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Thanks, it's more about the crowds and the lack of air conditioning, but I'll keep that in mind!

Thank you so much, @euro cruiser, that is amazing!!

We've decided to take a taxi from Naples to Pompeii, because the train sounds unpleasant and the bus doesn't leave at a convenient time for the tour we scheduled, but we'd need more like 3 hours at the site instead of 2. I know we can negotiate for more time, but I want to be prepared to just take the bus back if we don't like the taxi driver's terms, or if god forbid they stiff us and don't come back. My parents had that experience once. I've looked up where the bus stop near Pompeii is located, but it sounds like you can't buy tickets there. You would have had to buy a round trip ticket at the station near the port? Can anyone advise on how to take the bus one way from Pompeii to Naples, or suggest a better plan here? Thank you.

If I may ask, do your comments about the buffet apply to dinner? I'm wondering what that experience will be like. Thanks.

Working for me on Android now, too. Thanks everyone!

I was able to get back into the website by changing my password, but the app gives an error "Sorry, we hit a snag" and says to try again later. I've tried deleting and reinstalling, clearing cache, clearing storage, etc. I'll of course wait a while and try it again, but I'm interesting in hearing anyone else's experience.

Piggybacking on this, does anyone have thoughts on taking a taxi vs taking the bus, assuming the cost isn't an issue? Is it hard to get a taxi to agree to give you more than 2 hours at the site?

@cleobella can you tell us more about the hammam room? Is there like a scrub provided or anything?

Thank you. I booked the thermal suite pass for my upcoming Ascent cruise, but I'm thinking of cancelling because I'm not sure I'll use it. Your perspective on that is helpful.

It's internet-speak for: "Here is the summary, in case you didn't want to read the post because you thought it was too long"

This may help:

Was Sagrada Familia not good? I'm trying to plan our one post-cruise day in Barcelona, and I'm trying to figure out if it's really worth the trouble.

Ok, now I'm feeling a little paranoid, because I booked flights online with FBC back in June, then cancelled them the next day to book direct with the carrier. My final payment isn't due until February. If my amount due, excursions, and OBC are all shown correctly in my account, does that mean my cruise reservation is fine, or should I be worried about a surprise when I go to make final payment?

When you deleted the app, did you use the touch and hold method, or Settings - General - iPhone Storage? I think the issue might be with your app data, and deleting it from Settings then reinstalling might do a better job of clearing that. Sorry in advance if that's a waste of your time.

The Thermal Suite is in the spa and is a totally different thing from the Retreat. If you buy a Thermal Suite pass, it asks you to pick a 15 minute time slot but that's just a quirk of the booking engine. You get access any time all cruise.

When your phone is in airplane mode, it can't ping a cell tower to determine a location, so it uses the location from the settings on the wifi router, which must have been configured while the ship was in France. The AirTag takes its location from the nearest iPhone, so if your phone thinks it's in France, the AirTag will also think it's in France.

Thank you for these! If you have a second, I'd love to see a shot of the drinks cooler in the lounge. Do they have coffee there, and if so is it drip coffee or one of those espresso machines? Thanks.

Or they can go to the pool in a clean t-shirt that's perfectly acceptable, whether SPF rated or not, and no one should care.

https://www.celebritycruises.com/account/cruise-planner/category/shorex?bookingId=0000000&shipCode=IN&sailDate=20241007 If that's not the right sailing, you can edit the ship code and sail date to the one you're considering.

If you use Find a Cruise on the website to do a search, all the sailings that are supposed to go to Kusadasi now have "missing port content" in the results, but if you click through to the itinerary, you do still see Kusadasi. Also, if you try to search for just Kusadasi, it finds no results. This doesn't appear to be the case for Istanbul. It makes me nervous that something's up, but hopefully I'm wrong.

Also the case for me a month ago. But luckily it was a quick process without having to wait on hold.

@Jim_Iain, do you by any chance remember this post and can you link it? I'm hoping to use my Roku stick to stream Netflix, Max, and YouTubeTV in the Mediterranean, and any tips would be most welcome!

I've been watching the price of a Sky Suite on the May 18 Ascent sailing, and today it has gone down by about the same amount as the tips. But yesterday there was also $300pp OBC, which is of course gone now. So not really a price drop in my opinion. And I got an email from Celebrity today, touting their new "Reduced Rates".

Thank you for this! Does anyone know, why you need to be there 30 minutes before your entry time? And, can you use either entrance with these tickets? Thanks.

THANK you! I couldn't tell if he was just being naive or if he benefits from carrying water for Celebrity. Either way it was borderline insulting.