Alakegirl

Thanks!

How to calculate, please?

I would not Upgrading you package because of a single item. You are paying a lot of money to upgrade. Simply order the amaretto and if it is a dollar or two more, just pay it at the time.

What DOESN’t work in restaurants is the Captain’s Club Happyhour. the beverage packages does apply in restaurants

The app is just sad. Embarrassing. Waste of time.

On Celebrity this is known as select dining. With luck you should be able to book for every night of the cruise, using the app.

Two or three bottles of water, a caffee latte, a fresh squeezed juice, a beer at lunch, a pre-dinner cocktail, a glass of wine with dinner, an after-dinner drink, at all adds up

Look again, there is no wraparound promenade.

There are way too many choices for there to be a simple answer to that question. Martini? Margarita? Scotch in water? Cuba libre? Kahlua and cream? What brand of liquor?

We might as well ask, will Celebrity ??? have formal nights like Royal does or will celebrity have soda machines like Royal does or will Celebrity ?? do anything that Royal does. At this point no one knows. Opinion is that if it becomes too much like Royal, there will be nothing to differentiate Celebrity and that would not be a positive for the brand

Infinity is not an E class ship. It’s different on those ships because blu’s kitchen is not close to any of the main dining room kitchens

Eclipse is not an E class ship. It’s different on those ships because blue is not close to any of the main dining room kitchens

I have prepaid gratuities but not using onboard credit. I had to pay them on my credit card. If you’re going to use onboard credit anyway, I’m not sure what the advantage of prepaying is.

After the restart, a lot of procedures changed. I used to be able to hand my insulated coffee mug to the barista who would fill it with my cappuccino. I would then hand over my seapass card to be swiped. The new procedure tried to minimize the things that each employee touched, so the coffee shop staff no longer would take my cup from me to Phillip, and they only looked at my seapass card and wrote down my stateroom number. I noticed the same in the shops. The sales staff no longer would touch my card, I would just set it against the card reader. Also leaving the ship, security never touched my card. So will they fill your insulated mug? Maybe. But if they don’t, they will hand you a drink and you can pour it into the mug on your own.

Yes they are doing the new muster, and you check in prior to sailing.

There’s no need to be so aggressive. People cruise all the time without cell phones and apps. Maybe they don’t own a cell phone, maybe they left it at home, maybe it broke, maybe it doesn’t have any battery left, y’all can get checked in without a phone!

No, they didn’t disappear. Both ships still have a coffee station in the hideaway. They are the only ones to have this. It’s one coffee station, not one on every other floor, so I have no idea what the person the OP quoted might have been thinking of

There will almost certainly be nondenominational services. They will probably ask for a passenger to volunteer to lead them. But whether there will be a Catholic priest who will hold a Mass, no one can tell you that.

Does Azamara offer both kinds of fares?

Yes they are.

Music and Mixology is new and AFAIK is not on every ship yet.

That’s correct. No dedicated lounge ever existed. The breakfast you are remembering is still held in the Tuscan grill on M and S class chips which is a specialty restaurant at night and the elite breakfast in the morning.

It is not similar to Royal Caribbean. There is no lounge with a coffee machine available for you all day long. The drinks benefit is from 5 to 7 PM except on embarkation day. There is a menu of drinks you can choose from. You can go to nearly any bar on board. The details for I’ll be spelled out on an information sheet you will get in your state room on arrival

Cementhands, I don’t know where you saw that Celebrity has an elite lounge. It does not have a dedicated space for elites.