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I had to insert my 2 cents worth here. We had 3 sky suite bookings for 23 and 24, booked before the reductions, and the major price increases. We sailed the Beyond in November and we did enjoy it. We are on her again in April and then the edge to hawaii in September. I am not making any more future bookings with Celebrity due to these god awful reductions with price increases! I agree with some comments above about Regent. When I compared a 2 week Alaska trip on Regent, Celebrity and others, Regent came out ahead in both benefits and price (so guess what I booked?) We just disembarked the Xmas cruise on the new Grandeur, and it was fabulous! Service and food were top notch! I had a little problem with the brand new bed (they even replaced the mattress for me). It still isn’t my favorite bed (kinda soft) but all else was great!

Thank u for the info. I did mean paid specialty. My cruise isn’t until Oct so I will calendar 3 wks out for a reservation.

How do you book in advance? I haven’t been able to determine this.

Can you please tell me if you can book the Kings Court specialty restaurant in advance? And if not, how do you do so when you board? I would like to go one night.

I agree. But sometimes I want a hotel that I am not a member of their loyalty group or an activity that I’d like on points so I use the points directly to purchase.I’m using points for my reykavik hotel, my Oslo hotel, and some activities next month.

You go to chase.com or the chase app and then go into ultimate rewards and book. Have to have a chase card that gives u points.

We have stayed there using ultimate rewards points from chase and will be doing so again on our next Vancouver departure. Using points is a great way to not pay the high price!

Lois, that is a great review! Thank you! I didn’t know they gave out participation points (like on Oceania) and we love to do that! Also liked having an early show because we don’t make the late ones either. Also the art classes would be great!

After almost 50 yrs of marriage, I have given up on getting my husband to read. I think he had dyslexia as a kid (maybe still?), and will only read magazine articles (that are short!) loves movies, but I think we saw all the latest on our Oceania TA in April. I guess there will be newer ones by the time we do a SS TA! Leaving on the Silver Moon next week to see if we like the SS regular ship product. Have sailed 2 SS expeditions to date.

Don’t forget eating cavier, my favorite, but my husband can’t “do nothing”. He goes crazy!

Thanks for the feedback. We love TAs but husband needs something to do!

Considering a TA on Silversea, but I would appreciate any feedback from those who have been recently. Hopefully, they have speakers, but what else? I’m used to movies in theater, cooking classes, art classes, and the like.

I just got off the Riviera 4/23 in Trieste. After 2 days in Trieste we took the flixbus from the bus station straight to Marco Polo airport for $48 for 2 people with a seat assignment. Better than the train as it went straight to airport. there were a lot of complaints about the food quality of this B2b sailing, including my own. O used to have crab claws almost every night in the buffet and in 23 nites we only saw them maybe 3 times. Still had lobster though.

And herein lies the crux of the problem. We all prefer the cheaper air. I am leaving Friday from Miami to Santiago on a direct Latam flight that I requested because flights from tampa or Orlando sucked. I think the price of the tickets were cheaper than the SS business fare I had paid, so I didn’t get charged a deviation fee. (My guess anyway). Then I have a May trip to Europe. After selecting My choice for business class air from SS, I paid an up charge and deviation only to have DL do schedule changes within a week that would not work. Took me 2 months and 3 emails to get a reply. I actually sent a proposed revision to SS so they wouldn’t have to do anything. They finally revised, so I am praying the schedule doesn’t change again! I’m seriously considering just sticking with Oceania and regent from now on!

Can anyone who has been on SS recently tell me if caviar is still freely distributed? Other than an expedition cruise, we will be on our first SS in September on the transpacific.