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How do you know her age?

Apparently four. As reported on this board’s may not be accurate. it’s what keep many of us on M and S class Celebrity ships

I’m not sure how. A nonalcoholic screwdriver is just orange juice, a nonalcoholic cosmopolitan is just cranberry juice. You can’t make nonalcoholic martini or kit Royale.etc.

Well that ship will have four (4) staterooms (non suite, non sunset verandah) with regular sliding glass door balconies. Not much of a fix

None of your favorites are on the list

She is posing for a photo, then she is a model.

Itinerary please? Sail date? have you shared this with your rollcall?

Sorry but all anyone can say is “it depends”

Here’s one https://boards.cruisecritic.com/topic/2992248-celebrity-retreat-vs-msc-yacht-club/#comment-66941152

I think there’s a difference between active use of a device and passive, i.e. tracking. It’s a choice to use a credit card rather than pay by cash. It’s a choice to have GPS and location services activated. But carrying around a medallion that shows your location at every moment, that seems somehow different to me

There are easy turnaround days and there are difficult ones. Usually the ones in Europe are on the easy side because passengers aren’t required to disembark. However, on silhouette last month there were 400 back to back passengers and we were told to meet in Tuscan. That location was already being used for some disembarking passenger so there was limited seating. And under the best circumstances, you can’t put 400 people in that space. The traffic jam was almost funny, except that it was sad: A disorganized mess. now on the difficult end of the scale, in Port Everglades, you get to disembark and walk the long hallway, turn around and walk back. Unless you’re told to have a seat and wait, and I have waited up to two hours in the terminal while they readied the ship for us to return. Once we all had to wait because a disembarking passenger was “lost “. The passenger was repeatedly paged and never showed up so they had to zero out the ship and do a complete search. Eventually, somebody said “why don’t you call his cell phone”. Turns out he was at the airport waiting for his flight. For some reason he had not dinged out or the system malfunctioned, and we waited and waited before they would let us back on.. when it’s easy, it’s easy, and when it isn’t, turnaround day is simply no fun

Speaking of longer itineraries, I’m abandoning Celebrity this fall to take this cruise on Princess. 33 days.

It’s never like any other port day, no matter where you are. It’s true that in in some places B2B passengers, don’t all have to get off and then back on again, but breakfast ends early. The buffet has no late risers option. There’s no Elite breakfast. Aqua spa cafe is closed. Often the solarium pool is closed. The elevators are jammed with people toting luggage. Constant announcements create an ambiance that is not conducive to sleeping in.

I used to cruise Princess quite often, but that was before the medallion. In fact, I’m one of my last cruises the medallion was supposed to be introduced, but it wasn’t ready yet and we got some onward credit as an apology. Anyway, I am now looking at some interesting Princess itineraries that Celebrity isn’t offering.

I’d love long round-trip cruise from a US port to Europe, visiting several locations there and then returning back to the US. Perfect for people who are unwilling to fly to Europe but would still like to visit there. Maybe 21 days in total. I suppose the reverse might also work, round-trip from Southampton to US/Canada visiting several ports and then going back to Southampton.

Hmmm I get that they know about activity and purchases whether with a card or with the medallion. But with the medallion, they also know your location, or at least the location of the medallion. And I do find that a little disturbing.

How so? I know there are cameras everywhere, but they aren’t tracking, just recording.

The CSR’s keep giving out incorrect information so the questions & discussion about types of staterooms on e class ships continues and probably always will

That was incorrect information heres a “porthole verandah” on edge And it has a sliding glass door and actual drapery, not a pulldown shade

Apples and oranges. The size of the retreat/Michael’s is fixed and can’t be expanded. But they can always schedule a second lunch or dinner if there are an excessive number of zeniths on board.

Not always. It could be a dinner. The Captains Club representative or one of the other concierges will let you know. don’t look for any sort of invitation before the cruise. Check in with them early in the cruise and they can tell you when they think it will be so you can keep your schedule open.

Not necessarily. While it is usually the case that back to back passengers are offered lunch in the main dining room on TAD, I was recently on a transatlantic where there were 400 back to back passengers, and we were told that the numbers would overwhelm the dining room at lunchbso instead they had a Cocktail hour one evening, which didn’t seem to any of us to be an equivalent, but that’s the way they did it

Only for concierge class, staterooms, zeniths and sometimes back to back passengers. Otherwise, the main dining room is not open for lunch on embarkation day.

It’s a six year old zombie thread so probably many things discussed are out of date🧟‍♀️

Here’s the menu — it says sodas, juices, bottled waters