viperfoth Posted November 10, 2022 #51 Share Posted November 10, 2022 20 minutes ago, scottam said: We are booked on B2B in 2023 for the Sept 15 Transpacific from Vancouver to Tokyo and the Sept 30 Best of Japan. The Transpacific is still listed on Celebrity’s website, but the Sept 30 cruise has disappeared from celebrity website, along with all other Oct Japan cruise that followed. Our Sept 30 booking is still active and there are bootable shore excursions . Nov 5 is the next cruise shown for Milennium, following the transpacific, for the Best of Southern Japan. Something definitely seems to be up! Cruisegohper, what can you see Oct 2023? And what does it mean when a cruise is “closed”? Thanks! Tammy Same with us Tammy. Curious to know what people find. So looking forward to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgian fry Posted November 10, 2022 #52 Share Posted November 10, 2022 This is stressing me out. We are booked on the 28 March 2024 sailing on Millennium. It's my husband's bucket list trip, planned for his retirement and we got a super deal. I doubt we'd be able to get anything similar for the price we paid. European bookings seem to be treated far less favourably 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaFej Posted November 10, 2022 #53 Share Posted November 10, 2022 3 hours ago, Cruise Gopher said: What do you mean dark rumors? The ship is certainly closed out for bookings at the moment for some dates in March/April 2024. Thank you for this. We are booked on the first two of those cruises, as well as the three before. In your experience, is there an approximate time between cruises showing as Closed and actual cancelations, please? We were in the process of planning before and after time, but now "after" appears to be sooner than expected, and I'd like to know if I should be jumping on other possibilities soon. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaFej Posted November 10, 2022 #54 Share Posted November 10, 2022 (edited) Duplicate Edited November 10, 2022 by MamaFej Duplicate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise Gopher Posted November 10, 2022 #55 Share Posted November 10, 2022 39 minutes ago, MamaFej said: Thank you for this. We are booked on the first two of those cruises, as well as the three before. In your experience, is there an approximate time between cruises showing as Closed and actual cancelations, please? We were in the process of planning before and after time, but now "after" appears to be sooner than expected, and I'd like to know if I should be jumping on other possibilities soon. Thanks in advance. It can sometimes take a long time to get the cancelation notice. I had two sailings I was booked on where the ship got chartered out and it took many many months before I got the official cancellation notice from Celebrity. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise Gopher Posted November 10, 2022 #56 Share Posted November 10, 2022 2 hours ago, scottam said: We are booked on B2B in 2023 for the Sept 15 Transpacific from Vancouver to Tokyo and the Sept 30 Best of Japan. The Transpacific is still listed on Celebrity’s website, but the Sept 30 cruise has disappeared from celebrity website, along with all other Oct Japan cruise that followed. Our Sept 30 booking is still active and there are bootable shore excursions . Nov 5 is the next cruise shown for Milennium, following the transpacific, for the Best of Southern Japan. Something definitely seems to be up! Cruisegohper, what can you see Oct 2023? And what does it mean when a cruise is “closed”? Thanks! Tammy Here is what I see for Oct 2023. Looks like they are closed out. Means that the cruise can no longer be sold and Celebrity is making some sort of change. Could be a cancelation, itinerary change, ship redeployment, dry dock, etc. Whatever it is, it’s usually not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottam Posted November 10, 2022 #57 Share Posted November 10, 2022 4 hours ago, viperfoth said: Same with us Tammy. Curious to know what people find. So looking forward to this one. We were (are?) looking forward to it, too. The TP arriving on Sept 30, does us no good without a cruise immediately following. Wondering where the ship is going in between its TP arrival on Sept 30 and the next cruise out of Tokyo on Nov 5. Cruisegopher, thanks for the info. Really appreciate your insight! If they’re canceling, etc, sure wish they’d let booked passengers know asap so other plans can be made! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamkev Posted November 10, 2022 #58 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Yes I thank cruisegopher and Jeremiah 1212 for all the helpful info 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. B. Posted November 10, 2022 #59 Share Posted November 10, 2022 We wanted to be in Japan in April for the Cherry Blossoms but X canceled us 3 years in a row, so we are going to try Azamara because they have A 15 night Japan cruise (April 3-18,2023) with 14 port days. Interesting that X unloaded Azamara pre covid but Azamara still uses Flights by Celebrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtlantaCruiser72 Posted November 10, 2022 #60 Share Posted November 10, 2022 17 minutes ago, D. B. said: We wanted to be in Japan in April for the Cherry Blossoms but X canceled us 3 years in a row, so we are going to try Azamara because they have A 15 night Japan cruise (April 3-18,2023) with 14 port days. Interesting that X unloaded Azamara pre covid but Azamara still uses Flights by Celebrity. RCG sold Azamara to Sycamore Partners investment group as a means to raise capital. They are still providing, back office, logistical and IT support for the brand for the foreseeable future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NMTraveller Posted November 11, 2022 #61 Share Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) So is the Millenium even going over to Asia? I am confused ... Too many cancellations in the schedule before and after my cruise. Or do I just need to wait another month for the cancellations for Millenium in December 2023? I also do not want to wait months on end to book something else. The prices will go up. Edited November 11, 2022 by NMTraveller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamkev Posted November 11, 2022 #62 Share Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, NMTraveller said: So is the Millenium even going over to Asia? I am confused ... Too many cancellations in the schedule before and after my cruise. Or do I just need to wait another month for the cancellations for Millenium in December 2023? I also do not want to wait months on end to book something else. The prices will go up. I can understand your frustration. I never would have thought anything until what the captain and retreat host said although like I said before they have been known to be wrong in this case it looks like something is up Edited November 11, 2022 by pamkev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Miaminice Posted November 11, 2022 #63 Share Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) 20 hours ago, Cruise Gopher said: Here is what I see for Oct 2023. Looks like they are closed out. Means that the cruise can no longer be sold and Celebrity is making some sort of change. Could be a cancelation, itinerary change, ship redeployment, dry dock, etc. Whatever it is, it’s usually not good. Closed sometimes also simply means the cruises are sold out! We are on the Oct. 24th cruise and I have been revisiting the booking sites often over the past months to check our price. Not so long ago only a few oceanviews and inside staterooms were available. So I am not surprised about the cruise now simply being fully booked. The TP Sept 15 only has a few oceanviews left as well. I am sure it will show closed soon. Edited November 11, 2022 by Miaminice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annandme Posted November 11, 2022 #64 Share Posted November 11, 2022 When I look at my March, 2024 Millennium online reservation using Celebrity's "Manage Reservation" hotlink, I now find that its no longer possible to look at shore excursions or any of the usual onboard options. As a matter of fact, the display of my reservation looks really unusual. Is anyone else getting the same thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NMTraveller Posted November 11, 2022 #65 Share Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) 52 minutes ago, annandme said: When I look at my March, 2024 Millennium online reservation using Celebrity's "Manage Reservation" hotlink, I now find that its no longer possible to look at shore excursions or any of the usual onboard options. As a matter of fact, the display of my reservation looks really unusual. Is anyone else getting the same thing? I still have shore excursions, but not very many. Perhaps about 10 total for the whole long cruise. I am on the Dec 2023 Christmas cruise. Edited November 11, 2022 by NMTraveller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annandme Posted November 11, 2022 #66 Share Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, NMTraveller said: I still have shore excursions, but not very many. Perhaps about 10 total for the whole long cruise. I am on the Dec 2023 Christmas cruise. Could you click on one of the 10 shore excursions and see if it takes you to a description of that excursion or to some other page? Edited November 11, 2022 by annandme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ela123 Posted November 11, 2022 #67 Share Posted November 11, 2022 I have shore excursions on my b2b 4 March 2024 cruise. I’ve clicked on a few of them and they’ve given me descriptions of the tour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaFej Posted November 11, 2022 #68 Share Posted November 11, 2022 I just tested for shore excursions, and I am able to go all the way to "Place Order" on both my still-available to book Asia 2024 cruises and my "Closed" Asia 2024 cruises. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamkev Posted November 11, 2022 #69 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Its beginning to look like the captain was wrong and its Eclipse coming to NJ what is going on with the Millie I have no idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruise Gopher Posted November 12, 2022 #70 Share Posted November 12, 2022 2 hours ago, MamaFej said: I just tested for shore excursions, and I am able to go all the way to "Place Order" on both my still-available to book Asia 2024 cruises and my "Closed" Asia 2024 cruises. The excursions aren’t really a tell tale sign. Celebrity is happy to take your money now and hold it and earn interest on it and they will refund it when the sailing eventually cancels. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaFej Posted November 12, 2022 #71 Share Posted November 12, 2022 39 minutes ago, Cruise Gopher said: The excursions aren’t really a tell tale sign. Celebrity is happy to take your money now and hold it and earn interest on it and they will refund it when the sailing eventually cancels. I understand. I was just adding information in line with the previous few posts regarding excursions. In the meantime, we are looking at alternatives to the potentially canceled cruises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Miaminice Posted November 12, 2022 #72 Share Posted November 12, 2022 (edited) About an hour ago Celebrity posted a video on Facebook explaining the 24/25 deployments and included a link. Millennium will be in Asia… https://www.celebritycruises.com/2024-2025-cruises/2024-asia-cruises Edited November 12, 2022 by Miaminice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NMTraveller Posted November 14, 2022 #73 Share Posted November 14, 2022 (edited) On 11/11/2022 at 8:57 AM, annandme said: Could you click on one of the 10 shore excursions and see if it takes you to a description of that excursion or to some other page? I can book the excursions. There are not many to book... I would feel more confident if they had the usual large number of choices. Edited November 14, 2022 by NMTraveller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NMTraveller Posted November 14, 2022 #74 Share Posted November 14, 2022 So when does the next Celebrity cruise Asia cruise start? Can we get a review from someone on the cruise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare NMTraveller Posted November 14, 2022 #75 Share Posted November 14, 2022 On 11/12/2022 at 10:54 AM, Miaminice said: About an hour ago Celebrity posted a video on Facebook explaining the 24/25 deployments and included a link. Millennium will be in Asia… https://www.celebritycruises.com/2024-2025-cruises/2024-asia-cruises The prices are a bargain ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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