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Tudy

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  1. I booked a guarantee once when no cabins were showing available and I was assigned a suite. (The next up category that was showing available). Maybe. . . These days, someone will do a move up bid and you will be assigned their cabin.
  2. We recently switched cabins with friends of ours who were traveling on a B2B with us. We added another B to our cruises, they did not. Their cabin was available for the 3rd cruise, so we switched for the first 2 so that we did not need to change rooms after the second cruise. (Does that make sense)? I called our travel agent and he called Celebrity and switched. Easy-peasy, at least for us. I recommend finding out what the bed placement is, and if necessary call your TA or Celebrity, if you booked direct, and have it switched before you cruise. It's easier that way. If your cruise docs are already available, you will need to ask to have them updated so that your luggage tags are correct. If you all are traveling to the port together, this is not as important because you can each print out luggage tags and just swap.
  3. Thoughts on need to to check in for consecutive cruises in Sydney? Yes? No? Maybe? What has your recent experience been?
  4. Jelayne, have you been on a cruise specifically labeled by Celebrity as a Wine Cruise and not been allowed to keep wine purchased on a shore excursion? I am on such a cruise in Australia and agree with NMTraveller that the wine available onboard recently is poor.
  5. I have searched the boards and can't find what I am looking for. I seem to recall that Celebrity sometimes allows passengers to keep wine with them that they purchased on shore excursions when the cruise was an official wine cruise. Am I imaging this? Those of you who have been on wine cruises, what has your experience been?
  6. Just a note for those of you who like to start a vacation day with a libation: Coffee Hour is also morning cocktail hour. 🀣
  7. We did it last summer on the Silhouette. (We had done it in the "long ago" past, once on Celebrity and twice on Royal). It was a very nice evening. The Galley tour was well organized and interesting. The cookbook is very heavy and does not have a single recipe in it that I would make. But it does have pretty pictures. It's one of those things my kids will throw out after I am gone. I don't think that we paid that much for it. I think we paid $129pp plus we splurged and got the wine pairings. The wine pairing were not necessary, as the somm had other wines on the packages that would work. The other people at the table were fun. The room was cozy. All in all, for us, the money was worth the memory. But we don't need to repeat it for another 5 years--unless it would be free.
  8. Yes you can! I have done it. Make sure that you know what Royals current perks are for booking onboard, because the people at Celebrity usually don't know.
  9. I understand the allure of suites. I was just on the Ascent in a sky suite. It's nice. Concierge is where we usually stay. Honestly, right now I would book a concierge for that much of a difference in price. Sky suites no longer include gratuities or the OBC like they used to. Also there is all the hoopla about butlers being a "Team" now for Sky suites, AND if your wine is $1.00 over the premium limit you have to pay the $1.20. Another drawback is that we tend to stay in the suite area when we have access and E class are such beautiful ships that we missout on so much going on elsewhere in the ship. I like concierge for the sit down lunch upon embarkation and I do use the "Concierge concierge" quite a bit to book stuff and take care of issues. You can place a move-up bid if you decide you really want a suite and probably pay significantly less. That's my 2 cents, but it is an important cruise for you.
  10. I did it 10 years ago. I was not as knowledgeable then as I am now and did not realize until a couple weeks before sailing that I was several decks below my kids. I wanted to be on the same deck so I asked my travel agent to downgrade me, but I did not get any refund. I didn't expect any.
  11. These packages are very limited and expensive. We have a friend who was able to get one for his daughter and grandson (age 13). He was unable to get a suite for them because only high level suites were available. He said he paid more for them to be in a concierge cabin with the package than if he would have if he had gotten a sky suite.
  12. Just off the Ascent and I agree that the wine choices real are not "to my taste." In Luminae I had to pay at least $8.00+grats over the PDP to get what I considered a decent wine. If X can't get better wines, they need to allow us to bring our own, as many as we want.
  13. We had Edwin for our butler as well. He was fabulous! He arranged a private party for us. Wine, Charcuterie and assortment of breads. We saw him frequently throughout the cruise.
  14. If you want Jigsaw puzzles, Holland America is your line. πŸ™‚
  15. I heard something this morning and now these price increases make more sense to me. My husband was watching Squawk Box on CNBC. Not sure the name of the gentleman, but he was the secretary of commerce at some point. He was advocating companies significantly increase their prices just prior to a period of deflation. He believes this will decrease the economic trauma of deflation for the company and will help them pay their employees, etc. I thought, "That's counterintuitive. But it sounds just like Celebrity!" I also think that Celebrity might be in the process of changing its Beverage supplier.
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