jonthomas

Has anyone written to the Ceo and gotten an answer Back? Is it a futile exercise?

It's outrageous that O does not save these few cabins for those who need it. I don't know how anyone can be it that cabin with a clear conscience that they don't need it but someone else may.

I will do all I can to make sure we do not occupy a handicap cabin. We booked this when the itin first came up, now prices are higher for other categories. Everyone should boycott a HC cabin if they don't need it. Unfortunately we were assigned this cabin without realizing it's a HC . Anyone think I should write to someone with the power to make change happen. Give me the info. This will be our 15th O cruise.

We will be on insig Dec 2024...a lot can happen in that time... All up to who the chef is and staff.

I am glad you are able to enjoy this cabin. I will do all I can so someone else can enjoy it May 1, 2025.

When I booked this cruise, if only an HC was available, I should have been placed on a wait list. I would have had a regular cabin now and someone who needs an HC would be accommodated. At time of booking I did not know it was an HC. I am hopeful that with the amount of time till sailing, this can be resolved.

B5 cabins are highly sought after. There are very few accessible cabins. It is unbelievable that O would give a cabin like this to someone who does not want or need it. Not sure what it is in my power to do. I have written to my O rep and to my TA. Bottom line, I will NOT occupy a cabin that others may need.

Yes amazing sale. Many were able to take advantage of it. Thank you to original poster for letting all of know.

I have yet to find a TA that is good with rebates and service. It's pretty much one or the other. Mine said our original price is best. I didn't trust it. Got in touch with the O rep we deal with. He reprised it and said the same thing. Him I trust.

What is that? Will be on Regatta in Sept. I don't eat selfish.

The Allura is also coming out. The Vista won't be the new kid on the block. In any case two years is a long time, anything can happen. I'm glad I put this topic up, as there are others that have been part of this experience and were able to tell me that no way will I want to keep this cabin for myself.

Will keep watching and hope that with time something will come up. The b5 are much coveted, now having a lengthy wait list, b4 has a wait list as well. Maybe once the Vista sails people will not like the French balcony. Not likely to happen. With two years away, a promo may come up and give us a chance to maybe rebook. Although that too is unlikely with a new ship.

I just let the TA know to let O know, if anyone needs the handicap cabin. I am not allowed to waitlist a different cabin in the same cat, I already pursued that. You can only waitlist for a different category. Yes will watch for openings, but now the two bottom ones are waitlisted.

no sale...booked it when it first came out...

yes did that right after booking it with the O rep. Will appraise the TA of the situation, but really dont think anything will be done about it, but I could be wrong, it has happened many times before...lol....

thank you for your advice...yes will just keep watching... thank you for the description also...no one should take a handicap cabin and deprive someone that really needs it...I am surprised it was so easily given to us, instead of just being put on a wait list for a B5....

maybe should wait and offer to pay for an upgrade...it is two years away... but I agree with the advice given here, NO way to sail in a handicap unless you need it....

yes I will cancel the sailing... thank you for the description...

much more expensive....2000 pp CAD more.... the whole idea booking when it first came out is to get lowest rate...now it has all gone up, as it should... maybe O will need handicap cabin for someone else.... anyone have that happen to them?

oh wow...please tell me why never again... now the nearest available is quite a bit more expensive..... I needed to get this done when I first booked...O rep said, handicap mostly like regular.... what about people who may need a handicap and we are occupying it...you would think O would not have given it to us without reason....

will keep watching it... anyone in a handicap cabin and didnt need it? just doesnt feel right to be in it when someone else may really need it..

Our O rep, got the last B5, French Balcony cabin for us on the Vista sailing for May 1, 2025. We dont need a handicap cabin and feel guilty having one. I am watching the B5 category to see if another french balcony becomes available, but that cat and the one above it B4 is waitlisted, so not likely to come up. Any thoughts?

Hope all is well with O. Not sure how the sale will impact the actual cruises. On an Azamara ship, when many paid rock bottom price due to a big sale, every thing was different. Different food, short staffed, etc, to make up for losses. Cant imagine O would do that, not a way to attract future cruisers. I also hope the fire sale does not attract the kind of crowd that exists on other lines. Hope the price is still high enough to keep it classy, no kids, no rowdy families. Love the classy atmosphere of O, no belly flopping contests, no newly not so newly wed games...all typical of Celebrity. Please keep sailing Celeb if you enjoy that.

Someone else said the sale ends in June.

Yup big transformation for us. All it took is a cruise with Viking to have us running back to O. This time to stay.and build loyalty.