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I echo the use of Verizon’s travel pass if it’s just a couple of days. You need to make sure this is enabled on your account and then it just pops up as a text when you try to use data in the foreign country just letting you know each 24 hour period will cost $10. Very simple. If you don’t think you absolutely need phone service while out and about just using the hotel’s wifi should suffice as well to catch up on all emails, Facebook, Google, etc.

On my sailing there was only one bus to Miami so they waited for everyone to board. I believe it was close to 9:45 am before we departed.

Hopefully it’s still offered on my sailing in October

It’s day 5. Look in the daily planner, at 5 pm it says “tonight’s attire” and that day it says evening chic.

Pretty funny if they go back to the original Nov 3 TA itinerary after cancelling all those bookings.

I hadn’t booked but was interested in that Nov 9 TA on Apex, the price was really good but there were a lot of available cabins. Wasn’t it originally supposed to sail from Southampton on like Nov 3, I was looking at that too. Are they going to reinstate the original itinerary? Is it normal to have this many itinerary changes and cancellations?

It looks to me like celebrity is in the process of changing all their menus. If kids or dessert starts at the top they’ve deleted the old menu and will eventually put the new menu at the bottom.

I believe the early seating is 6 pm officially although I’ve seen the restaurants open as early as 5:30. With anytime we’ve always still been assigned seating within a certain section so the waiters are generally the same and the tables we are seated at may vary but are always in close proximity. We also don’t reserve a time to eat at the MDR and haven’t had issue getting seated but we usually eat around 6 to 6:30. It seems busier around 7 so if that’s the time your group settles on then a reservation couldn’t hurt but we just never found much need for a reservation time at the MDR. If there’s a crowd they form two lines, reservations and non reserved and the lines get served the same or there’s fewer people waiting in the no reservations line lol. If you want flexibility to eat with another party I would go with anytime, there’s really no downside going that route.

Celebrity’s pricing is illogical and often the discount percent doesn’t match the actual discount. Sometimes two device upgrade or plan is cheaper than buying two individual ones, here it’s not. There’s no reason for it.

Seems to be that is because they deleted the existing MDR menus and are rolling out the new menus with the “timeless” and regular sections combined meaning there’s only about 3-4 new options each night.

What’s concerning is the Murano menu is not accessible on Celebrity’s website right now.

We find the cakes to be very dry. Some desserts are hit and miss. Anything that’s mass produced in the galley is going to have limitations, my expectations were never high to begin with but yeah I very rarely go for any of the cakes.

Not at this property in particular but any FLL airport hotel you are getting what you pay for. If you are good with that and it’s only one night then you know that going in.

It was fine for one night. The hotel is nice in parts and not in others, a very cobbled together type property. I was hoping to arrive early enough to use the nearby water taxi but we did not. I wouldn’t pay extra for this property but I wouldn’t avoid it either. The location is very close and nice enough. I will say I had an absolutely bizarre experience with their transportation to the cruise pier which was part of my booking. It was eventually sorted out but the man at the front desk was apparently completely unaware they offered such a thing despite being literally across the street from the massive cruise pier and I’m going to bet I wasn’t the first hotel guest who had this as part of their booking (I book everything direct and myself so this wasn’t a Expedia, cruise line or TA mix up). If it’s not part of your booking it’s $8 per person, btw. Imo only the Princess pier which is the closest to the hotel is walkable but it’s not out of the question to just walk to your specific terminal though.

Typically your first and one of the last sea days are the chic nights. Day 2 is very common and if they can manage it the second to last night but depending on port schedule could make them flip flop it. Usually when you see lobster on the menu in the MDR in your ap that’s going to be the second chic night. I guess my question is does this pattern hold for the longer cruises, 17+?

I noticed there’s a $12 pina colada on the menu at the sunset bar, which obviously wouldn’t be covered. The pina coladas I always got were made the same way as daiquiris with the frozen drink mix and I’d be surprised if those aren’t still under the limit. Seems like many things might really depend where/who you ask.

I don’t want to start a whole thread on this but applies to the topic at hand. I’ve been keeping a pretty close eye on the MDR menus in the app as I’m curious how it’s going to look for my upcoming 17 night sailing. Yes I know the app is notoriously wrong and the placeholder menu for my sailing is nowhere close to accurate, what I’m looking for are updated menus on current sailings. I’ve noticed most ships (I’m not looking at the Edge class as I’m not sailing on one but otherwise) have now transitioned to the eliminated timeless appetizers and entrees section and now have them combined with the nightly offering only giving 3-4 new items in each course per evening. Also the up charge for steak, lobster and surf and turf are there. I’ve also noticed the silhouette has better food/more choices and still does for some reason.

I don’t see it as very difficult. “Hey this is a lovely location on this cabin don't you think, did you have to book it early like we did or can you get these last minute?” Is not an inquisition. But I agree, the TA who made the booking is probably the source for this difficulty.

I had no idea Lawn Club was so popular, why?

I am realizing this more and more. This is the first cruise with Celebrity I’ve “taken the wheel”, before I let DH handle it. I’m realizing now how many things have gone unnoticed, not by his fault just not knowing what these inconsistencies are, I don’t want to think about how much we’ve been ripped off in the past. In my app the premium wifi upgrade cost is $7.99, it says that’s 15% off but it’s really 20% off of $9.99. For premium outright it says $21.99, a 10% savings off of $24.99 per day. I bought the upgrade at $4.99 per day for a 17 night cruise that sails west over the international date line so of course they charged x18 days and not 17. I don’t feel like arguing over the phone for $10 (extra day x2 people) but might bring this up on board, we’ll see. It is maddening.

Under the gifts and gear section on the website, it’s not on the app. Scroll down and then there’s a place where you scroll to the right of the different categories you can browse. Not easy! Coincidentally the bag of laundry disappeared for me while it was on sale the other day. I was going to pre buy but oh well. As I’ve mentioned several times the last cruise I was on the room steward had told me they no longer offer a bag of laundry, it could only be done a la carte, which we did. I guess this was a lie or a temporary change. So I’m not exactly thrilled with the laundry process. Either they’ll offer a bag on board or I’ll do a few items a la carte again.

It tends to be better while docked, also more people off the ship helps bandwidth. I have personally streamed hockey games in the middle of the ocean so I do think you could give it a shot. No guarantees of course.

What are the best items to order at Murano?

Celebrity seems to have really restricted the access to see what shore excursions are offered. It’s very difficult to browse them without already being booked for a sailing.

Once we dined in a specialty restaurant on the last night of the cruise and they brought me like 8 lobster tails without asking, seems they just needed to get rid of them.