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DieselkW

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  • Location
    Indianapolis
  • Interests
    Fishing traveling cooking baking
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Celebrity
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Amsterdam

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  1. I have to disagree. Booking multiple excursions planning to cancel all but one, seems to me to have very little benefit for the upfront cost. I mean, imagine losing track and missing the window, whether it be 24 or 48 hours. That could cost thousands. Excursions are either too expensive to play that game, or you have so much extra cash you don’t mind throwing money away because you overslept.
  2. Think it through. 24 hours before excursion vs. 48 hours before arriving in port. Day 2 6am arrival with a noon excursion means 54 hours before excursion is now policy on 1/1/24. Anyone got plans for 6am on embarkation day? Traveling? Waking up in a hotel? Don’t yet know it’s going to rain somewhere you’re going to be in two days? We will simply cancel now, and find a better tour provider to share a chunk of our vacation dollars.
  3. I was recently sickened from a bad shrimp in the Oceanview Cafe and missed a ship sponsored $450 excursion. To get reimbursed, I had to go to medical and endure isolation in my cabin, causing me to miss a $150 Viator excursion. Viator cheerfully canceled and refunded. This change in policy means once you are onboard, Celebrity will keep your money if something changes. This should result in a drastic reduction of ship sponsored excursions.
  4. We're showing menus on the Silhouette February '24, but nothing for the Apex October/November '23. I assume they're changing menus to see if they can further reduce cost and increase complaints as those two seem to be inversely proportional. Or maybe they're looking to decrease complaints with the smallest possible increase in cost. Either way - we don't cruise for food, we cruise for itinerary. The ship (hopefully) takes us where we want to go. Unless we want to go to Israel, where they're shying away while the 2000 year old "neighbor dispute" war is heating up again.
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