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I got an email from our CVP expressing his sympathy because we had to cancel our May 1 cruise from Honolulu, last Friday since DH had to have emergency surgery.  So nice of him since he was losing his commission and still thinking of our disappointment.

Al Bacio cappuccino is our favourite perk also.

Hope you enjoy Celebrity.  We love Blu.  Often when people want to eat together, they push two tables together.  There are also bigger tables in Blu than two tops.

Bon voyage!

It's a tribute to Celebrity that you are still cruising with them.

Aqua definitely.  How far away is this cruise?  if you could get 3 of the stern cabins on deck 11, it would be fabulous.  These go quickly and there are only 5 of them.  You also get 2 extra loyalty points/day if you choose AQ over a regular balcony.  Enjoy your cruise.

2 minutes ago, beachhouse said:

Guest relations just left our cabin to hear for themselves. They definitely confirmed we have a problem. Waiting to see what happens next.

Great to hear.  i hope they can successfully fix it for you so you can enjoy the rest of your cruise.  BTW, I was just going to post the reason I thought you were not giving out your cabin number but you beat me to it.  i'm sure you'll give it when you are off the ship.

I am so sorry your first post on Cruise Critic is about a nightmare.  You sure did get the runaround.  I hope your cruise to Scandanavia makes up for it.

We have sailed on many cruises and we have never booked airfare with the cruiseline.  We prefer to make our own arrangements for flights.

Welcome to Cruise Critic and all the best to you on future cruises and posts on here.

Our cruise dropped a lot.  We had already made final payment so I knew we would not get either a refund or OBC.  What we did get was an upgrade from Concierge to Prime Aqua.  We kept our original OBC.  I was very pleased.  This is on Edge.

Thank you for the poll.  We will sail on Edge in a short while and we have made reservations for each of the 4 dining rooms.  We value the opinions of each one.

Glad you enjoyed the Silhouette.  it is our favourite ship too, although we haven't sailed any of the E class.

We received it too.  It will be interesting to see the questions and the answers!

Our first was on Meridian, second was Zenith.  I loved that magazine.

Thank you all for your opinions on the IV.  We will be trying our first one on a TP in May.  It will be nice to enjoy the balcony.  Previously on that sailing, (S class) we have found it too cold to sit out there and we do enjoy the balconies.

Received ours mid Jan as well.

We've enjoyed the helipad a few times too.  The best one was out of Bermuda.  However, for the Panama Canal, I think a stern cabin beats the helipad hands down.  No crowding, people pushing in front of you, and when you get too hot, you can just step into the cabin and cool off.  We really enjoyed watching the ship behind us and seeing the gates open and close and the water rising etc. 

Stay where you are and eat at the Lawn Club Grill a few times.  It's an extra fee but worth it in our estimation. We haven't been on Silhouette for a while so I hope this is still true.

We have booked Kobe to Singapore in May 2025. We have never been to Vietnam and I just have to see Halong Bay and also the Golden Bridge (held up by huge hands) in Hue (Da Nang).

Jelaine beat me to it with her advice re Singapore.  I also say, if you can afford the time, stay at least 3 days there before or after the cruise.  Take the cable car to Sentosa too.  Singapore is clean, orderly and beautiful.  DH used to work there and I never had a moment's worry about my safety sightseeing.  The gardens are lovely too.  I hope you find a cruise you like.  Ours is Azamara BTW.

We are on Edge in May, Honolulu to Vancouver.  Yes we are disappointed with the change in the itinerary but it's not Celebrity's fault.  We initially had 2 days in Honolulu and Lahaina, of course.  Now, we have basically nothing in Honolulu since we have dropped one day and sail at midnight on the second day.  We have an overnight in Hilo.

Sailing at midnight will give us time to fly in from Kauai where we will stay 12 days in our timeshare at the Marriott Nawilliwilli bay.  We used to fly home from the Marriott getting on the plane at 10PM to fly to SFO and then on to Vancouver.  I hated that.  It is so much nicer to sail home, even if we miss some of our favorite ports.

BTW, we have a picture of Summit docked in Nawilliwilli bay.  Celebrity used to come there until NCL took over the port with several ships docking there.  They have never come back, even though NCL only has the one ship there doing the 7 day island cruises.

23 hours ago, Ex-Airbalancer said:

We got on the Connie in Rome and there was the same amount of passengers and it was no problem 

We had shuttle to the port from Rome , just book it early to get a good price 

Thank you.  We will do that.  

16 hours ago, Gracie115 said:

Here:

 

https://www.cruisemapper.com/ports

Thank you for the recommendation, Gracie.  There will be 5 ships in Rome when we embark!  That'll be a gong show!

This is an interesting thread, Beth and Bailey.  I don't have any advice since I am not a quilter, but I wonder since you are from Kentucky, if you have been to the quilting museum in Paduca?  I'm sure you have.  I thought it was amazing.

I used to take my cross stitch, hardanger and stumpwork (nothing to do with trees or bandsaws😂!) on cruises and found it enjoyable, so I hope you get a solution to your dilemma.

BTW, the Silhouette is a wonderful ship.

37 minutes ago, Oceangoer2 said:

Am I wrong, but wasn't there an age requirement (12 yrs?) in Specialty dining at one time?  Probably several years ago I think.

I thought there was too.  This obviously has gone by the wayside too.

Our cruise from Hawaii to Vancouver in May was started in Nov 2022 and there are 6 pages.  Very slow.

7 minutes ago, NMTraveller said:

I would not say that I am done,  but I do not have any Celebrity cruises booked at this point.   My next cruise is on AMA Waterways.  
 

I think that the cuts that many have mentioned I noticed.  I did really like the Millenium ship.  That is my favorite Celebrity ship.  

You will love AMA.

We always take a testing kit with us when we travel.  We went yesterday to get the vaccine for the new strain and couldn't have it because it's not 5 months since we had the last booster.  So we have to wait till Feb.