Mike981

I read on another thread that a person called Celebrity and the rep didn't even know about this new sale. Promote the sale with emails and didn't let forward facing employees know. Promote the sale and are not prepared on your website. Crazy...

My dad told me when he was in the army they had a department of redundancy department.

Same, like most cruise lines they just don't care enough to spend the necessary $$$. I like this note that popped up: "Hang tight, lots of guests are sailing through our site. Don't pick up the phone just yet, we'll load all the fun stuff soon."

This happened to us years ago. Most of our flight out of Minneapolis were going on the same cruise as we booked through the same TA. I don't remember how long they held the ship, but found out later that it was very unusual. Kind of like putting up a sign that says, "wet paint, don't touch." 😉

Reminds me when I worked in an office, when they said I had to change my password and I could not use one from the past six months. I would change the password and it would say, "used in the past six months." It had not and it would continue to say the same thing over and over. Finally I would just try my current password and it would be fine.

In all of my years of cruising AND following along on-line for all cruise discussions, I feel lobster talk is right up there in the top five questions/comments. Is it because it is a novelty, people just love lobster that much, or a mix of the two. We mostly travel in the Caribbean and you know we are not talking Main lobster there, warm lobster and small so we never get it. It just isn't that good to us. Trust me, if we could pick Main lobster it would be definitely ordered.

Not the same but... My son and I were doing a walking tour on our own in Nassau and came across a local giving a tour for a few people in a very public area and we kept our distance. When we went to leave (two minutes later) he came up to me and asked for money and I laughed and said for what? I am sure that some would have felt bad and given him some money, but come on really?

"Before you post, please search this forum for your question. If you need assistance on how to search, please click HERE." I understand the whole idea is to keep generating more content, but I feel this would help make it a more enjoyable experience for all and help people understand how to use the search function. I understand search has it's limits, but it sure has helped me a lot over the years.

In our family experience, the biggest issue was the worry before the cruise. Once our son and daughter were put in their respective groups, it was absolutely fine. They would share stories at dinner and often continued with their new friends outside of the club.

Not sure if this LINK will help.

I have toyed with the idea of bidding for a 'better' room, but I like picking the exact room too much. On our next cruise we have an inside booked and I would be tempted to bid on another room, but I really like our location, so no I'll just stay where we are.

Thank you @leaveitallbehind.

I wonder what other industries use this business model? If it is as simple as a travel agency blocking X amount of rooms and then if they are not being able to sell them, then just give them back without any cost, it seems like a strange relationship. Granted I am assuming that there is no cost to the agency.

The way DW and I drink on vacation, not getting one would be absolute ignorance. And I like some of the fancy water and coffee as well. Trust me, they are not making any money on us compared to most.

Years ago our family of four got back to the ship and stood on our balcony watching folks that were very close to being left behind. I could not believe the number of people still walking down the pier slowly and apparently not a worry in the world. I kept saying it over and over, then my wife said "you know there is another ship down the pier. I guess I missed it on our way back to our ship and from our room you couldn't see it. If memory serves the pier was L shaped. One of our first cruises our flight (same day) to the ship was severely delayed and the only reason they held the ship was because most of the people on the flight were taking the same cruise. That was not fun and the last time we flew in the same day.