WestLakeGirl

Sometimes they have local currency, but often they don’t. You won’t find any local currency in the Caribbean. Mexican pesos maybe, but probably not. Where are you going?

OP, just how much wine did you drink? Your post doesn’t make sense.

Not everyone in their party has a drinks package, maybe you missed that

The water from the tap is fine to drink but if you feel the need to have container water you can buy it by the bottle (can) or in the water package

It is in the premium drink package but that’s not the same as the elite happy hour menu. That menu has some very specific beverages on it. Red Bull isnt included on that menu.

Red Bull is not one of the drinks on the Elite Happy Hour list

Lhsail, how did you order? Email? By phone? On the web?

Green Island? In Papua New Guinea? I’d love to go there but not on trip to Malta

As I remember, the wine list begins with a page of wines by the glass which are included in the classic package, then a page of those which are included in the premium package. So you should be able to see what’s on offer by consulting the menu and I don’t believe it changes from night to night although there may be ‘daily recommendations’ at each price point

Given what the OP wrote in the first post in this thread, it appears that cruising isn’t the right choice for him yet

? I see lots of Italian words on that menu ?

There are literally hundreds of itineraries that qualify!

Who knows what it will be like come Late August?

Whoa, you are cutting things way too close, imho, without doing a proctored test on board. what is your plan B?

While there are some exceptions to that standard of everything under nine dollars is included, al Bacio coffee is not an exception. Vitamin water, while priced under nine dollars, is one of the exceptions and is not available on the standard package. Perhaps the YouTube person was trying to order drinks that included alcohol and that exceeded the nine dollar limit

My crystal ball is broken. I would say offhand that not much will change as regards boarding by then.

I believe that it has been discontinued

The big difference between the airline situation and the discussion has begun by the op is that they were not blocking seats in order to save money on staff. The OP is discussing a strategy he imagined where cruise ships are deliberately trying to make customers unhappy by the cost-cutting measure of staff cutbacks, which is just not plausible

As you look at the deck plans on the Celebrity website noticed that these rooms will be re-classified by the time you are sailing. They won’t be family Verandahs anymore. So the agent who told you that there is no such thing is looking ahead to where there won’t be.

Yes they exist. You got an inexperienced agent. When is your sailing?

I keep coming back to the bizarre idea that reduction in staff is done on purpose to make passengers unhappy. I am trying to picture the board meeting where this idea was proposed. “Hey everyone, I know how to cut a lot of costs, we just won’t hire as many people which will mean that passengers will be unhappy and they will stop booking our line, how’s that for a good idea to save money.” Seriously????

Captains Club staff can track them

ipeeinthepool, You wanted the Guy to help you walk the track? I must be missing something

OP, are you implying that they are cutting back on staff deliberately, with the follow on as lowered customer satisfaction as a corporate cost-cutting strategy? That doesn’t make any sense

Not on the embarkation night, but the nights thereafter You will be able to get an unopened can of soda between 5 and 7 pm and save it for the next day