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We have cabin 1648 on the Reflection in December. Could you explain what you meant by "generally unobstructed"? There is no window washing equipment to worry about, right? I have debated trying to snag a cabin more forward...right now there are very few A2 cabins available on my sailing.

 

Thanks for any information!

Laura

Hi Laura,

No, nothing to worry about as far as window washing equipment or anything major. Deck 12 extends out further than deck 11 so all of the cabins on deck 11 have the overhang and the supports but they really don't impact your view at all. The natural light in the cabin is great and you will have a perfect view of everything. It's a great location, close to the midship elevators and stairs, and since there are cabins above and below you get no noise at all from the pool deck or spa. If Corazon is your cabin attendant she is terrific. Enjoy your cruise - I think that you'll be very happy with 1648.

Barry

Sailing on the Reflection 3-30-13 in Aqua class 1569 (hopefully a good choice in room selection). First cruise with Celebrity. We have the Classic Drink package and were wondering if we should upgrade to the Premium or is there a good selection with the Classic? Can one person upgrade (when we get on the ship) to the Premium package or do both of us have to upgrade?

I would say that upgrading would depend upon what you like to drink and what you'd like to try while on board. There is a good assortment of cocktails (including specialty and frozen) that you can get for $8 and under but your selection of wines by the glass and premium beers would be limited. In addition, if you're planning on sampling the cocktails at either the Martini Bar or Molecular Bar it will be worth it to do the upgrade. None of the drinks on either of those menus falls within the $8 limit so a couple of those each day would cover the upgrade. We had the Premium Package on Reflection and it was definitely well worth it as we sampled our way through the entire Molecular Bar menu.

Didnt know the Qsine cocktails were included - they weren't in January! while we enjoyed Qsine on Reflection, we weren't as wowed as we had been on Eclipse and summit - mainly because our waiter didnt sell things well (luckily we knew how things worked) and we had tried almost all the menu items before. Definitely worth doing at least once though. I wish we had asked for the waitress with short blond spiky hair looks like Ann Burrell) she seemed like a lot of fun.

Our friends were in Qsine the same night as we were and they had the waitress with the spiky blond hair. They loved her and seemed to be having a really great time. As far as the drink package goes - it seems to be a moving target in Qsine - maybe we just got lucky. :-)

Hi there -how were the drinks? Worth the $1 upcharge? Also curious any great likes or dislikes with Qsine. Leave on Saturday for the Reflection and can't wait!

 

Thank you!!!!

The drinks in Qsine (at least the ones that we had) were definitely worth the $1 upcharge. Qsine was a really fun experience but we were just 2 and some of the dishes are huge. In particular M's Favorites (the Mediterranean wall of food) has 13 components on its own, some good & some not so much, so that really stopped us in our tracks. The Lava Crab and the Slider Party were both fantastic as were the tacos. We got the Crunchy Munchies with the sliders and it was kind of unnecessary since the sliders already came with fries. I'd definitely do it again because there were a ton of things that we didn't even get to try. We also thought that next time we'd try to slow the pace a bit by only ordering 2 dishes at a time.

Whatever you decide to do I think that you will enjoy the experience and the staff in Qsine on Reflection is wonderful.

So glad you had a great time (don't forget to post your cabin report). I can't thank Becky (Lobster129) from our Roll Call enough for the storage cube idea. As she said, we should have bought stock in Closetmaid;)

I posted my cabin review in the sticky thread yesterday. We were in Aqua Class cabin 1648 on deck 11 and it was great.

SHIP: Reflection

CABIN #: 1648

DECK #: 11

CLASS: Aqua

AREA: Starboard Aft

BED NEAR: balcony

QUIET?: very quiet

BALCONY VIEW: generally unobstructed

BALCONY SIZE: standard

WIND A PROBLEM?: not too bad - we used the balcony on sea days comfortably

SOOT A PROBLEM?: no

PROBLEMS/COMMENTS: this is a great, quiet cabin close to the elevators

It is just the special cocktails (the ones you order via the iPad menu) that are excluded for some reason :confused: You can order the sangria by the glass as well as wine by the glass. I don't know about "regular" mixed drinks but someone else might.

Hi All -

Just following up on this particular part of the thread. We're just off of Reflection (3/9 - 3/16) and we were definitely able to use our premium beverage package to order the specialty cocktails in Qsine with only the $1 upcharge. Not sure if they've changed the policy since Library Lady's cruise or if they've just clarified it but our waiter was more than happy to let us use our package.

Thanks again for the great review and all of the totally useful tips. We're just back from our March 9 Reflection sailing and took your advice about walking up to the fort when planning our day in San Juan. I have to say that the best tips of all were the ones about the Closed Maid cubes and the hanging shoe rack. The cubes came in very handy to store things like socks in the overhead cabinets and the small cubes (7x7x5) fit perfectly in the bedside tables to hold all of that small stuff that usually ends up on the night stands but the best of all was the shoe rack! That is coming with us on every trip from now on both at sea and on land!

Evening shows are an hour, approximately, so you really wouldn't have time to eat between shows. You would need to decide whether to eat before or after the show. We liked to eat after 8:00 pm ourselves so whether we went to a show before or after dinner would depend on the show schedule that night.

Only place where you really want to eat early is Qsine.

Perfect - thanks for the info. We want to book some specialty restaurants before we depart so this is a big help.

Thanks for a great review with a ton of information Sandi! We'll be doing our first cruise on Reflection (and on Celebrity) next month and are really looking forward to it.

I have a question for you about the evening shows. About how long do they run? I'm trying to figure out the best time for specialty dining reservations and how that would fit in between early or late show times. We generally prefer to eat later rather than earlier, especially on vacation.

Just booked it last week so we will be on Reflection's March 2, 2013 sailing to San Juan, St Maarten & St Kitts.

Slight change of plans...make that the March 9 sailing on Reflection. Same itinerary.

Slight change of plans...make that the March 9 sailing on Reflection. Same itinerary.

Haven't booked yet but we're looking at a 7-day Eastern Caribbean on Celebrity Reflection in March.

Just booked it last week so we will be on Reflection's March 2, 2013 sailing to San Juan, St Maarten & St Kitts.

Haven't booked yet but we're looking at a 7-day Eastern Caribbean on Celebrity Reflection in March.