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A couple of articles about the potential issues with full face snorkel: https://thesnorkelstore.com/full-face-snorkel-masks-maui-hawaii/ https://www.businessinsider.com/full-face-snorkel-masks-heres-why-they-could-be-dangerous-2023-4

Actually the number of Club Points possible for those 2 years were 40 (2022) and 19 (2023). The number of opportunities to earn Club Points for those 2 years were 17 (2022) and 7 (2023). I did receive an email for all 24 opportunities in those two years.

On our Xpedition sailing in November, full face snorkel masks were “not recommended”. Here is the orientation slide:

Well, I guess you are a Zenith to me.

You Zeniths get all the breaks!

I have updated the summary statistics. Number of PUP Activities For Each Calendar Year Since Inception Club Points from PUP Activity Broken Down By Year & By Activity Type

News flash: It's now in my total. I got my "one".

Not in my total yet, but I still claim "first"!

First!!!

Eclipse has an Oceanview Bar outside of the Oceanview Cafe and it has a Sunset Bar above it.

The Club Points are coming! The Club Points are coming!

Another vote for doing post-cruise Rome on your own and bypassing Celebrity's more expensive offering. The Celebrity option is good for people that want to do zero planning. My wife and I did a pre-cruise stay in Rome for 5 nights before our Oct 2022 trans-Atlantic and we LOVED it. We stayed at the Albergo del Senato and really liked it although there are other great hotels out there at different price points. It's nice to be able to have dinner in Rome and to explore the city in the evening. Pantheon late at night when the crowds are gone. Oct 2022.

Oh well, but it is Pi Day. So have a Happy Pi Day! Or Happy Ides of March Eve!

Cool itinerary. Ship looks sleek, too. I’ll be interested to see what you post!

Probably was referring to this thread:

Some of us are still sailing on older bookings that had larger OBC attached to it. Our upcoming 14 night canal sailing on Summit next month was booked under a Thanksgiving 2022 promotion which delivered $200 OBC per passenger for my family of 4. So the grand total of OBC back then was: $800 2022 Black Friday Promo OBC $50 2022 Cyber Monday Promo OBC $100 Booking On Board OBC (repositioning cruise even though it is 14 nights) $250 Shareholder OBC $1,200 Total OBC If we had booked a suite (back then), I am sure the OBC would have been even larger.

Yes, you are right, I didn't look close enough at @Ex-Airbalancer's screenshot which is awarding shareholder OBC.

Yes, as I mentioned in my earlier post, the repositioning definition may be inconsistently applied. Congratulations.

Yes, I don't think shareholder OBC cares about repositioning sailings or not. Just length.

I doubt that OBC reduction was the objective when Celebrity determines how long to make the TA and TP sailings. TA/TP and Trans Canal sailings are considered repositioning cruises so the length doesn't matter. Now it is possible that the definition of a repositioning cruise is inconsistently applied at the time booking onboard OBC is awarded, but my point is that Celebrity already has a way to avoid delivering large OBC amounts for those sailings. I believe that the stock ownership OBC cares only about the length of the cruise and does not make a distinction on whether it is a repositioning cruise or not.

"Hello and welcome aboard! You're on Deck 6 all the way in the back......"

Ken the cruiser recently published a "live" thread while onboard Flora this past December. You might find it helpful although it may not assist you in comparing Flora to Silver Origin which is also a very nice and new ship. My thoughts are that the two ships are quite "high end" comparable to one another and that you may decide between the two based on itinerary, land tour options, etc.

In 2017 the owner of a small travel agency with whom I did all my cruise bookings unexpectedly died and her husband (who was not familiar with the business) inherited the travel agency and ran it very poorly. So I was able to unilaterally get my 2019 Reflection booking taken away from that travel agency and got it transferred into the hands of my current travel agent. I did that by writing an email to agencychanges@rccl.com. The email detailed the reasons for the request. I received an automated acknowledgement of receipt and then a few days later my then new travel agent received the booking.

The very positive crew attitude that surrounded you back in 2016 is still here today. So that’s a good thing. I seem to remember that back then you cruised certain ships on Celebrity often enough (like Mercury?) that you were familiar with many of the crew and that many of the crew were familiar with you as well. That’s obviously going to be different for you this time around but you never know, a crew member might remember you on your Eclipse sailing. That would be pretty cool. The ship’s WiFi is much much faster now than it was back in 2016 with the recent addition of Starlink across the fleet. So there’s that. Maybe we’ll hear from you.