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Thanks so much. Because both people who I spoke with at Celebrity seemed so confused by this, it feels like it would not be an easy and straightforward process. And it seems like while it was a nice idea to ask this other family member to join us, it may not be worth what seems like a hassle. Seems like adding an extra passenger and charging us a few more thousand dollars would be something they would want to do but I think it's not for some reason. I don't want our current reservations to get screwed up. I really appreciate everyone's help. If I find out more or if we attempt to do this successfully or not, I'll let you all know.

Thank you, mahdnc. Oddly, it is the third person in the stateroom with the higher fare. The second one was the lowest. So I think if we were able to move one person, we would then have a 2nd guest fare twice (one in each cabin); lower than the third person. We would be paying thousands more, of course, for the new reserved guest and additional cabin, which of course is fine. I just won't pay a penalty deposit to do so. We'll just skip that booking and stick with what we have and not pay for the extra cabin and passenger. It saves us quite a bit of money overall of course but a shame to not be able to have this person join us without incurring a lost deposit for adding another guest and cabin to our group. I spent about 30 minutes on the phone with Celebrity yesterday trying to get an answer. They finally told me I'd need to call back today and gave me a number. I may or may not bother. It seems complicated at the very least. We have until this Wednesday for complete deposit refunds but they seem so confused about this situation that I'm just afraid to mess with it.

Thanks everyone. I called Celebrity yesterday and spoke to two people. Neither of them knew the answer but one did give me an 800 number to call today (Monday). I'll try it but we'll probably just skip booking an extra cabin and an extra person. Since it seems complicated and possibly expensive to make this change. I guess these policies protect customers from overspending. We would have easily spent many thousands more by doing this. I just feel a bit bad for the person we can't add but that person cruises often. I appreciate everyone's help.

Thank you. Our deposits are refundable through Wednesday. But we will likely leave it as is and not add the additional person and cabin, especially of course if it's after Wednesday. We will save quite a bit of money as a family by not increasing the number of people and cabins. We just had this idea to have this other family member join us. Thank you again for this response.

Hello everyone. I called Celebrity about this this morning but was told I needed to call another number later today. So I hope I get an answer then but hoping that perhaps I can get some insight here. We currently have 3 people booked in a Veranda room. Another person now wants to join us so we want to book a new room and move one person from the triple to the new reservation, making the new one a double. So we'd go from one triple to two doubles (3 people to 4 people). Does anyone know how this would affect our reservation? I don't want to lose the deposit that we put down on the third person. Many thanks.