I had never spent this kind of money for a cruise before and was expecting that the cruise would match the dollars I had spent. It came no where near what I had paid.
The cost worked out to $436 Canadian ($333 US) each a day for the cruise. That is a lot of money when I started to figure out what each segment of the cruise would cost if I had arranged my own transport. So I expected top notch service.
I have cruised on six other cruise lines and Oceania is only marginally better than the other cruise lines. I have complained on other cruise lines of being nickeled and dimed but Oceania hundred and fifty dollars you. They were charging $99 each to go from Capetown Airport to the cruise ship. I paid $28 for two by arranging it myself. The cost of going from the ship to Singapore Airport from Oceania was $99 each. We paid a cab picked up at the terminal $18 Singapore dollars for two. The cheapest bottle of wine was $45 for a wine we found in South Africa for $8. Now Oceania did allow us to bring all the wine we wanted on board. First time I have ever experienced that. The tours were also very expensive and could be found for much less privately. At $250 a pop for tours we arranged for $125 or less that covered twice was the Oceania tour covered.
Imagine paying $872 (Can) a night for a 172 sq ft. The room was no different than much lower end cruises.
Beautiful town and ship was docked in easy walking distance to shopping and restaurants
We took a shuttle to a shopping center to buy wine
Nice hop on hop off bus where the shuttle dropped us. Ship never told us about this but other passenges told us. Interesting city
Shuttle dropped us at a mall. Not worthwhile to go anywhere else.
Ship docked near town. Easy walk to a hip and interesting town
Always neat.
Since we were going to Kuala Lumpur went took the shuttle to a boring mall. If I wasn't going to KL later I would have taken the Kommuter Train to KL for a lot less than ship charged