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1 hour ago, wrk2cruise said:

 

You are aware that if you cancelled prior to final payment the deposits would be returned to you in the form of FCC?   Now that final payment date has past, technically you are in the penalty period and the deposit would be forfeited as you didn't cancel.

Perhaps but with the increased in prices for future sailings. The $1500 would not have been enough to cover booking new cruises. At this point I might as well have made a donation. 
 

By some miracle if they refund my deposit when they cancel the infinity,  I’ll consider cruising with Celebrity again. Otherwise I think we’re done with cruises for a long while

I’m in your boat. I have 3 cabins booked for June 13th.  Last year pre covid I foolishly changed to NRD during on one of their sales. 
 

Final payment of March 15th have come and gone. I didn’t make the final payment because I don’t feel like giving celebrity 10k interest free loan.  Funny enough the 3 rooms are still showing under my account. No agents have called me about missing the final payments. 
 

Celebrity cruises aren’t earning any good will from me knowingly delaying the cancellation just so they can collect final payments or hoping people will lose their deposits. 
 

I know the CC cruise white knights will jump in their shady practices. 

I wonder if this change is enough for those to get a full refund instead of FCC for those that booked pre-covid.

7 minutes ago, stevenmary said:

So I guess you booked the 7 night Italy, Croatia and Montenegro on Infinity? If so, there is only 1 night scheduled in port at Venice at the start of the cruise. Then, assuming you cannot board until midday earliest on the first day, that pretty much wipes out the day for touring, if they even allow you off ship on your own. Arizona Wildcat is correct, you would be better off staying locally in Venice for 1 or 2 nights pre or post cruise to tour independently, but we still don't know what the situation will be like next year. I don't believe Celebrity will change from Venice to Ravenna as the departure port. Only Royal Caribbean Cruises are doing this (so far) and I am pretty sure that despite local protests against cruise ships in Venice, the city must be desperate to recover some of the tourist income they have lost.

Correct, I meant 2 days 1 nights, that's plenty of time to tour venice as we have been there before. This whole situation of being forced to go with only cruise ship tours is another variable that I wasn't expecting.

We have a cruise booked next year the infinity, it's staying in venice 2 nights so we're using it as home base while we tour the city. That's actually the main reason I booked this particular cruise. I wonder if I can cancel without penalty if they move the port to Ravena. I have no interest in taking a bus to venice each day.

Have any of you rebooked your up coming cruise (booked prior to boarding) to get extra OBC etc?

Im currently onboard the infinity and was curious to see if it’s worth while to do so

On a related note, is it OK still bringing flowers aboard if we stop by a florist and get a bouquet before we board?

I know it's NOT okay to bring it off the ship so I won't be doing that.

Thanks for the heads up, saved $1500 across 3 rooms and got extra perks.

Use incognito mode or private mode and that should take care of the cache issue.

I booked our upcoming cruise for europe directly with celebrity but found out that if i transferred it to a big box club travel agent I could get their giftcards also.

Any downside to doing so except I'd have to go through them to get price drops later on right?

Also, could I still use celebrity choice air?

9 hours ago, plettza said:

I have a somewhat strange request regarding Carnival Security's tablets that are used to scan Sail and Sign cards as one embarks and disembarks the ship.  I'd like to know what brand/model they are.  Every time I get scanned by the tablets, they're faultless at bringing up passenger details quickly and reliably.  In fact, they're so quick, I don't even get a chance to glance at any branding on them.  

Any help is appreciated.

From What I've seen it's just standard android tablet running a custom portal linked to the ship's wifi.

If you're really curious I can ask this saturday when we board 🙂

Seeing some conflicting information on the boards for the unlimited internet with the go best package. Does this come with a 2 device limit or just the one at a time?

 

 

Thanks

Got this recently, it came with 2 different codes to create 2 separate accounts on board.

So really you can use 2 device, one on each account if you'd like.

...and yet you post HERE, interesting

 

 

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It’s not a sin to use multiple cruise line now is it. :)

I’ve always said, carnival cruise LINE take their lines very seriously.

It’s never the case on celebrity, come on over :)

Can you tell us the time difference between ship time vs local time for st. thomas and st martin?

Thanks.

The kids I've seen on celebrity are well behaved, better then some adults even :p

There is so much to see and some of the sites are quite spread apart. I recommend getting a private tours like Barcelona Day tours.

Made the most out of our day and we were always ahead of the tour buses!

The “art” is in ugly and out of style golden frames and Carnival would be better to get rid of that junk and use the space for something better.

 

Who is with me on this?

I don’t think you get to keep the frame. The my roll up your smart into a cardboard box.

Does anyone know if you can change from early saver to past guest, then cancel without penalty?

Was on the Equinox at the end of March and had the Hollywood Hot Glass. There was indeed a demo on the first day and you could then sign up to do a class to make a variety of objects(paperweight, ornament, vase, etc) at various prices.

Was it the first full day or embarkation day?

My wife definitely wants to do it so I'd like to sign up ASAP when we board.

Our first official scuba trip after certification was 10 days in Grand Cayman in December - in the 80s every day & water temps around 84ish. Perfect weather! I haven't been to the other ports in December before.

Who did you do the excursion with?

Oh god no.l do not wait to arrange the day off. Much better to arrive knowing your ride is waiting for you. I highly recommend Rome in limo (they do Naples also). I used them for all our Italian cities during our b2b.

Was the Hudson River Cruise a ship shore x? Sounds really nice.

 

 

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It’s quite an easy walk down the street and buy tickets. Or you can book online even.

We did this precruise last year out of the same pier.

City Pass even has it on their combo tickets which net you saving if you go to a few museums also

They will auto deduct against your OBC if you do not prepaid it before the cruise start. You will not have to tell anyone at guest services.

About how long after placing the order was the email received with the ecards? The ebay confirmation email states it to be several hours after receipt of the order.

I got mine 10 minutes later after the confirmation from paypal went through per email time stamp.