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12 hours ago, kearney said:

I thought I would post this photo from instagram.... shows beds set up for two. I recall someone someplace wanted to see a photo of this... 

Note to myself...

- Shades can be completely/fully opened or closed via:

    - phone app

    - touch panel at the entrance

    - buttons at the veranda

    - Captain from the bridge

    - Chief Housekeeper from undisclosed location by code request

How I am gonna miss the good old curtains - hard to convey...

Somewhere above (steamboats?) had mentioned that the blinds are "paper like"... I am wondering how often these have to be replaced when IV stateroom has the glass panel open, and the "paper like" shade is all the way down - then someone suddenly opens the entrance door... Do you remember how strong of a draft is in the "standard" staterooms when the balcony door is open, and you open the entry door?

Steamboats = thanks for clarifying, but this is quite disappointing. I would prefer the other way around - the glass panel ONLY up or down but the blinds stop anywhere I want (kearney!). If it is only up or down - it means fully closed in ports like St. Maarten etc. where the boats are parked like in the Disney parking lot! = meaning close it down and use elegant (half-lit) lighting inside the room. 

Really odd engineering solution...

If I may change the (somewhat heated :)) subject back to the more curiosity-based, I still did not find any of the confirmation - unless I just missed it somehow here... - regarding the possibility to close the motorized blinds in IV staterooms partially down. All what I saw so far (videos) shows either all the way up (open) or all the way down (closed). Meanwhile, this (partial) closing could be quite useful...

Same goes about the sash (outside glass panel) - although that one I would have preferred to have only fully opened or fully closed for safety considerations (and not by the master from the bridge!!! ) 

22 hours ago, Silkroad said:

First, the intent of my post was to reassure Marylander that he should have some hope of having his dining wishes granted upon boarding. 

Thanks a lot 🙂 - always hoping for the best...

9 minutes ago, hcat said:

Even if  they are assigned to one retaurant for  fixed searing..I believe  there will be a way to try the others, subject to  availabilty.

 

We booked  Select res  for our cruise next Nov as soon as we were able to..

 

I agree .Screaming  is not the way to go!

 

Marylander... Elite status not what it used to be..Suite guests are higher in the pecking order these days..just a fact But I am sure X will work with you. 

Thanks, hcat!

We tried to book Select dining together with booking, but it was already too late (wait list, which we took). Previously, on M and S class X ships, we never had a problem even if we did not officially apply for Select dining - once onboard, we talked to Assistant M'd, and we ALWAYS had a table of choice at reserved times. I think that the current hold-off for the Edge is related to the split of MDR into 4 venues...

Thanks again!

3 hours ago, Bo1953 said:

When did you book? Are you on the wait list? This may clear before you board or after or not.

 

bon appetite and bon voyage

We booked in August, and yes, we are on a wait list; and I said about screaming just for fun, I am a charming 6'3" 250 lb guy with big smile )))) so I always deal with services in a good way 😂😂😂

Thanks Bo, we shall see!

Edgies,

I need an advice.
We are on January 13th leg, and it seems impossible to get a free sitting for dinners at this time - even though we are with Elite status. 

Could anybody please suggest a way to get it before embarkation? I know that many would suggest to get to the MDR (either one of the four...) and to try to arrange it immediately upon embarkation, but is there an option to write-talk-scream at anybody to arrange this in advance? 

(we suspect that X does not want to release all of the free sitting booking for later cruises BEFORE they figure out how to keep up with the calamity of free sitting split on four restaurants - I think it would be disappointing if they set it up the way that "free sitters" will be bound to only one restaurant and for fixed sitting... but time will tell)

Anyhow, if you know a good way of arranging it remotely and in advance, please let me know.

Much obliged! 

On 11/24/2018 at 3:04 AM, vtcruising said:

I predict this will be the photo op place on the ship (similar to many of us doing the Titanic pose in the bow many years ago):

 

Another view of the butterfly, a rainbow and some graffiti

 

 

Can't wait to hang out there!

 

Pics 1 and 3 = fab 😉

the second one is also fine but can't beat those two.

I am wired to the extreme to see the real pics from the cruisecritic forum boarding the Edge....

2 hours ago, vtcruising said:

The app is a work in progress. the content on my app changes daily and has had several mistakes that eventually were corrected. For Luminae, all the meals are the same as well. I am quite sure they will rotate through the 14 day menu. The MDRs will  rotate through the 14 day menus (Celebrity Signature) just as they do now, with the Classic choices staying the same and the Signature Dishes staying the same in each of the 4 MDRs (each a different menu).

 

Stays the same in all MDRs every night:

 

 

Stays the same in  Normandie every night:

 

 

Rotates through 14 day menus  - the same in all 4 MDRs:

 

This may be helpful - it is explained in the upper right corner. 😊

http://creative.rccl.com/Sales/Celebrity/General_Info/EDGE/Edge_Culinary_One_Pager_TRADE_FLYER.pdf

 

I am not panicking 🙂

I just feel that if they push the app and the menu and such - they should have thought about people who are first Celebrity cruisers or someones like me who is very easy to spook (looooool)

I know for sure this is NOT the right menu, but I am a bit peeved that Celebrity does such a lousy job in promoting their dining options onboard of the Edge....

On 11/21/2018 at 12:10 AM, vtcruising said:

Read the first post in this thread to see how it works. It explains it pretty well, except that they changed the 

Classic to signature and added the classic favorites. Very clear, right? 😉

 

 

I downloaded the Edge app (very cool, by the way), and for every night of my cruise the appetizer/entree etc. selection for EVERY main dining restaurant - the one that you've mentioned 75% will change nightly - is NOT ROTATING but stays the same... (?). To be clear, it appears that all dishes in all four main dining rooms are the same for all 7 nights, except 25% of them are different by the restaurant of choice - and these are, again, listed for every night the same.

Unless the menu will change in the app once the initial hoopla settles, I believe this is the way they are going to handle it. 

(Although I can't see why Edge has to have a different way of preparing the meals for MDR.... Think of the buffet in the evening in the OWCafe - it should have different choice nightly, I figure... Confusing, not upsetting, but confusing :)) 

OK, I hate to break the cheerful atmosphere here (and I that one green-envy hater who wasn’t able to watch the Lady E arrival in person…), but I just looked at the menu posted at Celebrity website for all four main restaurants. What is unclear – it states the menu for each restaurant that is split in three parts: theme restaurant Exclusives (Cyprus, Cosmopolitan etc. - three starts and three entrees), then there goes Celebrity Classic (four starters and three entrees), and then there goes Celebrity Signatures (four starters and five entrees).

While theme exclusives for each restaurant are different, the classic and the signatures parts are the same for each of the four restaurants. I am very confused because there is no explanation in the web site – is this just a SAMPLE menu for one day, or this will be repeated daily for all four restaurants for the whole cruise??

My understanding of how the four main restaurants will work was that these six exclusives for each of them will be repeated every night, but the classic and the signature dishes will be rotated as it always happens on other X ships… But there is no comment or explanation of this in the pages related to the complimentary dining.

Anyone cares to comment?

1 hour ago, vtcruising said:

I will try to corner an engineer onboard and get all the details. I did sit next to the Chief Engineer (? If that’s the correct title) at a captain’s table dinner one time and had a fascinating talk about azipods. My DH was so jealous and kept leaning around me to ask him questions about what lubricants were used for the ship. Now that was fascinating dinner talk! We sat across from the Sanitation Engineer and that was not great for dinner conversation either, but interesting to discuss. 😄

 

 

One of the things that were quite fascinating for me in the early cruising times was the placard on the promenade deck of the Oceania ships that states at what distance from the shore they are allowed to dump the food wastes (and what kind of them!) in the sea/ocean. Very educational!

4 hours ago, C-Dragons said:

 

They can’t leave without their male companion. 😉 😁

The area behind the curtain may be a waiting area for BLU guests.

 

 

I am not a paranoia-filled, but these look seriously creepy ... HOUSE OF BOLTONS... 😂😂😂

...and she has two of those, right? 🙂

On 11/9/2018 at 4:06 AM, vtcruising said:

An Edge azipod

 

I missed this one earlier - thanks a lot, this looks really cool! what's the size of it?

3 hours ago, vtcruising said:

Makes sense to me!

By any hotel standards (including cruise ships), the safe distance between two single beds should be 20-24 in, IF there is another space between each of the bed and the wall on the other side of the bed. If one bed is set along the wall, the gap between the beds should be even wider - 24-36 in. Nobody will set it just a foot apart, believe me 🙂

3 hours ago, cruisingxpert said:

This is the picture that made me start to wonder how they would separate them.  The end table looks screwed to the wall so either the one bed sits in front of the end table or if beside the end table, the other bed will block the entry to sitting area.

Or maybe they just unscrew the end table and take it out.

Based on a simple engineering thinking, in this "see-through" version of the room it is impossible to arrange two separate twin beds, sorry to disappoint you...
The nightstand on the wall is fixed permanently and will not get detached - look at the round corner, the stand is curved at the left side as well. The headboard is also fixed permanently. No one's gonna do any "unscrewing/screwing" during a few VERY rushed hours of passenger change on Sundays...

Someone also said about the L-shape configuration - again, there is not that much space in there to allow such setting. It either needs to place one bed along the cabin separation wall, and another - head-to-head with it (in this case the second bed will block the walk-through from corridor), or one bed should have head at the separation wall, and another - at the bathroom wall, making sort of a "square" (but there's simply  not enough room to allow that either; there is a couch that cannot be moved, do not forget it). Either way, for poor stateroom attendants who will be under high pressure to change cottons/clean/tidy up, THE ONLY way to quickly rearrange beds into twin configuration is to just move them apart - which means that the twin bed configuration will be available ONLY when they are NOT facing the window...

Sorry to disappoint you again. I hope there will be a more elegant and easy-to-do solution, though 🙂 

4 hours ago, Lloyd555 said:

Did someone say that they wanted to see some more Cosmopolitan restaurant photos?

 

If two of my kind would sit back-to-back at those 4 pax tables behind young man on the photo, you wouldn't be able to slip a dollar bill between the chairs 😂

ANYWHERE you look in the food venues on the posted pics so far, space is at privilege. This looks nice and all, but listen people, there will be wheelchairs, walkers, volumized guys such as myself... How's that gonna work? 😂

3 hours ago, CanadianTourist said:

 

Same^

 

I have been very surprised reading through these threads.  To me, the ship looks amazing and I feel very fortunate to be able to board it in the future.  ChicagoPaul has some good advice in his thread on the main board for those that are getting upset 

I am very surprised reading such a negative reaction 😂 (sorry for joking about it, it is funny how the posts about "negativity" go boomerang and pop up again and again after every 3-4 pages of posts)

But to be honest, it is hard to imagine that everyone here should be posting ONLY "Yay!" (like a bunch of minions would do) reactions... If this is the rule, then let's post this rule in the upper bar... Oh wait, but the name of the site in the upper bar is Cruise CRITIC (someone before had actually brought this up already)! 

There is a clear line between being negative and poop on everything, and being observant and ask questions. If I personally sound too negative - my sincere apologies 🙂 At the minimum, each of my "negative" posts ends up with a positive expression of my excitement to sail on the Edge soon! 

YAY!!!

40 minutes ago, Silkroad said:

Since they keep extra shower doors aboard S-class ships (and I know three people who've had broken shower doors replaced very swiftly), I can't imagine they wouldn't stock plenty of redundant parts for the IV's, including motors. I will be in an IV on Edge's first TA with passengers, so I guess I'll have ample time (15 nights) to find out if my faith in Celebrity's logistics & maintenance teams is misguided😉

 I am absolutely certain that they do keep spare parts to fix those! But the sash panels are not your shower doors, and do not forget that any replacement of malfunctioned motor or slider or rope etc. in the mechanism of the panel will be essentially dealt with not immediately ("swiftly" in your answer may mean anything between 5 to 15 mins, right? :)), and will get fixed not in a matter of 5 mins.

Have you ever tried to step out on your balcony when the ship is on the rough seas? 🙂 I do that every now and then, just to enjoy the feeling of safety and comfort when return back to the cabin... But one thing is the balcony, and another - IV sliding panel. It will be wind and water sprays and (possibly) rain etc. literally inside your room for those 5-15 mins of "swift" repair LOLOL

I hate to sound paranoid, but - again - I asked this question several times, and aside of "oh, do not worry, they have plenty of spares and will replace it fast" answers no one so far had responded technically sound )))

(Please do not get upset, no pun intended, I am just curious how the crew will handle situations like this, that's all - and I figured that they should have a manual lever of sort to close it, to repair AFTER, in the next port... this is all I wanted to find out)

Lastly, in terms of the captain closing the sashes from the bridge, I believe this is just not a sound solution. Pretty much all of the cruise ships have the sliding balcony doors, and no one had actually installed the emergency system that closes them automatically due to an inclement weather conditions. Heck, on this very Edge there  still will be plenty of sliding balcony doors - what about those? Would the captain also close and lock those from the bridge?

(I will bring with me a ratcheting wrench set, just in case ahahahaha) 

2 hours ago, kearney said:

Actually, from what I read the windows can be closed from the bridge if weather conditions are such. Also if you touch the window or area near the railing the window stops moving... to prevent injury. Now I don't know what happens if captain raises window while a passenger is leaning out... but I suspect it won't go up for the same reason.

This is not the problem that I was trying to bring up...

If there is a malfunction of the motor-driven mechanism of closing the sash, then no matter how strict the captain is, the window will not close, since it is broken.

Apart of that, I personally doubt that such option (captain closes all sashes simultaneously) will be available, because - as you said - there could be arms and heads on the way, and even if this emergency closing is accompanied by siren etc., I bet there will be folks who will stick inadvertently their limbs in there 😂

We will know the procedure shortly, once the cadets who are scheduled to board first will tell the rest as to how it works. Oh, and I also doubt that there are sensors of sort that stop the sash of going up if there is the head on the way  - not that it is technically impossible, it is just not economical to have this system installed in all IV rooms...

But time will tell )))

9 hours ago, Iamthesea said:

 

Based on this photo, I am not liking the Infinite veranda.  The window does not appear to go down all the way, which leaves the height too high for comfortable viewing if standing at the rail.  Especially if you are short!

 

And based on this video, at the 3:28 mark, it appears that they are already having trouble with the windows.  Notice the maintenance guy banging on the window, and many only 1/4 down.

The only "guy" who is banging on anything at 3:28 mark in the video is the polar bear on Deck 7 lolol
 

I suggest to call him EDGAR = EDGe beAR

However, on a serious side, I believe that installing IV panels/sashes instead of the normal balcony doors is a gimmick and it will eventually cause Celebrity trouble... I mentioned here a while back that for sure there will be malfunctions of the sashes (not closing completely or getting stuck at some height) - maybe not immediately, not frequently, but there will be some. It is hard to expect that all these motor-driven panels will function flawlessly for years of operation.

They should have a manual override allowing to at least seal the windows. Imagine if you have that thing in your room stuck, and the ship is in the open sea, and there is rain+wind... Changing stateroom (if they have a spare) is the least of the troubles in this case.

But I am excited, as the rest of the gang here is ))))

The changing rooms ARE near that area, but on Deck 14 in the diagrams. I guess they feel that if you are athletic and/or energetic to work out in the gym, you might as well start with a climb up that circular stairway!

True!

Then for sure dumbbells storage :D

What's the big unmarked space in the middle?

Since no ladies/gents changing rooms are shown, I assume they should be there, in that void. Plus staff room, storage etc. (They should have an ample storage for those spare dumbbells, you know :))