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21 hours ago, Babr said:

All of these bullet points can be covered by buying insurance.

 

Point one : Insurance will reimburse all prepaid nonrefundable costs under cancellation for a medical reason. In addition, it will reimburse you for costs associated with quarantine if you test positive at the pier. Celebrity is not paying quarantine costs after April 30, 2022, so even if they extended the cancellation feature until 2023, how are you any better off? You’d still have to pay for quarantine and return travel if you tested positive at the pier.

 

Points two and three expire in two weeks; but they, too, are covered by the Trip Interruption provision of a comprehensive travel policy.

The difference is that one has to pay for insurance. I guess I just do not expect the cruise line and - by extension - other paying passengers to continue to underwrite the cost of people who test positive for COVID. 
 

 

Curious how travel insurance would work for a group traveling together where one person tests positive the day before the cruise after the group spent several days together pre-cruise. That person should have their expensed covered under travel experience. Would their spouse? Would the other couple(s) that have now been exposed and would likely not be allowed to board the ship due to their exposure?

20 minutes ago, klfhngr said:

So if I'm fully boosted, but caught Covid in January, I don't need to take a test 1 day before boarding in Italy?

That's exactly my situation and I expect to HAVE TO take a test one day before since I meet the boosted qualification. January covid doesnt really matter

2 hours ago, Stumblefoot said:

Tell us more, please.  What are you referring to, on what ship, and how would you like to dress?

Silver Cloud Antarctica and South Georgia Islands -- I thought I heard people don't typically dress up on these type of cruises.

Do these dress codes apply to expedition ships? (we are doing Antarctica over Christmas and weren't planning to dress up much)

We are on this same cruise and decided against a 10:20 am flight as just too unlikely. We are going to enjoy an extra day in Rome, then fly home the next day. Ours is a bit more of an issue since we are flying to the USA and it was the only flight that day so missing would be very problematic. Good luck with your decision!

I think the title of the post is a bit confusing since it is the Covid Assistance program that is disappearing rather then the Cruise with Confidence program (that will be in effect for anyone already booked). Still bummed though with my cruise approaching in May. Scary times. Glad i bought travel insurance. 

If people booked before March 31,2022, the cruise with confidence policy goes through cruising up to September 30, 2022:

Cruise With Confidence applies to bookings made on or before March 31, 2022 for sailings up to September 30, 2022. Bookings made after March 31, 2022, will be covered with our existing Best Price Guarantee policy.

https://www.celebritycruises.com/cruise-with-confidence

On 3/24/2022 at 3:24 AM, chemmo said:

Shared dining in restaurants was not allowed in restaurants on our post covid cruise unless bookings were connected. Unsure of the present situation, perhaps someone can confirm?
 

Even if this restriction is no longer in place it might be worthwhile connecting your bookings (if they aren’t already) just in case restrictions resume.

We had no problems dining together in Luminae or Specialty dining in August on the Millennium. Can't imagine we would this time. They can't link our cruises because we used two different travel agents. 

We moved the cabin. We are doing all shared excursions and dining so now won't be any problem coordinating with more than one butler. (I hope)

2 hours ago, TeeRick said:

Curious.  Why is a shared butler important to you?  If it is important, you could always ask for it with the suites manager.  They could easily switch a butler.

We just figured it was easier. We are likely to spend most of our downtime in their PH since it is larger. We will usually have snacks or even sushi brought up. We are also likely to be escorted together for at least the tender ports if not some of the "private journeys" we are going on. We might take some meals in their cabin, too, which also is easier with a shared butler  -- otherwise their butler will likely end up "taking care of us" anyway rather that ours on the other side of the ship. 

We are traveling with another couple (they in the PH, us in a RS). We plan to be together pretty much the whole cruise. For those of you who have booked upper suites, is it reasonable to assume that if we moved next to them (Reflection), we would share the same butler? Last cruise, we were on the same deck but opposite sides and had different butlers. Have people found that a single butler does the upper suites on one side of a deck? 

Updates -- just got my points.  Any my friend who had booked a hotel for September using hotels by celebrity did get the extra 5 points for that today. 

still nothing

Also did anyone who did the "hotels by Celebrity" actually get the points this month (rather than have to wait for hotel stay)

Should I worry if I did not get my Turkey webinar points? Kinda concerned since I never got a confirmation email after watching (I did the recorded one)

Not sure when you are going, but take a look at United and Lufthansa. We are flying from Reno to Florence prior to a cruise and then taking the train from Florence to Rome (we are flying Lufthansa which has about 14-15 hrs total duration Phoenix to Florence at least in May). I agree about taking a car from FCO to the train terminal to avoid changing trains with luggage.

I just received a confirmation from Captain's Club re yesterday's Spain webinar, but I never received one for the Turkey webinar. Did anyone else? If I don't get the points added mid month for Turkey, has anyone been able to get Captain's Club to add them manually?  New to this so appreciate any answers!

We have done this on an Australia/New Zealand cruise where we chose to get off in Melbourne rather than stay on the ship to Sydney. We had to plan this in advance with Celebrity and there was a fee. This was, of course, pre-Covid. 

Most of the other lines have introduced Escape Rooms. I would love to see this added to Celebrity.

For our Antarctica trip, we ended up taking the air credit and booking ourselves for a few hundred dollars less than SilverSea's cost (business class) -- BUT we live in a small city with very few flights in and out, so choosing which flights to use was very important to us (there were many that took over 24 hrs one way!) We also booked the moment the air opened (approx 330 days before the flight) and hedged our bets with refundable fairs for only a little bit more.

Looking forward to my first cruise over Christmas and New Years on the Silver Cloud (Antarctica with South Georgia). Have to say it was more about itinerary and overall timing (missing less work days), but I'm hoping they make it a bit special for everyone on board. This will also be my first cruise with Silversea.

I feel like I just almost finished a murder mystery to find the last few pages torn out!! Who dunnit???

It was a specific offer for "hotels by Celebrity"  

https://www.celebritycruises.com/hotels

Does anyone know when Power up Points for booking a hotel through Celebrity will show up -- the month you book or the month you actually stay in the hotel?

To try to recapture my original topic, has anyone done multiple 10-14 day cruises? And if so, were the menus the EXACT same? I am still trying to find out whether one 11 night cruise will have the same menu order as another 11 night cruise. It seems the order for 7 day cruises is pretty constant across ships.

Anyone know how long the Turkey webinar is?