Cruising Divers

Thank you all so much! All of this information is very helpful and all of your replies are very much appreciated! 🙏

Hello and TYIA, Our upcoming Harmony cruise is now less than 90 days away and I still can't reserve our seats for any of the entertainment venues nor any specialty dinner reservations online; how can I book them now before we board? We are staying in an ocean-facing balcony (not a suite) and purchased a package of 3 specialty restaurants for 2 people. We would also like to have the best seats possible (which ones?) for the various shows as we have never been on an Oasis class ship before. Besides this is there anything else different that we should also do/book now in advance for this Oasis cruise? Thank you all for your help!

Thank you!

Hello, we have a (1) complimentary dining for 2 people from our TA and we also purchased a 3 night dining package - can any of this be reserved before we sail or must all of these reservations only be made once we are onboard? If there is any way to make reservations now/before sailing how do we do so? Thank you in advance for the clarification and help!

Does anyone know what today’s item to find is and where it is located? My achievement list as well as pressing L on the keyboard shows only a blank activity screen. TY!

Yes, here is the current discussion thread about it:

Same here - not sure but I’d love to see one (and would definitely sail on it)! 🌟⚓🛳️⚓🌟

I thought this video was really well done personally! Beach, red, cheese, Almalfi Coast

The house Celebrity margarita “mix” is horrendous. On our recent Apex cruise I only found one bartender who was able to make a semi-proper margarita; I asked him for squeezed lime juice, Patron and Cointreau so he took about 10 lime wedges and muddled them in a glass then strained the juice into a cup and then added the Patron, Cointreau and about a teaspoon of simple syrup and shook. It produced a drinkable margarita but was quite a bit of hassle and several other bartenders were unable to reproduce even that. Good luck.

Sounds like you’re a hit at parties 🙄

I’ve done 2 of them and they both were fantastic and worth the money. One was better than the other but only because of personal preference. Island wings float plane was the same way; amazing crew and time had by all.

We are tea drinkers as well, Prince of Wales (Twinnings) being my usual. The Bigelow Darjeeling was nice (needed no sugar/anything) but I really enjoyed the light pink bag (English breakfast?). Surprisingly good for non-loose leaf. We were on the Apex.

We love Aqua and upgrade to it every single time we can afford to but admittedly have not (and would not) paid double what a standard veranda would have cost us for it. Breakfast in Blu is excellent and I’ve always enjoyed the rooms themselves. Persian Garden perk is also very nice also so my vote would be to do it if you can at an affordable price otherwise I personally feel forced to spend that money elsewhere.

Thank you for your detailed review! We were also on this cruise (A1 Aqua Cabin deck 10) and agree with 99% of it. The differences: Our cabin drawers/furniture were all quiet but the cabin itself “creaked” quite loudly and the room itself vibrated for long periods of time and on most days. We were quite surprised by this and found it difficult to sleep through the night in multiple days for this reason and also because we found the mattress to be a bit too hard for our preference. We ate at almost all of the specialty restaurants and found the food quality and taste to be the best of any cruise we’ve ever done before, very impressed! The one exception was Le Petit Chef - it was *awful*, easily the worst meal experience at sea we’ve ever had. 2 poor overworked waiters for the entire restaurant and over 2.5 hours for 4 two minute animations. Clever idea but (besides the filet) the food itself so bad that we skipped some dishes altogether and saw other guests putting their food back into their napkins, others just walked out altogether. Also strongly agree about the staff - absolutely stellar!! Such a full ship and they all did amazing, really impressive crew on the Apex everywhere. Will also agree about the atrium; was shocked to see it be so small and was thinking there must be a main one somewhere else… There were many missed opportunities for X to do photos on the ship IMHO - only 1 green screen and on photographer on each side of the atrium stairs were ever available for photos (that we found) and the ship must have at least 10-15 much more extremely photogenic areas that were never available/manned. Probably not a minus for most people but we do like to have our photos done when onboard and I’m sure X could have sold a lot more packages this week especially with all of the families onboard. The infinite veranda was a nice/new/different experience for us and was better than expected. Wish we had had better weather but overall I feel like the crew and the cleanliness (and constant cleaning) really made the trip quite nice. Thank you again for your review and apologies for the hijacking!

We’d love to go, feel free to send any of those unused offers our way! We will definitely be spending a little bit of time in the casino during our next X cruise to increase our chances of receiving them in the future.