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Have a nice cruise. I will be reading about your adventure. Liberty is a great ship and ports are wonderful! Hopefully you will get a good weather, and won't get Covid or other nasty things!

  How dare you call us rich? You are rich. So many people cannot even afford rent and here you are taking cruises.

  One thing though, if you are taking cruises there are some additional things like excursions, additional restaurants, and there are other things like auto-gratuities. Cruising works great because cruiselines can hire people from other countries and pay them more than they can earn in their countries. I know it is very tempting to remove autogratuities and pay less, but still ... it  is sort of a social contract. Leave it to cruiseline which servises you are using. 

9 hours ago, Another_Critic said:

 

 

Radiance 16 night PC on October 5, 2024.  You can report from the ship.  🙂

 

Can also check Ovation 19 night PC on October 13, 2024.

We can check app when day comes. Just need to switch to that sailing 

#14 is A Taste of Classics 

I don’t think there are more, maybe they just created something custom.

We can check Anthem on October 10, 2025.

They will have 15 nighter.

There are 14 different menus. Some items repeat like escargots, French onion soup, but most don’t. They usually have salmon with various crust

Menus are

Welcom Aboard

Taste of (France, Italy, USA, UK, Asia, Mexico, Caribbean, Mediterranean, World)

Taste of Royal (lobster night)

Royal History

Bon Voyage

Forgot another one. 

Thank you!

We love Princess and used to cruise with them relatively often.

We were happy to meet Enchanted Princess and to hear The Love Boat horn signal.

Btw this is the very first (out of 8 times) I see ship tendering in Halifax.

Actually there is even group Celebrity Cruising Ducks … some adults do them to. (
Not my thing, but I am not strongly opposing it

I’m not a big storyteller. Created a video about our recent cruise on Liberty to New England and Canada. We do this cruise every year now and enjoy it very much. Boston is our city so we just walked in Seaport district, but in other places I tried to capture the best.

Our cruise was 

Bayonne, New Jersey - Day at Sea - Boston - Portland, ME - St John, New Brunswick 2 days - Day at Seas - Halifax, Nova Scotia - Day at Seas - Bayonne 

Video from similar cruise last year with more in Boston as we showed city to our friends, Bar Harbor (Acadia) Maine, Boardwalk in Halifax. We missed St John, New Brunswick due to hurricane Lee 

Yes. Rooftop is a very cool place. Not exactly a Central Park, but very nice.

We LOVED Eden lounge.

Edge class reminds me of Quantum class in many ways. But less people.

I love state rooms even inside ones. They are so cozy.

Celebrity updated even older ships like Summit. They are of course way larger than Zenith or Century classes which Celebrity does not have anymore.

This is how bathroom of  inside(!) room on Edge looks. It has more luxurious feel. Also you do not to check out towels near the pool. They are placed on loungers when you arrive...

There are no Celebrity ships identical to Oasis class in size and features.

Celebrity is more adult - there are kids clubs, but not waterslides or anything else. Its keys are food, service and overall comfort. It is premium massmarket line.

 Celebrity does not have Central parks or Bordwalks... Such features do not exist even on majority of Royal ships.

If you try Celebrity I recommend Edge class. Edge, Beyond, Apex, Ascent.

To me it is somewhat of a hybrid between Celebrity and Royal. Very modern and beautiful. They also offer great entertainment (although it is not like on Oasis class).

 It also offers 4 included restaurants with different cuisine.

Sailed twice and we think size is adequate to number of people

1 hour ago, mil76 said:

You have to sail on Anthem to understand how bad it is.  In the Windjammer they change the monitors when you walk in to beg for 10's, and put up subliminal 10 signs on the different stations.  Then to top it off they play annoying "10 out of 10" songs over the speakers.  We complained about it on our surveys after our June cruises, but it sounds like nothing has been done about it.

Must be something recent. We sailed on her 11 times, 7 times since restart and never been asked  about that.

We've been asked once out of 4 cruises this year. On another ship.

On 8/30/2024 at 12:52 PM, scubaslayer said:

Royal night was day 6 back in June on Harmony but it doesn't show on our cruise for next year. I also see different menu names but other than the missing formal night and lobster it seems the same. I will say Mexican night was awful in June, if you are looking at a night to go elsewhere. The enchilada sauce tasted like the marinara from Italian night.

You cannot see menu for next year. What app is showing to you (not for all ships) is menu of current cruise.

It is easily verifiable when current cruise is shorter than one you will have. You will see less menu days and Bon Voyage will be earlier than your last night. If current cruise is longer you will not see Bon Voyage at all. 

This area is not only far away from places in turmoil, but also is fenced  (protected).

I think Royal would not risk deciding to restart sailings to Labadee otherwise.

3 hours ago, cruiseboy89130 said:

Even the wine - not one each? About 300

No. One per household.

I thought maybe you were at 340 … them you get 2 gifts (could be wines) per household.

24 minutes ago, cruiseboy89130 said:

We always get 1 bottle each - I think only the towels and the bag are per household!

No. It’s 1 per household. 
How many points do you have?

1 hour ago, smokeybandit said:

These free gifts are mostly $5-$15 items, too.

Correct, but they come handy in addition to already provided benefits … like 5 drinks up to $14 per day, free photo, 2 free days of internet and some more. 
 

I’d rate Royal loyalty program as very nice in comparison to most others.

2 hours ago, UKWLDCruise said:

As well as the much mentioned loss of being able to adjust your requests on line they have removed non alcoholic options such as the beach towel or slippers.  Not everyone drinks or wants curled up cheese.

This happened in 2022, or even earlier… 

14 hours ago, nelblu said:

Even if you select, you still may not get what you selected.  I selected 2 bottles of either pinot grigio or chardonnay, however, I get either a bottle of red and a white.  Sometimes my 2nd is champagne. And sometimes I only get 1 and have to chase down the 2nd.😁

We always got what we selected. Mostly it’s Lindeman Moscato.

13 cruises and counting.

1 minute ago, EricJ said:

Yeah, the irony is that there were loyalty gifts to levels below D+, like ball caps, hanging toiletry bags, etc.

Those are not benefits, but random gifts. 
This amenity is for a guest to pick.

BTW, don’t forget

- at 340 points you can pick 2 

- at 525 points you can pick 3

We became D+ in 2022 and my husband called, waited maybe 5 minutes on hold.. and that was it.

How do you know how it was in the old days if you weren’t D+ till recently?

6 minutes ago, cruisegus said:

Not as upset as the Pinnacles excluded for CK on the larger ships, which is why those Diamonds are excluded during HH

On ours P aren’t excluded. 
 

In our experience Ps are at most 125 (we don’t do transatlantics), but ads could be 800-900s
 

On 6/1/2024 at 1:48 PM, tlhave said:

Does the ship dock close to the town Sydney, Nova Scotia?  Quite a few of the excursions give the impression that the town is nearby.  How far is  Cape Breton Island?  Are there plenty of choices for dining there?

If it’s on itinerary then it’s right in Sydney. It’s Cape Breton. We were there once and it didn’t look like it had plenty of anything. We haven’t spent much time there though, just rented a car and drove toward Cabot trail. Views are beautiful.

14 minutes ago, leaveitallbehind said:

Just to echo the other comments.  The 3-coupon program as I recall was introduced prior to the pandemic - I believe 2018?  Maybe earlier? This was an attempt as I understood it to thin the herd in the then Diamond Club due to the high numbers of D, D+, and P that were common on most sailings. Having the coupons provided the flexibility of still enjoying complimentary cocktails, but allowing that in other less crowded venues.  My skeptical nature took this as a step to ultimately limit the DC to D+ and P's as they typically were the lesser combined numbers.

 

After the Pandemic the current enhanced 4/5/6 voucher system was introduced as, again in my view, the next step in the process. Most recently the DC's were renamed the Crown Lounge, eliminating the word Diamond from its' name.  Now we are seeing on some high volume D/D+/P sailings that D's may be restricted from the CL during the published cocktail hour.

 

Personally I like the voucher program as it provides much more flexibility than that original DC cocktail hours and subsequent coupon program.  We rarely use the CL anymore, other than to communicate with the Concierge and have the occasional canape when it is not overcrowded.  Don't know if ultimately D's access will change or not, but I guess time will tell.

 

Just my 2 cents.

Yes, we are now sailing with high number of D, D+, P and D are not allowed to CL during HH. Of course it’s not a problem as no drinks in the lounge are provided, but some are upset.