Today represents two weeks on the Seabourn Odyssey. The itinerary was, well, kind of junk. For those 13 days, a Sydney to Hobart to Perth to Adelaide to Melbourne to Sydney trip would have been far better. The management seems somewhat disorganized. Maybe it's the "just out of pandemic process" matter that is causing most of this. Whatever, let me tell you one incident that should have been better managed. Yesterday morning we got this sudden letter indicating that all passengers needed to bring their passport and guest pass to meet with immigration officials off the ship. I called and was told to go now, which was around 10AM. We had not yet had breakfast, but went as told. There is this transition zone between the ship and customs. Left the ship, but at the entrance to Australia, a guard said that we also needed a transit card. Went back to the ship, and they had a pile of cards in no particular order. Somehow they found our cards, whic...
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