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10 minutes ago, leaveitallbehind said:

From the Celebrity FAQ's:

 

If a guest books their cruise with All Included package pricing and would like to upgrade their Classic Beverage Package to the Premium Beverage Package, the best time to do so is pre-cruise, as they can enjoy a lower rate than offered onboard and upgrade easily via their Cruise Planner. To access the Cruise Planner, guests can simply download the Celebrity Cruises app or navigate to www.celebritycruises.com and log in to their Guest Account. The upgrade charge will be $20 per person per day which includes the beverage gratuity. Guests may also upgrade their beverage package from Classic to Premium once onboard the ship.

 

Also watch your planner to see if the price changes favorably,  If it does, you can cancel and rebook to the lower price without penalty pre-cruise.

Thank you, will watch prices and for any offers regarding the package and purchase accordingly.

 I wonder why it is not offered as an option at booking time like Princess. They offer both plus and premier at booking time.

Hello all,

 Long time Princess cruiser booking my first X cruise.

 I have a quick question. When booking and selecting the all included package, it consists of the classic drink package. 

 I do not see anywhere in the booking to choose the premium package. 

 Question is, at what point do you purchase the upgrade?

Chris

We did a T/A on Emerald and were in D608. No issues at all as far as noise etc.

Just received our shareholder credit this afternoon. All in all it took 7 days from the day we sent in our redacted statement via the app. I am trying to find out how long the current submission is good for. Another nice thing is you can use the one document for multiple Carnival cruise lines and bookings. 

Just sent my usual info to the "hello@stockperks.com" email. 

I will let you all know if it actually works. I sent my usual broker info and a copy of the form I used to send to request directly from Princess.

Will let you all know. 

Looking at the Hyatt Centric just north of the port. Anyone stay there? Again, we will use points so essentially free.

13 minutes ago, reedprincess said:

Check the FL departure board:

 

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/386-florida-departures/

 

Ritz

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Riverside is lovely

Atlantic is a favorite

The Westin is pretty good too. Sonesta for a little better budget wise. 

All beachfront,  All are quite nice.  

 

Of course, if you're looking for more budget,  you'll need to look a little further out than Fort Lauderdale. Try some spots around Dania. 10 minutes or so to port, 15 with a little traffic. 

Right near the port entrance, Holiday Inn Express, Hyatt Place, Embassy Suites, Renaissance, Hilton Marina, etc. 

 

Great suggestions, we are Hyatt folks so will look up the Hyatt place, will likely get a free room at that one.

Hi all,

 Flying into FLL 4/26 for a cruise the 27th on Enchanted. Any suggestions on a nice hotel for the overnight? We have never actually departed a cruise from Ft Lauderdale, only arrived and departed to the airport.

 Thanks for any suggestions. 

OK, thank you for the info, I will leave it be for a while and see what happens.

OK, I made a new booking that includes Wi-Fi, drinks and tips. Every time I check the booking, it seems to keep adding Tips at $360.00 in the "Add On" area, which I then remove/delete, but the next day it is back. 

 Anyone come across this before?

16 minutes ago, lv2cruisgrl said:

You should be ok. I wouldn't  book any closer to the MC.  

OK, thank you, it actually dawned on me after I booked about the MC being midship on our side.

Hello all,

 We have just booked cabin 7192 IV on Beyond which is 5 rooms down from the magic carpet sky suites popout and of course the magic carpet. Are we too close to the MC and suite popout?

Thank you Kenster for the info, we would usually do any needed mid-trip laundry in the machines on the ship but not an option on these boats, any other tidbits of info for us newbies to the Avalon world?

Hello all, this will be our first river cruise Amsterdam to Paris on Imagery II. We are Princess folks usually but have a question about luggage and laundry. How is luggage handled to get from hotel to ship? Do we just shlep it ourselves or does Avalon somehow transfer to ship? Second, how is laundry handled on the ship? We will definitely need laundry services on the boat.

Thanks for any info, Chris

17 minutes ago, jwlane said:

Something like this.

So, a regular couch. Thank you for the info.

We are looking to book our first X cruise on Beyond, long time Princess cruisers.

 Have a question, some cabins designate a single or double sofa bed (solid or outline square) and others have no specific designation. What is in those other cabins?  A standard sofa? What size?

On 4/28/2023 at 11:57 AM, SuzieQ521 said:

Thank you for the great photos and updates. We sail the Royal in a few weeks out of Seattle to Alaska.

 

We also have an obstructed deluxe balcony room...looks pretty spacious from your photos!

 

May I ask how the main dining room and buffet food has been if you have tried it?

 

Enjoy the rest of your cruise!

My wife and I are just off this cruise. We cruised with three others in our party. This was by far the least enjoyed cruise on Princess ever. 

 I had made dining reservations every night, private table for 5 at 6pm in Concerto, all but one night were converted to just two of us at a shared table, Tuesday was the only night that was correct, not one person cared or even tried to correct the problem. All we were told was to go down to Symphony and do anytime dining. I was livid. Heard others with similar issues. They need to figure out the dining, unacceptable.

 Food was very hit or miss, small portions and just not very good, the fettucine was really tasty except the last night which tasted like noodles with milk, no taste at all, and service took absolutely forever most nights.The pizza place was good, thank God. Had burgers on Lido one day, burger buns were hard and stale, just nasty.

Crooners was actually using plastic martini glasses. I got glass only because I asked every time. Absolutely ridiculous. Everything seemed just really off. 

Ironically, Jan Swartz made a visit to Royal during the cruise, boy would I have liked to have a sit down chit chat. LOL

 This cruise was a 180  from our TA we did on Emerald in November. 

On 3/31/2023 at 11:08 AM, 1emerald1 said:

Anything with Coconut Rum.

Get ya' a Dirty Banana with Myers Coconut rum in lieu of the regular issue rum. 

You're welcome.

16 hours ago, wcflats said:

Sapphire,ruby,diamond,emerald are gem class.

Wrong,

The two Gem-class ships, Diamond Princess and Sapphire Princess, are the only two ships based on the Grand class to be built at Mitsubishi's Nagasaki Yard.

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2 minutes ago, ImperialLady said:

thank you...we do.

Here is the form you can use.PrincessShareholderRequestFormFinal.pdfPrincessShareholderRequestFormFinal.pdf

You need to own at least 100 shares.