abbydancer2003

I've seen that charge hang around for a while. Only was a problem when booking in the final payment window.

So for grins, I just looked at an S1 sky suite for an Edge cruise in 2025. The price is roughly what I paid when I moved my 2024 cruise several months ago. I will check again around October 2nd, and then again on the 10th. I'll report back. I'll then know if they jack the price to reduce it, or if they truly reduce it.

I have X cruises booked out to mid 2025, and am not planning to add any more in the short term. I do have one that's a book on board holding, and I hope they honor the terms we booked under as we want to use it for a 2025 fall transatlantic, which probably won't be released before October 4. Being a bit OCD, I'm going to price a sky suite on October 3. Then I'll price same cruise, same category on October 10th. I'll see what happens to the price. Also, I've been sailing X since 2007 - since then they've had "Go Big ..", " "All Included with Elevate and Indulge" and "All Included without Elivate and Indulge". We'll see how long this one lasts, especially, as one previous poster commented, their chief competition, Princess, still has tips in their packages. But they really need to change the name to "some included".

I tried a chicken sausage - it was more like a chopped chicken patty. YMMV, I guess. I'm guessing that on the M and S class ships you can get the regular sausage, oatmeal and Beguim waffles from the main dining room. And who knows, maybe by next week they'll add sausage back as people ask for it.

At one point, I saw a change in the DB menu with a chocolate dessert - I don't like chocolate, so the original was my go to dessert when nothing else appealed. A berry pavlova is OK with me.

I think I saw the "new" Boulud menu mentioned a few weeks ago. Too bad, as the dessert was one of my go to desserts.

Celebrity's system, if you have prepaid gratuities, will add them to the invoice, changing the balance. It usually fixes itself within a few days. The only time I had an issue was when my sister and I booked a cruise within final payment. We had 24 hours to pay in full. I had to call and have them remove the gratuities from the total.

As said, if there are cabins available you can switch. We bid to Aqua from concierge. We changed the room and changed the category, but down. We were in a A1 and wanted an A2 (better location for us, YMMV). They were able to do it, but it took a little while as she had manually adjust the price.

I guess I'm lucky as I don't like Evain water. The ones that are in the room when we get there stay there, and we've had the butler bring the regular bottles that everyone can get. (In Luminae we have them bring ice water from a pitcher.)

Just curious - was noise from the sky lounge an issue?

We occasionally get escorted on board even in a sky suite. We usually get escorted off by the concierge.

oh, sorry I misread. I thought you said charge. Ha-ha on me. I think I have a mix of gray and beige. Maybe I'll go count. According to the website I have 17 past cruises, of which all but 3 or 4 were in suites, mostly sky. I think I also have a blue one or two.

Is this new (tote bag charge?). I have a lot of them, and have never been charged.

What read was that someone in a sky suite ordered the upcharge lobster from the MDR, and was charged for it at a slight discount.

We're on the Apex for the first time in December, and then again in August in the Scandinavia, so thanks and following.

I'm usually in a Sky Suite, and in my last few cruises canapés are hit and miss. We were told on the Infinity they'd been discontinued, but we could go into Michael's Club and get the Empanada of the day (it was South America). On the Solstice in Mexico Michael's had a short list of things you can order. We got mixed nuts a couple of times. But I think we still got chocolate, which I don't like.

Pretty much what I'm going to do - as I did when booked in Concierge or Aqua, with the drink package.

As far as buffets, I like the Royal Class ones, and the Celebrity buffets. I was on the Crown Princess in December, 15 days to Hawaii. Because of the line for the dining room on sea days and the fact that I was participating in the Hula class for the show, we ate in the buffet a lot. It was, by far, my worst buffet experience, even compared to it's sister ships (Ruby, etc). The carving station was nice, but the food was overall very repetitive. I'm on the Caribbean in 2 weeks, so we'll see how that is, since it's a port heavy cruise.

Going back to something that flitted across this thread (I think) a couple of weeks ago ... Someone on that other site posted a picture of the description of Michael's club on the either the Eclipse or Reflection that didn't list sky suites. I went through a bunch of cruises, and it was just those two ships. Today, someone said that they are charging 2.00 + tax for for cookies in the Gelateria on the Eclipse, so I went to the current cruise to see if it was listed somewhere (it wasn't), but for grins I looked at Michael's Club. Now, for current cruise and the same cruises I looked at before, sky suites are listed as included. (Reflection still doesn't have them). Just thought I'd share. I guess.I need a life.

Just FYI - I think it was reported that if you had 40/50 Plus package you did not get medallion shipping. I booked our upcoming cruise in 2021. The app says I have Plus 60, but my travel summary doesn't. However, my medallions shipped today.

You're probably right, but I can think of a few things that Celebrity has changed back due to feedback. (Princess never that I can recall)

I've done most of my cruises in Sky Suites, and I've had butlers lay out a full continental breakfast (one), drop a tray with no set up (one) and everything in between. So that can even vary with a dedicated butler. The question will be, if you ask for it to be set up, will they do it?

I really hope we can get the potato chips. (and I'm not being sarcastic - a butler recently brought them because he thought we'd like them. And kept bringing them after he noticed that we ate them).

I've asked for chicken instead of things like game hen. In March, I asked, since sometime we can get Indian food or Philippine food the next day, I jokingly said that since the officers are greek, could we get Greek food? One night a few nights later they made us a special greek meal.

What am I missing? First, I don't eat lobster, so not a big deal. In the main dining room, the first lobster is free, but someone is now saying Luminae lobster is not free for sky suites. If I, in a sky suite, wanted lobster, could I just order the main dining one for free? This doesn't make sense to me.