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Most, if not all of the youth club employees are from “western” countries so background checks are easier.

I believe the only Celebrity ships doing 4 day cruises right now is the Silhouette.

Yes. They have 2 tugs.

Wow. This sounds so exciting!!! I will definitely be following along with you and sharing your excitement.

I find it tricky to use OBC sometimes. There is a box on the left that you enter the amount of OBC to use. You should hit enter afterwards. Just make sure you enter the total amount including gratuities or you will still need to enter a credit card.

OBC is refunded almost immediately.

Thank you!!!! My DW will be very happy and in turn my cruise will be much smoother!!!

In your travels if you happen to pass the fitness center would it be possible to see if the Peleton bikes are still there? There has recently been a recall on some of the bike and I’m wondering if it’s affecting their availability. Using the Peleton on board is the one thing my wife is looking forward to as she’s on her’s every day.

Those are large inflatable rafts. They are set up to automatically launch if the ship sinks to supplement the lifeboat capacity.

How many people are usually on the behind the scenes tour excursion? There must be a maximum number allowed. I wonder what that is.

I don’t know if I would open that Pandora’s box full time. The crew hardly enforces the lounge rule as it is. If they don’t enforce the hours they then leave it up to the guests to police the rules and that would cause even more issues. I would vote for leaving as it is.

I believe it’s on the website also. I wasn’t being snarky, and if I came across like that I do apologize, I was only posting the information, but upon reading it again it did sound kind of snarky.

They is from Celebrity themselves. It’s in the app.

Oh, I didn’t realize that. I just figured that if the travel route was connected to the internet it would work like a regular router and allow two way data flow over the internet from connected devices. Oh well.

Because the hotels I stay at require a sign in with a name and room number on a browser to active the internet connection, something you can’t do on a camera. To get around this I usually turn an iPad into a camera but I would love to use a PTZ camera instead.

A travel router would help me at hotels as I would like to setup a camera to watch my dogs while I go out to eat. The only question I have is can the travel router be set up with a iPhone or iPad or does it have to be a laptop running windows?

My orders hit my card almost instantly. I don’t think you can do better than the 53.33% discount on board, that’s a tough one to beat according to the research I have been doing for the past year.

I’m happy that I finally got a discount on my drink package upgrade, I have been waiting all year for it. Call me cynical but I have a sneaking suspicion that they are getting ready for a third tier of drink packages. I hope I’m wrong.

Thank you. I always thought that water wasn’t hot enough to brew coffee. Glad I was wrong.

This intrigues me, so if I may ask, how would you prepare coffee from grounds on the ship?

Drink packages are not required. You can pay as you go, and it could be very cost effective.

We did a New Years cruise with our kids on Royal Caribbean years ago and it was the best cruise we ever took. There were parties all over the ship and everyone had a great time. We are booked again this year for New Years on Celebrity, I hope it lives up to our past experiences. If you want to gift the crew, cash is the preferred option by far. Cabin decorations are always fun, but the lights might attract too much attention from mischievous individuals.

My upgrade price for my December 23 cruise held at 18.99 for the entire year. It finally dropped down to 13.99 today. I call CC to cancel and reorder and asked about the CC 10% discount. He said it wasn’t available. I didn’t think it was a sale as it now said onboard price is 15.00 and 5% off made it 13.99, but he said the CC discount wasn’t available. 15.00 is much more inline with the difference between classic and premium packages anyway.

Got my 3 points today also. Strange, but I’ll take it.

The easiest way to handle this is to go into your Apple Watch settings app on your iPhone and go into <General> <Airplane Mode> and make sure that <Mirror IPhone> is checked. This will ensure you watch does what you phone is set to so there is no worries about accidentally connecting to the expensive ship’s cellular.