AbbyCruiser45

Nope, not possible. She cruises all the time, so booking cruises is like a part-time job for her! She booked this over the phone with Celebrity.

Thank you so much for your detailed response. I'll pass on that info to her. We did not realize there was an avenue to release the booking back to Celebrity.

This was my first thought too.

This happened to my mom today. Back in January 2023, my mom booked an Ascent sailing for October 2024 with Celebrity directly via phone. She received the cruise documents as normal, printed them off, and put them in a folder. A week later, she emailed Shareholder Services (shareholderbenefit@rccl.com) to apply for the on-board credit benefit. Fast forward to today, the final payment is going to be due while she on board this June so she wanted to go ahead and get it paid. So she called Blue Chip today for another reason and, while she was on the phone, asked if she could pay for the October 2024 sailing. The agent said that he could not do that because it was booked through a travel agent and she needed to contact her agent. She did not book through an agent, so the Blue Chip club employee looked into it, and he gave her a phone number that was linked to her booking. My mom called the number and it was Expedia Cruises. They were very confused and looked into it. It turns out that the same day my mom applied for the Shareholder benefit, someone (from Shareholder? Celebrity?) transferred the cruise to Expedia. They said they had heard of this happening once before, and the family ended up nearly losing the cruise because they almost missed the final payment. This is because that family (and also with my mom) Expedia did not have an email from whoever transferred it. So my question is, what do we do? Who do we contact? Expedia cannot transfer the cruise to anyone now and my mom doesn't have control of the payment. This seems highly sketchy. She is thinking of starting with calling Captain's Club to see who to talk to, but we're completely astounded at this. Thank you in advance!

Funny, this is actually why I popped on Cruise Critic today. I'm sailing the May 18 ABC and noticed this morning after getting my move-up bid email that they are all almost sold out. I was surprised! I have only sailed on Edge class right at the return from Covid, so the ship was only at about 40-50% occupancy.

As a (very late, almost not) 20-something who has sailed Celebrity several times, there usually are not a lot of other people around my age. But during the summer, it is more likely since cruising is a good multi-generational family vacation.

Hi there, plugging my own thread but I did a Celebrity and Princess cruise this past summer and posted a comparison. Link: The things I mention are largely nit-picky, but if they make a difference to you then you should choose Celebrity. If what you're proposing was my only vacation of the year, I would still probably go with Princess so I could have two extra days of vacation.

Wow what a combination of some of my interests, Taylor Swift and Cruising 🤣 good for Mama Kelce!

My parents are onboard the Beyond now and they have easily been able to send me videos of the waves. They have also quickly received videos from me of adorable kittens. They were surprised that Starlink is holding up in the middle of the Atlantic.

I'll board the ship and dream of pivot tables and functions.

Skip to 4 minutes if you want to hear about the food changes, the rest is just general intro and then expressing gratitude to crew and guests. As someone that had the misfortune of sailing the Equinox during the two week “burger menu” experiment with a really pared down menu, I’m excited for these changes. I’m sailing the Beyond next in May, and those restaurants always have more variety. I sailed Princess most recently and I thought the food quality was not as good as Celebrity, but still good. Their plus was a decently sized dinner menu. Usually 4 entrees, 1 unique pasta, 1 classic pasta, and 2 classic entrees. Can’t wait to see the Celebrity roll out.

@GenerationX I just got the funniest update from my mom. There is a bagpiper on board, apparently just a guest not an entertainer, who was going a little playing earlier today. I can imagine you might be able to hear it all around the ship based on the clip I was sent 😂 have you heard the bagpiper?

I just caught up with this thread! Thank you for sharing your trip. My parents are on board with you! My mom's daytime hallmark is a Costco bucket hat, not as fashionable as you! You have some fun ports coming up, enjoy! I look forward to reading about them.

Wow, sorry you felt it was useless. I mentioned later in the thread that I sailed on the Majestic, a modern ship that started sailing only in 2017. The price comp for Alaska was with the Millie because she’s sailing this season North and Southbound one ways. The Caribbean price comp was for the Beyond because that’s what I’m sailing next summer. The comparison was against the Caribbean Princess. Not the most even ship comparisons, but all are relatively new or really well updated (Millennium). I was really going for itinerary comparison.

I was on the Majestic! I failed to mention that. Maybe we were on the same trip, Northbound on the 22nd.