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Excellent comments from all posters. I’ll book a transfer for now, keep an eye on cruisers reporting and see next February/March if I should play it safe.

 No TSA pre-check available for us with Air Transat. We’ll self-embark early,  pre-book transport and hope to go through quickly.

17 minutes ago, Fouremco said:

The delivery of bags to airline doesn't include flights to Canada, unfortunately. As for self disembarkation, unless there is a real slowdown in processing passengers, an early time will suffice and save you from having to lug your bags off the ship.

Oops, thank you for that clarification, Fouremco.

P.S.: Fouremco: Kotkaniemi for Tkachuk. Deal?

Well, I’m gonna sleep like a baby in the next 11 months. 

What if I change for the 7am flight? Just kidding.

Lol @ the 3 hours delay, Tigrou.

All great news although I might just use Dwight’s program, just to be safe.

Thanks to all.

Two positive experiences. Good news 🙂

I should have added: April 2022

I know it’s been asked before but I’m curious to see who else had a flight leaving Ft. Lauderdale around 11:30am. The next flight would be at 3pm or 3:30pm so we would rather avoid waiting hours before heading home. I thought ‘we are on Celebrity Edge, Magic Carpet, vaccinated, debarkation would go fast’ and we should be at the airport no later than 9am, so plenty of time.

I read that the airport is very busy on the week-end (sunday our departure) so I got a little worried.

Any thoughts or similar experiences?

3 hours ago, cruisestitch said:

Regarding fitness staff gratuities.  I have never done this but I understand that if you hire a personal trainer, a gratuity is added to the price of the service.

 

Regarding purchases made on board to which gratuities will be added outside of the always included” package, I should have listed mini bar purchases and bottles of wine. They are not part of the “always included” gratuities

1 hour ago, jelayne said:

If you take a class, book a personal training session come to mind.

Got it. Thank you.

So the discount for AI is $560 CAD.

Below Open Dining Seating Time, it says: Gratuities $288.60 CAD. And my trip total did not change. So I'm guessing prepaid gratuities were simply added to the regular rate? Because $560 does not cover drinks package, tips, wifi and daily gratuities. 

Just to be clear: the rate they offered to begin with is the same I ended up with, minus the $560 AI discount.

Another edit to add that I didn't get the option to check a prepaid gratuities box.

DaveKathy, thank you, I will hand it to her/him directly.

Jeanie, I will check and see if there is a check box for prepaid gratuities. Hope not.

Thank you cruisestitch.

Euh... fitness staff? Why exactly would I tip them?

Thank tou very much to the both of you.

MomSays, I usually leave a couple bucks on the bed each day for the maids when on vacation. Would that be ok on the cruise or am I just tipping for no reason?

Hi everyone,

I’m getting confused about the gratuities being part of All Included. Couple of web sites indicate they are the daily gratuities to employees ($15.50), others see it as 18% gratuities from drinks package. It got my hopes up, thinking it might involve both. Do you know exactly what it covers? 

Thank you.