Do you have the Celebrity app on your phone? 45 days prior to your sail date you can pick your check in time. This is not your boarding time. If you want you can print off your Xpress pass or not. It will also be on your app. The Xpress will get you on the ship. Once you board the ship you can go directly to your stateroom and pick up your Seapass card and drop off your carry on. Then you are ask to leave the stateroom until the general announcement is made that staterooms are ready. . The Seapass card is your room card (unlocks your door), ID card and onboard expense card. You can also watch the muster drill on your phone prior to boarding the ship or you can watch it on your stateroom TV.
I usually book directly with Celebrity, while onboard the ship. I never have the booking(s) transferred to the TA on record. Then when I get home I call a couple of online TAs I've used to see who can sweeten the offer. Lost a great local (small independent) TA 2008.
In that case, your Seapass card would have been confiscated when you tried to enter the SL and you would have been escorted directly to the highest deck and made to walk the plank.
Were you advised there would be a charge for the extra vegetables? If so I would have declined. If not I would have contacted GS and advised them the extra charge wasn't disclosed and requested the charge be removed.
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You selected a check in time and not a boarding time. Celebrity needs to do away with pre cruise check in times. Dose Celebrity even enforce it anymore? They didn't on our March Apex cruise. We've got a 11:00 AM check in time for October Eclipse cruise.
I go topless on every one of our cruises while enjoying the sun and my BP on a sea day afternoon. If the weather is good on our October Eclipse cruise you just might see me. 😉
Like I said, I do read and respect others options. My point is it doesn't matter what your or anyone else's opinion on the subject would have been at that time. We would have and did base decision based on our port times and excursions. Going forward based on our experience we would book early TD. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
I respect others opinions and experiences but that's where I draw the line. Our first cruise was in 1991 ten years before I joined CC in 2001. The one and only mistake we made was booking late TD instead of early TD. Now how many different opinions would I have received if I was to ask, early or late TD? We've learned from our own past experience going forward.
Yet another great example why we would never book or not book a cruise, ship, itinerary, food etc. based on others opinions, experiences, positive or negative. Looking forward to our March 2024 Enchanted cruise.