bikerunner

Definitely on the TA, if you were not informed that you booked non refundable rate. The TA's I deal with that is always my first question on rates they give me, is this a refundable rate or non refundable. What is cxl policy etc. Plus been dealing with them for years and they know what I look for. I book far out usually 1+ year when cruises come out for good rates, things change and I know it from work wise happenings. Not a Celebrity issue, there is a reason the Non refundable rate is cheaper, because its non refundable. To me its clear, hotels do it all the time, so do many resorts etc. I will pay the extra for refundable as its just part of traveling for me at this point. When I retire things might be different and will be able to last minute kind of bookings.

I bought stock when in the 40s and sold, thought I would keep it just for the OBC but 3x invest much better choice, not like Im going to go on that many cruises with Celebrity down the road as I am aiming for River cruises and smaller ships for the next few years it looks like.

Its in most of the lounges, not one specific spot, a few bars do not have the happy hour for elites, mainly the World Class Bar and Restaurants also do not. All info will be in your room for your level of benefits that you qualify for.

I prefer Tuscan much more than Murano Never had a bad meal experience in either, but Murano has slipped some in my experience the times I went ot it last year. 2 times. On S class Tuscan has a great location and always been great all around each time. But all have different tastes and what they look for in restaurants.

The shop that sells them was up to Jan owned and run by LVMH, so the items are authentic, LVMH just sold the retail part of the ships and hotels that had these shops to a company that already ran a bunch of these type of stores for LVMH. LVMH is one company that does not screw around with fakes, there reputation is everything. We ended up picking up some very unique Hermes scarfs for a decent price. T

People only read headlines, and do not bother to look at the whole context or post whole context. Thats unfortunate. Honestly, I have seen the signs posted for years with the Solarium for kids at odd hours, 5-7 etc. Been sailing since early 2000's with them. Personally, Im thinking of putting a title of Celebrity Moving on from M class ships and S class ships and see what happens. Yes in 30 years guess what those ships most likely will not be in the fleet but almost want to see and be amused by people who only read headlines.

Good beer, The hazy blonde was super refreshing. Should have gone to Juggies Place, greatest dive bar out there. Just for the owner himself. Was laughing the whole time there with his stories

There is actually a deck 13, Celebrity just numbered them wrong.

Not that I have seen, but I also have purchased it on the embarkation day. You can always ask, I know for my last cruise the Persian garden sold out of passes so your playing with that scenario also.

No issue with this as it makes sense, tbh many of the so called adults during the day need to be banned from the solarium. Snoring loudly, yelling across the pool etc. Seen the people who say they are grownup act 100x worse than kids on board way to often in solarium.

Your overall generalization of all kids is very short sighted. Will some of course, but I know many, my cousins kids and a few other families, who do not want to go on NCL or RCCL after they started going on Celebrity. like mentioned, its just a madhouse and tends to be a lot of one big click type atmosphere, On the RCCL/NCL ships.

Last time in December when I got off, I called an UBER and picked up in 10 minutes. I had a 10am flight and was off the ship by 745 and at airport by 810 and checked in, I also do have TSA precheck so that was quick and easy also. Also take a look to see how many other ships are disembarking during that time. I only had 2 others that day so it was minimal crowds overall early morning at airport and pier. Walking off early I thought about but I had done early flights before with no issues. The only hold up can be bad weather, customs not clearing ship quick etc. I have never experienced any of those issues, but there are people who have. But to me they rarely happen. Gone 18 or so cruises thru Ft Lauderdale and never an issue. Ft Lauderdale cruise port is very close and convenient to the airport.

Also a big thing with me on upgrading to premium is I drink 3-4 San Pelligrinos a day, especially in the Caribbean. Those are not included in classic. Also the daily juice from Spa cafe. I was able to upgrade when they had a sale on it for like 6.99, had a sale Black Friday range so it was definitely a no brainer. Watch for sales, they are not always across the board on every sailing.

Be careful of the pricing I believe if you're looking at Edge current menus the ship is in Australia or South Pacific which with the pricing for there the tips are built into the price. So for example the martinis which are 20 currently would be fully covered by the premium package. No additional cost to having premium package. The 17 is when it is sailing for say Ft Lauderdale. It does get confusing but when Celebrity sails from England and or Australia it throws everyone off when looking at drink prices.

This bottle is a deal on board. Its a great Pinot (drink this at home often), I pay 55 In NH Liquor stores (state run) for it. I have seen conflicting if you can order it by the glass with like a 4 dollar surcharge based off Premium.

Yes the Reflection has a large area for the Persian Gardens and includes my favorite room, it has a cold room on the Reflection, the other Persian Gardens on other ships dont have that room. The reflection is an S (Solstice) class ships and include the persian gardens with your D+ from RCI

You would need to speak to the Matre de and chef about these restrictions. The menu is a set menu but they have done some specials with people with restrictions. Not something you can get a clear answer to you get onboard and speak to them.

You need to speak to someone at one of the restaurants. Hopefully this changes in the future

Food is all subjective. My nov dec cruise i didnt find anything special with the speciality reataurants overall. They were good but not worth the upgrade over mdr when i sail aqua i usually just stick with blu. The persian garden pass is probably around 270 pp for 11 day pass. I use the peraian gardens at least once a day sometimes twice. So blu the aqua rooms would be a move i fo. But others dont see value in them I assume your looking at doing a move up bid. With that you have no control over room you could get as many of awua are inder pool area

The drinks and wifi and grats needed to be added on if you buy a cruise only rate. There is an all included rate you can get that adds the wifi and drink pkgs but. grats on either rate will need to be added in. aqua yiou do get the persian/thermal areas to use along with ezclusive to eat in blu for both breakfast and lunch.

Suite passengers still get complimentary room services. Aqua rooms and below do not. i would not want it wrapped into price as i never use room service.

Yes yiu sre all set on those cruises. I have one ccoming up and also was no issue in my nov/dec cruise after the change on prior booked under the old promo

Got mine usual Jan time others got a few days after the date. But mostly mid January

It will not apply to the inclusive package. Those discounts only apply if you buy the products Ala carte. So you would need to purchase a cruise only then buy each part you want. The included rates usually come out much better overall when purchasing cruise, With it being 2800 or about more if adding the inclusive drinks and wifi, 140 a day pp for the upgrade that is very high overall and it would be more ideal to just purchase the wifi and drink package separately but it is just figuring out the math with this. Wifi fluctuates in pricing based on sales, right now it's 30% off on my cruise or 16.99 per day reg 25.49 pd.

No one knows. They run them at times but when sales on excursions etc happen is a guess. Maybe presidents weekend, et.