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Out of nosy curiosity I took a look at your eclipse cruise roll call. The passenger that you speak of is quite ambitious in his desire to completely redo the itinerary. Good luck to him.

@Maligator, wait list is a very good suggestion. Also if the FVs (to be renamed as UVs next year) become available for less than five passengers, you will also see them online (as opposed to needing to "inquire").

You are welcome. Our son and his girlfriend are driving up to Lake Tahoe tonight to ski on all that snow....

Yes, I also got my not-so-timely email from Celebrity announcing the Cyber Savings Boost less than an hour ago!

And they are actually going to make us cruise to earn Club Points.

Some of the shorex tours have gone back to normal pre-cruise savings for my 3 booked cruises, but many are still at the 35% discount level.

I think you have enough information to begin the process of having your TA removed. It's one thing for Celebrity to transfer the booking from one TA to another as they don't financially benefit from it. However it may be more problematic public relations-wise for them to simply take the booking away from a TA and then keep it for themselves. However you have a good reason to ask for a compassionate release. Let us know how it turns out.

Nice! It will be interesting to see how long they will have this sale.

No complaints, just a debate. Yes we all saw that--it is hard to miss. However as was pointed out by the previous poster, when you select the package and then checkout, you are only charged $9.99. So either the upgrade package is mis-priced in the cart or you are buying the upgrade for one day. I think the former is more likely.

Thank you. I still have a few more posts to make when I can get around to it.

Here are all the Edge sailings listed:

New email and offer received today. 30 sailings to choose from. All are 9-11 nights on either Constellation, Edge, Equinox, or Silhouette. All sailings are in Jan-Mar 2023.

Welcome to Cruise Critic. The ship will adjust its time to match the local time of the port throughout your Med cruise. As far independent shorex tips go, yes--definitely look at our sailing's roll call to see what is being planned. You also may want to look at other roll calls that visit your ports to get additional ideas.

You are the precedence setting case. Don't screw it up!

I agree except the voucher that you bought and then present is intended to be for the whole cruise. The idea of a physical upgrade voucher perplexes me. For our recently completed Constellation cruise, I called the Captains Club desk in advance of the cruise to buy the upgrade at the prevailing sale price plus the Captains Club Elite discount. When I got on board, the premium wifi package was there to be selected when I logged into Constellation's wifi system.

Prime indicates a better location--for M and S class it usually means a higher deck. I do not believe there are Prime Inside cabin categories on E class.

You should call Celebrity to make the booking. They will take care of it.

I did the same for the same reasons.

I would make 2 separate bookings--one for each cabin--to fully use the OBC. The actual group assignments are not handed out until the day of the tour and it is done in person when you show up at the rendezvous point. There you can ensure that your family of 4 are assigned to the same group and are wearing the same Celebrity sticker number.

I never got to meet Lori personally. I did work a lot with Lori and Non. Your right, they were both just great.

Thanks for pointing this out. I have a sailing booked for 2023, 2024, and 2025. Surprisingly, there is a "limited time" 35% discount across the board for all shore excursions for all 3 sailings. No such boosted savings for dining packages. There is a 33% boosted discount applied for upgrading to premium wifi for our 2023 Asia sailing.

Yes, it was. Lori Frese (or Cunningham for the longest time), God rest her soul. After she unexpectedly passed, her relatively new husband took over the business and promptly let her small staff go (or they left) and the excellent customer service went along with it (only to be replaced by bad service--not just average service, but really bad service). My understanding is that the business name was sold and it is now run out of Michigan. A very sad ending for a multigenerational family run business. I understand that Celebrity fielded a lot of complaints about that company and had to accommodate many request to transfer bookings to a new TA like mine. Did you have to do the same?

In 2018 the owner of the travel agency that I did business with passed away and the customer service promptly went down hill when her husband attempted to run it (didn't return phone calls, emails, almost missed final payment, etc). I sent an email to agencychanges@rccl.com to have my 2019 Reflection cruise transferred away from that travel agency to a different TA. I explained the situation in my email. I received a computer acknowledgement email and then 8 days later my booking was moved over--like magic. All my perks associated with the booking moved over except for the OBC that the original TA was going to give me.

Here are the Celebrity Todays for five consecutive At Sea days during our Constellation TA (there were 9 sea days in all): Day 8 Oct 29 2022 Constellation Celebrity Today Day 9 Oct 30 2022 Constellation Celebrity Today Day 10 Oct 31 2022 Constellation Celebrity Today Day 11 Nov 1 2022 Constellation Celebrity Today Day 12 Nov 2 2022 Constellation Celebrity Today