Kekki13

35 minutes ago, bikerunner said:

On the Connie I would not do it.  That amount you can easily eat in the specialty and or order a bottle of wine.  If you're not going to use the Persian Gardens, there okay on the M class ships, not worth it in my opinion.  If possible move to a reg verandah and or Concierge Verandah (they are bigger then the reg Verandah) if the price is good.  

21 minutes ago, mfs2k said:

Access to Blu instead of the main dining room is the only benefit I'm interested in.

It's worth the same to me as the two of us eating every other night in a specialty restaurant ($120) so about $60 per night for the cruise. (We'd eat half the time in a specialty restaurant anyway if we were in Aqua Class) 

Thank you for your perspective.

I think the upgrade from Ocean View to AC Verandah has two dimensions. (1) What is the Verandah upgrade worth to me? (2) What is the Aqua Class addition worth to me?

Looking at MoveUp, Verandah is at ~420EUR pp. Aqua Class is ~200EUR on top.

200 EUR for Aqua Class sounds like it's worth it. We would reduce our specialty restaurants dinings from 2-3 to probably 1 (Le Petit Chef) and do value the more intimiate setting of Blu vs. MDR. So moving from Verandah to Aqua would be a no-brainer for me.

I guess it's more that the (420 x 2) 840 EUR upgrade for Verandah is not really worth it for our style of travel as we have so many land days where we will be out and about during the day, get into the room to change & shower and then head to dinner and drinks afterwards. Once back into the room we'll go to bed to get up early again for breakfast and then the next land day excursion.

I am sailing on the Celebrity Constellation in August (10 nights). We booked an Ocean View room but did also bid on an Aqua Class Veranda in MoveUp. However minimum bid was quite high, we bid a little bit over that with ~600EUR p.p.

Now I am having second thoughts and think about whether it's really worth it and upgrade of ~1200 EUR. For this money we could basically order every evening a nice bottle of wine and still have some money to splurge for excusions and activities.

It's our first time on celebrity and we can't really grasp the value of Aqua Class.

What are your thoughts? How much are you usually willing to pay for the Spa access and Blu restaurant?