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Jim - I look forward to following along. We are doing a similar cruise in April except a stop in San Diego instead of one of the Mexico ports - I don't remember which one. We have not done a west coast cruise before so I don't know much about the ports. We booked this cruise, in a CS, mainly to get the double points offer to push us closer to Elite+. It will be nice to get your insights on the ports of call to help us figure out what to do. Hope you guys have a great cruise and I guess we will meet you on the Hawaii cruise in 2024. Bon Voyage!

Saved you 8 bucks.

You can call a member of the executive team I have spoken with previously at 316-554-5080. Hope this helps.

Thanks mac_tlc. Booked it.

Youtube TV does work with a VPN. And I've used it on a cruise while connected with a VPN as well.

Thanks for that info. I hope that's true. I would like to try Azamara sometime. We were looking at a Carib cruise on Azamara Onward, which is a retrofitted Princess ship, until we read the reviews here on CC. I guess we will wait to make sure our loyalty remains and perhaps try another cruise in the future on a different ship.

Oh well, I guess I won't be booking the Azamara cruise that I was looking at for Dec '23 now as a S2S with Beyond. IMO, this is a mistake, because they will lose a lot of bookings from X customers who would have tried Azamara if they retained their loyalty benefits - like me. It's just as well I suppose, the reviews of the retrofitted ship from Princess were not good.

The more you can do to minimize your exposure of your travel plans to Celebrity's inept and inflexible 'customer service', the better.

We are booked on that same cruise into an Aqua Sky Suite. The cabin is currently a Sky Suite. Per CruiseDeckPlans.com, it shows the cabin changing from SS to Aqua SS as of May 3, 2023. Since X allowed me to book an Aqua SS (which are not currently available) and not a SS that was also available at the time of my booking, then I assume there will be some improvements to the cabin at some point around this date to convert it to Aqua SS. There is a note on this site that says 'Next drydock planned for Jan 2023. Celebrity will be changing category codes for this ship.' So it seems some upgrades are happening Jan 2023 but perhaps not the full 'revolutionization'.

My wife and I are planning in 2024 in fly over to Hawaii from east coast, spend a about a week island hopping staying in still to be determined resorts . Then we are taking the NCL POA cruise for a week. Then we're going to spend four days in Honolulu and catch the Celebrity Summit for the 11 day around Hawaii and back to Vancouver and fly home from there. The cruises are booked, still looking at where we are going to stay on land. Really looking foward to this trip. Will be my first time in Hawaii.

Now for this same booking, the refundable fee has dropped to $1062. LOL.

The $6128 is 49% of the cost of the suite for the 11 day cruise. It's Hawaii on Summit in 2024. I will never pay more for the cabin than the amount to make the deposit refundable. It doesn't make sense to me, even at an amount that is not an obvious mistake like this. I had already booked this cruise a three days ago for this same suite and there was a problem then because they did not include the Retreat package in an Aqua Sky Suite. I had to call them to get it straightened out. Two days later they fixed the problem on the suite booking to include the Retreat package but raised the price $1100. To their credit they gave me the lower price with the package. But customers should not have to deal with these glitches when spending thousands on cruises. I wonder how many other non-informed customers booked this suite expecting to get the Retreat package, as it is prominently advertised during the booking process, but then will be upset when they get onboard and have no perks they were advertised to receive. Celebrity needs to get their act together on fixing their booking process website.

X wants me to pay $6128 more for my Sky Suite so that my $900 deposit will be refundable. Umm.... I think I'll pass.