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We have taken several Christmas-New Years sailings and on each sailing we have observed that some of the decorations are removed by the end of our sailing. For example the Christmas tree in between Tuscan Grill and Blu was removed by the time we got off Solstice on Jan 3 in Hong Kong. Foyer decorations were still up.

Yes, but you will miss Santa.

The sailing immediately after the Thanksgiving holiday. To give you an idea, here was a decoration schedule that Celebrity published for 2021:

Although we’ve never purchased the unlimited package, we’ve had lunch at Murano before on Solstice.

The ship sponsored Cruise Critic Connections gatherings and occasional tours, lunches, etc ceased when the COVID shutdown hit. The web page that was used to register for the Connections party has been de-activated.

It's all relative and subjective!

I agree with all the previous answers--it's very rare that the ship's clock will not match the local time. Our most recent experience with that was during our Galapagos cruise in Nov. The islands are one hour behind the mainland of Ecuador. However, Xpedition, which never visits the mainland, had her clock set to mainland time during our entire 7 night Galapagos Islands cruise. As far as Aruba is concerned, we have sailed there on a Celebrity ship (including Reflection) from Florida several times and the ship's clock always matched Aruba's local time. One other thing, Aruba does not observe Daylight Savings Time although that should not be a factor for your cruise. Reflection overnighting at Aruba, Jan 12 2019

I thought it was because you have hit your limit of Club Points!

I'm sorry about your friend, Susie. May she rest in peace. I'm sure she would want you to have an awesome cruise on Reflection as do I. I look forward to following your thread.

Better late than never! I'm glad to read that you enjoyed your first Celebrity cruise. Thanks for posting your review.

Nice job.

I just received via email the 7 question survey which is worth 10 PUPs. I received a very similar if not identical survey from the Royal Caribbean Group. That email was sent on Jan 23 and, of course, with no PUPs to be earned.

Reflection's Sunset Bar is much larger and nicer than the one on Equinox. Not sure how it compares with Beyond.

I’m not sure why you are having that problem. You should be able to make multiple specialty restaurant reservations multiple times. Cruise Planner will not allow you to make conflicting reservations but that error message is pretty clear.

I hope you have an awesome Alaskan cruise.

On our last two Solstice sailings, the latest you could disembark varied between 9:10 am (Sydney, Jan 2020) and 10:30 am (Hong Kong, Jan 2024). Below are the links to the disembarkation schedule that the ship published for those two sailings. The information also includes the hours that breakfast was available at the various dining rooms. Jan 2020, Solstice, Sydney Jan 2024, Solstice, Hong Kong Vancouver is a beautiful city. The idea of taking either a Celebrity tour or a independently arranged tour of Vancouver with a drop off at YVR is a great idea.

We’ve done NYE for 4 different Celebrity cruises but none on Edge class ships. Celebrity does an excellent job with the onboard NYE experience. If you were trying to decide between Apex or Ascent, I would think that NYE experience would be similar. I would focus on itinerary. For example it’s nice to celebrate NYE when Jan 1 is a sea day.

We usually go with Uber or a taxi. Shuttle can be cheaper, but you have to wait until the bus is filled before it leaves.

In the situation you described, you should not lose your booking-on-board OBC.

Super-congratulations to you for getting a permit and for completing the hike to the Wave!!!!!!!! It's funny, my family and I did our hike during the month of February.as well because it was a 60th birthday present to myself. We lucked out as our weather was pretty decent on that February day in 2020--sunny and I think the temperature was in the upper 50's maybe low 60's but it was a bit windy. I hope your weather conditions were good and snow-free. Please post pictures. My apologies to the OP for this temporary deviation from topic (but this is a big deal). Your next mission is to catch the total solar eclipse on Apr 8.

Thanks. We are the same.

It was worth 30 PowerUp Points last time.

I am on the same Solstice sailing as you except one year later (2025). For us, Pago Pago is not available as a choice for making specialty dining reservations. It is missing altogether.

You should be able to preserve your current booking along with the pricing for the 1st/2nd passengers if you drop the 3rd person from it. So only one new booking is needed and that would be for the new stateroom. One of the three passengers in the original stateroom will see an increase in their fare because the 3rd passenger fare will become 1st/2nd fare.