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terrydtx

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  • Location
    San Antonio Texas
  • Interests
    wine tasting sailing and scuba
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Celebrity, HAL and Oceania
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Europe and Australia

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  1. The HAL app is a waste of time and almost useless until you board. It would be nice if we could see the menus for all nights of our cruise before we board, this can be done with Celebrity's app.
  2. 22 days on the Edge in January and we only went to 2 shows, the magician and comedian, the rest has zero appeal to us. Last November on the HAL Koningsdam we spent every evening in the Billboard Onboard venue.
  3. That was my take as well, but no time lines its all about the cash needed. My best guess this will be the end of the M class ships as they are just getting too old and will be sold off in the next few years.
  4. On the Edge in January I was told the dry-cleaning benefit was no longer available.
  5. Last June we were on the Equinox with our 13 year old granddaughter in a Sky Suite. She got all of the HIA Retreat amenities, except the drinks package for her was the non alcohol one so she could have all the mock drinks, sodas and bottled water she wanted. Her gratuities were also included as the cruise was before they took that away from retreat bookings.
  6. It is not limited to 30 items, it is one full bag. We used this 4 times on our 2 Edge B2B cruises in January. No limits just stuff the provided bag with as much as you can and write Elite on the laundry list. We had no problems and every item came back folded and clean, no shrinking either as we wrote cold water wash on the laundry list.
  7. We did the double Denali with HAL in 2019. At that time the dining plan was ridiculous in price. We found that by crossing the street at Mckinnley Lodge we could dine at several excellent Non-HAL restaurants, including one very good Pizza and Italian food restaurant. The Loge had a very nice coffee venue where we got sweet rolls and coffee for a reasonable price for breakfast. The Denali tour had an option for a box lunch that was about $15pp as I recall. I was very happy we did not waste our money on the dining plan.
  8. We jumped to HAL for the same reasons. We can sail on a new modern ship with no sun rooms passed of as a balcony, and have better selections and quality of great food in the MDR and even the Lido buffets. We love the HAL Billboard Onboard music venue and is all the entertainment we need. We also have the options of longer itineraries without having to book B2B's that are of more intertest to us.
  9. And when very few booked at those prices, the price dropped to $25 pp per day.
  10. My fear is that as more and more book this way with CO, HAL will take it away as a CO benefit.
  11. We have done the same with CO, if you do it right the cost of the upgraded cabin often pays the added cost for CO. On our August Volendam cruise, we wanted a midship A category Vista Suite, we booked a B category added C and then upgraded to the A midship one we wanted The difference in cost from B to the A was within $10 of the cost for CO.
  12. Yes, I have done it many times. With a 15 drink per day limit on the HIA drink package this is the best way to do what you are asking.
  13. We have been on 7 Celebrity cruises and 2 HAL cruises post Covid. While Celebrity has made many changes to the negative, specially concerning the Retreat Sky Suites, I can't say HAL is any worse than before covid. We found the food and service in HAL MDR's and Club Orange in many cases to be superior to Celebrity and Luminae, prior to Covid I would say this was the opposite.
  14. Our last, which will be our last, Celebrity cruise was in January. We are now looking elsewhere after seeing too many changes by Celebrity taking away previous amenities while raising prices 40% or more. We have future cruises now booked with HAL and Oceania. We are also looking at Silversea, Windstar and other real premium and luxury cruise lines.
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