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OP here. Thanks for everyones responses and the explanations. At least, since it is a watch after all, it still tells the time! (Well, once I manually set the time zone, anyway!)

Thanks. I’ll check with them, but don’t have high hopes since I can’t get the watch to the login portal.

Tried that, wouldn’t work (with my wife’s iPhone). At any rate, I don’t have my own iPhone — my Apple Watch is set up under Family Setup. Thanks anyway for the suggestion.

Thanks very much for all that detailed info. I tried it but couldn’t get it to work (as you thought). Once in a while I did actually get an error message “Could not connect to WiFi-Guest-Constellation.” It seems like a chicken and the egg thing, though, since, in order to receive the text I sent, WiFi would have to be working, but since it isn’t I can’t receive the text in order to click on it, etc. Anyway, thanks again for your help.

On board Constellation right now. We have have successfully connected both an iPhone and an iPad to the on-board WiFi. Once the WiFi accounts have been created (which we have done), it’s simply a matter of entering the password to connect. On my Apple Watch, under WiFi settings, it does list WiFi-Guest-Constellation as an available network. When I click on that, it displays “Unsecured Network” and the little spinner spins for a few seconds, then it stops spinning. It never prompts for the password and there’s no error message. But WiFi doesn’t work, even though the watch indicates it’s on. Has anyone here successfully connected an Apple Watch while on board, at least an M-class ship? Thanks.

My wife and I will be embarking on our first ever trans-Atlantic cruise at the end of October (from Rome to Tampa), and we would welcome feedback from folks who have done this previously. Feel free to comment on any or all of the items below: We are arriving one day early in Rome (at 8:00 am) and will be staying at the Hotel Cicerone. Not sure when we will be able to actually check in to our hotel and plan to explore early check-in, but that may not be an option. Are there any suggestions for “must see” attractions—possibly within walking distance? We are not particularly adventurous and don’t expect to have much energy after a trans-Atlantic flight, plus my wife has some mobility issues. Unfortunately, Celebrity does not seem to offer any official excursions. Along this line, are there any nearby restaurants that folks recommend for dinner? We assume the hotel food would not be the best. What kind of weather are we likely to encounter while at sea? All of our previous cruises have been to the Caribbean, so we don’t know what to expect out on the Atlantic. Would a light jacket with layers underneath do the trick? How rough are we likely to find the sea? Generally things have been calm in the Caribbean, but we suspect that will not be the case crossing the Atlantic. At the moment, it does not appear that there are any Covid restrictions for entering Italy. We are both vaccinated and boosted and understand Celebrity requires a negative Covid test two days (not three as for some other cruises currently) prior to boarding the ship. We are planning to take a proctored Covid test on Thursday morning, our flight is that afternoon around 5:30, and boarding will be Saturday afternoon, which is a pretty tight timeline. Has anyone encountered issues with the testing procedures? Any general suggestions/warnings/recommendations from more experienced travelers would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your input!