Cruisegirl6

We just got off yesterday the Celebrity Beyond, 8 night cruise to the ABC islands. We had an excellent over all cruise. We have reservations to go to Aruba for 11 nights in August (2024) and wondering if anybody ever taken a cruise and got off at a port to stay? We already have our hotel stay there for August and our return airfare (Aruba to Florida) and I realize the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886 allows us to take the cruise out of the US and disembark in a foreign territory with no issues. I also contacted Aruba Customs who verified we are allowed to get off the ship and stay in Aruba and fly out from there providing we complete our customs ED card to return back to the states and now to figure out how to get the ship to pre approve providing us with a cruise immigration form to be completed by them to allow us to do this. Has anybody gotten off the ship and stayed at a port? Review of the Beyond We cruised this ship before and many of the workers remembered us plus in October we were on the Equinox and workers from that ship moved over to the Beyond, we pretty much knew everybody on that ship. Cabin steward was the best in all my 105 cruises, every time we went back and fourth to our cabin, we always saw him, he was always there day and night and was excellent. Oceanview Cafe, amazing, with so many choices, we even had dinner twice here and all the food was excellent. I just wished it wasn't I wouldn't of eaten as much hahaha. Cabin was always cool, its the only cruise line that we get cool temperatures in our cabin and the pillows were great and bedding. We booked this last minute so had a guarantee oceanview which they gave us a deluxe oceanview very forward on deck 8. Disadvantage is that when we docked each time in port an hour before we heard noises that woke us up, we believe it was the lines/etc. for docking. I would not get this forward cabin again but the room was much larger and a huge huge window in it too. MDR food very good. We do not go to the shows but heard they were excellent. We also only saw one child on board during our entire cruise and the ship was full and it did not feel like it either. Casino treated me very nicely, won a 10+k jackpot. Negatives: Oceanview Cafe did not provide all the drink/bar servers like the Equinox did, therefore, most of the time we had to get our drinks ourselves. (liquor) MDR service by the waiters were excellent, but most of the nights there (we tried three different dining rooms) we were not able to get a drink with dinner. They really need to improve this issue. We received a comp cruise with many offers using the bar codes, but it was given to us during our last evening and was placed in our cabin after we showered/dress for dinner which we left our room at 8:15pm and when we returned to our cabin we saw the certificate and noticed if we booked future cruise we would of been upgraded to Sky Suite but the Future Cruise Desk was closed at night. I called Celebrity about this while on our drive home only for them to say we lost our upgrade to Sky Suite. I explained it was given to us during our last evening and late they can not honor the upgrade. They really need to give these certificates at least the night before the last evening. Overall we loved this ship so much that we rather not fly to Aruba in August and spend a few days on the ship, to have the luxury of doing a few days cruise plus our yearly two week vacation land stay in Aruba.

Hello all, We have anytime dining but have a question, if we dine at a particular restaurant around 7:45pm and we find we love the waiter if we ask to have the same waiter each evening at the same time do they accommodate?

I knew as you mentioned that some people did not give the correct answer because I know as a fact bigalow products are for concierge class and up. I am trying to see if somebody knows the actual brand that I will get. Not forgetful, just didn't get a brand name other than somebody saying generic for celebrity.

I asked again because I still didn't get an answer as to the brand, other than I just noticed somebody above posting it is a generic brand, cabins that are under concierge class. Bigelow brand are for concierge and above staterooms.

I thought Bigelow was only for cabins concierge and above?

Hello, We always stayed in aqua class but we booked 6 weeks out of our upcoming cruise and we only had a choice of a deluxe oceanview. What brand of shampoo/conditioner will be in these rooms? We love bigelow products in fact I buy them to use at home.

My phone is older also and I do not want the newer versions, I don't trust them more but sometimes its best not to upgrade, I find when I do upgrades I run into problems. The old app works fine.

Its very annoying and sad that people can't sleep due to these noises. We are going on the beyond next week because she goes to the ABC islands and is a 8 night cruise, we only have been getting balcony cabins for over 25 years now, we decided not to chance having this problem so we chose a deluxe oceanview stateroom on deck 8 very forward, and so far nobody has mentioned about these noises on these cabins or any of the oceanview cabins or inside cabins. Will I miss the balcony, no, I rather sleep and not have the balcony lol I really feel bad for everybody who couldn't sleep.

I have not heard any noise issues on oceanview cabins (outside cabins as you call it) but on balcony cabins.

We do not like Blu on the E class ships. We went on each of our E class cruises once or twice and never went back. But on the Equinox we got overall subperb everything in Blu on this ship, it was like night and day (Edge/Beyond/Apex vs Equinox Blu). We are going on the Beyond again next week and won't be dining in blu. Another thing, Blu on the E class we were unable to order off the MDR menu choices but the Equinox allowed us to.

Thank you!

Hello, Does anybody know the pier number of the Celebrity Beyond? Is it still number 25?

Yes, we spoke to her and met Bug the year before, I did bring cat toys but did not see her at all during our entire cruise.

Thank you. Same happened last March, we had her and it was her last cruise, we didn't even see her once, guess she was packing up her things to go home. I gather it be the same for this cruise. Last year I brought cat toys for Bug didn't see her at all so ended up bringing them home to my cats. I hear Captain Leo is very nice too.

I am on the April 27th Beyond, I just heard on Captain Kate's YouTube she was extended two more weeks. Does anybody know which week was her last week before she gets her time off? I am trying to figure out if she will be on the 27th sailing and if so, if it is her last week before her time off.