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Both Ponant and Silversea have an ‘open bar’ policy. No charge for drinks except ‘super premium’. We have done three Ponant trips, one Silversea trip, and one Tauck riverboat … free drinks. We never … (View Post)

If you watch the video on ‘page one’ of the Antarctica tour description you will see our TD from the ‘Treasures of the Med. Isles’ that we just did. He’s the guy with the beard talking, and later hol… (View Post)

The pandemic has changed many things. Ponant and Tauck had issued some pretty nice key card holders that I would use as a wallet while traveling. On our recent Tauck/Ponant trip they were made of pap… (View Post)

We get our ‘outbound’ PCR tests from our primary care provider UCSF. We have Medicare and Tricare for Life medical coverage. The PCR tests cost ‘zero’ and we get the results in twelve hours. I don’t … (View Post)

C&S: I know I am repeating myself. But, I have been on three ‘Ponant’ cruises, and I have never seen a man in a Tux. I have seen a few French women dressed to the ‘nines’. Their partners were sty… (View Post)