Back to back cruises

[hurwitz5]

We are looking at some back to back cruises in the Caribbean in January or February on Celebrity. Does Celebrity give an extra discount for the second part of the back to back cruises? Some back to back are 7 nights each cruise, and others alternate between 10 and 11 night cruises. If you have done them, please give us good and bad points for doing so. We live in New Jersey and want to spend as much time as possible in the warm weather in Florida and the Caribben. We are retired so time isn't as issue.

Thanks.

[Northern Aurora]

Since we live in the middle of Alaska and fly to every cruise port we tend to do B2B cruises. I am not aware of any discount given to the second leg of a B2B.

[tine-tine]

We cruise b2b most years in Jan/Feb and there are no discounts given in the UK from Celebrity or TA's. We usually book on board a year in advance and apart from being Elite with Celebrity and receiving a cabin category upgrade there are no extra discounts.

 

The changeover day all b2b's meet in the foyer in the morning and are escorted by a crew member off the ship, through customs and back on board. This process is supposed to be painless and quick but I have never found it so, as we have had to wait for missing guests, faced queues in the departure hall at customs (instead of being expressed through a special line), had to queue to board in the arrival hall. All these are fairly minor as once back on board you can experience the pleasure of the ship to yourself before the rest of the guests arrive.

 

You may get a gift from the Captain's Club Hostess of a bottle of wine or chocolate strawberries but we have never received anything else extra as recognition of our b2b.

 

The only major problem arises if their is a Code Red where the ship is in lockdown for sanitisation if the Norovirus is on board, then you are turfed off, usually with some coach trip provided by Celebrity.

 

Do any of these stop us doing b2b - no. Like you we travel some distance so to be financially viable we take longer cruises and love the fact we miss the cold weather back home.

[Xport]

We are looking at some back to back cruises in the Caribbean in January or February on Celebrity. Does Celebrity give an extra discount for the second part of the back to back cruises? Some back to back are 7 nights each cruise, and others alternate between 10 and 11 night cruises.

 

Look carefully at the alternating ten and eleven night itineraries that are, I believe, still being offered on Equinox out of Fort Lauderdale... They visit very different ports/provide more diverse and interesting experiences than you are apt to find by stacking two seven day cruises [even if you were to change ships]... And it is very nice/hassle free to settle in aboard a single ship--try to reserve the same stateroom for both voyages--at the start of the your cruise...

 

Others have advised you correctly; Celebrity does not offer discounts for back-to-back cruises...

 

I've done four consecutive cruises with Celebrity and will do a B2B2B with Azamara starting in February... Though the menus, the entertainment, and activities may start to become familiar [if you were to change ships, the entertainment would change but the fleet-wide menus and activities would not change materially], I do not tire of the experience and always find more than enough to keep me occupied and happy...

Edited November 8, 2013 by Xport

[ghstudio]

Occasionally Celebrity will give $50 off on a B2B, but it is rare and generally a very limited time offer.

[miched]

I was told that of you use 2 future cruise certificates to book a B2B cruise that are in the same name you don't get the OBC for the second cruise. It doesn't make any sense. We were told this by a passenger that suggested not to buy all of the certificates under the same person. It hasn't affected us yet as we are never able to get the SBC as to is not combinable with other promos.

 

 

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[fleckle]

I was told that of you use 2 future cruise certificates to book a B2B cruise that are in the same name you don't get the OBC for the second cruise. It doesn't make any sense. .......🎅🎄

:confused: We have done that several times using Celebrity Passages and never had a problem. Each is a separate cruise that gets its own reservation number.

 

When you book a cruise using one passage certificate, the number on that certificate becomes the reservation number for that cruise.

 

When you book the other cruise using a different passage certificate, the number on the second certificate becomes the reservation number for the other cruise.

 

As you say, it would not make any sense if you could not do that.

You are booking two cruises, so why would anyone care whether or not they are B2B.

 

If anyone was silly enough to try to give you a hard time, you could just book one cruise with one certificate, then hang up, call back and use a different agent to book the other cruise with the other certificate.

 

[mickey89]

Celebrity are definitely different to all other cruise lines, B2B cruises don't exist. With Celebrity each cruise is separate, you get a new seapass even if you are lucky enough to be staying in the same cabin, you account ends and begins afresh on the second cruise. Don't think Celebrity really care for B2B cruisers, that how it appears! Discounts, unlikely you even have to pay a deposit for each cruise.

Edited November 14, 2013 by mickey89

[Hlitner]

Celebrity are definitely different to all other cruise lines, B2B cruises don't exist. With Celebrity each cruise is separate, you get a new seapass even if you are lucky enough to be staying in the same cabin, you account ends and begins afresh on the second cruise. Don't think Celebrity really care for B2B cruisers, that how it appears! Discounts, unlikely you even have to pay a deposit for each cruise.

 

You have said it well! When we do long cruises on Holland America (this would consist of multiple segments) we get a single cruise card/account for the entire cruise with no hassles at the turn-around ports. But when we did back to back on the Silhouette in Europe, they closed out our account for the first cruise, opened a new account for the 2nd cruise, gave us instructions when and where to report to get a new cruise card, etc. Although its only a minor inconvenience....it is so totally unnecessary.

 

One irony about Celebrity is that back to backs are not as common as on some other lines. When Captain "Demetrius" spotted DW on the 2nd cruise or our back to back he actually did a double take....stopped her, and said that he "loves passengers who do back to backs."

 

Hank

[davekathy]

Celebrity are definitely different to all other cruise lines, B2B cruises don't exist. With Celebrity each cruise is separate, you get a new seapass even if you are lucky enough to be staying in the same cabin, you account ends and begins afresh on the second cruise. Don't think Celebrity really care for B2B cruisers, that how it appears! Discounts, unlikely you even have to pay a deposit for each cruise.

 

That's no different than how Royal Caribbean Cruise Line does their B2B's. On one of our B2B's we even had a different table in the MDR for the second leg. The other B2B we had the same MDR table for the second leg but a different wait staff. We always keep the same cabin on our B2Bs. Doing a B2B March/April 2014 on the Summit.

Edited November 15, 2013 by davekathy

[riclop]

We are looking at some back to back cruises in the Caribbean in January or February on Celebrity. Does Celebrity give an extra discount for the second part of the back to back cruises? Some back to back are 7 nights each cruise, and others alternate between 10 and 11 night cruises. If you have done them, please give us good and bad points for doing so. We live in New Jersey and want to spend as much time as possible in the warm weather in Florida and the Caribben. We are retired so time isn't as issue.

Thanks.

You get no discount just try to have the same room for both legs.

[nktwinpeaks]

We just returned from two 7-day back-to-back cruises on Celebrity Summit. When we attempted to obtain shareholder credit for each cruise, it was denied because Celebrity had applied $100 per cabin discount to each leg of the cruise. Easy off/on turn-around day, unlike a prior B-2-B on Royal Caribbean. There was also a really nice lunch in main dining room on turn-around day for back-to-back cruisers and we received a full set of Elite coupons for each week, unlike 14-day cruise last year when we received one set of coupons (per person). We had same cabin for each cruise, which was great.