seattle-steve

Thank you for taking the time to provide details of your past experience and observations. This is very helpful! (Hopefully others here will follow your example by providing details about their own experience instead of just posting dismissive, unsupported comments -- the type of comments which the internet and forums like this one are sadly filled with.)

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"Just pointing out your assumption." 🤣 No assumptions here, just calling them as I see them... Come back when you can share your experience upfront instead of making dismissive, unhelpful, and unsupported statements.

No need to take offense, I was just explaining how your unsupported statements came across. And the only assumptions here were yours: that others would take your unsupported statements as your experience. Your latest comment does include the supporting information of your past boarding experience, which is very useful. Thanks for sharing that.

Thank you for the welcome and no offense taken. However, your comments did come across as dismissive and pedantic. And, frankly, you did not share your experience -- you just made a couple statements without any supporting evidence. As we've established, what Celebrity support tells you and the reality on embarkation day may be two very different things. Beyond that, do you have personal experience that you can share as a Concierge-or-below class passenger embarking earlier than your "ship check-in" time?

doghog: I'm well aware that what I was told by Celebrity support may not turn out to be the case. (See the last paragraph of my comment starting with "If what the agent told me turns out to be true...") I was simply sharing some concrete information that others may or may not find useful. None of the other comments here regarding Concierge Class priority boarding provided any evidence to support their claims... Regarding "check-in time" vs. "boarding time": that sounds to me like you are making a distinction without difference. In my experience, on embarkation day you "check in" and then you board....

While the OP was asking specifically about priority boarding for a group (some of which were Concierge Class, some of which were not), I wanted to address several of the comments that say there is no priority/early boarding for Concierge Class: We have our first Celebrity cruise in a couple weeks in a Concierge Class stateroom. I was concerned about missing the embarkation day lunch (one of the Concierge Class perks) because -- even though I checked in within hours of check-in becoming available -- we ended up with a 1:00-1:30 embarkation time, because that was the earliest available. With that embarkation time, at best we might make it to the tail end of the lunch... FWIW, I just got off the phone with Celebrity's help line and was assured that regardless of our scheduled embarkation time, we will be allowed to embark early, so as not to miss it the embarkation day lunch. If what the agent told me turns out to be true, it sounds like even though early embarkation is not listed as an official Concierge Class perk, it is apparently a de-facto perk because of the lunch.