jenf22

Bummer. I signed my husband up for it on our July Silhouette cruise. Kinda figured he would be cooking a steak... especially for $60. Thanks for the review!

Our last Princess cruise we were at the buffet for lunch and my son comes to the table with fried rice with tiny little shrimp in it. My husband loves fried rice but is allergic to shellfish. I got up to find him to make sure he didn't get any. I then went to the Asian section where the fried rice was. It was labeled "Fried Rice". I asked the server there and he said "oh sometimes it has shrimp and sometimes it doesn't". I mentioned they might want to consider labeling it "contains shellfish" for those times it does. Crazy they change the item but not the sign. Lesson learned for us I guess.

Thanks so much for the menus and your review! We're doing the same cruise in October. Can you tell me what nights were Italian Night and the Chef's Dinner? I apologize if I missed it.

Actually I said "my once-in-a-lifetime". I made no suggestions as to the other people who book cruises. We have WAY too many places on our list to spend a ton of money and vacation time to visit the same place over and over in the hopes to see the one thing we hoped to see on our first visit. But thank you for reminding me why I try not to comment on Cruise Critic posts.

I would have been devastated to have my once-in-a-lifetime trip to the waters of Antarctica significantly altered AFTER we had boarded the ship. We had the Star scheduled for Iceland/Greenland in June of this year. A few weeks ago (maybe a month) NCL replaced all of the Greenland ports with Norway due to "weather". We decided to cancel and booked something totally different on Celebrity for this summer. What is discouraging though is NCL is still selling the same Iceland/Greenland itinerary in 2025. At this point I'm not sure I would book NCL for Antarctica or Greenland in the future.

I read on CC somewhere recently about cruiseplum,con. You can see a graph of prices since the cruise was released. Otherwise, you can do mock bookings to watch the fares.

I love having a little alarm clock. We use this one. I like that it isn't smart like the phones and won't change the time on us in the middle of the night! Amazon.com: Digital Travel Alarm Clock - No Bells, No Whistles, Simple Basic Operation, Loud Alarm, Snooze, Small and Light, ON/Off Switch, 2 AAA Battery Powered, Black : Home & Kitchen I also would suggest a non-surge protector plug too. There are never enough outlets on the ship. We have this one: Amazon.com: Multi Plug Outlet, Outlet expanders, POWSAV USB Wall Charger with 3 USB Ports(Smart 3.0A Total) and 3-Outlet Extender with 3 Way Splitter, No Surge Protector for Cruise Ship, Home, Office, ETL Listed : Tools & Home Improvement

I realize I was not the one asked but we did a lot of New Zealand excursions through Viator when we were on Celebrity Australia/New Zealand in January of this year. It was an amazing trip! I agree with your comment about the coffee! We discovered on our last Princess cruise if we did 1/3 coffee, 1/3 milk, 1/3 water and then added about 4 little flavored creamers the coffee was sort of ok 🙂 Worst coffee at sea! BUT if you paid for a latte it was great!

We travel with this kitty: Amazon.com : Cat Lamp,GoLine Cute Kitty Night Light, Gifts for Women Teen Girls Baby, Night Lights for Kids Bedroom, Cute Christmas Kitty Silicone Nightlights for Children Toddler. : Baby He's got multiple colors and we just leave him on in the bathroom all night. He's squishy so he doesn't take up much suitcase space and he recharges via USB. He's enough light so we can use the bathroom but doesn't mess with our night vision like the full light does.

We did Celebrity this January, starting in Sydney and ending in Auckland. It did have one stop in Melbourne, but all the other ports were New Zealand. We did talk to some folks on one tour who were on the Spirit. We chose Celebrity because it was cheaper than NCL and we thought a better itinerary since it wasn't RT Sydney. We prefer NCL over the other lines we've cruised (except maybe the Oasis class RCL ships). We did Princess for the British Isles last summer because a similar NCL itinerary was crazy priced. Like you guys, I don't get their pricing.

We couldn't get our travel router to work on Eclipse in Dec/Jan this year. I've never had a problem with it on NCL. I wondered if our router was too old. Anyway, thanks for the tip about the Pixel 7! We got our son one for Christmas, it would have been great to have used it on this last cruise.

We did a Princess excursion to Mont St Michel in July 2022. For us it was absolutely worth it! There was a stop at a convenience store both directions for a potty break. Mont St Michel was extremely busy and it was so hot the day we were there, but hands down a highlight of our trip. Such an incredible place!

I didn't post the comment about soda/water being included. I'm just as confused as everyone else. All I see in my planner is alcoholic options. The kids package, soda package, and non-alcoholic package are all gone. There is no Zero proof option. Maybe they are still updating the site. The previous poster said when they called they were told soda, water, and coffee were included. Not sure why Celebrity would do that.

No idea. Would be awesome if it did though

Hmm. I wonder when that starts. We board in 2 weeks and I paid for the soda package for my husband. I see that option is no longer available. Do I cancel it?