Galaxy2004

Also thoroughly enjoyed following along. The comparisons you compiled for spring 2026 are very interesting! We've never done retreat but can certainly see in your comparison how hard it is for some to not look at the more luxury brands with retreat prices that high.

No such creature on Celebrity. Your only option would be the free coffee at the buffet or the zero proof/non alcoholic package that gives you specialty coffees, etc.

Really enjoyed following along. Be safe traveling home tomorrow.

We used the premium wifi for two devices and shared it between me and travel mate on our 2/4 Ascent sailing. Maximum 2 active devices at one time. We shared the same login.

Escargot is still an every night option. Defer to others on Blu as we've only done it once and that was on Apex right after Covid reopening.

Pain to have to go through all that but happy the agent is refunding your deposit.

Booked GTY Concierge on Ascent 2/4/24 sailing. Price was same as a pick your cabin Ocean View. Assigned Prime Concierge 12187 within 48 hours. Very happy with the convenient location so did not change. A bit of noise as it's under the pool walkway. Would book again though.

This thread might be helpful:

Did it multiple times in December and February on Ascent. We were in the Caribbean. Starlink was very good. Might be different in other parts of the world. Be sure to get premium wifi though.

Looks like you have a conflicting reservation entered. Cancel the other reservation and you should be able to do the new one.

At the time you booked, you should have had the option to pay more for a refundable deposit. If you booked with the nonrefundable, a good travel agent should have reminded you that the deposit was non-refundable before submitting the cancellation that way you could have moved it to another date and just paid the change fee. It's true that once booked through an agent, Celebrity won't talk with you. Sorry about your lost deposit.

That's from my account logging in on the website versus through the app.

They don't want it to be easy🙂.

Share the port and we might be able to give more guidance. FLL there's no separate line for concierge or aqua class, only the suites. We've never had any trouble arriving at a time other than our assigned time. One time they had the lines outside the terminal building with time blocks on them. We got in our designated time slot, but then they let everyone in at the same time.

We were on Ascent 2/4 sailing and never made a reservation. Longest we had to wait was maybe 10 mins. Peak time seemed to be 7.30 for that trip.

I normally submit the request and a copy of my brokerage statement via the RCL website. The credit has shown up in my cruise account as quickly as a couple of days and as long as 2 weeks.

https://www.rclinvestor.com/contact-us/faqs/shareholder-benefit/

Yes. Prices for solos have been crazy for the last year or so. Not just on Celebrity either. Unless you can grab one of the few designated solo cabins, it's really expensive.

Love the title and looking forward to following along. Enjoy!

On the refundable future booking deposits, ours has always been automatically refunded. On our last sailing in February, all they offered were non-refundable future bookings deposits so we didn't purchase any of those.

Following along and hoping you got the adventure part of your vacation out of the way and the rest is relaxing!

@Tyler414 That's exactly how we felt on our last cruise!! At the end of the cruise we left our room attendant several extra bottles of water and a few unopened beers.

If you drink the water that is in the room, you have to pay for it. But go to a bar or get it in a restaurant, even Evian or whatever, and it's free. All I can think is it reduces the restocking work for the non-suite room attendants. That said, we never had any problem getting bartenders to give us 2 waters at a time on the premium and zero proof packages.

I'm assuming you are not in a suite. If that's so my experience has been that the room attendant can only restock those available for purchase in the room. Those are NOT covered by the package.