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If you cancel before the cruise..it will go back on your credit card. On board you can cancel 24 hours before the excursion and it goes against your tab... if you don't spend that..at the end of the cruise it goes back on your credit card... I am assuming you are not using OTC to book the excursion

This happened to us in December on Silhouette.....started banging around 10 pm....called the desk after it was clear it wasn’t going to stop...an engineer showed up and figured it was coming from a vacant cabin near us...same thing...partition came loose...he knew right away what it was

9 hours ago, misterkevin said:

Martha has similarly embraced new age product marketing by releasing America's best selling brand of CBD gummies not only for humans, but for pets. They all claim unbelievable benefits. Martha and Gwyneth are cut from the same cloth.

Have you been to Bermuda? There is a woman there named Carole Holding. She started out selling watercolor paintings... she turned many into matted prints that she would sell for $15... back in the day. And they sold like hot cakes.. Later she owned her own shop and expanded beyond art to selling items, many based on plant designs and her watercolors.. including jams etc.... and then set up a B&B in her home which is on the harbor opposite Hamilton. I thought of her as the Martha Steward of Bermuda. It has been a while since I have been there and I know the islands shift from tourism to financial industry plus covid has reduced the number of shops she has... It was fun watching her business grow over the years...

11 hours ago, RedneckBob said:

Our doctor who we have been going to for over 25 years knew medical history before prescribing.

Sorry, I misunderstood... I thought you got it on the ship...

11 minutes ago, RedneckBob said:

Oh no. Ditto. Same thing happened to us except my wife tested positive and started on Plaxovid today. Another one of the five people we traveled with tested positive on Sunday. How many who came off the Equinox are now Positive!

I am curious... I understand that Plaxovid has some drug interactions with some classes of drugs..like statins and blood thinners... did this come up when the doctor prescribed it? I am wondering what they do if you are on these types of medications... do you stop them or what...

30 minutes ago, Guppy99 said:

Next thing she'll be bottling her farts. (That also is a real thing apparently)

I was going there and stopped myself...

8 hours ago, cruising diva said:

We are on the Equinox now and seem to be the only ones wearing masks inside. If you test positive, you move to deck 3 and will not stay in your suite.

I read someplace that the captain has people masking in the theater and casino on this current sailing...is that the case?

I just want to know if Celebrity will be selling her Vagina smelling candles... ? Okay Celebrity is trying to appeal to a different age group... but not sure this is the best choice as a partner. I will be interested to see how long this post lasts... Moderator..this is a real product..

The question I have.. is how sick are the people who are getting Covid at this point in time. I have read that variant B.3 or something like that..is more contagious but less severe... Back in '20 there were horror stories of glass like substance in some patients lungs, videos of people in China falling over unconscious or dead... over time the issues seem to change.. heart related effects and long covid. But I am wondering if we are finally.. slowly.. getting close to a flu like illness. 

We hear numbers of covid cases...but do any require hospitalization or patients being off loaded in a port for treatment? My fear is that this illness will transition to more of a flu and we will still be treating it like the earlier deadlier form of the illness.  I don't know what the answer is... but I just turned 70 and can't hold off living for too long at some point you just have to say  f it, I am going to live my life.  We have been lucky to have avoided Covid..once the last Reflection full sailing before shut down and then in December before Omicron restrictions... I am hoping our cruise at the end of the month will not break that lucky streak.  

I have used Allianz, and have booked through insuremytrip and squaremouth. the only one I needed to make a claim was Allianz. The situation was..upon returning from a cruise ATL was closed for several days due to ice. When it became clear that not only would we not make it home on Friday... but the airline couldn't confirm that we would make it home by Monday... we decided to rent a car and return home. Shortly after returning home I wondered in our Allianz policy would cover any of the cost of returning home.. within 2 weeks we had payment which..as I recall..covered car rental and gas... hotel stays and I believe meals .. at the time we received more than we had paid for the coverage. So I like Allianz. I did purchase an annual plan.. recognizing that it would likely only cover the cost of one cruise being cancelled. However, since I had scheduled our cruises more than 90 days apart..my logic was that if something happened during one that would cause me to cancel later cruises..I would have the time to do so..only losing deposit. Fortunately I didn't need that. Since then I noticed that their prices were a bit higher on their individual trip policies... so I tried insuremy trip... I liked this experience along with squaremouth... both represent multiple insurance companies and you can tailor your policy for your needs... once I did that and had a few options...I would call and talk to an agent.. they not only answered questions but pointed out some benefits and cons of some of the policies I was considering. 

I am not really sure how this helps with Covid, since it is apparently an airborne virus... BUT it definitely helps with Noro Virus...  The other benefit is reduced food waste and perhaps just as important... portion control. When they serve you.. you can get as much as you want..but they generally initially serve a normal portion... Last cruise I did not gain a pound.. although I did walk every morning...  

I really like the crew serving, but in Dec with the ship less than half full, the typical serving station had two people and with one usually tending the supplies there was only one...usually...doing the serving ..which was fine during non peak hours..but a full ship...peak hours... crew needed would be on top of each other...  I hope I am wrong.. because I really do like crew serving...   

On 4/7/2022 at 8:25 PM, ScottC4746 said:

My first time on X is this September to Alaska.  How does X handle the dreaded people that leave a book, only you never see the reader for hours on end?

Pick up the book and hand it to either guest services or crew telling them that someone forgot it... I would just make that assumption and if someone show up you just tell them, you thought it was forgotten and tried to get it back to them.. They might think twice next time.

a million years ago I worked for a major corporation... you were kinda expected to show up to work on Saturdays... I recall one coworker would leave a sandwich with one or two bites taken out of it..and then leave for hours and come back later and toss the sandwich...

We have been using Park N Go.. make a reservation online and depending upon how far out you do so the cost is between $8- 12/day (or at least it has been). They quickly load your bags and quickly fill up the van and drop you off.. At the end of the trip they are there to pick you up. The only negative is leaving your keys with them. As a precaution..before we get to the lot I photograph the exterior of the car and take a photo of the mileage..just in case. So far I have not had an issue. They know where the ships are... DH has mobility issues, but can get into the van... better than me leaving him and then going to park the car...

On 3/20/2022 at 9:56 AM, TeeRick said:

I hate it when wearing a mask and my glasses get fogged up!  Even when I fit it properly!

 

 

This is why I have an issue with masks... so far defogger hasn't helped much. Also rosacea breakouts.... but I need my next cruise... wearing a mask will not make me happy but at this point I need to get away...

16 minutes ago, chemmo said:

Just a word of warning I was in a wheelchair following surgery and my husband found the chair hard to push on carpeted areas (I am quite small too). It really put pressure on his back. If we cruised needing a mobility aid again I would definitely go for a scooter rather than a chair. 

On our Edge inaugural sailing our scooter failed to charge and we had to borrow a regular wheelchair for several days... I nearly dumped DH onto the ground several times... a hint.. where going from tile to carpet or carpet to tile... take the transition on an angle... DH is a big guy so I got quite the workout that cruise.

1 hour ago, baillie said:

Thank you all for your help and useful comments. Stress fracture of leg last week and due to sail on April 18th. Hopefully will manage to get around ship on crutches but will look into wheelchair rental

Thanks again

You definitely should sign up for wheelchair assistance to get on and off the ship. Contact special needs department at Celebrity. When you arrive look for a port worker with a chair.. they can be hard to find so you might ask a porter..these folks all know one another..so they can help. They will take you through checkin and to the gangway.. there a member of the crew will push you onto the ship. You don't want to deal with that. We generally tip both people. The day you leave they have wheelchair assistance at Sushi on 5.. I believe suite passengers might meet in another location.

We did periodically borrow a wheelchair, but we did not keep it. DH rents a scooter..but when going ashore we sometimes keep the scooter in the cabin and borrow a wheel chair to get out to the excursion vans.. 

If you have a cabin with the bed by the window/veranda you can get a scooter into a regular cabin..it is a bit tight, but it can be done... but if the bed is by the bath..you have little room to maneuver.  The rental agencies rent all kids of equipment ..including regular wheelchairs, scooters, they might even have walkers.. so I would check out scootaround and special needs groups and get a quote. But I will warn you if you cancel you lose at least some of your money..the closer to cruising the more.

1 hour ago, kwokpot said:

Yes there was,but turning that setting off doesn't keep the AC on with the window open. 

Do you have any idea on what the eco setting does? I am just curious.. if it doesn't allow the AC to stay on..what does it do?

I prefer the crew service too...but I wonder with fuller ships, if that is practical given the staffing needed to avoid long delays.

1 hour ago, kwokpot said:

I think you recollection is hazy. There's no setting where you can have the window down and the AC on. As I stated earlier the folding doors aren't airtight, so for energy conservation the ship wouldn't design the HVAC to operate with the windows down for the same reason the AC turns off when you have a traditional balcony door open.

You might be right, there was some kind of eco setting back in Dec '18, but I never tried it... I read later that you could change that to allow AC. So I don't have first hand experience...but did you notice if there was an eco or green setting on the control panel?

Back when we were on one of the early edge sailings..which has now been a few years ago.... I recall that there was a setting on the control panel for something like 'green'.. and that the room was automatically set to that... so when you opened the IV window..the AC would cut off. As I recall if you turned that setting off..it stayed on. I do not know if that is still the case. We never tried it..but were told that this was the case when we were on the ship.

6 hours ago, bama4cruisin said:

While we never closed the doors, I did close to take a photo.

One thing I noticed on photos of Apex... I think the table on the veranda is smaller than the one on Edlge. When DH and I were on the veranda and wanted to close the folding door...we had to move the table onto the bed and slide the chairs around to be able to close those doors while we were both standing on the veranda..another design flaw.  I wonder if they actually built a cabin mockup before they approved final designs.. because, I would..at the very least..made the veranda about 8 inches deeper to allow the folding doors to easily close.. and found a way to incorporate enough space for a curtain to hang on one side of the veranda...  Even if this was an option..that the cabin steward could provide if requested...  If you look at early animations of the cabin, you will notice that the perspective is off.. the animation makes the cabin look wider than it is...

1 minute ago, Ipeeinthepools said:

 

Nothing says Modern Luxury like bringing your own curtains.

I agree, it wasn't an issue for me since DH sleeps late and I will go on deck... but I did bring bed risers to raise the chaise lounge to a normal seating height... 

Originally the folding doors were not frosted. The problem was when you pulled into a port like Nassau..where ships are parked next to each other, passengers on the next ship could easily see into your cabin..which could come as a surprise if you opened the blinds. On edge the blinds are next to the window..there is no curtain separating the veranda section from the room. Also.. the ap has a setting.. going from memory... called morning. Now I thought that just slowly turned on the lights..but no... again going from memory.. the lights come on and the blinds automatically opened revealing all... this came as a surprise.  One of the big complaints on the e class is that early risers can not sit on the veranda without waking their cabin mates... Now I understand that some people bring black out curtains and magnetic hooks to create their own curtain. I do not know if this problems was addressed beyond adding frosting to the folding doors... 

The other problem with no curtain is that if you want to change for dinner while parked next to another ship... and you want some privacy..you have to close the blinds to do so... vs.. partially or fully pulling curtains... but we were on Edge on one of the inaugural sailings..so maybe they fixed this?? but I don't think they can..easily

4 minutes ago, SharkieQueen said:

Each class was $20, or for our 5 day cruise you could pay $99 for unlimited classes, plus grats/tax. We cruised in March on the Summit and the instructor was very good.

Thank you.. I was on Silhouette last Dec and could never find anyone in the fitness center to ask.. so I just walked each morning... I would like to do some yoga... so this would be an option..

Does anyone have an idea on what the fees are for yoga..on those ships that offer it? Thanks in advance