barbette165

That's rocket science

Back to the original question, it may have survived because there's no cost saving in removing it. The number of stateroom staff needed is probably determined by the workload in the morning and how many rooms each attendant can achieve during the morning shift. Unhindered by any working time regulations, the attendants are then available in the evening to perform the turndown service for zero or maybe minimal incremental cost.

The exemption also specifically stated it was for the Millennium. At the restart, Millennium was home porting in Sint Maarten and Celebrity initially assigned Summit for the Alaska cruises. The authorities would not allow this substitution and the two ships had to physically swap locations.

Not PUP, it's a win a cruise competition. There are 5 gigagpixel photos of destinations. In each photo there's an "X" with a code below it. You have to zoom in the photos and then try and find the X/code. Get all 5 and you may win a prize. I've started looking over the first photo, but it's a bit too much like hard work.

If the changes do have an impact on whether customers return or not, it will become very quickly apparent to X in how much business the Future Cruise department is generating. The percentage of passengers who book a future cruise on board is probably very predictable and will not vary that much from cruise to cruise. These sales will be closely monitored and if there is an observable and consistent drop across the fleet then action will surely be taken. (Any resolve for "This is the last time I cruise with Celebrity" will likely be strongest whilst on board and then diminish with the passage of time, when the grass offered by the alternatives doesn't seem any greener).

You're probably correct when you say that there is more "on plate" waste in the MDR than in the OVC, but there is also the "serving tray" waste in the OVC that needs to be considered. With a similar selection at dinner to that offered at lunch but with fewer customers, there is probably a lot of food wasted that doesn't make it to the plate, either due to end of service or exceeding the safe time for a display to be on display at serving temperature. Despite my comments above, if I had decided to visit the OVC on the evening of the video in post 1, I would have struggled to find something that I really wanted to eat. They need to roll back on the changes a bit (or quite a bit). Cook to order grill is probably something that has the least waste.

If you don't want to or can't travel the day before, there are BA flights out of Heathrow at 0605 (arrives 0945) and 0655 (arrives 1030). Either of those should be OK, but I'd be tempted to book the earlier, so that the later one could become a back up option in case of delays getting to the airport.

Reading through these threads, it seems that the offerings in the OVC for dinner and the scale of the change vary slightly by ship. I can think of three different explanations for this (there's probably more); 1. There isn't any real difference, and it's just the posters on here spinning the story differently. 2. The F&B managers on the different ships are interpreting the instruction differently / deciding to offer a bit more than they have been told to. 3. The ships are providing what they've been told to provide, having received different guidance. Celebrity are then monitoring how each flavour of change is received by the passengers to determine the fleet wide offering.

I just tried a mock booking on Apex for 8th April '23 on the UK site for a solo traveller. It offers the following prices for veranda cabins (These will all be total cabin price, including taxes and fees, since all mandatory items must be included in the headline price under UK consumer law) Porthole at £2145 IV at £2262 Sunset at £3076 Single at £8503 (If select "choose cabin" for the single cabin, about 50% are showing as available). The 1st April cruise is offering a single cabin at £1316 for cruise only and £2822 for all included.

It's just a normal height table that you can sit at and eat at, play cards or whatever, rather than either a lower height coffee table or a higher table with (or without) bar stools.

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I've just received an email inviting me to join an Australia and New Zealand webinar. It doesn't start with any "Here's your next chance to earn power up points", but reading on, watching the webinar earns 50 PUPs. The webinar is available to view straight away. The sending email address contains a UK specific element. Presumably other regions will receive the email in the near future. (The webinar is playing in the background, everything so far seems to be "amazing")

For Southampton sailings, since the gratuity is already included in the price, you only have to pay the difference in price.

The US Embassy in Spain provides the same info U.S. citizens can travel from the United States to Spain if they show that they are vaccinated against COVID-19, or have a recovery certificate , or show a negative diagnostic test result (NAAT or RAT) performed either within 72hours prior to departure to Spain for a NAAT (e.g. – PCR test) or within 24 hours prior to departure to Spain for a RAT (e.g. – rapid antigen test).

Has there ever been an answer to a True or False question that was False? I don't bother to even read those questions now, I just answer True.