I think one thing is for sure - Oceania management will be taking a very close eye as to how their employees are trained to deal with these situations in the future! :)

I also agree that inevitably, the fact that these cabins were made available again, means that somebody else must have been bumped. I only hope that in this case, it was a voluntary bump with a very generous compensation package set forth by Oceania. As others on CC have mentioned, there are people whose vacation schedule is much more flexible than others - I'm sure that they would be more than happy to take a generous compensation package to be bumped from this cruise.

As Denise has mentioned, it only reinforces that information is power and knowing the right people always help. Informed consumers that research and find ways of helping themselves (such as posting on a message board where the CEO of the line reads the posts) will have an advantage over those that don't. As said above, I hope an equitable solution has been reached for all those that are booked on this cruise.

Masaki