phoenix_dream

100% agree! Sometimes at public places like stores or the like someone will walk by me and it literally chokes me because they smell so bad. So as not to direct this exclusively at smokers, the same thing can happen when some people (usually but not exclusively older ladies, and I am one so I can say it without prejudice🙂) seem to take a bath in perfume and just REEK of it! Our relatives (may they rest in peace) were lovely ladies but loved their perfume. I distinctly remember walking down the hallway one day towards their cabin and I could literally smell their perfume at least six doorways away. They used it so much they were immune to the intensity of it.

I did as well. Another example of their fine IT service. Thank goodness the onboard experience is nothing like their other automation!

Another option is to bring a small plastic soap holder - the kind that drains the liquid so the bar soaps don't get all "ooey and gooey"

Agree. Have seen it a couple times on my cruises.

And yet on E class ships they have the most offerings! So you can just imagine how poor the offerings are on other classes. On our Connie cruise, there were no movies at all, other than those that occasionally happened to be playing on one of their very limited channels. To the OP - surprised the people haven't come out yet to chastise you for wanting to watch tv in your cabin as they usually do - you get lectured about why go on a cruise to just spend time in your room. But I'm on your side - I cruise a lot, often long sailings due to b2b, and at the end of the night I often just want to lay in bed and catch a little tv. Sadly, it's been one of my complaints for years that Celebrity tv choices are severely limited, primarily to news, more news, soccer, maybe a tennis match, and a few cartoons.

I've sailed to Jamaica many times including several stops in Falmouth. Inside the gates is nice. I would never, ever go outside without a tour. One trip we were in Jamaica at the Ocho Rios port with our teenage son. People swam up to us in the ocean trying to get us to buy drugs. On the street walking back to the ship, people approached our son and kept following us trying to sell him drugs while he was walking with us! Not to say all Jamaicans are criminal as they are certainly not. Did my first ever snorkeling trip on an excursion in Jamaica at the age of 60. I was pretty scared. The Jamaicans onboard that boat couldn't have been nicer to me - patient and kind. It's a shame there is so much crime on that island that you can't be safe just walking around. I know many other places in the world have the same issues (hey, I live outside of Chicago!) but there is really nowhere on the island I would wander alone.

Exactly. And why did Celebrity pick that cruise for the Blue Chip free ones? Because they weren't selling well otherwise. Very, very disappointing as those have been some of my favorite cruises over the years.

I don't remember the exact dates, but we were definitely on in October, doing a B2B.

It will be interesting to see if that lasts. They are deliberately attracting a younger crowd, but that also puts them in direct competition with their own company Royal Caribbean, who is also adding more shorter cruises to the same port. This younger crowd also has much less free/vacation time available compared to their older, loyal cruisers so it will be interesting to see if the popularity continues. There is only so much vacation time in a year, compared to those of us who are retired or who are in our later working years with many weeks of vacation. I guess time will tell.

I did Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas, and Ensenada last year on Celebrity, as well as Santa Barbara, San Francisco, San Diego and Catalina Island. We did have some unfortunate port time changes as well as itinerary changes due to the whale concern on our 4 west coast cruises (2 to Mexico and 2 up the coast plus Ensenada)

They owe the entire amount back, just like they did when they cancelled all the cruises during Covid (in addition to offering FCC)

And on S class Blu is right next to Murano - so I guess I should be asking if I can order Dover Sole in Blu. Geez. Come on now. There's reasonable requests and then...........well, things like this.

I'm sorry that happened to you, but not sure what that has to do with a legionnaire's warning on Ascent? With 3,000+ passengers plus crew there are bound to be any number of illnesses onboard at any particular time, especially in the winter. And just as information, if it was bacterial pneumonia then it was caused by bacteria, not by a virus.

The Caribbean in general, yes. Haiti in particular, probably the worst in our lifetime

The bottom line is that they don't have success filling them. End of story. For example, I sailed a B2B out of San Diego to Cabo last March, and then a B2B out of San Pedro/LA in October. Those were the only cruises of the 13 Celebrity cruises I've sailed since Jan '23 that were not 100% full. There were tons of Blue Chip free cruisers onboard. There were tons of last minute price drops. It's not because of a lack of port options. In the past we've sailed the coast including Ensenada, Cabo, San Diego, LA, Santa Barbara, Catalina Island, San Francisco, Seattle and Astoria (not all on the same cruise). Used to include Monterey but no more. So the real question is why do they have trouble filling them, especially when other lines seem to be successful? Here's my two cents: People on the west coast and nearby are already married to other cruise lines that have a lot more options and have more history in the area Celebrity does not want to offer longer cruises as they don't attract their now target crowd of 30-40 year olds. In order to get a good coastal cruise you need more than 7 nights. Coastal cruises are not beach cruises per se, so that crowd isn't interested. I believe many people feel that it is a very valid option to drive up and down the coast to see the various cities rather than cruising. You can't drive Caribbean island to Caribbean island These are obviously just my opinions but I think they are very logical.