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My recommendation would be go have a nice leisurely breakfast in the MDR, go back to your room, double check that you have not forgotten anything, take your belongings and go find a comfortable place to hang out and wait until you hear the announcement that all baggage tags have been called and proceed to the gangway in a leisurely manner. You will need to be out of your room not later than 8 - 8:30 AM usually so that has to be taken into consideration. Unfortunately, as @mjkacmomsaid, most hotels, especially around cruise ports are busy on debarkation/embarkation days and rooms are not ready until the afternoon. We normally have a flight that arrives in Fort Lauderdale around noon and what we do is go to the hotel, drop our bags off with the bell desk, and then go do what we want to do for a couple of hours and then come back to the hotel and wait until our room is ready. We find grabbing a nice lunch a good way to pass the time. Taking a walk in warm weather is also nice for us since we live in Virginia where it is currently in the 30 - 55 degree range.

Hmmm -- All this talk about Elite Perks got me looking at what the latest is. On this webpage I found this -- https://www.celebritycruises.com/content/dam/celebrity/pdf/updated-captains-club-brochure-v6.pdf Two things stood out to me.. First: Captain’s Club Music + Mixology Event -- Cannot ever recall receiving an invite to this. I know there is a mixology class you can pay to attend but this is new to me. Second: One complimentary bag of laundry (wash, dry, fold). - Showing for Select and Elite but not for Elite + (I know Zenith's get free laundry the entrie cruise). Wonder if they meant to move those little asterick's over one column.

If you look at the link I posted and choose "What's Included" you will notice that there is no mention of any coffee's at all. I do agree your link, which is accessed from the same page, show them included. Sooooooo --- Will the correct Celebrity Website please stand up!

We have only occasionally eaten in the OVC, other than to grab some late night pizza, fresh fruit, or dessert. We liked it a lot more when you were served by crew members than we do now with the self serve being brought back. Although I have to say that, based on our observations, Celebrity passengers seem to be a lot more health conscious than those on the sisiter cruise line Royal, when using the buffet. You do not often see Celebrity passengers using their hands to serve themselves - Thank goodness.

Well that would depend on how much you value your time. At one of my jobs I was making around $100 an hour, but my company billed the customer around $300 an hour for my work. So, account for the time, shopping, preparing, cooking, and cleaning and tell me if it still 8 times the cost of dining at home. I will even let you have the building, gas/electricity, cooking facilities and utensils for free. Just in case you do not realize - the above is in jest but simply illustrates a point - how much to we value how we spend our time.

If I remember correctly someone posted in another thread that it was on a single bottle, not each bottle. I cannot recall ever using mine (Elite also get 20%)

The advertised hours are 8 AM to 10 PM but I cannot recall the doors ever being locked. I have read in other post that some passengers have been able to go in much earlier. I think the posted hours are actually the hours they are staffed by a Celebrity crewmember but I could be wrong. I am not an early bird when cruising.

I love Eggs Benedict but find the Canadian Bacon that comes with it on cruises to be lacking (too thin). I frequently ask for a side to go with it. Another breakfast I have become fond out, courtesy of a Pinnacle cruiser on our last RCL sailing, to order an english muffin, toasted, one egg fried hard,, and five slices of bacon. Makes a nice sandwich!

Actually there are three drink packages: Classic and Premium that are alcohol packages, and Zero Proof, which is non-alcoholic. The Zero Proof is included as a part of the Premium Beverage Package, but not the Classic. https://www.celebritycruises.com/things-to-do-onboard/onboard-packages/beverage-packages The coffee's at Cafe Al Bacio are only free with the Zero Proof (excluding the ones with alcohol), or the Premium Beverage Package.

You certainly get a lot of information and I was able to ask for a second tasting on the World Wine Tour. It's being offered on our Millennium April cruise but I have not signed up yet. I usually wait until we are onboard for this one and sign up with the Sommelier in Luminae. It's my understanding they get the gratuties, or a part of them, if you go through them on the ship.

Did not try -- the wine was served to us in tasting sized portions.

After you have checked in at the pier and the ship is open for boarding. Suite/Zenith''s are first. If you mean choose your check in time at the pier instead of boarding time, then it has been when check in occurs approximately 45 days prior to your sailing date.

All total $74.36 for two of us.

Ah, I never knew that. We've only gotten things from the MDR delivered to our room when we requested them from our Butler. I assume that post Jan 1, 2023 this is no longer avialble?

When I last did "The World Wine Tour" it was about five or six table tops in Cellar Masters where "sommeliers" from various restaurants on the ship each had a country and were offering tastings of red and white wines from that country. IIRC France, Italy, Australia, USA, and South America were the countries at ours. The sommeliers would describe the region, wine, and tasting notes for each. They had a table with buckets where you could dispose of you unwanted wine and also had pictures of cold water there to cleanse your palate between each wine if you so desired. I liked it and it was well attended but not sure I would do it again.

What ship and type of room did you have when you were able to order from the MDR. menu?

On our last B2B, Reflection December 2021, the menu was the same for both 7 day sailing. Gave me the opportunity to try dishes I did not try the first going around. I found it helpful to keep track of what I ordered and what I especially liked.

Here is the Elite Cocktail Hour drink list and the menu for the Elite Breakfast ...

To the best of my knowledge ordering from the MDR Menu is not available for Sunset veranda's. I am showing only a fixed Breakfast and All Day menu for room service on the App.

Only in Europe/UK if I remember correctly.

Here is the 2022 menu I found for the continental breakfast.

I grew up eating meatloaf, mashed potato''s, gravy, and green beans. It was a family favorite and we had it usually at least once a week. Just like ham hocks, turnip greens, and black eyed peas. Got to love good ol' southern US cuisine.

Jim, When I had this problem I found out that is was my VPN. I disabled my VPN and then I was able to sync up and view my correct onboard account information. This was on Silhouette last year.

I have found both Jameson's and Bailey's will help a little to improve the OVC coffee but little else.

Ours was November 5th. I have not checked since we cancelled the cruise and are going to spend a week in Hawaii instead.