Success! Yep, I was calling my TA late Thursday to ask her to add a category on the waitlist. I dialed the number, the phone rang and I got disconnected right away so called back again. She said she was just trying to call me. She said she had just received a fax from Crystal clearing us on the cruise. How wierd is that! So we are all set, we are going to cruise the Greek Isles, hallelujah!

Now all I need to do is get the airline siutation under control since we are doing a pre-cruise in Bavaria and will fly from Munich to Athens to pick up the cruise. Not sure how you pack for 2 totally different temp. zones though.

I am really surprised it cleared this quickly. I figured we would have to wait months and even then if the cruise was that popular we might not get cleared. Every TA I spoke to said that cruise is very popular.

Thanks everyone for your help, I really appreciate it. I've got lots of questions since this will be a first for us out of the US. Will the cruise line tell us when we can board and what time we can disembark? Judith, I think we will use their transfers, at least in Venice to the airport. We'll probably fly into Athens the day before the curise and stay at either the Intercontinental or Grande Bretagne so that I can show my Hubby the Parthenon.

KarenM

KarenM