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The fitness center is often very active early in the morning.

Typical Celebrity. We were on one cruise where multiple crew members (in particular the front desk and cruise director) were declaring "there are no COVID cases on board" while five minutes later the captain announced mandatory masks because of the unusually high number of cases.

It's in the T&C and the rules of every PUP opportunity: "Club Points converted from Power Up Points in a given month will be rounded up to the nearest whole Club Point." They wrote the rules.

They round up, so it would be 1 CC point.

No cash back for foreign transactions.

There is no way to sign up for Venetian Society - you get enrolled after your first cruise. However, if you find a current member, they do have a referral program where you both get a cruise discount (I can't remember how much it is - maybe $250 each). Silversea is definitely worth it if you value the excursions. If you don't care about them, the value proposition is lower. We only have one SS cruise under our belts, but will be back.

My wife has pneumonia and we had to cancel our Hawaii cruise a few days before departure. We were denied the possibility of moving it. But we should get it all back from her credit card insurance.

I will as well.

No CPAP requires water. It's a choice you make as a user. I don't use water in either my home or travel machine.

I can see them offering 5 power-up points (not 5 CC points).

Look at the airline's Contract of Carriage. Most will rebook you on another airline if necessary.

There are also countless pictures of every landmark in the world, so does that mean most photos are pointless?

If you like the locks you have to try the Douro River. The locks are far more interesting there (including the tallest single lift locks in Europe at around 35m each) than the Panama Canal. And you don't have to compete with 2,000 people on the ship to see it all...

You could probably buy some near your departure port.

The general rule of thumb is that rest time should be the same as cook time.