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For the most part, itineraries are planned so that there is a stop in a non-EU country, and thus the entire cruise is exempt from charging VAT. There are some specific exceptions but that is the general plan. if you saw increases in the menu price on your cruise it was most likely not due to VAT

Always included does not cover many tips on board. Spa services, babysitting, casino dealers among others. Room service delivery is also not part of “always included”.

Did you book through a travel agent? The first notification should go to him/her.

Alas it IS a PVSA viol

She can’t change the law. If you start in one US city and end in a different one you MUST visit a DISTANT foreign port. No port in Canada is a distant foreign port.

Separate reservations does not make it legal. If you are on the same ship, that’s the issue.

No it isn’t a suite.

Where are you coming from? How do the airfare costs and options compare?

They know ahead of time when the reclassification will take place. If your sailing is before that date, you will be booking it as an FV. once they change it to a suite there’s no going back to the previous category.

For most passengers, neither the stateroom category nor Captains Club tiers matter anymore for boarding times. Suite passengers and Zenuths can board as they wish. All others pick their boarding times when they do the cruise check in.

Probably 11 or 11:30 a.m.

I don’t think that the room service tips are pooled. The dining room staff’s tips are pooled but not the room service delivery servers’ gratuities.

If you are logged on with device A and switch to Device B it asks you if you want to kick device A off. You get one at a time.

When you check in on line you will see what times are available. It’s not related to stateroom category or Captain’s Club status. The sooner you check in the more choice of times you might find available.

If you have booked the room after the changeover you will have booked it as a suite. Before the changeover you’ll have booked it as a fV. It’s not a case of being grandfathered once it’s reclassified.

I’m not sure how the last paragraph follows from the earlier ones. How did anyone not self-reporting impact your situation?

Also when you create a new post it is very helpful for the title to be as specific as possible. “celebrity tours” as a title doesn’t tell us if you are asking about Ketchikan, Juneau or somewhere else. So people might pass your thread by and not even read it.

No passengers. No masks. 😀

And if you’re not into single-use items there are always these reusable you can bring with you

Good advice.

Have you looked at your boarding pass?

you do not maintain the anytime dining bookings you may have made pre cruise. Blu is all open seating. No reservations are needed or taken unless you have an an usual situation like a group that all wants adjacent tables. If you book Aqua, you may see on the app a place where you can make nightly dinner reservations. This is an artefact of a previous booking system and is not relevant to Blu. Even if you fill all of them out and you think you have made nightly reservation requests, you will find when you go to Blu that you have not. Now on a night or two, that you might want to go eat in the MDR, simply tell the blue maître d’ and they will fix it for you. Remember that you don’t have a dining assignment in the MDR, Neither in the select dining nor in an assigned table in fixed seating. They will find you a table if you ask for one. It might be in select, or it might be in the part of the dining room given over to fix dining. It will depend on how the crowds are going where it might be easier to seat you. They try to keep things balanced out so that those who have signed up for select dining don’t have too long a wait. Adding extra people in from Blu might not be feasible on a given night so they would have you sit in the fixed dining area that night. it’s all a balancing act and keep in mind that they can’t move people from the MDR to Blu to take your spot there.

Sounds like Lufthansa had a schedule change. can you look to see if your original flights and routing even exist anymore?

When ships sail far below capacity, adjustments are easy As the ships begin to get more full it will again become necessary to coordinate with the Blu staff to get you an MDR table, since the MDR numbers will grow. Aqua passengers do not have MDR table assignments, so staff will need to determine when and where to place AQUA passengers and how to reassign their gratuities.

I have been to an invitation-only lunch in Blu which was not open to Aqua passengers. They were simply utilizing the room since it was available. to get back to the OP’s question. If you wish to breakfast at the MDR, or lunch there on the sea days when it is open, there is no problem doing so and it is all open seating for those meals. If as an Aqua passenger you wish to have dinner in the MDR instead of in able coordinate that with the Aqua MaitreD who will make the arrangements for you since you do not have a table assignment there.