mayleeman

However will we survive? 😭

The TA might have old info before Celebrity changed formal night to Chic night. Could certainly reveal a lazy approach to answering the customer's question. "Let's see...I have that in my binder..."

It is the silent intervals, followed by a couple clicks, right before yet another msg, that drive me crazy. I react like my dog when we go near the back door...all excited, ears perking up, drooling..

For another perspective: We are paying $163 pp/pn for our upcoming Equinox 9 nighter in a balcony on 9. Our upper limit probably would be @ $225 for a balcony on X. (Our first cruise was 10 nights in Aqua in April 2019 for $220 pp/pn.) Had a balcony on Allure in October 2019 for a 14 night b2b that cost us @ $128. Too much for the Central Park balcony we had, but I was not willing to go up to $150 for an Oceanview cabin. We don't have the resources to spend more, but I retired at 50 and the tradeoff is well worth it. I admire those who worked harder and longer and earned their suites, but I am not envious because the Retreat deck, the drink setups, the butler, and Luminae would be lost on me. Now, the extra space...oh, well, leg bruises go away in a week or two!

Of course, the always-unreliable X website encourages "cheating" by not connecting to the "lesson" properly. If this be cheating, I happily confess to cheating rather than trying for more than, say, 2 minutes to get to the material. I will also happily spend an extra hour sitting quietly on my balcony as punishment.

Some of us are interested in the experience of cruisers reporting they tested positive. Seeing how many report severe vs mild/no symptoms helps us assess the risk if we do catch it. There are 2 risk assessments involved in deciding whether to go: first, the relative chances of catching it (which also includes seeing whether the precautions others report about may have worked or not), and second, the chances of getting through it relatively ok. We do the same here in our (largely retired) community. Big outbreak lately, and most have been pretty mild, but some are much worse. Those experiences all feed into our calculus.

Before one cruise awhile ago, we were on a roll call that was very active and inclusive to all participants. As more info got exchanged (including a roster with cabin #s), several of us noticed that people in suites started only responding to each others' posts. We talked about it at the meet and greet when we saw the same people huddled away from the mingling group. It was strange--and not duplicated on any of our other 3 cruises where everyone was friendly.

OP: The fix is to tell your steward how you want the bed(s) arranged. Trying to fix X's IT issues would involve a long list of things before titles would be considered vital.

@DCPIV Agreed...and good news--days are shortening again!🙃

Apparenty. It was a simple suggestion on how to get the caffeine the OP said was needed to avoid headaches when she said matcha was the only beverage with enough. When it became apparent they couldn't serve what she needed to use with the powder, I tried to be helpful. If not a useful suggestion, we fortunately have people standing watch to criticize.

Seems like one could easily choose how much to use.

If it just caffeine that is the important ingedient, buy some of those small "5 hour energy" bottles.

I was suspecting you prbably did. That timing sure was unfortunate. And was just joshing you about it being a secret. Many people have reasons for doing things that need not be explained. I myself was primarily interested in which came first, the booking or the PP renewal application. I still think X"s policy sucks--penalties/forfeitures should be tied to whether they can resell the cabin. (Because you know they will, and they get a windfall.) Good luck.

The OP, I believe, has not posted when they booked despite being asked at least 3 times. Might be another secret!