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Cruise lines don't do that to avoid as much as possible a mass negativity vs an individual inconvenience on certain occasions.

Absolutely, and that brings another silver lining to explore - creating annoyance against enjoinment.

There is a silver line between irony and sarcasm, and staying under that line toward the former is a virtue.

Yes, a special half an hour cruise in the Niagara Falls. One will definitely become "maid of the mist" after that short experience.

It was a joke in relation to ocean cruises. Anyway, none of cruises stop at Buffalo... yet... however, I heard there is a plan to make a cruise terminal in the downtown. We shall see.

I hear a lot of discussion on topics that make me to keep on walking on all cruise lines I’ve been (including Regent, Ponant, Azamara, Seabourn, Paul Gauguin). One problem with this approach is it’s hard to keep on walking while enjoying a neat scotch shot with a glass of water in the other hand and lovely night entertainment performance in a nice lounge.

We wish it would bring any ship to Buffalo. Well,.. a wish is a wish…

The "Referral Offer Benefit" in the below statement is in regard of a person who wants to refer, not a person wo will be referred. So, it means that you must have at least 1 cruise with SS in order to refer someone regardless whether you got any SS Venetian Society status due ONLY to matching RCCL or/and Celebrity status. i. Sail with Us Referral Offer. A Member must earn at least 1 VS Day to be eligible for the Sail with Us Referral Offer Benefit.

The problem for me (and would think for many others, too) in general, I don't want to remember, monitor, and wait for 7-18 months to catch the exact timing on announcement of this change. Referral should be simple process to begin with - click a couple of boxes for a referee and yourself and get an OBC for each, and if a person ended up cancelling their cruise, your OBC would be gone (like Viking, for example does). Why to have multiple forms on both sides?

My point was it's about an individual behavior of a guest that makes a wrong (and damaging) impression of a company (a cruise line in this case) serving such a guest.

Is that what’s happening to Celebrity? That’s what’s happening. To the WORLD. Celebrity or any other cruise line have nothing to do with it.

Yesterday I received an email from Seabourn: Seabourn is currently updating the referral program to make it more convenient for our guests to refer their friends/family. This change will be coming in the upcoming year. Currently we are not able to add referrals to bookings. Please watch for the announcement on the website when this program has been updated. We sincerely appreciate your loyalty and willingness to share your love for Seabourn with your friends and look forward to continue rewarding our guests with the referral onboard credit.

If the cruise price was the 1-number (1 line-item on the invoice) price which is the cruise total price (with real all inclusive), the rails wouldn't be needed whatsoever at first place (no thread of such a topic would be generated). From the other hand, there would be tons of other threads for that matter with variations of "Why don't I have a choice of selecting what I really need (maybe I don't want Wi-Fi, or multiple restaurants, or I'm not a drinker, I don't need a butler service or shore excursions, ...)?"

What??? I have pre dinner drinks at 7 am every morning starting with Champagne!

That means (good to know) that instead of 1 "extra charge" item (that used to be a part of cruising expenses and on the cruise invoice with a choice of pre-paid gratuities) besides 3 regular items (cruise fair, port charges, and taxes), now there are 2 of them (gratuities AND crew appreciation / service charge).

If you’re new to Seabourn and don't have a referral set up yet and booked a cruise sailing prior to or on December 14, 2025, I can set up a referral for you that gives us both $250 OBC (per cabin). Please e-mail me at mikhail_khitrik (at) yahoo (dot) (com), and I will set up the referral for you.

We've just came back from a half of your cruise - 16-day Seaborn Pursuit Expedition from Tahiti to Solomon Islands. We dragged ourselves from the ship at the end of cruise. We would easily continue for the next 15-day leg to Guam (through Papua New Guinea); however, regretfully, we don't have enough vacation days.

If that's a case, there should not be any items of any kind on the ship (no tables, no chairs, no beds, no silverware, nothing), no pools, no dancing (one might be injured, too), all around the ship walls should be plush, and so on.

I easily might go in the inside cabin on Seabourn, Regent, Ponant, and Silversea; the matter is they don't provide it. So... No choice for me: I'm stuck with and forced enjoying the balcony cabin (and a "darn" butler on Silversea). On a positive note, I like a lack of choices - less headache!

and the price with the refundable deposit option for 14-day cruise is $1,900 more pp (in Aqua)!!! That's $1,000 more than a deposit! To pay or not pay? - To over-pay $1,900 extra with the refundable deposit or lose $900 in case of canceling non-refundable?

If you’re new to Seabourn and don't have a referral set up yet and booked a cruise sailing prior to or on December 14, 2025, I can set up a referral for you that gives us both $250 OBC (per cabin). Please e-mail me at mikhail_khitrik (at) yahoo (dot) (com), and I will set up the referral for you.

I've almost never heard of using this word until around 6 years ago. Thinking (especially, without influencing and out-of-the-box) is a sin these days, I guess. Society slowly but steadily is moving toward ameba-like existence.

Oh, yes! Who is better than a dog! Not any human being!

I would love to hug that dog!

That’s really good. It was a typo in my text: parts should be switched in my first question. We have a very similar situation with booking for 12-day Millennium cruise from Singapore to Tokyo (March 3, 2025). We paid $5,264 total (cruise fare, port charges, tax, included classic beverage package, wi-fi, included gratuities (we booked this trio combo before Celebrity removed gratuities from it), refundable deposit), the lest expensive Aqua category (free upgrade to the next category) and $200 (book onboard) OBC. It was a group booking with our cruise agent. The regular price through Celebrity at that time was $8,600. A few days ago I looked and saw over $13,000 fir the same category with the same other items!