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Ah thank you. I have to go back to checking out the other websites again. Thats a pretty significant savings. thanks again.

Hi, we are booking a holiday cruise next month on Apex and we usually use the cruise line website to book, however, i checked a non cruise cruising website, pretty mainstream one, and its about $1700 cheaper for the 2 cabins we are looking at. Everything looks the same, room type, free offers, etc. Does that sound right? We have been under the impression that there was no real price difference between using a TA vs. the cruise line websites to book. Thoughts? Am i missing something?

Thanks Again for everyones help on this last minute cruise. Amazed how smooth it went for only booking 4 days out. Overall, great cruise and I think we are hooked on celebrity now. Ill post a more detailed review later in the week but overall great experience. thanks

Ah, those are the key words i was looking for. Cellular at Sea. After searching my carrier for that, ATT, its $50 for 50 min talk and unlimited txt, or $100 for unlimited talk and text. Not bad at all. Thanks for your help.

Kinda the opposite question that is usually asked about this, but i need to make and receive some calls on one of our sea days and i was wondering if it would work on silhouette and second, what the charges will be. I know i can use wifi, but i dont trust the sound quality or receiving calls. Whenever i try to use WIFI to receive calls, its hit and miss. I was on a RCL ship a couple years ago and left my cell on and received a call while we were at sea so i think its possible, i just dont know if it only works on certain ships or all ships. thanks

Thanks everyone for the awesome responses. I think a lot if not all of these questions are redundant, but we are on a super time crunch so i appreciate you reanswering them. Thanks again

Thanks Everyone. we booked last night so now im asking a bunch of dumb questions on here that im sure have already been answered, but we are in panic mode. Booking this close to the sailing is way outside of our comfort zone... Thanks again.

So, we are new to Celebrity, but have cruised just about every other mainstream cruise line. We booked a last minute cruise this coming thursday last night which we have never done before, but our VRBO got cancelled last minute and this 4 day cruise turned out to be a better deal than booking another one. Thanks for everyone's help with Aqua vs Concierge suites. We do have a couple questions given the documentation we have received to date has been somewhat vague. We did book online through the celebrity website which was pretty easy, but we got very little in email as to what was included. Questions We did verify that we have the drink package, assuming classic, wifi and gratuities. My question is how difficult is to upgrade the drink and wifi packages once on board assuming there is no way to do it prior because the prices listed look to be full price. $75 pp per day. Im going to guess we get some credit for already having the classic package. Should we wait to book the spa treatments when we get on the ship? Again, this is something we usually do months in advance but given we are so close to the sail date we are thinking we might get a better deal if we wait? Especially if we do it during a port day because we dont plan on getting off the ship in nassau. We usually buy the dinner packages when we cruise on RCL or NCL, but when we were cruising on Princess and HAL, before kids, the food in the MDR was pretty good. Is that the case on celebrity? Do they make you take a covid test then you get to the port or just look at vax documentation? We sailed NCL last december and it was a pretty extensive testing process when we got to the port. Just wondering if that has relaxed a bit Thanks in advance for any advise you can give us. We were really stressing last night about booking a cruise so close to the sail date, especially a line we have never been on. We are also flying to miami the day of the cruise which is also a big no no for us. But it is a 6:50am flight so fingers crossed that goes as planned.

email invoice was very vague so we called and there was an issue with the gratuities which they corrected and sent us a PDF which looks more in line with the receipt we are use to getting with other lines. it does say AI so i think we are good. thanks

Thanks everyone. We went with aqua with the recommendations. One question though, on our email confirm is make no mention of the all included drinks, tips, etc. It definitely said it on checkout. Is that listed somewhere else? We booked directly through celebrity online.

Yep, both same price.

Hi, we are looking at booking on Silhouette this coming thursday, 11/3 and have the option of aqua class or concierge class for the same price. Any recommendations on which would be a better choice? Looks like aqua has access to the persian garden, have no idea what that is, and a private resteraunt, and the concierge class has access to a concierge. Both rooms and other perks seem the same. And sorry if this has already been discussed, but have to book tonight so really in a time crunch. Thoughts? and thanks in advance.

Hi, We are looking at a MSC cruise and have never cruise this line before, but the itinerary matches our needs. I think this has been asked an answered a lot on this board but we dont have time to sift through the answers and wanted to know if this line is more like carnival or RCL? We are not big fans of carnival and prefer RCL and NCL but they dont have anything that meets our dates so we are considering MSC and dont know anything about this line. We are looking at Seascape over the holidays. appreciate any info you can give. Thanks

Thanks everyone for the info. We talked to our kids last night and they are excited about trying another cruise line. I should have shared what cruise we were considering in my original post. We are looking at either a southern or eastern cruise over thanksgiving this year. Amsterdam or Statendam. We are all divers so we are leaning toward eastern given it gives us more ports to dive at, however, we may not be able to fly in a day before, friday, and that is always a requirement. We never fly in the day of the cruise. Waaaay to stressful. thanks again

Hi, we sailed HAL years ago, 90s and early 2000s and were wondering what has changed if anything. We were in our 20s-30s when we cruised HAL and were definitely the youngest ones on the ship which we actually liked given weren't big partiers. We also liked the quiet... We had kids and switched to RCL and NCL over the years, but now that our kids are late teens, we were thinking come going back to HAL with our kids given they are also pretty laid back like we were. They are 19-17yo and didnt like getting swarmed by young kids on our last cruise. So, looking at some youtube videos, it looks like there is more of an age mix than what we experienced and the ships definitely look like they have more things to do on board. I believe the last HAL ship we were on was the Maasdam... Our last cruise was NCL Getaway over Christmas 2021. Any info would be greatly appreciated as well as this is a bad idea comments if thats the case. thanks