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That's what chicken paillard is,plain grilled chicken breast. You can't get anything more basic than that. I don't think you can order something that's not on the menu.

Last September we were on a different cruiseline but stopped at the same Hiroshima pier. For us there was a free shuttle bus to the nearest train station. We bought tickets right at the station into Hiroshima city center. Having previously done the Peace Park/memorial and museum we wanted to see other things in Hiroshima. We went to a contemporary arts museum and then right outside of the museum is a wonderful park right in the middle of the city. We then had a great lunch in a nice restaurant in one of the department stores. It was a great day in Hiroshima.

We did 3 b2b2b on the Pride in May/June. '22 for a total of 32 days consecutive days on 1 ship. What was nice was there wasn't any repeat ports ( we could have stayed on for a 4th cruise that wasn't repeats in the Baltics but we decided against it) and we went to many places for the first time, including Bilbao,Spain and the Norwegian fjords. It was a wonderful trip!

Omg. The casino was crazy that whole cruise! It was packed day and night. Due to time changes they actually opened the casino at 4am.

So if you get My time dining yes,every night you need to go into the app and request a reservation. You cannot make the reservations in advance,you need to do it every night. It's more how some restaurants on land where you call right before you go ahead to be put on a waiting list. So on the Celebration you do this on the phone app. On the phone app you choose whether you want to be put on the waiting list for the MDR,Chibang, or Cucina. With YTD your are allowed 1 free visit to Chibang,after that it's an $8/pp cover. Cucina is unlimited. The thing is only MTD can you request to eat at Chibang or Cucina at any time during the night. If you're on fixed early or late and want to eat at either Chibang or Cucina you need to wait until after 7:30 before you can request a table. If you have MTD there's no time restrictions like with early or late. The same 1 free dinner at Chibang applies with early or late seating.

We did the Luminosa repositioning from Seattle to Brisbane. We had several itinerary changes which meant the Alaska ports were eliminated and a supposedly nice Port in the Philippines was also cancelled due to a typhoon but it was still one of the best cruises we've ever done. It became ostensibly a Japan cruise with 5 stops in Japan and a stop in a minor port on Indonesia. Brisbane is a beautiful city with lots to do right in the City Center. I will caution people that consider these long itineraries whether they can REALLY handle so many seadays. The cancellation of the earlier Alaska ports meant our first port after disembarking in Seattle was 12!!! Days later in Japan. There were a lot of people going stir crazy.We heard more people disembarking during our last stop in Japan even though there was 12 more days to reach Brisbane. This cruise was offered fully comped to many casino players,so it was enticing to get a $5,000 cruise for free for many people that may not have had the experience of long cruise itineraries with many, many sea days. The original itinerary was 9 port days out of a 30 day cruise, so people should have known what they were getting when they booked.

What other questions?

You are forgetting about the 3 drawer dresser in both types of rooms. The inside cabins have that one closet while the Oceanview cabins have additional storage: above, below and to the left of the coral display shelf are additional storage. There's plenty of places to your stuff.

Edit: Maybe a whole ship of families are pulling kids on random weeks for a week long vacation 🤷

I'll check.

Areas with large Jewish populations will have next week off since Passover is next week (Passover and Easter are wide apart this year). Having said that I've sailed during Easter week(not purposely) and this cruise is as full with families with kids as an Easter week cruise or a Christmas week cruise (many times purposely for a family Christmas onboard). There's no other explanation unless a whole ship full of families are pulling kids out of school for a one week cruise vacation when Easter was 3 weeks earlier.

I'll be on the lookout.

It's not an Elite cruise I'll give some thoughts about the cruise later on but not feeling into doing a day by day with lots of pics. What I'll say right now it seems like a full ship. I think in many parts of the country it's public school spring break next week and since this was a Saturday to Saturday cruise it's perfect for families with kids,which the ship is jam packed with. At sea day brunch today we saw a group of 30!!! Family members all traveling together. There's kids of every age on the ship

The named violation was 'advertising products'. I guess the issue is the link I provided to buy the item. I assume if I just named the soap and posted a photo of it it wouldn't be an issue. Otherwise there are thousands of posts on CC mentioning specific products of all sorts.

Very well put.

As does NCL. TBH for lavatory sinks it makes the most sense.

Yes table games can just towards points accumulation on VV and yes as with any casino it's always a good idea to be known and nice to both the dealers and casino hosts and/or pit bosses.

It was very easy for our Apex Iceland cruise last July. We flew to Amsterdam, took the train into the main train station and stayed at the Doubletree for two nights which was 10 minutes walking distance next door. Then walked back to the train station and took the train to Rotterdam where we stayed one more night pre-cruise at the Holiday Inn Express which was also 10 minutes walking distance from the station. On embarkation day we took the street tram which was right across the street from our hotel to the Rotterdam cruise pier. The street tram stop was again about a 10 mins walk to the pier entrance. All very easy.

Glad you like the fragrance. Unfortunately I got reprimanded here on Cruise Critic for posting a link to that product. I've been a member here for 23 years and while I know you can't advertise travel agents or other cruise related businesses when did it become a violation of the forum rules to post links for non-cruise related products?

Premier, Ultra, and Elite Casino cruise offers means there will be hosted events going on in the casino that are exclusive to people that have booked through these offers. They also come with extra gifts. Other types of casino cruise offers are just discounted and/or fully comped rooms but will not have extra onboard casino hosts to conduct these exclusive events.

I noticed that. At least it was a minor delay. I'll have to see if I can find out the real reason. People were getting antsy, talking about cluster-f**ks (several different people used the same term) over a 50 minutes boarding delay.

Yes I see that, and it's a great deal, but I don't understand why it's that amount. Since you showed the ship and sail date I duplicated your cruise and as I said the port taxes and fees are slightly less than double that @ $398, which is right. So I'm not sure how they came up with $218. If I do a 1 person booking it's $199 which is what I would have thought for 1 but still doesn't match your $218. I'm not sure where they're getting the $218 but in any event you lucked out. Congrats!👏

Exactly. I was going to follow-up with a post alluding to the fact that my Solstice cruise was during that few months of cutbacks in the MDR and at the Oceanview buffet ( remember all that anger at the dinner buffet cutbacks ?).

I agree the Ascent had a much more active atmosphere and it seems there was a conscious effort to enhance activities and music, especially at night where there was live music in multiple venues simultaneously. That was unheard of on a Celebrity ship ten years ago.