In January the remainder of Regent's 2010 will come out. I have had a lot of requests for LCT trips for 2010. Since it appears that early booking will be the ticket to best savings for 2010 we should look at this when the schedules first come out.

Here is where we are now.

January 24 - February 24- Lima to Rio
I will escort this trip. It is a long and expensive trip and probably will not be a large LCT group but already have about 10 LCT'ers on the waitlist. With the deviation to go as far south as Paradise Bay in Antarctica I think it makes it a special cruise. The segment bookings for South America open on January 2nd. I already have the waitlists in place to be filled the minute the books open on that day so we get the desired cabins.

March 20-30, 2010 Nile River Cruise
Already an LCT tour

Sometime in September 2010
AMA Waterways River cruise between Prague and Budapest.

Quite a few requests for two Regent cruises that conflict with each other. We will do one of these, the most likely New Zealand as we have more requests now for N.Z. over the Voyager Transatlantic.

New Zealand - Navigator - Mid November - usually 14 days
Voyager - Transatlantic - Early to mid November.

I know a less expensive cruise would be a nice thing to have so we can get more people to participate. It appears all the cruises may come out very well priced to begin with. So the old thought process of the Transatlantic being cheaper may not be as true as it was in the past with the more appealing cruises being offered at the lower per diem rates initally and then going higher later where the Transatlantics would stay at the lower prices. So we will have to look at this closely and calculate the per day diems to be sure that we make the best choices.

The rest of the year I think that LCT'ers should look at the schedules and make some suggestions and lets see where the most interest lies. Ken and I are very open to going where the majority of the LCT'ers want to go.

We know the following.
NAVIGATOR will do the Caribbean, Alaska - then the Grand Asia Pacific Cruise back to USA - Panama Canal and then Caribbean.

MARINER will do South America and then do a crossing and be in Europe - mostly the Mediterranan - then the Discovery cruise to Africa then to FLL.

VOYAGER will do World Cruise then do the FLL to Reykjavik - Southampton crossing to do Europe with the Baltic's and a little Mediterranean then crossing to FLL and then the Caribbean.

So please post some of the possible desired destinations you may wish to consider in 2010. I really think price wise the cruises INITIALLY will be more closely priced on a per day diem than in the past. Air costs will be more of course for the more exotic itineraries.