Stem to Stern

Welcome to the USA! Have a wonderful vacation! Thank you for taking us with you!

Note to self: Upon next power points opportunity webinar email, watch the darn webinar immediately.🤪 Side note: It is a shame the captain’s club members’ time spent playing webinars has been reduced from 50 power up points down to 30 power up points. Did no one else take note of this devaluation?

My future bookings are currently priced significantly higher than the prices I locked them in at.

All of my bids are still pending with two weeks to go until embarkation. Meanwhile someone else on the same sailing has already had their bid accepted.

My Cruise planner shows the following discounts tonight. First 20% Pre-cruise savings. $1,100+ for the two of us for the premium package. No thanks. Then if I scroll down and click on View Drinks here:… …the discount percentage changes to Elite Loyalty Savings 15% discount. Celebrity IT being tricky buggers again.

But make sure it is blue flannel to match your blue jeans.

This. Let us hold our breath and stay tuned and see what the deployment team comes up with. So come 2026 or 2027 I could be dead. She also paid lip service to those asking about longer, non-repeating itineraries with B2B potential. I wonder if they are regretting all these 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 day repeating itineraries.

Morning after thought: Raising your accessory game can change everything. ”Nice” jeans can be elevated by accessories they are married with. Think FMPs and bedazzled belts and bustiers. Add a touch of formality with a third piece like a black satin jacket or silky, lightweight poncho.

This.

I know right?!? I never got to ask “Define nice.”😂 Calvin Klein? Jordache? Gloria Vanderbilt? Lucky? Gap? Guess? Diesel? True Religion? Rag & Bone? Pepe? Levis? American Eagle? Joe’s? Madewell?

I just got the new opportunity email at 4:38pm Florida time. Now all I need is my evening cocktail and sushi and my day will be full and complete.

According to their website your "jean" does not have to be nice. On Evening Chic night, the recommendation evolves into "designer jean." I am not sure why the singular is used in their wording. FAQs: Dress Code & How to Dress on a Cruise | Celebrity Cruises

I got the point. My husband did not. The Earth will not shatter. What is everyone having for dinner tonight?

Ha ha. I can. On Day 1 when she escorted us on board from the terminal. And again on Day 9 when she escorted us to our suite for close contact quarantine. We never met the Yacht Club Director on board our recent MSC sailing.

I just emailed you. Thanks.

As an added precaution I have also added Melatonin to the packing list. Benadryl just might not cut it if the bowling balls and sledgehammers are too loud. 🤣🤣🤣

I don't know. I have never had the lobster chips.

I miss the pre-Le Petit Chef Qsine days. Our go-to potato chips are Utz Honey Barbeque.

It definitely puts the hoppenized and revolutionized sky suites on Summit to shame.

Yikes! This is the first unfavorable report I have read from an SV. Hopefully all those shims and calmer Caribbean seas keep matters quieter on our upcoming Beyond sailing.

Speaking of liberating, isn't your MSC Yacht Club cruise coming up? Curious to read what you think about it.

Is the noise happening in any aft-facing Sunset Verandahs?

A milestone birthday month for me. Looks like there will be plenty of room for a couple of stowaways. DH and I could sleep on the verandah. Just sayin'.

Bon voyage Cathy!

If by "middle" you mean aft-facing, non-corner sky suites, then I also find it a bit perplexing that these would have sold before the corner ones. It could any number of reasons. There are still two, maybe three corner aft sky suites (Sunset Sky Suites) available on our upcoming Silhouette cruise. I think the remaining availability has more to do with insane pricing than inferiority. We have a weak MoveUp bid pending on the category, but not optimistic about winning. There are a couple of other non-corner aft sky suites remaining as well. We would be just as content with one of those. For us it is all about Luminae and the aft view, not the corner. Although it is fun to sit in the round window in the corner ones. We had and loved 1665 on Silhouette in the past.