WrittenOnYourHeart

Thank you for sharing! The pictures are gorgeous!! If I may ask, what are the prices like for excursions from the ship? I'd like to visit Japan some day, but as someone who doesn't eat fish or most seafood (cooked or raw - and definitely no seaweed), is gluten-free, and doesn't eat melon, a cruise where I've got food I can eat on board seems the safest (and least hunger-inducing) for me. I'm looking at possibly next summer - I have no issues with an inside cabin - but am curious about the pricing on excursions. Just ballpark figures are fine. thanks!

The airport is on the opposite end of the island from Mallory Square. IF the ship were to dock on the military base, you'd have to hop a shuttle to get off-base before you could get a taxi or Lyft or Uber to the airport. I'd be more concerned with the return time of the excursion since with a private excursion if you miss the ship, you're SOL.

You'd need to take a Lyft or Uber there. IDK if it's near where SkyDive Key West is, but that was probably 20 minutes at least. Mallory Square docking means early departure (like the 3pm one) because the ship has to be away before sunset.

Not for glass bottles! Have you seen the way luggage gets tossed around and piled up. Those bottles break, you're not only out all the drinks you were trying to bring aboard but you're going to be paying for cleaning or replacement of every item your drinks and broken bottles damaged. The rules say beverages you bring must be carried on. Just because the porters will take it doesn't mean it's right. They'd take anything you slapped a tag on if you tipped them enough.

Has what? Given that this is a Celebrity board, I'm guessing most of us have no idea what Virgin's acronyms are.

Wonderland is much more like Eden than LPC.

He was actually taught that by his parents. They told us that in his IEP meeting.

So parents need to have consequences. To just say "they don't always listen" and throw your hands up is doing them a disservice. I teach special education so I know how they don't always want to listen. BUT I also know that I have students who have in the past run from their parents, but with their parents patiently working with them they have learned. I have one - a particularly "busy" kid - who has been taught not to run in the street and will actually point and say "No! Car! Die!" But yes - if someone is just saying "they don't listen" and throwing up their hands rather than teaching their kids to listen, a cruise may not be the vacation for them. Because there are rails to climb besides the ones on the balcony.

Well said!! I don't have kids, but I've never understood the "no balcony because of my kids". First, as has been said, there is always a lock up high (or at least on every ship with balcony cabins I've been on. Second, the door can be tough for even adults to open. And third - and most important - WATCH YOUR KIDS! And teach them to listen when you say no!

Ship: Beyond Length of Cruise: 8 nights Cruise Sail Date: July 27, 2024 Date email offer received: 4/29/2024 Captain’s Club Tier: Select Booked through Celebrity Direct OR via TA: TA (from a book on board last summer) Current Cabin: Aqua Class IV Bid? Yes/No: No. Being solo and therefore all of these doubled no way. Even if they weren't doubled, no way. But presenting for info. Bidding Details: Cabin Category: (minimum bids in the email) Edge Villa: $4300/person Royal Suite: $3400/person Celebrity Suite: $2000/person Sunset Sky Suite/Aqua Sky Suite: $950/person Sky Suite: $900/person

Guess you'll just have to book another cruise! 🙂

If you're able to get them on board (they would have to be carried on - NOT checked, especially as those are weaker bottles than wine bottles), PLEASE don't take them on the pool deck. No glass is allowed on those.

Anyone heard anything about 10248? Not that there's anything I can do about it now since my sailing is pretty much sold out. The only video I can find doesn't have any sound and actually mislabels it as it's of 10284 not 10248 like its title says (in spite of the very first bit showing the cabin number - Deck 10 cabin 284).

I will just say that when I was on Coco Cay during my Anthem cruise, I had a day bed on South Beach and was directly on the other side of the foliage (a pretty good distance PLUS all the leaves between them) from Hideaway and I could clearly hear the music blasting and thumping. I can only imagine how loud it would be there. That may not bother you, but it's something to be aware of. It may be adult-only, but it's not meant to be serene...it's meant to be a party.

Agreed! Yet another reason to dislike that "sport".