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Oh, yes! Who is better than a dog! Not any human being!

I would love to hug that dog!

That’s really good. It was a typo in my text: parts should be switched in my first question. We have a very similar situation with booking for 12-day Millennium cruise from Singapore to Tokyo (March 3, 2025). We paid $5,264 total (cruise fare, port charges, tax, included classic beverage package, wi-fi, included gratuities (we booked this trio combo before Celebrity removed gratuities from it), refundable deposit), the lest expensive Aqua category (free upgrade to the next category) and $200 (book onboard) OBC. It was a group booking with our cruise agent. The regular price through Celebrity at that time was $8,600. A few days ago I looked and saw over $13,000 fir the same category with the same other items!

And you are not allowed to bring any food from the Ocean View Cafe. One time was walking with a boiled egg in my hand, and they stopped me from entering (it was so funny!!!).

And for Champagne (or Bellini) if one doesn’t not have a beverage package.

So many variables: Per person or for 2? Balcony or other category? Refundable or not deposit? With pre-paid gratuities or not? If answer is the former for all questions (especially for the first and second), then it's great!

I've just made another post (# 102) about this matter (in backward direction this time).

Yes, correct. However: Passport, a mandatory requirement for travelling to the USA for non-US citizens: Regardless of the purpose of your trip, whether for tourism, study, or work, a passport is a necessary document for travelling to the USA that you must have with you, as your National Identity Card will not be valid there. Similar to many other countries, your passport should remain valid for at least six months after you enter the USA and should have at least two blank pages for use by American authorities. _______________________________________________ So, in the end it's all the same. Therefore, the base of my thinking (as a world traveler so to speak) still has a foundation (excuse my tautology).

That's fine as long as a person doesn't travel for next couple (few) months from "two weeks before it expires" time. That's (potentially) actually, the best situation.

Yes. There are too many so to speak something's to live with.

Perhaps, you didn't "translate" a meaning of my post properly. It was about the fact that 10 years expiation is truly <10 years. So, people pay for 10 years when in reality they pay for 9.5 years or potentially even less.

I always wonder why it is 10 years; it should be 10.5. Then real number of years would be actually 10 years. Currently, last 6 months are meaningless for people who travel within that time. In reality it should be 10.75 years, so people would be able to apply for renewal in 10 years and get a new passport in about 3 months or less.

sounds like a (kind of) proper British joke, doesn't it? On our recent Azamara cruise we met a very nice British couple, and I learned a lot! My both posts, nevertheless, are my own "creatures".

The other hand? - Oh, boy (see my previous post # 71)!

a hand?

Caribbean only shorts

oh, those yummy restaurant attendants (waiters)!

Positive attitude (leaving negative energy behind).

Actually, you have a supporting case in your favor now (especially, if you can prove the "upgrade" verbiage). If not that, the cruise line has a right to do what they did. However, since (and if) they consider it an upgrade, now you may request a real upgrade to any available cabin in the closest category up (since the actual new cabin is technically verse than your original). PS. When we try to book a 3/4 berth cabin for 2 about, our cruise agent always warns us that a cruise line might move us to a different cabin in the same (or above) category at any time, if someone will try to book a cabin for 3/4 people, and none is available at the time of that booking attempt, and even a higher category cabin might actually be worse (location, configuration, a smaller balcony size, obstructed view like in your case, ...) than our booked cabin.

Exactly. They are ALL alike in such a matter (from Carnaval to Celebrity to Azamara to Regent), ALL.

If this matter is true, all inauguration cruises shall sail without paying passengers for first 2-4 months to justify your input. From the other hand, based on this reading, it appears cruise lines sell inauguration cruise by targeting first-time cruisers. Otherwise, they assume all mature cruisers are fullish by nature.

That’s a some piece of poetry!

That’s a tough one… Nevertheless, I prefer a nifty noble asparagus.

“In the end, they are all fruit”.

We have the Seabourn Pursuit in 4 weeks, Tahiti to Solomon Islands (been on Venture exactly 1 year ago - March 17, 2023 Brazil coast and Amazon river). The Seabourn is definitely better than Celebrity, but Celebrity is actually very good, too (we had 11 Celebrity cruises, and the next one is in March 2025, Millennium from Singapore to Tokyo). Seabourn is simply a 2-level up.