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1 hour ago, lindyloo22 said:

If you go to roll call you could start a thread or somebody may have already started one.

Thank you. 

Anybody out there booked on this cruise?

Adam & Kerry

Thank you for your well informed comments. We will be leaving the gratuities to be shared amongst all.

Gratuities are included in the price of our cruise on Silhouette next year as part of a promotion. As we are not adding them on ourselves can we still somehow redistribute (the full amount) to the most deserving staff?

Celebrity is one of the few lines you can purchase different drinks packages if sharing a cabin. 

My wife stuck to the 'included' Classic package last time as she does not drink a lot of alcohol nor is particularly fussed over quality, whilst I upgraded to Premium. This worked perfectly for us. We have done the same for our cruise next year.

No, you CANNOT purchase drinks for others using your premium card but your partner can pay the difference if they fancy a particular drink that is over their Classic limit. My wife tried a cocktail in the Silhouette's 'World Class Bar' and paid the extra couple of dollars.

Brilliant, thanks.

Is it possible to use your Premium drinks package in Cellar Masters on Silhouette please?

I saw a pre-payment system mentioned and am slightly confused.

So can you use your Premium package in Cellar Masters as well?

This is Cruisecritic Forum at it's best. Thank you for all the relevant information guys. Extremely helpful, sorted.

Hi Sasset

Thank you for you help.

Were you able to choose from a wine menu (giving prices) in the dining room?

We have a concierge cabin this time and have a fairly tight time-line to meet our privately organised tour at our first port of call. Problem is this port is tendered. We know with concierge there is priority embarkation at ports and Celebrity have vaguely said this applies to disembarkation in port as well.
Is this actually the case?  How does it work? Would there be a separate exit? 

As a follow up . . . SPB were beyond expectations!

Just six of us in a new air-conditioned minibus driven by the experienced 'Vlad' and hosted by the amazingly knowledgeable Svetlana. 

Could not find one fault over all 3 days.

Svetlana even knew of 'secret' ladies toilets in one of the main attractions (there was a huge queue for the regular ones).

Many thanks.

There is some great information coming through.

Seville has a cruise port terminal. 

Smaller ships can navigate up the Guadalquivir. i.e. Fred Olsen's Braemar.

Can anybody recommend a company that provides shore excursions from Seville port itself please?

I have found several perfect day tours but they all leave from the port of Cadiz. Specifically we would like to include Alcazar in our itinerary.

We are cruising on the Braemar next June which is small enough to dock right in the heart of Seville. Experience has taught us local tour businesses are far superior (and cheaper) than excursions provided by the cruise-lines.

Any other Seville tips would be much appreciated, we are there for two days.

After a lot of research we ended up booking the deluxe 3 day package with SPB.

Smaller groups, nippier air-conditioned vehicles, superior itinery and very experienced local tour guides were the main considerations and although the pricing was similar to our cruise lines we were able to negotiate excellent deals for other ports of call following on from this booking. This on top of the 'special price' offered to Cruise Critic members.

So far every communication and query has been answered quickly and informatively by SPB.

Will write a review post cruise.

The "fan zone" in St Petersburg will be located right next to one of the most visited sites by tourists, The Church of the Saviour of the Spilled Blood in Konyushenaya Square. Might be an area to avoid! It will be capable of holding 15000 fans!

Very interesting point. Thanks GerScot

Silhouette July 7 sailing Here in MX is promoted as the World Cup Cruise, ship will be at St Petersburg July 14, 15 and 16, The 14 is the game for the 3rd place At St Petesburg and the 15 the final at Moscow

Thank you gerelmx

I would have thought games will be shown, I've been on cruises with Celebrity during the Lions Rugby Tour, premier league football games are shown, the CONCACAF tournament games were on last year when were on our Baltic cruise and the World Junior championships of various age levels were shown.

 

Major games will be shown in the Passport Bar/Cellar Masters and also in the casino, they had the rugby game on in Celebrity Central, you can always watch in your room too.

 

We asked for some TVs to have channels changed to show football games in the past in Cellar Masters (they were showing golf at the time), all we did was ask if people minded if we changed over, they were fine about it.

 

The only potential issue may be weather/location might affect signal coverage.

Great information.

Cheers Leehal

Join us on the Pacific Princess. We will be in St. Petersburg on July 10 for one of the semifinals.

Many thanks for the invite Paul but we will be back in blighty by July 10.

Does anybody know whereabouts on Celebrity Silhouette major sporting tournaments are shown live?

The football world cup is taking place during our cruise to St. Petersburg in June and it would be nice to cheer my team on amongst fellow supporters.

Just wondering if anybody can help with which bars / rooms / area's have been used previously?

Thank you.

Thank you

Does anybody know whereabouts on Celebrity Silhouette major sporting tournaments are shown live?

The football world cup is taking place during our cruise to St. Petersburg in June and it would be nice to cheer my team on amongst fellow supporters.

Just wondering if anybody can help with which bars / rooms / area's have been used previously?

Thank you.

Has anybody been on a Sigtuna excursion whilst stopping in Stockholm?

We are wandering whether to take the "Stockholm Highlights tour" or spend less time actually looking around Stockholm and do the "Historic Stockholm and Sigtuna" tour.

(Both include visiting the Vasa).

Basically, is it worth sacrificing time in Stockholm to visit Sigtuna?