pmarrsouth

12 hours ago, kaysha2004 said:

On a 7-day cruise, it's too late to change your mind for a full cash refund once you get back home.

If you booked it the moment you stepped on board

1 hour ago, -The-True-North- said:

$50,000 put in to video poker to move up 1 category which gets you a dedicated booking number and a free beer 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you for the chuckle VV.

EV of $50,000 playthrough on cruise ship VP is? Cost of a standard 7 day VV cruise with in a Sea Terrace is?

Some very strange dishes in the last couple of nights in Blu:

Lamb:

Ribeye: 

Salmon:

Pork:

Delighted to have been able to taste such things for the first time

The kitchen is quite happy to serve people plain chicken & beef every night if one wishes. Saves them both time and $$$

Also many people are asking for different sauces/sides/presentations for their mains each night. Don’t like tomato, ask for your dish without it. Have yet to hear of any pushback 

When you consulted with the MD before the first nights dining about your dual food intake options, what was their reply? They were unable to accommodate?

1 hour ago, zitsky said:

They really like sauces in Blu, don’t they?

Flavor is nice 

2 hours ago, zitsky said:

Were any of those pictures of the duck ravioli?  It didn’t look like it.

Yes

4 minutes ago, OysterD said:

Currently on Beyond, not sure what menus you had but out of 2 nights so far there has been 1 pasta dish, the duck ravioli which was delicious. Same number of items offered each night as a year ago on Reflection. Service has been good so far and its not noisy, no more than any other restaurant. 

Just had the duck ravioli on the Millenium about 45 mins ago! Confirmed delicious 

We are currently on the Millennium from Vanc to Tokyo in AQ. Have had 3 nights so far in Blu

Soups - Could use more flavor overall. I had a corn veloute on day 2, lack of flavor until I hit the single piece of chorizo in it which complimented the dish nicely (needs more chorizo!)

Starters - Overall quite decent. Some excellent dishes like the lobster salad on soba noodles

Mains - Blu is really standing out here. I had herb crusted lamb chops last night, medium rare, which were incredible. My fiancé had the glazed salmon, which she loved. The previous night the short rib really melted in your mouth

0 complaints about service, the staff are fantastic and do not ask for our keycards when ordering drinks as they have remembered our room numbers

Obviously it will be busy around 7:30pm and one would expect a bit of a wait (enjoy a drink in Cellar Masters with the pager beside you). Come at 5:30/6 or 8:30 and there is no wait

A lot of people mention the smaller portion sizes as a negative / cost cutting. Order more than 1 dish, they will serve you as much as you want. We are continually ordering 2-3 starters each and a couple of mains each (there is 0 need to do this, we are just enjoying all the delicious food and then not enjoying so much the gym each morning)

We have yet to order from the MDR menu due to there being so many interesting dishes each night on the Blu menu

Hang up

Call again

You didn’t bother to read/listen previously so not sure why I am posting another response, but on the United app with the NEW PNR there will be a new LH PNR listed too (also shows this on the United website). Use that as your LH PNR going forward 

FBC saved you a headache as had they not intervened there would have been quite a commotion when you turned up to ATH to check-in (web checkin would have thrown an error) for a UNITED flight, before the staff there returned your travel party to Y on that leg

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Also to the person who seemed to have used FBC to save $5 on 2 FC tickets, rather than booking directly, that is an interesting choice 

5 minutes ago, cruisestitch said:

Remind us please which cruise?

Won’t matter either way as the answer to the original Q is unknown 

4 hours ago, clojacks said:

Let me offer one scenario that may make offering juiced up offers to volunteers unmanageable. Let’s say Celebrity offered 50% FCC to voluntarily give up your cabin in a particular category. But internally, they are going to only offer this to the first 100 cabins. How about if you’re the 101st volunteer and you got back to Celebrity on the second day after CELEBRITY representatives got back to you. Are you now pissed that Celebrity rejected your offer? Let’s say you have a TA handling your reservation and it takes them 4 days to get back to you and when you tell Celebrity you want to take their offer, they tell you you are too late. Now what? Asking for volunteers might not be the answer you think it is.

There would be a note in the original email seeking volunteers stating that this is first come first served. Then the persons who are 101st and later (from your example) are now back on the cruise they originally booked, since Celebrity have solved their overbooking problem

Don't use a TA if you are frustrated when their communication is not instant. Same with every other method of travelling & stays

2 hours ago, Tarwood3 said:

I was on the April 9th 2024 circumnavigation of Japan…nowhere near your sail date…not talking about your transatlantic…

Ah, only your specific cruise has this October 2021 issue

5 minutes ago, Tarwood3 said:

Not talking about L&S…meaning those who booked for the first time after October 2021.  It came straight from the lady in charge of the concierge team handling these cancelations …

Fair enough! Seems quite unbelievable though, as anyone who tried to L&S in Apr/May 2022 onto these cruises would not have been able to get onto a room booked by someone who booked from October 2021-March 2022

8 minutes ago, Tarwood3 said:

We were told by Celebrity that anyone booked after October 2021 wiould be canceled…

I really doubt that this is the case tbh. Celebrity only cancelled the Fall/Winter 2022 Japanese season (inc the TP from Vanc) in mid April 2022. A lot of people who L&S to 2023/2024 would have done so during those 2ish weeks in April 2022

I was one of those, my booking is still intact, and presuming it stays that way (directly booked with X, so I don’t have to fade a non-proactive TA issue)

1 minute ago, southwestie said:

My TA said yesterday  that the final list of cancellations were sorted. Ours was fine. They had 11 to cancel.  So after the 1st May your fine. . You should now be able to relax and look forward to the cruise.  Very saD for those affected

Be very careful with "definitive" info that a 3rd party is giving about Celebrity

5 minutes ago, jeno said:

Has anyone that was told they are bumped been able to talk their way into staying on the original cruise and cabin? 

Original cabin will be tough as there were 2+ bookings for that room. Some people have been able to get downgrades (or upgrades) on the same cruise

53 minutes ago, TequilaJane said:

If you know you can use the credit why gamble. Cancel and rebook a new trip.

As you can cancel 4 hours (or whatever) before the flight departs, so its a freeroll to allow it to go on as long as that. Most airlines will give you X time to use the credit (12 months seems standard). So if you cancel now you get 12 months to use it. If you don't cancel until October then you get 16-17 months to use it. Many people might have no want/need for the credit too (no reason to fly if cruise cancelled). Also this is going with the idea that the ticket even has the ability to be converted into future flight credit, which many airlines outside of the US do not allow

5 hours ago, pukekolive said:

Surely if you cancel your flight now due to cruise cancellation you will lose your money now? This is what happened in 2020 to us except we had $300 cancellation fee each when we asked for our independent flights to be cancelled; Celebrity reimbursed this on production of our airline invoice showing the cancellation fee.

Why would one ever cancel a non-refundable flight, for travel in 6 months time, now? If there is any schedule change by the airline, that changes the departure time by ~2-4 hours (depends on the airline), then you are generally entitled to accept the change or schedule a new date or get a refund 

7 minutes ago, susan450 said:

My cruise on 16th March 2024 has officially been cancelled. It is what it is. I will find other exciting and interesting things to do

😞

Can you give more details? When were you contacted about it? How did you book?

2 minutes ago, hellokittyluver said:

To pmarrsouth:

I initially booked with Celebrity and then transferred it to TA. 

at least the 2nd person with that exact scenario about delayed/no contact regarding cancelled cruise 

1 hour ago, hellokittyluver said:

We were booked on the 16th of March also. Had a balcony cabin selected, my reservation was from a big box travel agent. I received no notice of overbooking. My friend had a reservation from Celebrity with a confirmed balcony cabin next to ours. My friend received an email and phone call from Celebrity that their cabin was overbooked. I never received anything from my big box travel agent. So I called today to my big box travel agency, she did not see any cancellation on my reservation, so I had her call Celebrity.  Celebrity said indeed my reservation was affected. What I don't understand is why Celebrity did not send anything to our big box travel agency. So I think more people will be cancelled and they do not know it as of yet. I cancelled and will be doing a land vacation in Japan instead. So sad Celebrity doesn't care what's happening to their customer loyalty. 😕

oh boy 😞

Did you book directly with the TA from the start, or move the reservation to the TA after booking initially with Celebrity?

26 minutes ago, wahwah1 said:

I booked directly with Celebrity and didn't transfer and still got cancelled.

 

Yup, fully aware that a lot of people who booked directly with X also got cancelled. I was referring to why it took so long for OP to be contacted regarding being cancelled. If the TA is not lying, and they only received notice slightly before contacting OP, then it is like X did the following to contact affected parties:

1) Ran a query to find out who had a reservation with X, booked directly with X
2) Ran a query to find out who originally booked with a TA

They contacted all in 1 themselves, and sent lists over to TAs for those in 2

But OP would have been in 3) User who original booked with X and then moved to a TA

ie more sloppy IT work by X!

26 minutes ago, wahwah1 said:

It's bad that they didn't reveal the issues ASAP if they know it in Aug 2022. If they told us earlier, I wouldn't purchase any flights as it's impossible to purchase flights more than a year in advance.

Is this Aug 2022 date from X or from a random poster/3rd party? Agree that the earlier they let people know then the slightly better it is for everyone, hence why I do wonder if X knowing since Aug 2022 is just bs

1 hour ago, wahwah1 said:

Yikes, I thought cancellation is over, never thought YVR to Japan is affected.

it has been mentioned in this thread

14 minutes ago, cruiseb4udie said:

Booking details:  We booked direct with Celebrity on one of their ships in January 2022 then transferred booking to our TA.  

Firstly this is brutal to both get cancelled and then also have next to no time (or details it appears) to decide what to do
 

But I do wonder if this part messed you up here (booking directly with X and then moving to TA). It is like they pulled data from 2 different sources when trying to contact people and your fell literally in between. Other posters (in other threads) have stated that their TAs just got notified too, I wonder if they also originally booked with X before moving it to a TA

X looking worse and worse daily…