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My wife got me the one with the glass, too. We’ve just completed two extended cruises and I can tell you that the glass is a pain to pack! The time between charges is pretty good though.

Electric toothbrushes are definitely okay items to bring onboard. Floss, too.

Maui is great, but if it's been dropped it's not a reason to abandon the cruise. To me the only argument against doing a Hawaii cruise is that a land vacation there is better (in my opinion). It's definitely a great idea to tack on some post-cruise time there. You could even go to Maui.

Here is a Future Cruises Vacations FAQ flyer put out by Celebrity. It was issued in 2023 and is written for travel agents. There is language that is applicable to your question about group space: Q: Can my clients bookings made onboard with the Future Cruise Vacations team be moved into an existing group that I have? A: Yes, bookings made onboard may be combined with certain groups but now require a full deposit and the potential loss of your promotional offer and/or Onboard Credit offer.

That hadn't even occurred to me......

Sorry, I didn’t see this until now. The thirty day period that the previous poster mentioned is only true if you initially assign Celebrity to your Book Later option. In that instance when you eventually choose your cruise, the thirty day clock starts to transfer it to a TA. However a TA is assigned when you pay your $100 pp deposit to secure the Book Later option even though you haven’t chosen a sailing. Once the TA is assigned you’re pretty much stuck and there is no thirty day clock to perform a transfer. Again this is not true if you assigned it to Celebrity. Note that the TA that is automatically assigned by default to your Book Later option (when you put down your $100 pp deposit) is the TA that you used to book the cruise that you are currently on at the time. IF you decide that you want to assign a different TA than the default one to the Book Later option (or you want Celebrity to have it so you can exercise your thirty day option to shop for a TA), you must tell the Future Cruise Consultant this and they will have you sign a form attesting to it. It’s obviously a form that they will show your “current” TA if they protest and say that some mistake was made and that they should be assigned to the Book Later option. One last thing, if the cruise you’re currently on was booked by Celebrity and you put your $100 pp deposit down for Book Later, Celebrity will be automatically assigned to that booking. Then you have thirty days to find a TA when you select your actual cruise. So you’re good. As far as transferring your booking to a TA’s group space, I believe you may have to pay the deposit that is required under the Group which may be higher than $100 pp. Celebrity put out some instructions on this and I’ll have to find it. When I do, I’ll post it.

We’ll end up talking about PowerUp Points.

Game, set, and match!

We only cruised once a year, so it's not like I have been on a gazillion CC roll calls. But my observation before the COVID shutdown was the roll calls that were the most active were the fan favorites like the 14 night Caribbean sailings and the Transatlantics. Maybe the Transpacifics, too. Also roll calls seem a little different before the COVID shutdown and now.

Back when the Captains Club benefits were printed out onto a coupon sheet, there were two different types of sheets for Elite cruisers. A "normal" coupon sheet and a sheet for sailings of 12 nights or longer. If you look at the top corners of the back of the coupon sheet (from the links), you can see the distinction between the two. When I look at the actual coupons, the only difference was the insertion of a coupon for discounted laundry in addition to the free bag for the 12 nights or longer version (screen shot below).

I think they go by port time as well, so you shouldn’t miss it.

You know, @cruisestitch was pretty much on the ball as she started this long running thread when Celebrity first sent out emails for earning PowerUp Points. If you have a few minutes, it’s worth reading the first 3 pages of this thread to read member’s reactions. They range from appreciation to someone thinking this could be a bad thing. But many posts were about confusion on how get the quiz and how to fill it out correctly. For my wife and I, we were taking 12-14 night sailings in a veranda once a year before the shutdown. So we were earning 36-42 Club Points a year. The PowerUp Point program resulted in us maintaining our normal Club Point earnings rate during the shutdown.

Jim, I’ve been on Cruise Critic and its forerunners since about 1996 when it was a moderated AOL board accessed via dial up. I can say that the current posting restrictions naming travel agents and travel providers were in place back then and certainly way before Tripadvisor took over Cruise Critic. Btw, TripAdvisor acquired Cruise Critic in 2007 if that helps you remember the pre-Tripadvisor days. I cannot remember exactly when roll calls became a thing. My guess is around 2000, maybe a tad earlier. I remember when they first came out, they were posted in this forum—Celebrity Cruises forum—mixed in with other regular posts. It’s possible that roll call threads were being posted earlier than that in other boards such as Royal Caribbean because I don’t watch the other boards). Back then people were posting “is anyone on such and such sailing?” After the number of roll call posts grew large enough, they were given their own separate forum which is how we know it today. In some ways “Live from” threads remind me of roll calls in the old days when they were mixed in with other posts in the Celebrity board. We used to see them on occasion, but with the growth of mobile usage and improvements with ship WiFi, we are seeing them more frequently and occasionally we see more than one “Live from” thread from the same sailing. It remains to be seen whether they grow large enough in number to require special treatment.

how about removal of the room service fee?

Yes. And unfortunately the OP has since passed away as well. May they both rest in peace.

Good for you, Ruth, and Silhouette is a great ship to buy the package for.

I think today's plates are devoid of any logo or pattern for that matter. Some other touches that I liked back then was the physical dessert tray that was brought out when your dessert options were described to you. Also when my wife asked for tea, a nice dark wood box with different kinds of tea bags for her to choose from was presented at the dinner table.

According to the title, yes.

1) correct, your charges are refunded back to the original form of the payment (OBC or credit card). 2) once purchased, your specialty dining reservation is immune to price increases. If the price falls because of a sale, you can cancel and rebook. The only risk of cancel/rebook is not being able to rebook for your specific date/time which I have not run into, but you should be aware can technically happen. 3) you may know this already, but I will throw this in: if you try to save money by booking a dining package for multiple dinners, you won't be able to pick your specific date/time until you get on board.

Actually I wasn’t assuming that. I was just responding to the post immediately prior to mine that brought up the subject of a quiet room.

Isn’t sewing incompatible with a quiet room?

We’ve been to the ABC islands three times with Celebrity and each time the ship’s time was adjusted to match their time. I agree with the previous post that Celebrity generally aligns the ship time with the port’s local time. The only cruise where I have seen a Celebrity ship’s clock not observe the port’s local time zone was during our recent Galapagos cruise. During our seven night cruise, the ship’s clock was aligned with Quito’s time zone (Ecuador’s capital city located on the mainland) which was an hour ahead of the Galápagos Islands. You had to remember to re-set your watch to local Galapagos time when you were at the airport that serves the islands.

You have impressive pain tolerance. What did you do when giving birth—drink some whiskey and used a stick to bite on?

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