canderson

Many thanks. Like an idiot, after 15 nights, I neglected to get his email. He sure was looking forward to seeing that cute kid of his again.

It was an insert, not part of a regular page, so I can see where that might have happened. Have you heard anything about where Anu landed after his break after Constellation? We are hoping we run across him again.

Randy - That scan above was from the day 1 daily from the sailing we shared in November.

In some venues, it's been that way for many years. I recall the first time we visited Xcaret (across the bay from Cozumel), over 15 years ago, and they were checking sunscreen at the entrance.

Not since November. Is that too far back? 🙃

A Royal ship, too. Bet that's going to cost the shareholders a few bucks! https://www.kcaw.org/2022/05/12/damaged-mooring-dolphin-leaves-cruise-ship-terminal-at-half-capacity/#:~:text=The newly expanded Sitka Sound Cruise Ship terminal,a cruise ship struck an outer mooring dolphin.

It appears so for up to 100% of fare, but if a 125% was received, it appears there's still a time limit for the extra 25%.

Just curious ... what was the big deal. They provide details and photos of the top level officers in the 'daily' upon embarkation. It's not like it is any secret.

Brands available for suite setups have varied quite a bit by ship and date due to supply issues. It's a question better asked of the shoreside concierge when you are contacted shortly before your cruise. You can then specify which you prefer. Last cruise, the SC sent me a current list from which to choose. We will also be on Reflection in RS in October 22, and figure it's way too soon to guess.

DIY Americano is a piece of cake. Just need to snag a proper sized cup somewhere to go with it.

The stuff in the Oceanview is swill (the ice tea out of the taps is actually worse). They serve proper coffee at all of the Al Bacio counters I've tried, along with some decent teas.

Not true. Upper suites have Lavaza coffee makers either there when you board or made available on request.

Take a printed copy of a 2/passenger page with a timestamp on it supplied by your browser and be prepared to stand your ground. You're not responsible for X's external communications.

Yes, let your TA make the change if you want to switch! Your TA can batch several customer issues on a single call. You'll have to decide whether 8:30 works based upon itinerary. Back when there were only 2 fixed choices, if we had a cruise with a lot of ports, we'd pick late dining to assure we had time to get back aboard, relax, shower, and dress for dinner.

No kidding. Was very surprised to see this as well. Someone posted it here somewhere a couple of weeks ago. Since we're landlocked here, it's a bit of a pain to pack 4 bottles in checked luggage, and bringing them carefully as carry-on blew up for us back in 2001, not to mention the weight issues. We only take wine now if the cruise is long enough or stretched as a B2whatever and I have something special I'd like to take along. Example: dessert wines aboard are pretty dreadful as they are in many venues - just grape syrup - no acidity to back up the sugar. It's a rare climate that produces both in a grape, and then not every season. Have been known to bring something like that along, but not more than 2 bottles, even for a longish cruise.

See above. Rules recently changed on site.

Or possibly just an acknowledgement that the policy as it existed was putting people in a very untenable position in Italy due to the unique requirements there. It was certainly getting some "bad press" here.

As a consolidator, Celebrity has access to a certain amount of inventory on any particular flight (though not all of them) at a given price. Just because BA had seats available to them didn't mean that Celebrity had access to them.

+1 to THAT suggestion. I wouldn't depend upon the cabin number on my invoice being correct given all of the cancellations and shuffling that has gone on over the last months. Would definitely go into the planner online to see what cabin numbers appear for both legs. It would be unusual, even for X's IT department, to showing a cabin in available inventory when it is not, which would allow a double booking to occur -- something we just don't hear happening.

Looking at their photos of a particular stateroom class is a total crapshoot at this time. They mix and match between various ships at will. I hope the average viewer doesn't believe that when working with a particular ship within their web pages, that the stateroom photos are representative of the ship they have selected, because more often than not, they aren't. It's just bad web page management.

We here at CC are a tiny minority of cruisers. If X prominently published the details of how their policies are actually being executed, rather than generalities, far more might reconsider their plans. The Devil really is, especially in the case of quarantine policy, in the details. To answer your question specifically, it's not an either/or proposition. For most, it's a risk/reward question. It's necessary to understand both clearly for any individual to evaluate their own risk tolerance, and I'd argue that few cruisers have the information to do that, or for that matter, realize what the issues are. For those who do become informed, and X should be making that easier, there is much that X could do to alter the 'risk' side of the equation. The current application of policy has proved for some to be downright punative when it needn't have been. About all that has improved has been the practice of performing periodic wellness checks that were nil early on. On some X ships, they still haven't seemed to have figured out that those still quarantined on turn day need to eat, and that shutting down room service for lunch service presents a real problem when that's the only way that these folks can be fed. X could and should do better at dealing with COVID positive pax if they want their business, especially at top dollar rates. That was the point of my post.

Perhaps you missed the word "perhaps"?

Depends upon the water. I still have an old photo of myself somewhere reading a newspaper while floating on my back in the Dead Sea.

That's very good news... perhaps an acknowledgement that the cost of having to house positive pax was worth avoiding the negative PR being caused by offloading positive patients in Italy with their tough protocols there.

Eh? My experience in reading name tags is that most of them are Filipino. There's evidently a major agency there that Celebrity uses.