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I'd love to but it will be a struggle to get my husband to agree to that long a flight again. Prior to this trip 8 hours was his max. I'd also like to see other areas of the Pacific, he keeps saying NO!!!!!!!!

I would have liked a few more days but hindsight is 20/20. We saw a fair bit but there is lots to do. Many people really enjoyed the Blue Mountains, we didn't have time for that,

We did the trans pacific last year, spent 3 days in Sydney before we boarded. We used our MasterCard for everything, did not use cash at all.

Thanks for posting this, I have been looking for some new authors. Lots of interesting recommendations. You might like Louise Penny, she has a very popular series about a chief inspector in the Quebec Surete. They take place in rural Quebec and always keep you guessing. I have been reading in order, my hold with Libby for the next one started 19th in line, I'm up to 10 and still have an estimated 20 weeks. No French required to read them 🙂

For myself I prefer the ports on the Connie cruise. We have sailed her several times and really enjoy the ship but it has been a few years. We just got off Equinox this month. Great crew, we heard no food complaints, ship was in pretty good shape. It is a tough call to decide between them.

I have thought a few times that there was a price drop and then realized I was comparing an ad for base price to the all in price I had paid. Just something to keep in mind.

Computer systems are wonderful, aren't they? I always book with flights be Celebrity. When I book the flights I always get a confirmation, though it is never clear if baggage is included, they could improve that. I also get multiple notifications of changes, the last one to say our flight home was landing 2 minutes later than scheduled when we booked.

I always got the email and then suddenly didn’t (have never sent an email to anyone at Celebrity). I have been unable to register again. I stumbled across the thread 'Captains Club power up points' and started following it. People are very good about posting the links for new opportunities and I get notifications when new posts are added so I don't miss them. Just an example of how helpful Cruise Critic is.

Our first day we asked for 2 bottles of water and were given 2 - 16 oz cans, they charged us 5.90 each. We learned after that to just ask for 2 water and they gave us the included San Benedeto cans. I found it difficult to know if you were being charged for something as they always wanted you to sign, even if it was for something included in your beverage package. We cruise Celebrity more, they only have you sign if it isn't included in your package.

I think you will love the ship. We sailed on her the beginning of November and it is now my favorite ship. It was our first Pinnacle class.

I keep ours too. On our b2b in the spring I asked about keeping them. They had to take them but told me I could go to guest relations in a few days and they would give them back. I did go and they did give them to me.

People often say the app is not always correct, and I know from experience that is true.. We spent 30 nights on Eclipse in April/May and this menu looks very familiar. If this menu is correct and they they have made changes it looks like they went back to the prior menus.

When I saw this post - 6 hrs 20 min - I was in my living room west of Toronto and thought that's odd. During the flight that left Toronto at 7:30 pm it came to mind and I didn't sleep a wink thinking Flight Ease had booked wrong flights and I hadn't noticed. I was really happy to see the HAL reps at the airport and our names on the shuttle list. Even happier to be on board!

We were supposed to dock at 7:00. We were still out in the bay at 9:00 and no one knew when the fog would lift so I started working on changing flights. We moved from a 2:00 flight to an 8:00 flight. I think it was about 5:00 when we finally docked. Luckily the flight was delayed for a couple of hours so we made that one. We've never had this issue from Ft Lauderdale or Miami.

I swore we will never cruise from Tampa again. Cruise ending in January cost an extra $1,000 to change our flights home. Fog in Tampa, we sat in the bay for hours waiting for the Port to reopen. The only help from flights by Celebrity was giving us the airline phone number to change flights and the ship phone to use for the call.