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You have to hit the "Plan My Cruise" button (located below your cruise information) on your account dashboard. This will take you to the "My Celebrity Cruise" page, where you book excursions, dining, etc. That's where you click on your initials. The "Order History" has not been removed, I was just looking at it.

If you go into your cruise planner, and then click on the circle containing your initials in the top right corner, the "Order History" is the second option down.

You will have already paid a 20% gratuity when purchasing the package initially. Up to you whether you want to leave anything additional.

Dinner on the Edge is not included in the package

All Included

Could also be that someone in the social media department thought it would be a catchy caption.

Frustrating for those of us with AI. You win some, you lose some.

FWIW, the canned water tasted fine to our group.

Australia was released

CocoCay is a cash cow -- the waterpark, cabanas, and private beach club in particular. Have Icon and Utopia there on the same day, and profits are sky high. Utopia and Allure are each going to call there twice a week. Icon once a week. Then there's still the other Oasis Class ships sailing the 7 nighters, plus an Oasis/Quantum Class ship from NJ, and any other ship they can fit in. Finding a day for a X ship to regularly call will be difficult. It also totally goes against Celebrity's Modern/Relaxed Luxury marketing. "Relaxed Luxury Resorts at Sea" just won't have the same appeal when they pull up to an island with an amusement park, docked next to Icon, which is also an amusement park, and both are full of families and kids. X's marketing, product development, and deployment people have clearly decided that the vast majority of Celebrity cruises are not interested in PDCC. I think its funny that X is starting to frequently call at Labadee now though, which used to be the "amusement park" style island with the zipline and such. Now its nothing compared to CocoCay.

I’d bet that’s actually Utopia.

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Port bookings suggested Brilliant was headed to Northern Europe, as VV had booked calls in Zeebrugge and Reykjavik. But, I'm thinking Brilliant's summer season gets canned and she stays in the Caribbean. Maybe she'll move to Miami for 7 night sailings through the summer. I hope they keep a ship in San Juan though for the winters. Virgin is planning to offer a great selection of ports, and selfishly, I'm hoping to sail on one of those itineraries. But VV better hurry up, as all their competitors are already open for booking through 2025.

What itineraries were they showing for Brilliant? I've been monitoring the site for them, but hadn't seen anything.

Yeah, obviously. Which was my point in why it’s difficult to compare pricing of a cruise vs a land trip without knowing which hotels one is staying at, etc.

We've done one cruise to the Eastern Mediterranean, and have a 9 night Western Med booked on the Ascent for next April. There are positive and negatives to a cruise vs a land trip, but you have to weigh what is important to you. We like the cruise because we can unpack once, experience many different ports (maybe ones we will want to return to on a land trip), and still get the "cruise" experience that we enjoy (sailaways, trivia, live music, etc). As for costs, this is a hard comparison. Sure, you could save money by staying in hostels and taking buses around Italy, France, and Spain, but there is a lot of planning in that, and definitely a different experience than sailing on the Ascent. If you stayed at hotels with comparable service and amenities to the Ascent, then added 3 meals a day, plus drinks as you go, plus transportation throughout the week, you're probably approaching the same price point as the Ascent.

Seriously?

Ok thanks, I was planning to use RomeInLimo. They seem to come highly recommended, so I'm assuming they have access to the dock, but I haven't see anything specific mentioned about that.

We'll be sailing next summer on the Ascent. I'm planning on booking private excursions in Rome and Naples, but trying to decide what time I should schedule them for. We arrive in both ports at 7am and would like to schedule the excursion for as early as possible. For those who have sailed to those ports on Celebrity, what time would you schedule your excursions?

Really? The premium package includes drinks up to $17 now. Breaking even really doesn't require much drinking. For example, I like creative, fun cocktails, so I'm thoroughly looking forward to sailing on the Ascent, where I can enjoy interesting drinks at Eden and World Class Bar. And I might even still have to pay an extra $1 or $2 for the cocktails at those locations. This, plus wine or cocktails at dinner, some post-dinner drinks at the martini bar, and a night cap, I'm saving money. And I didn't even mention the specialty coffees or sparkling water. I also didn't mention that the per day price of a package comes down even further if you book AI, which we do. No one is forcing you to drink that amount, but doing so definitely does not make someone an alcoholic, especially on vacation. C'mon.

Utopia is scheduled to debut Spring/Summer 2024. Icon’s first sailing is January 2024.

I’m not going to call you an idiot! And I’ll happily admit if I’m wrong, I just don’t think I’m going to be 🙂 We shall see!

Why would they move Allure mid-summer if it weren’t for a new ship coming into replace her that just so happens to be debuting at the same time?

Ok, well, the only ship available after Allure leaves PC in July (without them leaving a gap during prime Summer season) is Spectrum, which is sure to remain in Asia. If you monitor deployment, you’d see that Utopia is the likely ship to replace Allure.

Which ship do you imagine will take over the 3/4 night sailings from Port Canaveral?