M8lyx

Finally the AquaClass bid has been accepted today. More than 3 weeks since the bids was locked out. 

Thank you for everyone comments. 

On 1/17/2022 at 11:47 PM, M8lyx said:

 

• Ship:  Equinox
• Length of Cruise:  12
• Cruise Sail Date:  March 13, 2022
• Date email offer received: Jan 13, 2022
• Captain’s Club Tier:  Preview
• Booked through Celebrity Direct OR via TA: Direct
• Current Cabin:   Inside 
• Bid?  Yes/No:  Yes. Waiting.  

General Comments (offer details, etc.)

Minimum Bids

AQ £400 PP 30% reduction £285

CON £290PP

Family Veranda £290 PP

Veranda £185 PP 30% reduction £130

Ocean V £35 PP

 

Finally my bid for AQ has been accepted. Minimum bid of £285pp

Still no credit card charge or accepted offer email. Cabin still showing original cabin. This has now been 2 weeks since the bids was locked out. 

Does anyone know a email address for Celebrity  power up points please? 

5 minutes ago, 5waldos said:

Would your online reservation show a new cabin number? Or have I missed that you have looked at that already? 

Still showing original room number. On both online accounts and the Celebrity app. 

2 minutes ago, 5waldos said:

Duh- yea, probably. Long afternoon. 

Yeah sorry that’s is what it means. Although the credit card I have used is slow to show charges.  I sometimes get goods I have bought on it before it shows up on the account on the app. 

1 hour ago, jagoffee said:

 

RBKL is correct. Congratulations.  I am assuming that the Veranda does say expired and you only have one other bid for the Aqua.

this is what has been reported.  Circle back and let us know.

 

Once they accept your bid, you cannot change or cancel it.

 

enjoy.

Yes see below. This is how it has been since Friday. No charge on cc or email notifications of being accepted. I can not change my bids and if I click on my email to bid up. It says “my name” is not eligible for the program. 
 

I will let you know if anything changes. 

On 2/11/2022 at 7:13 PM, jagoffee said:

Two days before you cruise would be about the time that you would be officially notified that you did not win.  
 

I would say that you did not bid high enough for the FV.

 

Do any of your bids say expired?  Can you still change your bid? 
 

Good luck.

HI I have bid on Veranda and Aquaclass the Veranda now says expired and I can not change any of my bids. What does this mean? I thought you should be able to change your bids up till 2 days before?

Does both parties in the same room have to upgrade or can just one of you do it. I don't drink but my OH does? 

On 2/18/2022 at 2:24 PM, Jeremiah1212 said:

 

They set it up differently this time. Each user that registered had a unique URL. I just saved the URL. However the only time I have emailed about missing PUP points, they added them with no questions asked. 

What email address did you contact please? 

On 2/16/2022 at 9:53 PM, M8lyx said:

Hope this helps. Have you got the reduction now? 

My veranda bids now says expired but the AquaClass still says pending and I can no longer alter the bids or bid on any other class. 
does this mean the veranda has been rejected? 

4 minutes ago, owensjro said:

Our daughter had the kids drink package on our last cruise in late December on the Summit. A "milkshake" was in fact simply a virgin mudslide. It's good, but not really a milkshake.

 

I would just get a bowl of soft serve and a glass of milk from the buffet and make my own 🙂

But there’s clearly a strawberry milkshake in the photo on th kid’s package. That can’t be a virgin mudslide?  I’d be very disappointed if I’d paid for my kids drinks package and there was only Virgin mudslides. 

Thank you all for you comments. 
They do do milkshakes as it’s on the kids drink packages. See below. 
The pictures look delicious so I was hoping to be able to have a few. 🤷‍♂️

Hi. Can you tell me if you can have milkshakes on the classic drinks package? If not is it an option for the premium package? 
 

Cheers Ian.

On 2/11/2022 at 3:18 PM, RBKL said:

I am on that sailing and haven't seen any reduction in the minimum bid amounts.

Hope this helps. Have you got the reduction now? 

I haven't got my New Years gift is there anything I can do about it. I did complete it. Is there an email address I can contact to ask them to put them on? 

On 1/17/2022 at 11:47 PM, M8lyx said:

 

• Ship:  Equinox
• Length of Cruise:  12
• Cruise Sail Date:  March 13, 2022
• Date email offer received: Jan 13, 2022
• Captain’s Club Tier:  Preview
• Booked through Celebrity Direct OR via TA: Direct
• Current Cabin:   Inside 
• Bid?  Yes/No:  Yes. Waiting.  

General Comments (offer details, etc.)

Minimum Bids

AQ £400 PP 

CON £290PP

Family Veranda £290 PP

Veranda £185 PP

Ocean V £35 PP

 

Still not been accepted. But prices lowered by 30%

AQ £285pp

Veranda £130pp

I've lowered my offer to £130pp. 

• Ship:  Equinox
• Length of Cruise:  12
• Cruise Sail Date:  March 13, 2022
• Date email offer received: Jan 13, 2022
• Captain’s Club Tier:  Preview
• Booked through Celebrity Direct OR via TA: Direct
• Current Cabin:   Inside 
• Bid?  Yes/No:  Yes. Waiting.  

General Comments (offer details, etc.)

Minimum Bids

AQ £400 PP

CON £290PP

Family Veranda £290 PP

Veranda £185 PP

Ocean V £35 PP

My partner and I are on fantasia in a few weeks time and noticed you went to Doha when sir bani yes island cancelled but I thought that Doha was on the itinerary anyway! Also grateful if you could give us any info on any excursions you thought were good,many thanks

Beamafar is right there are two itineraries.

We was on the Muscat one.

We stopped at Doha after Khasab and before Dubai. Muskat was on day two of our itinerary.

Excursions we thought was good was Dolphin at Khasab. The Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, Burj Khalifa Dubai.

We also booked independently a meal in the Burj al Arab which was special.

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We usually prepay gratuities but there wasn't a facility to do that when we did the online booking or at least we did not see it.

 

 

 

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Hi. If you phone MSC up you can pre book gratuities up to 5 days before your cruise.

We did and it cost £49 each and no service charge saving us quite a bit.

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Sent an email of letting them know our "disappointment" [emoji23].

Today they've replied with an apology and a discount off our next cruise.

So well worth an email. [emoji106].

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Hi. Thank you for your review.

I was on the MSC with you. I am thinking of doing my own review of the same cruise.

While I do agree with you about the plastic plates in the buffet restaurant. We had some good meals in both the MDR and the Buffet. Especially the freshly cooked pizzas in the buffet restaurant.

I do agree about the service for drinks most of the time we went and ordered at the bar which we didn't find too much of a problem.

You can have eggs cooked to order for breakfast in the MDR. Whatever eggs you like. Don't know if you tried the Red Velvet restaurant for Breakfast and lunch.

Was you disappointed in not going to Sir Bani Yas island?

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From reading another forum it seems there was a serious petroleum fire yesterday on Sir Bani Yas island that caused MSC to cancel the day's port call there. The fire was on the island itself and not at the cruise resort.

We was on the ship they told us there was a broken pipe that passed the channel they use to navigate the ship to the island and because of this the port authorities had closed the channel so the port was cancelled and we went to Doha instead.

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They said there was a burst pipe in the channel that the ship uses to navigate to the island so the port authority's closed the channel so we couldn't dock.

I don't remember an Italian themed night but I do remember there being an Arabian themed night.

I will have a look through the daily program papers as I kept them all.

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We docked on Friday and it took us about 15mins at the most.

What I can tell you is it will take you quite a while to even get out of the docks at Dubai as it is massive.

Hope this helps you.

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