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Some really helpful answers here. Thank you. It does appear that it's not worth paying extra for the tasting menu when most items are on the main menu anyway. I've also worked out the current offer on the 3 dinner dining package is also not worth it for us. It's 15% off the package but we get 15% off speciality dining as Elite+ anyway. The package only works out slightly cheaper if you intend to dine in LPCand Murano and Tuscan as part of the package, we're not interested in LPC and would prefer Sushi.

I am about to take advantage of the current offer and book a dining package for our forthcoming cruise. I will be celebrating my birthday onboard and would like to dine in Murano that night and know that I will need to book my restaurants when onboard. However, I would like to do the 5 senses menu and wondered if anyone can advise how this works with a dining package. In the small print it mentions this can be added for a surcharge - is this surcharge added at the time of booking onboard? Also is this menu available any night in Murano and not like Chef's Table type dinners where everyone takes part at the same time on certain nights. For info, I will be on Eclipse. Thank you

It was 11am in January. We arrived at about 11 and there were hundreds there already so I would jump on 11check in time (or whatever is the earliest) as soon as the times open up and get there before then.

Well the only priority would be once inside the terminal building at the check in desks, but pretty certain there was no priority in the line before you made it in to the terminal building, just lines according to check in time, and once checked in you joined the line in my picture. Didn't see anyone being escorted to the front of that line or waving cards saying 'Do you know who I am'

That was the new port! This is a picture of the line waiting to get on at around 1.30pm. Celebrity staff were dashing around with umbrellas to provide shade to those in the line. This is after going through the terminal and waiting to go up the ramp onto the ship. The original waiting area - where it's a free-for-all - is outside that terminal building in the picture below and in the pictures posted elsewhere on this thread. It may be OK as a cruise stop but, unless things have changed, it's not a great place to embark on a cruise unless you aim to get there early.

You've dropped it off

I can answer this as we cruised from Benoa on Millie this year. It was a nightmare for many people getting on at this port. Totally disorganised and very little signage or people to help. There were hundreds of people squashed under an open air canopy or standing outside in blazing heat. My advice would be to do as we did. Make sure you get yourself on the earliest embarkation time, which was 11am for us and then join the people on the extreme left under the canopy They line up in time order so just explain that you are 11am boarding if people think you are cutting in line. Once boarding starts you enter a terminal building. It may be that you get priority once inside but outside it's a free for all. We were part of a large group doing a package with a UK travel company and stayed in Bali for a few days before the cruise. We paid for a taxi rather than travelling on the coaches and were so glad we did. Many of the people who came by coach transfer didn't make it onboard until 2pm

Looking forward to this too. So many reviews seem to be of Aqua class or suites, so will be good to hear your views on the MDR Can you please see whether they still have the nice library area. It seems the other classes are ditching libraries in favour of a few poorly stocked bookshelves tucked away somewhere

Realise its not the Edge, but on the topic of libraries does this mean the lovely library space on the S class ships is no more?

We did this on Millennium in January and found it a huge disappointment. Since others have enjoyed it maybe we just got unlucky, but I have coped below a comment I made on a previous thread...... We made the mistake of booking the Taj X dinner at Sushi on 5 - what a huge overpriced disappointment that was. Indian food is our favourite and we eat lots of it at home- and on ships. We found the choices pretty boring. The chicken tikka appetiser was so salty we couldn't eat it and the meat Vindaloo was nothing like a Vindaloo - a thin gravy and not spicy enough. Service was awful, too few waiters serving too many guests. They had the gall to charge $59 plus 20% service for food which we could have picked up for free any day in the buffet. For that price I could have eaten at a 5* Indian restaurant in London

When is dry dock?

Thank you. That's exactly what our sheet said on Millennium in January. We put in several bags of laundry - never actually reached the 30 limit, had some shirts and trousers pressed and a jacket dry cleaned

I realise it's not quite the same but we sailed on Millennium earlier this year and had basic WiFi included with our booking. I had read on these boards not to log into either free mins or package first but couldn't remember which. I went to the Internet desk and a very helpful member of staff set up 2 logins, one using my free basic package and one my better included E+ minutes. I was able to switch between the two. The basic package was good for everything except sending and receiving images/videos on WhatsApp so I switched to my included mins for that.

It's actually 30 items (pair of socks count as one) , but that's a lot of laundry. Do be careful what you put in though. I had 2 items ruined on our recent cruise- pair of shorts shrunk and white top came back really grubby looking. Washing all goes in together and on a very hot wash