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When is the sailing and when did you book? If you booked before May 31 and sailing is before Sept 31 I think your sailing is eligible for the more flexible price match. I'm aware that the UK version wasn't called Cruise with Confidence but I believe the price match was very similar. I think what you are being told is the old program which has been reinstated for new bookings an bookings sailing after 9/30 where you only have 24 to 48 hrs to get the lower price. Hopefully someone with a copy of the UK version of the price match can post here.

And is really the only way to fully understand Celebrity pricing moves.

Yes. The flyer I posted above is available to your TA on CruisingPower and at this sales link. If you really have to push for this I agree it's time for a new agent. http://www.thecelebritycommitment.com/tools_offers.html

We are flying to IGR the day we disembark the cruise. I have made arrangements to drop some luggage at the hotel in BA we will be returning to later in the week. I think we will take the 1 pm flight to IGR to leave enough time to get to the hotel and back to the the domestic airport.

Yes on the Revolutionized M class ships they replaced the loveseat with the very hard and uncomfortable 1 1/2 seat chair.

$100, $50, $50, $100 They apply it as a discount off the cruise fare of one passenger on each reservation.

From the flyer: Agree that it must be requested as it's not done automatically.

Just did while you were typing. It's $50 per leg for sailings 9 nights or less and $100 for 10 nights or more. See flyer I posted.

Here are the details. I've never had an issue with them adding the B2B discount when adding a second sailing well after the original booking. https://creative.rccl.com/Sales/Celebrity/General_Info/Flyers/CEL_Back_to_Back_Offer_Flyer.pdf

Yes the deposit remains. I believe if unused after a year the deposit is refunded.

You would have to reprice at prevailing No Perks rate. AI is not an addon it's a different rate.

Have you confirmed on your account that you still have that stateroom on your reservation?

You will not get charged the admin fee for just repricing your sailing. The fee is only charged for cancellation or change of ship or sail date.

Isn't Greenland a tender port as well?

Jim, There is Celebrity policy and then there is what happens day to day when dealing with Celebrity. The 200% deposit requirement is on every invoice. They added this probably about 5 years ago. Of course this is easy to get around by booking on the website, paying the requested deposit (because the Celebrity site has not been coded to double it) and then transfer to the TA. The book onboard reduced deposit offer is for Inside cabins through Sky Suite. I can't find the documentation for this at the moment but that's what it said on at least my last 2 sailings. Not sure if they would actually charge 1 or 2x the standard deposit. So my sort of tongue in cheek comment was with a normal $900 deposit, doubled for a deluxe suite (CS and above) for a B2B would be $3600. They paid $400 in deposits total so technically they should have had to increase the deposit by $3200.

Anybody have recommendations for private airport transportation for 4 people?

The OP's question is interesting. On Celebrity cruises if you are on a B2B sailing and you test positive (or are even a close contact and continue to test negative) you are not allowed to sail on the next leg of the journey. Of course Celebrity is going to refund the cruise fare and assume airline would provide credit for the home bound flight but would there be any coverage for the certainly higher last minute flight home? The whole Trip Interruption case has me confused as I would have thought that having my trip interrupted/extended by covid quarantine would be covered by interruption where delay would be something caused by a common carrier delay. I do know my assumptions were wrong but the interrupted B2B cruise case is also something which I have concerns about as we often do B2B.

I am surprised they completely removed the expiry date as I believe they have to carry these as a liability on the books. As far as the 25% bonus. What the change specifies is any 25% bonus FCC you may have received for a Celebrity cancelled sailing retains the original Redemption/Sail-by dates. Once those dates pass the FCC will be re-valued to 100% and you will lose the 25% bonus. What I haven't seen is if FCC's which have already gone past the Redemption date are still valid now. I believe most of the original cancellations had to be redeemed by May 31, 2022 with sail by Sept 31, 2022.

The website has never worked right with 200% deposits and why more often than not they don't get the required deposit. My TA on the other hand who understands Celebrity and their rules does require, maybe the TA booking system works correctly.

1/2 hr from published sail time. Crew is 1 hr.

As far as I know you can't see your FCC online.

I had a January 23 sailing drop by ~$250 total. That was the only one out of 6 future bookings.

And you got real lucky as onboard bookings for CS and above are not eligible for the $100 pp reduced deposit. Plus regular deposits on CS and above are 200% so they should have had you pony up $3200 in additional deposit if they knew what they were doing!

Probably wise.

At least we can see in the T&C of this promo that Celebrity hasn't yet changed it's NRD policy and you still get the $100 pp penalty and the remainder in FCC if you cancel prior to final payment. Evidently RCL has changed this policy and NRD now means NRD.