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The currency will normally be your own home currency.

Yes it was always Moet & Chandon when we were there also.

We found that people on our Oct cruise upgraded to experience the Atlas Bar. It was also a vastly better service in the Atlas bar than in the Den or the Living room (in fact in the living room we had to go to the bar ourselves as no-one came near where we were sitting.

Forgot to say that you multiply the old cruise credits by 30 to get the new points. Also Azamara changed the veranda points to 5 per night.

On 2/5/2023 at 3:20 PM, Riocca said:

RC/Celebrity changed the point system at the end of 2013 or early 2014, previously you received points based on cruise length and cabin grade. From memory it was 1 point for the cruise an extra point if it was 12 nights or more and 1 point for Concierge and above. Looking back we received 3 points for 14 nights in Aqua class and the same for 12 nights in a CC suite, while 4 nights in Aqua gave us 2 points as did 7 nights in a suite in the Galapagos. I seem to remember it didn’t seem to require many points to get you to Elite/Discover level. There was some formula used to change those points but I can’t remember how it was calculated hopefully someone will have a better memory than me.

Also initially Azamara gave 3 points for a balcony cabin but subsequently changed it, possibly in 2015, to 5 but it wasn’t backdated.

On 25 November 2013 the points system changed from cruise credits to club points. Eg. You would get 3 points per night in a balcony cabin and 8 points per night in  cc suite. Two new membership categories were introduced - Discoverer plus and platinum. The image shows the Celebrity tiers.

3 hours ago, Grandma Cruising said:

I’ve always had answers from Circle, but it may take a while. After 2 weeks I usually follow up with an email,saying ‘I wrote you you on … regarding …. and haven’t yet had a reply’. That usually get a reply back pretty quickly.

I emailed Az Circle on 3 Jan got no reply then followed up 2 weeks later still no reply as of today (3 Feb).

I have seen balcony partitions open linking two veranda plus cabins at the back of the ship when in port and during sail away.

45 days prior to cruise departure in what we experienced on our last two cruises (post covid).

I notice that the quarterly savings have not been updated so perhaps this will also change after 1st Feb.

1 hour ago, uktog said:

Strange, which room was that in?  We went almost immediately between the two and certain items could not fit in Onward that did on Quest width wise

 It was a club world suite and was similar to that posted by Riocca.

The safe we had on Onward was about 30% bigger than that we had on Quest.

17 hours ago, norn iron said:

She was on our cruise onboard Onward in June.

She was not on our cruise in early October but came on board at the end of it (mid Oct) as we came across her rehearsing her songs in the Den during the turn around day.

3 hours ago, lisiamc said:

I’m sure she will be back (I hope so!) but also sure she would have welcomed the chance to spend Christmas with her family. She had been on since Onward’s Inaugural cruise, as far as I know,

Vassi only came on board in mid October.

On 12/14/2022 at 4:34 PM, marinaro44 said:

Latest word is Eric is staying with parents for the holidays and will return after his already planned vacation, sometime in March.

I have just seen a photo on Twitter of Eric in Christmas gear on Onward with Tony so I reckon he is back.

We got the bag but no wallet on Onward in October.

Just now, uktog said:

Onward, they could NOT do that - they were unable to provide several Ultimate Package products.  My husband walked down to the Den to get the drink and bring it back up

What a shame in October on Onward a staff member was dispatched to a bar to get a requested drink on several occasions during the times that I was there.

6 hours ago, uktog said:

You have no included drinks in the Atlas Bar. You need an ultimate package to drink in the venue. They also don’t have all the advertised ultimate package items up there. The focus is on the fancy cocktails 

You can also pay for any drink from the Ulimate package in the Atlas bar and they will get it for you from another venue if they don't have it.

6 hours ago, uktog said:

Yes we were on Pursuits first transatlantic when it first went into Miami in 2019 we were back to back on that one and the crew worked so hard during the transatlantic to get everything ready for the inspections. There were so many checks happening. Good luck to all involved   
 

There are indeed several boarding times, it works well, so long as they do some checks when people start the process to make sure they’re part of this time slot 

Another sign of years merging- Pursuit's first transatlantic was November 2018.

Owners suite on deck 8 on Onward has one large walk in shower and two toilets.

13 hours ago, Host Jazzbeau said:

Our CW on Journey had one toilet (and a second sink) in the guest part of the bathroom.  Maybe that's what they did with the shower stall space in the owner's part.  I would MUCH prefer the Journey layout, with a nice shower stall [its dimensions are even better than the shape of a former tub turned shower stall].  I guess I'll cross Onward off my list...

you get an even bigger shower stall on Onward (deck 8) and two toilets plus a total of three sinks.

On 10/25/2022 at 11:14 PM, IWantToLiveOverTheSea said:

No, but I'm wondering if it's at the commercial port of Fusina/Maghera, which Viking Cruises used a bit before they switched to other locations farther away.  Fusina is a bus ride from Venice, but from what I read, not exactly a short bus ride. 

 

I really don't know where the lagoon starts and ends, so it's hard for me to speculate!  And the above IS all speculation on my part.  

I understand that there is a 30 minute ferry ride direct from Fusina to central Venice across the South lagoon.

8 hours ago, pyrrhus said:

I thin k it is a huge difference since you aren't getting the double food, alcohol, electricity, water, and such (generally, I know some folks who can put both away). 

Sorry I thought we were talking about bags of laundry and the loyality program. Food, water etc are not changed for anyone through the Azamara Circle program.

1 hour ago, uktog said:

I fear the ban on alcohol sales might be the tip of the iceberg in this tournament in terms of issues some groups of the fans could face.  I really hope the football shines through and Scotland wins 🙂 

You have to be in to win!!

4 hours ago, pyrrhus said:

Yes, but generally pay 3/4's to double the charge for that free bag of laundry.

Yes but surely that's no different to two people in a cabin who always pay "double" for the cabin and one bag of laundry.

9 minutes ago, wjfan417 said:

I’d like to see the included bag of laundry apply per person instead of per cabin. My husband and I have the same status-why shouldn’t we each get a complimentary bag?
 

Diana

Totally agree after all if you are a single person in a stateroom you still get one bag per seven days.