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DYKWIA

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    Piz Gloria
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    Celebrity
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Villefrance Sur Mer

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  1. I'd be wary making assumptions of availability based on a drinks list, even one from the ship you're on at the time. On the Eclipse last year in Australia many wines and spirits on the Premium list were not available and attempts were made to get me to have poor substitutes
  2. I'm guessing that we are reaching the point where everything will be cut out or back so that they can add it all back in again....in one of 1001 promotions and enhancements
  3. In the warm weather it's got to be a Negroni> Looking forward to trying something new in the World Class bar on the Eclipse in Feb
  4. Phew, the relief when you find out you're not the only one who can't sign in
  5. I suppose there's no longer any Casinos on board? My wife and I lost about 25% laundering our OBC through the fruit machines on Celebrity - $100 in at a time, cashing out all wins (not playing our winnings), with money to take off ship.
  6. The option to book flights doesn't appear on the Celebrity site (UK) until about 330 days - From memory I think my online TA had flights showing from 365 days. Some high street TAs offer to get prices in excess of a year out. Anyway at about 330 days from your cruise this will appear on the Celebrity UK site under "Manage Your Trip" tab and the "manage reservation" subtab this will appear
  7. On a previous cruise with Celebrity we wanted early dining, booking quite late, all they could offer beforehand was later dining. We were put on the waitlist and it cleared about 2-3 weeks before we sailed. The main dining room is huge and some people who are assigned early will want late or select, some people will choose never to dine in the main dining room, each night a number will also be eating elsewhere, some people will want to move from their table to another, and so on - as others have said if it doesn't clear beforehand, go to the MDR once you've boarded and ask if anything can be done - I think it is highly likely that something will be worked out - assuming everyone else doesn't have the same idea 🙂
  8. I think the main choice is whether you go non stop with someone like BA, JAL or ANA (all probably at a premium price) over a direct flight via the Middle East or mainland Europe. Generally, of those 3, ANA is best regarded. Lufthansa / Swiss have been offering some very good prices recently to Australia . With the direct flights (as opposed to non stop flights) that does open up the option of other local UK airports if that works better for you. I found, for Business class to Australia, Celebrity were about £500 per person more expensive compared with the same flights bought via a UK travel agent and the flights didn't open up as quickly as they did through a UK agent. I suppose the advantage is that with Celebrity it is a package deal so if the flight or cruise is cancelled you can cancel the whole thing. With our slightly cheaper tickets it is not a package. If the cruise is cancelled we still have to fly. If the flights are cancelled Celebrity will still expect us to get to the cruise port. I was monitoring flights and prices for ages beforehand and literally bought the flights the day they were released as I knew the price being offered was a great price, trust your own research - I've had TA's tell me in the past that £2000 for a return Premium Economy ticket from LHR to JFK was a "great price" - when I knew that it was anything but. 5 months after booking, and 7 months out, minimum prices for our flights to Australia have gone up by about £1100 per person, our specific flights have gone up by almost £2000 per person. It usually pays to book early, but my advice would be to do your research and work out what is a good price and grab it when you get good flights, with a decent airline and times that work for you (flight times can vary form 11.5 hours non stop, to over 40 hours in some extreme cases). Google Flights is pretty good for this. For November 2022, £500 - £600 for a one stop flight is about average in Economy - £2200 in business but this might rise to about £800 - £1000 for a non stop flight, to £3000-£4000 in business
  9. We sailed on Infinity Summer 2019, after several cruises on the Eclipse. Yes, the infinity is smaller than the Eclipse (Solstice class) but not massively smaller - it seems to have all the main things you associate with slightly larger Solstice Class ships. Infinity is still a big ship by most measures. Upkeep was good but maybe not quite as good as on Eclipse, we didn't like the hot solarium pool, it's cooler on the Eclipse (but many love it) but we were in a Med cruise in the summer. Buffet is not as good as on Eclipse, it's set out differently, but was still fine. One thing we thought was not as good (which annoyed my wife who goes to bed early) is the in the room TV and film choice was very poor., with a small low quality TV. Overall, we loved our cruise on Infinity and would sail on her again but We both agreed we prefer the Solstice class ships
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