You will have more CC cruise points than your wife. If your CC accounts are linked she will be the same CC tier level as you but with less CC cruise points.
We always do 6:00 PM in the MDR. If we didn't have one of the BPs we would have a couple CC HH drinks before in a lounge then get a couple more and carry them into the MDR. We use to do that before the current CAS so called voucher program and before RC allowed CAS HH drinks to be ordered in the MDR.
To each their own.. Haven't been to one in awhile. Some are well attended. Good info and Q and A for someone that hasn't done a B2B cruise. The ones I've attended in the past have been held on a sea day in the early afternoon.
One tip. Each leg of the B2B cruise is two different cruises. So your onboard account will be closed at the end of the first leg. Nothing carries over to the second leg. Spend all your nonrefundable OBC or you'll lose it. You will receive a TAD letter a day or two prior to your TAD outlining the entire TAD process. You will also be invited to attend a B2B (consecutive cruisers) meeting a day or two prior to the first leg ending. I recommend you attend as that meeting will be specific to your B2B cruise. Enjoy. 🍻
IMO, your acceptance as a crossover Zenith will be no different than when you took your first Celebrity cruise as a crossover Elite. I always find things different on the cruise then what's posted on CC.
I use the cruise lines website I want to book with or a TA website to compare prices for the intinaries, dates, cruise line and ship. I do this no matter the length of the cruise or setting up a B2B cruise.
I sometimes wear different cruise line T-shirts or hats while on another cruise line. We cruise with Princess also but I don't own anything that says Princess on it. 😂
On our last Celebrity NE/Canada cruise there were two umbrellas in the cabin. One was huge. Two of us could fit under it. The other normal size. Good enough for us. We always pack the small travel size umbrellas.
Even if we had to wait for a drink still wouldn't be a waste of our time. If the venue is busy, of course we would expect a wait or leave to find another. Plenty of other places for a drink. Exactly why we stay away from Celebrity's martini bars especially for pre supper drinks. Very popular, so always crowded. Cheers. 🍻
We have never had anyone ask us and we don't ask what tier levels or cruise points. No matter the cruise line. Same with politics and religion. Way too many other interesting things to talk about.