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We were on the same Silhouette sailing as SunandSnow and No, no children's filet for us😔.

Despite my pleas in 2 calls to CC that those 5 points from this month's webinar be posted to my account in time for our next cruise, no luck. I will say that both CC reps tried very hard to help us. Those points would have brought us to +.

Is there a direct phone # to reach the PUP powers that be?

For all the E class itineraries I've been investigating OVs are pricing higher than IVs. Hmmmm.......

My friend had her 21-year-old granddaughter with her on our Avalon Danube cruise. M.A. led her gram on adventures separate from the cruise excursions when there was free time, e.g. a Vienna museum that required several trams to get there. My advice is to research opportunities for exploring the ports your cruise will visit. Do you enjoy wine, are you foodies, history buffs? Take time for just the two of you when you can!

It never hurts to ask if those recent PUPs can be posted to your account before the stated 3/14 date! Email: cec@celebrity.com

Thanks for the congrats. Not there yet.

Will watch it before 2/22. Points awarded 3/14. Upcoming cruise ends 3/9. Desperately need those points before the 14th! These 5 will get us to PLUS, but so will our cruise.😑.

I see "Plus One Additional Offer" at the bottom of the Future Cruise flyer. We booked our Eclipse 2024 "no perks" cruise using the Book Later option. In addition to the OBC for the cabin, at the time of booking Celebrity was offering an additional OBC per person. Is that the "Additional Offer"? If not, would the choices have been the usual suspects of prepaid gratuities, drinks package and wifi? I sure would like to have our gratuities prepaid!

How far from port is your excursion taking you? If it is only the 2 of you, I would review the itinerary carefully and decide what stop ought to be skipped in order to get you back to the ship at least an hour before sailaway time, Keep in mind that "all aboard" is typically 30 minutes before the ship's scheduled departure, so if Celebrity's itinerary states port times are, e.g. 7am-4pm, figure 3:30 is when you should be back. And, if it is a tender port, you will be lucky to disembark on the earliest tender to shore.

We've enjoyed many excellent private excursions with our traveling companions. Our most unique was in Gibraltar when we managed to book a retired RAF gentleman to bring us to and lead us up the Mediterranean Steps. A young couple from our roll call joined us. DH and I walked back to port after the climb because we were meeting family for a fish n' chips lunch, but the couple took up the guide's offer to show them WWII seige tunnels not open to the public. They were thrilled!

I got a Blue Chip email once and didn't even open it. After reading about all the great deals from the BCC I regret trashing it since I've never received another offer! Not a high roller but always visit the casino several times when we cruise and almost always enter my seapass card. Is there a way to be reinstated to receive their emails?

You aren't alone! PUPpies Unite!🐩🐶🐕‍🦺🐕🦮!!

I thought this was the PUP thread! Going to "first unread post" since yesterday, it appears this thread is now Princess vs. Celebrity!🙃

I recall that tour you and the Boss found in Nassau! It was a lovely way to spend time away from the madding crowd! Not a TBL tour, but your research led to it- I think through the Heritage Society? Our next booking with ToursByLocals is in Lucerne!

At least with ToursByLocals you can choose your guide and be in direct contact with her. But I didn't realize there's an upcharge for booking with them. I am aware that Viator is a middleman so have never booked through them. It takes research to find private tour guides - often several pages into Google. Aside from the Ports forums, I have been stalking the roll calls for this year's Celebrity Iceland/Greenland cruises and last year's as well to find the private tour guides those cruisers have booked! Thanks to them, I have 8 good leads bookmarked for 2024!

@Sox Fan Cruiser To keep yourself occupied, go to the roll call for similar sailings to yours to see what those folk are all doing. Then explore the tour websites they're touting and bookmark until you decide which might work best for you and your friends! Around our August Avalon river cruise, I am taking 9 cats from Paris to Amsterdam to board our boat and after the cruise, herding everyone from Basel-Lucerne-Wengen-Zurich with adventures in between!

I have bought/sold when OBC became moot when perks were included. The OBC from that purchase was a +10% gain over several cruises. Bought again/sold again and bought and own as of now. Had I hung onto the stock a little longer the first time around would have tripled my initial investment. Oh well, can’t complain since am in the black overall.

@ChrisB123 You might have to take 2 river cruises- the Rhine and the Danube. We've only cruised the Danube on Avalon which gave us many German "ports"- started in Nuermberg, then to Regensberg and Passau. We overnighted in Vienna Austria before ending our cruise in Budapest. Our Rhine cruise on Avalon is in 7 months and friends who'd done this route previously liked it so much they wanted to do it again and convinced us and another 6 couples to sail along. It starts in Amsterdam and ends in Basel with mostly German city stops. We'd previously done a DIY land tour to Germany and we spent time along the scenic castle section of the Rhine. Based on our experience there AND the fact that our friends who'd cruised the Rhine on their own and then the Danube with us, wanted to do the Rhine again, that would be my suggestion for your 1st river cruise!

If there is a tour to Queenstown from Dunedin, I recommend that! Pricey, but worth it! We did not take any ship tours on our 14 day cruise from Auckland to Sydney except for the above. In Wellington we booked a private walking tour. I loved our glow worm experiences that happened on our pre-cruise North Island visit! Our B&B, Te Tiro, had its own private glow worm cave and we also took a cave tour in Waitomo through Spellbound.

You can order coffee for morning delivery the night before. From what I have gleaned on this forum there is no room service charge for this. Or do you want the coffee delivered the night before? Would be kinda cold.....

Re: that German website You can also subscribe to price alerts for the cruise and category(s) you are monitoring!

Maybe you should change your CC name to Buzz Lightyear. To Infinity and Beyond!🚀

I wish the mods could change this thread title. It conjures up horrible images! The threads re: dining cutbacks are off-putting enough, but who'd want to cruise on the Apex with its "sanitation issues"?

We are booked those again! We were close to midship rather than forward as some suggest and was not affected by noise, shaking, etc. In fact, it was just a few steps to the espresso machine for early morning coffee. That Danube cruise was in November so enjoying the outdoor spaces was not an option, but nevertheless we were able to spend time in the lounge when not docked. Our next cruise will be in August on the Rhine and we hope to spend our cruising time on deck!