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My father passed away 3 years ago. I have been monitoring his email since then. For the first time in that time, he got a captain's club email today. Celebrity was my parent's preferred cruise line. He has close to 300 points in his account. Is there anything I can do with these? Can I "inherit" them? Should I close his account? Every time I think I've taken care of everything, something new pops up. I'm pretty sure I cannot use his points, but I'm not sure if I need to do anything with his account. Thanks for any insight.

Well, I'm older, but Disney is my cruise line of choice. With all of the current complaints with other cruise lines, the only complaint I have with Disney is the price. We haven't sailed with our kids (now adults) in over 10 years, but we love the adult areas of the ship. Disney has service like no other. We're doing a B2B on Princess in Australia/New Zealand this year (23 nights) for half the price of a Disney Cruise. For port intensive cruises, we choose Princess. For sea days and a ship experience, we choose Disney.

I just spent the day correcting this with Celebrity too. We had been booked on the Reflection and the ship changed to the Beyond. We were told everything would remain the same. Checking our reservation this past weekend, we noticed that the price had gone up. When contacting Celebrity, they admitted the fault was theirs and there was a glitch in their system. Bottom line--check your cruises!

Thank you!

New to Celebrity, but not to cruising. My cruise is June of 2024, so this is the first time any of these sales applied to me. My question is somewhat weird. It looks like we can apply OBC to our purchases. Is this only for excursions or dining and wifi packages too? The weird part is that every time I check my account, the amount of ABC in it has increased! As of right now, it's almost double what I originally had. Has this happened to anyone else? Thanks.

Thanks, but I'm still having problems. Will only allow me to book dining for the first night. Have to call them again.

We turn platinum on this cruise. Final payment is made, and our friends were even able to book us with them. What is the website version of the app? I'm not familiar with that. Thanks!

Our friends actually just signed up for the cruise last week. Prior to that, we were not able to sign up either. When my friend signed up for dining, I gave her our booking number and she was able to book us together. Still cannot book us for the first cruise.

We are having the same problem. We have a B2B booked, and have friends joining us on the second cruise. They were able to book us at a table with them for the second cruise. I did try calling yesterday, and after waiting on hold and receiving a callback, I was cut off when the agent put me on hold. She never called back. Another thing for my to do list.

OMG, I see that we are neighbors! Just got off of Narcoossee Road!

We live less than an hour from Port Canaveral, where the Caribbean Princess is going to start homeporting next year. I'm hoping all problems resolve before then.

Thank you. I feel like you understand me. 🙂 Did a lot of research today and we may try to push out to 2025. We've been on the Emerald before, and it was fine, but not like the Royal class ships--no Alfredo's! We have a FCD that needs to be used by December 2024, but I think if we purchase before then, we can use it in 2025 still. Will check out Holland and Celebrity too. Thanks!

I'm fairly low maintenance, but that is much more than I'm willing to deal with on an expensive cruise!

That is the specific cruise we are looking at, and I also wish it was on a different ship. Especially with so many sea days.

That is the cruise I would like to do, but we're going on a group cruise at the time it is offered next year, so the dates don't work for us. Glad to hear you had a positive experience on the Caribbean Princess. My friend's cruise had norovirus problems, air conditioning problems as well as problems with the thrusters. We actually choose Princess cruises when we are looking for a good itinerary.

That is our ideal cruise, except we will be on another cruise during the dates of that particular cruise next year.

Yes, by flavors I meant different ports of call. I wish there was more time spent in Iceland, so also considering a land trip. We were most recently on the SKY and have sailed mostly in that class of ship. Unfortunately, the Sky had less time in port than the Caribbean Princess itinerary. Will check out the other positive reviews.

We are considering booking a cruise to Iceland next year on the Caribbean Princess. A trusted friend just came back from a cruise on the Caribbean Princess, and said it was the only ship she would never sail on again. I've read some other negative reviews about this ship. Please tell me your thoughts. Also, if you've been to Iceland, please tell me which of the various flavors of cruises you did and liked or not. It's very hard to tell the differences between these cruises. Should we stay away from the Caribbean Princess? Thanks for all input.

Thank you all! Relaxing Robbies, that is EXACTLY the information I was looking for! We plan to go to the Lone Pine Sanctuary and do some sightseeing in town. and it looks like we can do all of that with this transportation, without the exorbitant Princess fees for the excursion, and without the ability to see more in Brisbane.

We're going to Australia with Princess this October. Specifically the port of Brisbane, there is a new port for docking which is a good half hour away from the city center. There is no public transportation from the port. Does Princess offer a shuttle, and if so, how much? Also has anyone used taxi/uber from that location? Trying to plan our own excursions, but want to be sure we can make it on time. Thanks!

Thank you. We're usually do it yourself people, but for these cruises, it seems better to use the cruise excursions for timing in ports. For this port, we're on the Royal Princess in October, with port times also from 8-6.

Adding on. Since for us, Yorkeys Knob is a tender port, is it better to do this as an excursion through the cruise line? Or would we be fine transporting ourselves to the train and skyway on our own. Thanks.

Did both of our Australia and New Zealand eta's today. Easy to do the Australia one on the app, but the NZ one would only go through on the computer. Final cost for the two of us was about $100 USD. At least that is done now, so we can start booking excursions.

Thank you both!

After not being able to get through on the NZeta app, my husband decided to do it online. In addition to a NZ$23 charge for the application, he was being charged a NZ$35 fee for IBL, which is an environmental fee for visitors. I have never seen this mentioned before. The only thing he was not sure of when filling out the application was whether he was in transit or visiting NZ. We will be on a round-trip cruises from Sydney, with all of our ports in NZ. Thank you for any insight.