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Hey, if I had known you liked pickleball, I would have tagged you on that post!!

thanks for getting back to us. Enjoy your cruise!!

Very very cool

Ah, yes.

Looks like leftovers to me!

The main thing is to tell your spouse that he/she is elite to you regardless.

That's a shame although I would rather have my 50th anniversary and the cruise cancelled than the other way round! Century was our first Celebrity cruise back in 1996.

I agree--I wouldn't mess around either. Plus the more attractive cabins will get snapped up if you wait. If there is a sailing of interest that is available to book now and my next cruise was in October, I would just book now (and watch for price drops along the way as drakes2 mentioned).

@SeaWatch12, one other thing to add: I would recommend that you check this forum out daily starting in November. Like last year, someone will start a thread which monitors the release of the next season's sailings and it is very active until just after the final sailings are released. You will get very good information on exactly when the eastward transatlantic sailing are released.

Although I have yet to try this method, others on this forum have done it very successfully (not lose the bonus OBC). The key thing is to make sure you move your reservation to the transatlantic when the time comes. Do not cancel the dummy reservation and then rebook. If you preserve the original booking number, your onboard booking OBC will follow along with it. the original booking number is preserved when the booking is transferred while cancellation and rebooking does not. It also stands to reason that you will want your dummy booking to be a refundable deposit booking to avoid the change fee when you transfer it. When you transfer it, you can decide either to keep it as a refundable deposit or convert it to a non-refundable deposit for the new sailing. The exact timing that the eastward transatlantic sailings will be released is not known. Maybe it will fall within your 6 month window. However if it falls in December like it did last year, you have a good option.

Check out this very recent thread:

With or without cats? And would your screen name change as a result?

Your transcanal cruise was one day longer than mine will be. That extra day was spent at Puerto Quetzal which is not on my sailing. So you also had 8 sea days--not counting the canal transit. You see, you had such a nice relaxing cruise that you lost track of time. The extra port day broke up your sea days even more. You never had more than two sea days in a row. I like that distribution. Photo is courtesy of @DaKahuna

Dress is identical to a bay tour in the middle of the summer.

I am not sure what you would consider to be a large number of sea days then! Our Apr 2024 transcanal (Summit) is 14 nights long with 8 sea days. To me the ocean crossings are synonymous with large number of sea days and the ones we have been (or will be) on only have one more sea day: Our 15 night transatlantic (Constellation) last Oct was 15 nights with 9 sea days. Our Apr 2025 transpacific (Solstice) is 17 nights long with 9 sea days. Although the number of sea days are comparable, they are more broken up on the transcanal sailing--no more than 3 sea days in a row.

We took that shorex, too, but back in 2005 on a Horizon cruise. It was a hot, humid, long excursion day and my family thought it was very boring. My wife made me apologize to the kids! I thought it was a very good excursion but we will skip it when next year Summit calls on Colon on the day before we do the full west bound transit.

Nice. Plus no plane ride required to get to the embarkation port, right?

My wife and I are booked on this Apr 2024 sailing. For us, I can tell you the Canal is a "dad" thing, My wife and 2 adult kids (one boy and one girl) have zero interest which is why it will be our 18th Celebrity cruise before we finally get to go. I work in the Joliet area--near (but not at!) Statesville.

This is what was for sale at the liquor/sundry shop aboard Constellation in Nov 2022:

In case you were unaware, that is the former Celebrity Century--once the pride of the nascent Celebrity fleet.

With you, I am sure it is a problem requiring a CPAP.

Yes. I tell my kids that Michael's Club now serves as a detention center for suite and Zenith passengers.

Back in the day, Michaels Club was set up as a cigar bar. Century class ships for sure, Millennium class ships, I think.

.....using his 240 free minutes of internet connection, of course.

I don't have a copy of Reflection's smoking policy right now, but here is the smoking policy onboard Solstice (sistership) published on Jan 2020: