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Are you referring to the diamond special meal? Are you saying on some ships it's a Diamond dinner? I'm not understanding what you're referring to in that particular response.

Although it's unlimited drinks from 5-7pm it doesn't apply to all drinks which on Royal it does. There's a specific menu with the types of wines, alcohol,beers, and non alcoholic drinks that you can get during the HH. Unlike Royal, you cannot get something that's not on the list and pay the difference. So for example, there are no frozen drinks that's part of the HH ( so no frozen Pina colada).

The luncheon is for those that booked a Concierge Class class cabin and has nothing to do with your Captains Club status.

No, it's not there, I posted what's on the MDR menu RIGHT NOW on the Celebration.

This is what we had TODAY as the Diamond Lunch menu. The steak is also pictured.

If that's what you meant then you should have been more specific in you initial question. What your looking for isn't available. What's been posted here is what's available now. I'm literally typing this while waiting on the Celebration for the first Elegant Night.

I'm on the Celebration right now. There's a section of the MDR menu entrees called Every Day. On it is a grilled chicken breast and a broiled strip loin steak. It's the same two choices every night, it doesn't change. So the broiled strip loin streak is available every night as a choice on your cruise.

No. None of the E-Class ships have a complementary sauna. Only M & S class ships have complementary single sex saunas.

I think you're reading too much into what's being written and in all honesty absolutely nothing has changed on Celebrity with regards to dress code for the evening. In practice a polo-type shirt for men is 100% acceptable for all dinners including Evening Chic. If a man wants to wear a long sleeve button shirt on Chic Night to be a little dressier that's fine, but in practice it's not necessary or required, and no one is going to be denied entry into the dining room for wearing a short sleeve Polo shirt on Chic Night. They also will not be out of place either. So honestly that's how I would advise others. I was on the flagship Ascent in January and if nothing's changed on the flagship less than 2 months ago in terms of the printed dress code and more importantly the dress code the full ship of passengers adhered to then that's what the dress code is.

Remember waaay back before the Internet there were two travel rating companies, AAA and Mobil Travel Guides? Forbes publication's travel department bought the rights to Mobil Travel Guides annual hotel ratings.

No worries, all good. I have a BAD habit of making definitive statements in my attempts to be helpful so I was curious if I was actually wrong in what I said. I also get things wrong too.

Which ship and how did you make reservations? I wasn't talking about special Captains Club events nor activities. I've been on all E-Class ships, and M & S class ships since the restart. How would one make a reservation for a show in the main theater, The Club, or the top lounge on M & S class ships?

Just to expand on this there are no entertainment on any Celebrity Ship fleetwide that take reservations.

The Points Guy may have originally written by just the founder but now it has become a general travel advice website/blog with multiple people contributing articles about their travel experiences. They have recently stepped up their cruiseline industry coverage.

We're planning on trying Holland America next year. As you may or may not remember we travel almost exclusively on casino comps and we recently got a comped cruise certificate for Holland America. We are very interested in seeing how they are but only plan on sailing their newest ship.

We were on the Luminosa 30 Day TP last September/October and I have to say the food all over the ship was excellent! What was most amazing and something I haven't seen on other cruiselines is how they mixed up the dinner menus so that it almost never repeated the EXACT same menu. Of course there were repeated entrees on many nights but it wasn't the same mix of entrees and starters which is why the dinner menus never seemed to be exactly the same. Like your cruise there were dinner entrees that I haven't seen on regular Caribbean itineraries. We had an lobster entree once every week for four weeks. We were on a Celebrity cruise last year from LA and there was no lobster on any of the seven nights. The food was definitely one of the highlights of our Luminosa cruise. Oh and the Japan ports were great, lol.

109 cruises over 7 lines. RCL-32 Carnival-27 Celebrity-26 NCL-17 Princess-3 MSC-2 Virgin-2

Sorry, I misstated some of the facts and events.

They are substantially altering the ship to be able to traverse the Panama Canal. Although the ship itself is narrow enough the lifeboats are what's causing the problem. On almost all other cruiseships the lifeboats hang above an open deck WITHIN the ship, and when needed there's a mechanism that lowers them out over the edge of the ship. In Virgin's case the lifeboats permanently hang too far OUTSIDE of the ship itself, making the ship wider than it actually is. What needs to be done now is the deck where the lifeboats will hang hang must be altered so that there's room to accommodate the lifeboats within the ship, and new lifeboats mechanisms must be installed. This could mean a reduction in the number of cabins.

I have not seen razors and shave cream available on any E-Class men's locker room. The lavatory area is tiny and there's barely enough room for anything there. Usually the only amenity is body lotion and most of the time it isn't available.

What hasn't been mentioned that's very important to know is the potential places to eat dinner when you have Your Time Dining on Excel-Class ships. So here you go. On the Celebration when you choose Your Time Dining you will have several places that you can have dinner. The MDR, Cucina Del Capitano Specialty Restaurant, and ChiBang Specialty Restaurant, and Guy's Pig and Anchor Smokehouse Specialty Restaurant. I call the three listed restaurants Specialty Lite Restaurants to differentiate them from the Steakhouse, Rudi's, Bonsai, and Emeril's. To make matter more confusing you are allowed one free dinner visit per cruise at Chibang and Cucina. Any additional dinners at either place will cost you an $8/pp cover charge. Pig and Anchor is unlimited visits with no Cover and no reservations are taken, it's first come first serve, so you don't use the app and just go to the restaurant desk. Cucina is Italian but on the Excel Class ships it's a different menu from the rest of the Carnival fleet, so if you're doing your online research only look at reviews from the Mardi Gras, Celebration, and Jubilee. Chibang is a combo Asian and Mexican. Funny thing is there are NO fusion dishes;there's Asian dishes and then there are Mexican dishes. The three specialty Lite restaurants are open for lunch and are complementary, and opening hours vary.

Wow, customized for the Xpedition. That's nice!

My dad, who is 94, went with us on a Christmas cruise on the Anthem of the Seas this past Christmas. He is mobility challenged but at the time wasn't ready to use any mobility assistance devices besides a cane. It didn't work out well. He was so exhausted just walking to and back from the buffet and dining rooms that at dinner time he kept falling asleep mid-bite. The cruise ended on NYE, and we had asked him if he still wanted to go to Atlantic City, NJ (The cruise was from Bayonne,NJ, so no flying was involved) for one night to celebrate NYE. He wanted to go, and we tried to minimize walking from his hotel room to the restaurant. Three days later he was at a regularly scheduled doctors appointment and he fell asleep while the doctor was examining him. The doctor recommended he go to a hospital for a full checkup. He was admitted into the hospital and they literally did every test under the sun. The good news is there was nothing was wrong with him. The doctors kept saying, well, he's 94. In the hospital he was complaining to the doctors that on the cruise he had to walk back and forth from his room to have his meals. And then he had to do the same on NYE in Atlantic City. Mind you, it was my dad's idea to go on the Christmas cruise and my parents treated the whole family. In hindsight we should have gotten him a wheelchair or scooter. My mom and dad did use wheelchair assistance getting on and off the ship.

Tan? I have never seen a tan keyholder, it has always been grey. We were on the Solstice in Feb. '22 and it was gray. Last month on the Ascent is grey. I get them on every sailing and they are always grey. Very odd. What color was the tote bag?