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Ultimately, you've only got a chance of testing positive if you, well, test. Soo if you don't test....no quarantine 🙂

Thank you, that explains why it tasted awful then! I'll take some Twinings with me!

Brilliant pics, what camera are you using? I'm debating taking my 10yr old DSLR camera with me which takes great photos but weighs a ton! Also I know you said you were very disappointed with your English breakfast tea...as a Brit, I need a couple of cups in the morning to start the day off, did you notice what brand tea they're using? Do I need to bring my own Twinings tea bags and just ask for hot water?!

Great trip report! Following along here in interest as we are on the same itinerary later in Sept. If you crossed under the Canakkale Bridge in the early hours, obviously that cruise along the Dardanelles Strait was in the dark, how about the return journey? Ship should supposedly be leaving Istanbul at 1pm, will it reach the Dardanelles Strait before sunset or will it be dark for the return leg also?

Apologies if this has been posted previously, but I did a search and came up with naught, so thought I'd share! https://www.houzz.co.uk/pro/celebritycruises/celebrity-cruises I think the contest to win a cruise has ended, but there are plenty of photos of Beyond, interviews with Kelly Hoppen & Nate Berkus and some insight into their design ideas for Beyond, plus some style tips from them. Also if you click around under 'projects' you can find some of the furniture pieces they used on the ship. I know some people don't particularly love the styling/decor on Beyond but personally I think it looks fantastic. The sunset bar in particular I think looks the perfect place to sit, relax and enjoy a few cocktails and from photos/videos stands head and shoulders above the sunset bars on any other X ships.

I'll never forget a trip to the US 20 odd yrs ago with a vegetarian friend of mine, we went to a drive thru Burger King and asked for a veggie burger. "A whaaat" 'a veggie burger, yano, vegetarian, no meat' "err, ok then". Picked order up, went back to where we were staying, friend opened burger to find a piece of lettuce, tomato and pickle between the two pieces of bread...nothing else! Back on track though, last time I ate in Blu there were occasions when I had an appetiser that was so nice I asked for another one, plus I think twice I couldn't decide between two mains so they brought me one of each. Did I forgo dessert on those occasions...absolutely not!

It's not the most obvious place in the app to switch sailings - it's the right hand icon at the top of the main screen, a sort of rectangle with a circle above it, then choose 'select a different sailing' and then 'get more details on ships we support', choose Reflection and then pick the current cruise. You can then look up menus for all the restaurants for all 11 nights plus the daily planner has all the activities for each day of the current cruise. Reflection seems to be alternating between the 10 night Italy/Greece/Montenegro itinerary and 11 night Italy/Greece/Turkey route all summer, so if you're on the 10 night one wait until July 15th and you should be able to see menus/activities for that itinerary. If you've had enough hen recently hopefully the lamb, veal and ribs on hen nights will be decent alternatives!

In the app if you select the current Reflection sailing, which is an 11 night one, it shows all 11 nights of menus. There doesn't seem to be any repetition of menus although I think they might have gotten a special deal on cornish hens as that dish (or slight variations on it) does appear 3 times lol. Sherry glazed, roasted and roasted wild (do they go and make a fire pit on the lawn or something?!).

The vast majority of people in Europe probably have no idea what the CDC is and/or don't care. If the majority of cruises in Europe seem to be back up at or near capacity without that information being available then I'd hypothesise that the majority of people cruising couldn't care less about it lol. PS I'll be on Reflection a month later, take care of her for us! 🙂

Exactly this. As other threads involving people pointing this out and telling others to stop moaning about covid have been reported by the covid police and shut down, for fairness (to the 98% of people who just don't care anymore and/or are trying to get excited about an upcoming holiday) can we please shut down all the threads with people moaning they caught covid on a ship. A couple million people in the uk had covid last week, including me. 99.99% of us caught it somewhere other than on a ship. Tbh I'd have rather caught it on a ship than down the supermarket, at least I'd have had some fun beforehand! Oh and I'm sorry OP, but you're being unreasonable expecting Celebrity to go against their policies and refund your money simply because you suddenly got scared about covid. If it was the rule that anyone could cancel any cruise at any time for absolutely any reason and just say "oh but covid" to get a full refund, Celebrity wouldn't be around for much longer. Businesses cannot operate like that.

5pm at Heathrow maybe, but you were on your way to Rome where it would have been 6pm....so all is good!

Looking at booking aqua cabins on Beyond for later this summer and noticed on the Celebrity website when you click on 'view gallery' of photos for an aqua stateroom, they have a couple of interior photos of Blu and also one photo/rendering (it's so hard to tell the difference sometimes!) of what looks like outdoor seating for Blu. The deck plan of Beyond seems to indicate there is a fair bit of outdoor deck space right outside Blu on deck 5 but it doesn't show any outdoor tables/chairs like it does for Eden just a little bit further down the deck from Blu. Anyone know or heard if Blu will be getting outdoor seating on Beyond, because if so, that would be brilliant. One of my favourite restaurants together with outdoor seating, perfect!