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

PDF available here >> This menu should cover all M class ships, including Summit, until they go to a new 14 day menu.

While true, the cost may well be. If to get the newer fare, it is necessary to cancel/rebook for any reason, you have to deduct the deposit from the savings on the new fare to see where you come out.

All Celebrity casinos are non-smoking.

What's silly is that it appears we would be able to sail into FLL after a trans-Atlantic cruise from Barcelona after spending 13 days fairly well confined (lots of at-sea days) with a couple of thousand other people in October -- without testing before arrival in FLL -- but would be required to test to fly home from Barcelona after being with just a couple of hundred people for a 9 hour flight. Go figure. Have to wonder if this craziness will be done with by then.

IIRC, non-refundable OBC coming from a TA is actually a passthrough from Celebrity, so technically not TA OBC.

If you're OK with black and white, and can email the image to yourself, you should be able to log into your webmail from the Internet Cafe and print it that way. No need to plug anything into their machines, which as Ian notes, is (usually) a non-starter.

Typically not. As you say, it typically doesn't appear until the start of your cruise. That said, if you suddenly find a bump in your OBC, it may be an exception. In any case, yes, if it's in your cruise planner, you can use it! Was the amount the $ that you expected from your TA?

Are you referring to the generic early/late seating? That's still available, and is set up when making the cruise reservation itself. Changing early/late can be done by your TA or with a call to Celebrity. If you chose the 'anytime' (aka Select) dining option, you make reservations on your own.

And I think that's understandable, given that the change in protocols pre/post-COVID has increased the risk of financial loss. I think a lot of folks are now saying, "Hey, look... your prices are way up again. Your protocols put a great deal of our cash at risk. If you want us to spend even more than we were paying pre-COVID, you need to help us mitigate the financial risk". Whether that's reasonable can be argued, but it's certainly understandable. As an example, in the 'old days', the primary risks to missing the start of a cruise were flight delays. Now everyone has to deal with the possibility of being in a foreign country, preparing to board, being asymptomatic, and discovering that they're COVID positive the night before. At least the lines are still compensating passengers for that eventuality. Beyond that issue, however, the lines are making it less and less their problem and more the problem of the passenger. The real issue, of course, are the protocols in place specifically for COVID and whether those protocols continue to serve the objective -- or rather, whether the objective still makes as much sense as it once did. By now, I think it's clear that since the omicron variant came into play, taking a zero-COVID approach is a fool's errand. We've seen many threads here outlining the consequences to passengers. If the lines insist on both high prices and high risk of a bad experience (due to protocols) together, people will object. Given the current threat of omicron, should onboard experience for those testing positive be greatly improved if they're willing to take the risk of cruising knowing that protocols won't be quite so draconian?

Was nice enough on Connie. Pretty well stuffed myself at lunch one day.

They want you off the ship in case you test positive. Their current policy makes them responsible for dealing with your situation if you're still aboard and test positive.

Apart from a malfunction of a tour bus or boat, or an extreme traffic problem (all of which can happen, but rarely do), returning too late for another excursion 90 min later would be very unlikely.

Re the house tours, specifically down in the Battery area.

Saw this, but won't make a difference to us. Our cabin has been sold out for eons, and the occasional SS that briefly reappears at times (where we've put 'the kids') was purchased for a lot less than Memorial Day Bonus $600pp off the current price. Still, worth knowing these are still popping up. TRANSATL RF 10/31/2022 13 NIGHT SPAIN, AZORES & BERMUDA BCN 13 RF13T114 What's interesting, though, is to see that they're offering 2X the discount and OBC for cruises closer in (2022) than they are for 2023/24. Trying to bring some of the cash closer in it would appear.

From the cruise port, you can walk down Bay St. to the Battery and back up Meeting St. Figure a mile from Union Pier down to the battery, a short walk west, and another mile or so north back to the dock. You could eat your way down and back and spend a few weeks trying to do the round trip! Recommend you use TripAdvisor or similar to get a feel for the many opportunities in that area of town.

As I've said here before, when my time comes to take that boat ride down the river Styx, I fully expect that when I disembark in Hades, I'll find myself facing a Diamonds International at the end of the dock.

If you're referring to the "original" approach where it seemed they were going for brain matter, we haven't seen that technique used anywhere in the last year or so.

If you can still score the Michele Ciaro Barolo aboard, it's drinking very nicely.

The Celebrity/Grgich (Opulence?) label red was pretty good if looking for by the glass.

Not since the restart have we seen the "Extend Your Stay" program offered on any X ship. As has been suggested, there are sometimes tours of a sort offered as part of the airport transfer.

We're you inside their 20 minute rule?

I'll call your maitre d' and raise you a Russell from Constellation 😁 Experiences seem to be very ship-dependent. Our Nov Connie cruises, even the high pax count leg, provided the best service we've ever had on an X cruise, AND it was a restart to boot.

If there were any positives, you can bet close contacts were being tested whether you were aware of it or not.

All grand except for those who are required to test due to contact tracing. Might not even be symptomatic, but discover they're positive. Ouch.