Poppet1964

I must be missing the value in the beverage packages. I just looked on the Celebrity website and noticed that the cost for the 11 night Classic package is $556 per person + 15% gratuity! We do drink frozen drinks and beers at the pool daily, a drink before getting ready for dinner as well as wine with dinner and a few cocktails after dinner along with bottles of water for use in the cabin and in ports. Having said that, we have never spent $556 for the both of us on a 7 night cruise so I am wondering if I am missing something here since the total bill for an 11 night cruise with gratuity is $1,446 for the classic package. Someone please let me know if I am confused as I am trying to find the deal here. Thank you-

Why can't I find the prices for the packages anywhere on the Celebrity site? is it because my cruise is more than 1 year away? Does anyone have the package prices?

Dear Elsplace2:

Reading some of your trip report is great I can’t wait to read the rest of the report. I am booking this same cruise this week. I want a cabin that faces some of or all of the ports when we do the same Western Med cruise on the Epic in June 2012, should we get a cabin on the port side of the boat or the starboard side of the boat?

When in June 2012? We're sailing on the 17th!

Thanks so much!

I just switched cabins to 10196 and 10198 from the Port side. We're going on the Mediterranean itinerary next year... should I have stayed on the port side? I wanted to get on the bump out.

We just got back from our med cruise. In Florence we did the NCL expedition and it was just so-so. It would have been nice to have a decent map to look at, the one provided was completely worthless and the tour guide for the morning half was just ok. We were lucky to have stumbled onto a really good restaurant for lunch and then we just walked around for the rest of the day.

 

Our Pompeii tour was through NCL was the biggest regret. Our tour guide was super boring and there's just not much there. Here's an empty house, there's an empty house, here's the sewer, there's another sewer... At least it was just a half day tour.

 

We had a private tour for just the 5 of us in Rome. It was the most amazing day ever. We saw more in one day than i thought possible. Our tour guide really knew his stuff and in the afternoon his wife took us personally through the Vatican. I still can't believe how lucky we were and at a price less than half of what NCL offered, we got to see so much more. I never once had a single concern that we would get back to the boat on time, our tour guide was so professional and made sure we left the city in plenty of time to get back to the boat.

 

After this cruise I'm not sure I will be doing any ship sponsored excursions in the future!

Are you allowed to tell us who you used for your private tour in Rome? It sounds awesome!