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Thanks for sharing! I'm really looking forward to trying the Windstar brand. [emoji4]

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Thanks for your reply!

We are doing the 11-day itinerary. 14 days would be our preferred length but it doesn't seem that Windstar does the longer cruises.

Glad to hear no chair hogs! I like that the Star Pride deck chairs have umbrellas as well.

Looking forward to the great service that I have heard about!

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Hello!

My husband and I will be on the Star Pride in January for a Caribbean itinerary. We've been on 6 cruises before, but only on the large ships (Celebrity, Princess, and Royal). We wanted to try a small ship with fewer passengers.

Tell me all about the Windstar experience! What do we have to look forward to? Any tips or advice from seasoned Windstar cruisers? What is the on deck experience like (chair hogs? Drink service?)

Looking very much forward to trying them out! [emoji4]

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Having never done a Mediterranean itinerary myself, I am curious as to why some don't like Athens as a port? I would have figured that, being such a historical city, it would be full of beauty, architecture, art, and history. Maybe that's just wishful dreamer thinking on my part?

I don't know if any other cruise lines do this, but it would be neat if they had chairs where you could put up a little flag if you are wanting bar service. Some land based hotels do this for their poolside setups, and it works great!

Thank you for the responses!

While lounging up on deck, I kept looking for a server to flag down from my chair but never saw one. They were probably there, but just fewer. And they didn't call out "Bar Service" as they walked by which is probably also why Iay have missed them.

Thanks!

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Hello!

My husband and I did our first Celebrity cruise in 2014, on the Eclipse on a Caribbean itinerary in January. I noticed that, unlike other cruises we had done in the past with other lines, there were very few drink servers on the pool decks coming around to offer to get people drinks. I had to go and wait in a line at the pool bar to get drinks. While I'm sure there were roving drink servers, I did not notice them. On other ships on other lines it seemed like they were everywhere and it was easy to flag one down for a bevvy.

Just wondering if that is just typical for Celebrity, or if it is becoming more of the norm across all lines with the onset of these increasingly popular drink packages?

Thank you!

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Thanks for the response! :-)

If you have purchased the premium beverage package, do they still make you sign a slip of paper (even if it is a $0 receipt)?

Just curious. Thank you!

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Yeah, Edocs are different than your Online Check-in documentation, or so I was told.

Edocs are things like transfer & hotel vouchers, etc.

I made my final payment Oct 25 but still no Edocs. And the Celebrity online check-in page says you can't request luggage tags until the Edocs have been issued.

Oh well. I'll call Celebrity if they still don't show up in a week.

Thanks!

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Thanks for responding! Yes I am so eager to have everything in my hands! Then I can get our luggage tags too.

Thanks again!

Just curious when Celebrity normally emails out the E-docs? Our cruise is 39 days away and I figured we'd have them by now.

Thanks!