie.

Disclaimer: This is our third Regent cruise in the past three years. We are neither cruise nor Regent loyalists, but international travel is not new to us as prior to moving to Hawaii, we lived and worked internationally for many years, much of the time spent in Asia. Also we are in the tourism industry (F&B) in Hawaii, so this may also skew our view of some things. Read more