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We stayed at that hotel and used transfers two years in a row before fall transatlantic cruises pre Covid. The hotel was fine. Don’t know if it has changed. The Celebrity transfers were handled well. Celebrity set up a desk in the lobby to check in for the transfer by bus. There were 2 or 3 buses that left the hotel at different times. They collected our luggage from the room and delivered it to the ship. One year it went with our bus and another year it went ahead separately by truck.

We have been in this room on the Equinox. On the veranda during the day you can sometimes hear the music from the pool deck. You can occasionally hear things being moved above. The only time we were bothered by noise was the night they had a live deck party. There was a loud steady noise I think from the drums and base that sounded almost like someone was banging on the ceiling above our room.

While the check in counter signs say Delta, I believe KLM handles arrangements for Delta out of Amsterdam. We were on a flight to NY booked on and operated by Delta, but Use of the lounge and boarding priorities were governed by KLMs rules not Deltas. You can find out more about this on Delta’s website.

Assuming it is the Celebrity Cruise Care policy which Celebrity can add to the booking in nearly all states, it is probably not “as good as you can get” elsewhere because there are policies available that offer “better” coverage but may be more expensive. It doesn’t cover flights you book yourself. I don’t know about flights you book direct with Celebrity. When we have purchased it the insurance is with an insurance company not Celebrity itself. One advantage of the Celebrity Cruise Care is that it includes the ability to cancel the cruise for a non covered reason up until the day you sail and get a certificate equal to 90% of the non refundable cruise fare to use on another Celebrity cruise within one year. That may or may not be of interest to you. You can find more information about the insurance on Celebrity’s website and compare it with other policies you can find at websites that sell travel insurance. There is a whole area here on Cruise Critic devoted to travel insurance. Suggest you look there as well.

When we dined in Blu on the Edge a few years ago they had 3 or 4 tables for 2 in a row next to the hanging curtain that forms one side of the dining room. The tables were back to back and you both sat next to the curtain rather than another table, and both of us got a view of the dining room rather than one of us having a view only of the curtain. Are those tables still there in that arrangement? Thanks.