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Whether or not you have a luggage fee from your airline, there is a cost payable to Celebrity of $29 per person for luggage valet service.

a 10:30 AM flight is on the early side. If you have no luggage to check and can go directly to the tsa lines obviously that will save some time.  Exactly how much is hard to predict.

9 minutes ago, DevonianCruiser said:

I’ve been to HK and Singapore before but looking at a December cruise between the two that takes in various stops in Vietnam and Thailand. Whilst I’m happy with all the destinations being suitable for our daughter, I just wonder if there’s many children onboard those type of cruises? It will be around school holidays as it’s in December.

 

Also we’re both diamond on RC so get 4 free drinks a day, is that transferable to Celebrity? I seem to think it is and may well have asked before but can’t recall.

 

Many thanks.

 How old is the child?

7 minutes ago, DevonianCruiser said:

I’ve been to HK and Singapore before but looking at a December cruise between the two that takes in various stops in Vietnam and Thailand. Whilst I’m happy with all the destinations being suitable for our daughter, I just wonder if there’s many children onboard those type of cruises? It will be around school holidays as it’s in December.

 

Also we’re both diamond on RC so get 4 free drinks a day, is that transferable to Celebrity? I seem to think it is and may well have asked before but can’t recall.

 

Many thanks.

Royal and Celebrity do their drinks offer differently.  Royal diamond gives you four drinks at nearly any location all day long, Celebrity elite has a 5 to 7 PM unlimited drinks plan good at nearly any bar.

3 hours ago, Kevin said:

I guess I might be safest to just hang out at the Disney terminal and not call an Uber until I think Celebrity will allow me to enter the terminal. 

Every terminal is different, of course but I doubt if there’s anywhere you can “hang out” at inside the Disney terminal. They generally shoo you out of the terminal buildings as quickly as possible with a “move along please”.  There are no facilities or waiting areas for departing passengers indoors.

Yes that’s the way it works.

The problem is that you may not have much choice. They will kick you off your first ship probably by about 9:30.  Then you will be ready whenever they let you into the next ship’s terminal but you won’t have any control over what time that might be

45 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

I have to say given that Celebrity is considered a premium mass market cruiseline and even on their newest ships there aren't many complementary eateries on embarkation day they REALLY should open up the MDR for all passengers as a choice for embarkation lunch. NCL does this on their newest ships and it was a wonderful way to start your cruise having a calming lunch being served. Whatsmore they use their nicer aft MDR which is one of the nicest MDRs of any mainstream cruiseship

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They probably will not be ready to let you into the terminal that early, but there are benches outside so you should be able to wait comfortably.   When they open the doors, you will be admitted to the suite lounge to wait there.

Concierge Class, zeniths and back to backs

I only raised the question because sometimes people have tried to start a poll and actually been unsuccessful so if that was the case here, I was sure somebody would be able to help with instructions of how to do it

53 minutes ago, RichYak said:

No. The card essentially offers 1% cash back (which is bad) in the form of Celebrity OBC (which is terribly restrictive).

Not so. There is also the option to take it as a credit on your credit card account. You are not limited to taking it as OBC.

Only occasionally do people get responses when they write to the executive office. I would certainly not be expecting one in this case and even if you hear from them, I would not be expecting them to change the requirements back to the previous.

Because they aren’t really for sale.  That ship brokerage uses their image but have no agreement to actually broker a sale.  It’s just an advertising come-on

6 hours ago, Stockjock said:

This is the poll.  Do you prefer a spreadsheet?

No it’s just that usually when posts start with the word poll there is an actual way to vote on an issue and it keeps track of the statistics and such.  I have never created one, but I have seen many. And I know that sometimes people think that they have created a goal but it didn’t actually get accomplished so I just wondered if that’s what happened in this case.

The app is, simply put, unreliable.

6 hours ago, Stockjock said:

As you may know, Celebrity has a house-branded credit card, and typically they offer something like $200 or $300 in OBC if you sign up for it.  But let's say they sweetened the pot, and in addition to the OBC bonus, they offered some Captain's Club loyalty points, let's say 50, and perhaps they could tie that to an initial spend challenge, perhaps spending $2,500 in the first 3 months or so.  Would that make you more likely to sign up for their card?

It seems to me as if they'd get a lot of new credit card business if they tried this.  I know that the airlines make big money on their house-branded credit cards.

What do you think?

Did you actually create a poll?

No. But if you have seen any indications that some ships are for sale, you have probably come across a brokerage firm, which doesn’t actually have the ships for sale, it’s just photographs as a come on to their site.

Oceanview café (buffet) should have coffee at that hour.

I have seen oat milk and soy milk but I don’t believe I have ever seen coconut milk on a ship

4 hours ago, CHEZMARYLOU said:

The stall locks on Edge did not have a green/white indicator from what I remember.

 

Maybe we need an edge class thread but this one is all about m and s class ships

Suite— Reflection

Regular stateroom. — Reflection

1 hour ago, Mike981 said:

 

I love this.

It has been a long time since I have cruised a M ship, I'm not sure what the Mercury would be classified as but that was our first ever cruise, then we followed up with the Millennium the next year. We are booked on the Constellation this coming January

Mercury predated the M class ships.

It has been reported on Acent

 Isn’t Eden aft?

And here is the other thread on this, a little older than that when I have already linked to