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Suzi66

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    Australia
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    Craft, Theatre
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Celebrity
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Australia/ NZ / South Pacific

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  1. At Sydney they start taking your bags very early (9.30 - 10 ish) even if they aren't allowing any one on. Just drop off your bags once you leave the hotel and go for a walk around Circular Quay, visit the Opera House etc until your check in time.
  2. Does anyone have any idea of the menu. I have dietary restrictions and there is usually nothing I can eat so we try the buffet. In a couple of weeks we are doing E-class for the first time and I am wondering if the menu for the concierge lunch will be any different?
  3. I was actually annoyed with Celebrity at Phuket. I purposely booked shore excursions so that we didn't have to wait for tenders and possibly miss our excursions. The meeting point was "on shore", so we still had to find our own way via the tenders. There was also no information via Captains Club so we could get early tenders as Elite, nor as we were in Aqua cabins. So we just had to go super early and wait around until the meeting time, rather than miss the meeting time. It was much more organised at Indonesia which offered priority tendering for both Captains Club and excursions
  4. In January this year it was most definitely tender.
  5. I have done several trips on Celebrity since being diagnosed as Coeliac. (I have always been lactose intolerant so I need to have meals catered for both now). Eclipse was last September, January and March, Solstice this January as well as the Millennium this January. Bread is very hit and miss so if you want bagels you are better off bringing your own, however I have found that I can get a good amount of food that I like. I pre-order the night before in the MDR and anything I want is altered to suit, with some exceptions. The only problem I have had recently is on the Millie which had very few options in the buffet for breakfast compared to the Soltice which I was on just beforehand (a S2S cruise). HOWEVER for some really good GF options you can go to the Spa Cafe for breakfast and lunch as they always make sure they have them and they have lovely cookies there as well.
  6. I was on the second sailing out of Melbourne as well, and was surprised with how few passengers, but put it down to it being just before Christmas and such a short cruise. We did it just to try Virgin and were so happy we then booked more for next season as we had 3 booked with Celebrity already for this season. We were quite late booking as we didn't even realise they were coming to Australia until about a month beforehand and I wonder how many cruisers were the same. Already had this seasons plans in place, and didn't know about Virgin coming until just before they got here, but were definitely planning on sailing on them next season. I've been waxing lyrical about the food, just as someone as allergies and having GF and many other things covered easily where ever we ate, and suggesting that people try Virgin in future. Well, that won't be happening next season.
  7. We were in Aqua and were able to have both menus for dinner as well because of the same reason. We really loved it.
  8. I can give you the Luminae lunch hours as well. From what I have they are all at the same time.
  9. I have all my Celebrity Today's from the Jan 16-28 cruise. This was our schedule. MDR on day 2 was 12-1.30, the same for the 24th and the 25th. Any other questions about mealtimes you want me to help with. Buffet was until 2.30 as was Sushi on 5. Spa Cafe until 2 and the Pool Grill until 6. Everything closed on the dot that they said they were going to and GF foods were often hidden away (at least at breakfast they were) and things that were marked as GF on Solstice the week before were not on the Millie. As someone who is Coeliac I notice these things, expecially when they are the foods I eat a lot of.
  10. I have done this as with both Gluten and Lactose allergies. We let them know when booking that I had the restrictions so they were prepared. Dessert I was offered sorbet and fruit. The sauces were slightly different with the other courses that I picked but on the whole I had things very similar to my husband's meal or others.
  11. I can possibly help as I just got off the Millennium on the 28th of January. We did the Singapore to Benoa version, and did Hong Kong to Singapore on the Solstice the 12 days previously.
  12. I printed multiple copies as well because of the email(s - one for each cruise), but only had the one that I kept in my purse and no-one asked to look at it. No one asked to look at any government id at all when returning to ports even though we made sure we had our drivers licences with us at all time. I thought that seeing as though they have asked to see them at most AU/NZ ports and often at the South Pacific ports that it would definitely happen at these ports, but our seapass card was proof enough.
  13. There was a lot on this cruise that was a bit 'amatuerish'. A lot we were very happy with and other things not so happy with. One thing I would never have wanted to comment on and I am going to, is how guest services and the medical centre treated someone in isolation (husband). Phone calls every few hours to see how he was which was excellent. However no extra entertainment on the TV considering he was locked up for a few days with gastro and trying to order room service for him was a bit difficult as we had to try and work out what he could eat as there wasn't an actual menu and then tell room service he was in isolation when they went to charge us. We were fully expecting to get charged for medical care as he was on a drip for two visits to the medical centre but instead we got a FCC for the days he was in isolation.
  14. Unless they had wheels, they wouldn't take them. One of our overnight bags didn't have wheels. It was the only one we decided to drop off with our cases and was going to take the other as it had Steve's camera gear in it and my medication. We ended up taking it with us which was no big deal.
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