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That could have been it. I was also relatively new to all this stuff, so I easily could have not really understood what was going on!

Then that is a change. What happened was we called before final payment to cancel a March Eq cruise (ABCs) and the rep was preparing our FCCs minus $100 pp. I asked how long it would take to get the FCCs because we we wanted to apply them to help pay for our upcoming Oct Eq cruise (also ABCs). She said to wait a minute and came back to inform us that she could just directly transfer the funds to October since it was previously booked. But if that was cancelled, our fee would be the sum of both fees, $200 pp. Our new Oct invoice she sent reflected the full payment, but $400 as subject to forfeiture if cancelled. She said it wasn't well known, and no one here has ever mentioned having done it. Just lucky, right? No...that cruise got Lifted/Shifted another year due to the shutdown, the shifted one we cancelled 49 hrs away due to a close Covid contact, and the one we replaced it with for last October we decided to cancel when X stopped testing. Now replaced with one next Feb...and we have ultimately lost far more than that first $200!

Do they still let you move your entire amount (no fee) to another already booked cruise--but same ship on a different date? We did that in 2019, but it doubled the forfeitable deposit on that other cruise. Had to be booked prior to the transfer, though.

I misread the title and thought we were going to be reading about a new entree in a foam cup in the MDR.

@rmalbers The Apex link also is typical of people who say all the food complaints are misguided because they had such great food. Most of the complaints since January have been about M and S class MDRs and OVC. Most of the "It's great' posts have been from E class or about dining in Luminae/Blu/specialty.

@mac_tlc I remember several years ago someone posted that they had to forfeit a total of $500 after cancelling a $100 deposit on-board booking. They were told that the discounted on-board deposit was really just like a down payment on the actual deposit of $500. Does anyone else remember that? I remember a bit of discussion of whether it was fair for X to charge more money than the amount charged to make the booking. I don’t remember the particulars or if it was a mistake that got resolved.

I am just deeply disappointed that Mr. B apparently gave up after 40 minutes. We will never know, I guess, how long it took for Amazon to deliver a new case. We can get it same day here, but at sea I think the Prime standard of next day is more likely.

How long until the teacher's pets tell the principal that cheating is going on? 😇👿

You may want to go the the maitre de during the afternoon to discuss any anxiety you have without being put in the position of having to publicly show a clueless DR host why you need the cap. They should accommodate you. I applaud you taking an adventure in the midst of your battle! Good luck and havr fun!!!

That'll show Celebrity! Of course, back in the real world I assume you tip on the value of a meal.

Back to normal almost, I see!

Must have been a booking on the good ship URL.

Whalers' general knowledge of migration patterns helped them find the breeding and feeding grounds, but it would be pretty silly to think modern marine biologists haven't learned far more information. The patterns are not identical from year to year, especially with changes in ocean temperatues. Those variations did exist in the 19th century, which is why whalers often had to spend weeks trying to locate the whales when they weren't where other ships had reported. A fascinating book about a whaling expedition from Nantucket to the Pacific is Nathaniel Phillbrick's 2000 nonfiction Nat"l Book Award winning "In the Heart of the Sea" about the whaler Essex, sunk by a sperm whale in 1820 (the story behind Moby Dick). It was also a Ron Howard movie in 2015. Sidenote: he wrote another great book about the first US maritime scientific exploration in the Pacific in the early 19th century, "Sea of Glory."

If you paid $151 pp for 8 nights ($302 for 2), that is pretty close to the daily $38 quoted by @ConnMom (would be $304 for 8 nights) if you assume she was talking about the upgrade for both her and hubby.

On our next cruise, if the steward refuses to empty the frig I will take a photo of the contents and then take it all to Guest Services. Absurd to refuse based on time concerns.

Just a note for anyone with impending federal retirement who has federal BC/BS: If you plan on dropping your FEH benefits in retirement nbecause you will have Medicare, remember that Medicare doesn't cover you overseas. But federal BC/BS DOES cover you overseas. So for cruising, you would only need to worry about getting evacuation coverage, not comprehensive medical insurance. I have known federal retirees who gave up their FEH benefit and regretted it greatly.

The app works nicely if you can just agree to check hourly or something. Even so, planning on meeting at a certain time is what people did long before wifi. Before clocks, they had to go with "when big light in sky is overhead" or something! Cruising was more rudimentary then, of course.

Wow, people on this thread are touchy! Here is an idea: if someone says something you don't understand or thinks you said something incorrect, just pretend world survival is not at stake Assume it is a musunderstanding and clarify, or ask for clarification, NICELY. This back and forth sniping is the worst part of CC.

We found one to wear, and it doesn't use wifi. If you're gonna go, go big!

We learned the hard way that adding a w-t to the stuff you are carrying around in a major pain. And no one near you will enjoy hearing all the transmissions!

Or not do it via cruise. (Now THAT, I admit, was a Gloomy Gus!)

I always love it when someone comes on to ask if Celeb allows something, and when many veteran cruisers say that in their experience the answer is "No" the OP complains about "negative Nellies". Those Nellues took the time to try to help you. Why blame them? One person had a contrary answer that said they had received some positive results by calling Bottom line, call and find out. Seems like most people have found that to be a waste of time, but it is your time if you want to try But,,,a caution. Pay attention to the people who point out itineraries change a lot. Your new itinerary, if you get one, may be changed, too...

Unfortunately, emails from him likely only show what he thought he did. I had that happen 2 times in getting a Covid refund for one cruise. Each time I waited weeks, and had to request it again. The third time we learned that the first 2 (request and corrected request) didn't get through their accounting department because they had incorrectly labelled our refund request as untimely and coded our money as forfeited. With no notice to us, of course--just inaction. Same thing happened with our cable internet provider when we bought our own router. Their system kept seeing it as unauthorized and booted it online. Finally had one guy realize there were 2 settings that needed to be confired, not 1. Isn't it nice the computer age is worry-free?

These are the types of things I never understood. I have done casino crawls in LV, but it was just me crawling dejectedly toward new places to lose $.....

You missed your chance to charge him $16.95 + gratuity?