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Looks like my beloved Oceana.. was it a sister ship then? Ahhhh happy days. Ps NO COMMENTS about baked bean tins before anyone starts!

We have friends on Arcadia at the moment and they have been saying that PO has put lots of things in place.

No dinner is 12ish and tea is 5ish Supper is from the chip shop later 😋

Yuppies ...

Red salmon or pink ! When we got red salmon mum.said we were yuppies.

Love this post. Yip Sunday dinner and had me tea about 5pmish. Yes the tinned fruit and carnation cream. On a good day it was something like a thick white tinned cream beginning with an I. Then we had a special treat ... French Fancies by Kiplings!

I think you are being very wise. I know it is very disappointing to cancel a holiday (we've just had to miss one and probably cancel another) but am wondering if it would be worth not paying the final payment and moving to another cruise if you can. Or lose the deposit and see if you can rebook something as soon as you have the information and cover you need. Paying up and then not being able to sell would cost more. Just a thought. Hope you get it all sorted. P.S. Re insurance - don't get me started. A business that will do anything not to pay out ....

Funnily enough the only thing we really liked about Ventura was the Glass House set up. More so than on Britannia. Thanks for helping out 🙂

And Sindhu on one ship? Seems tough not to spread it out across the fleet?

Which makes it all.so confusing !

Seems strange then re the changes now. Tbh if they just told us the real reason regarding closures I think it would help folk to understand more and less intolerant. Self included

This is what we have found.. and like I said there are similar issues on some Princess and Celebrity ships.

How odd. We had E741 in January and it wasn't that bad at all. The cabin steward was amazing but he may have left now. He had just got on early January.

It's interesting that we too had a terrible cruise on her on June 2023 but the one in January 2024 in the Caribbean was 100 times better.....

Like you we love to try out the speciality restaurants on any ship. It's part of our holiday. As I said we didn't particularly like Ventura anyway and the Glass House was our favourite go to. I know they say operational reasons but does anyone think they known what this means? Also how long is this for? Will give my friends the heads up.

That's really surprised me. Friends are giving Ventura a go on the basis they have some of these special dining areas to try out. Personally we didn't like Ventura and it would be a reason to cancel for us if this is long term.

Good grief. We've stayed in aft cabins on Celebrity Silhouette and had F729, F728 and an E deck one on Britannia and though we have had some issues with spots on both ships we've never had it as bad as your photos appear to show above. We normally take a small cloth to give everything a wipe down just incase and sometimes the weather conditions have made things slightly worse and a pair of flip flops for the balcony. I know you shouldn't necessarily have to but we read tips on CC and it helped massively. Out of interest did they clean your balcony down for you at all? In June 2023 on Britannia it wasn't cleaned once though in the Caribbean they did give it a hose down some days and kept the floor clean. It definitely seemed worse when the ship had been going flat out on a sea day or over night or the weather been bad. I know they have put the canopies over but I think that the suites and cabins further down will always be affected as they are on her sister ships owned by Princess. We have sailed on her before and after the canopies and from our experience it hasn't made a difference lower down at all. It's the same with the Silhouette and her sister ships on Celebrity.. last we heard it was still an issue there too. They used to hose the balcony daily .. though that was before the pandemic and cuts that have followed.

Does that relate to hotels as well as ships out of interest if you've paid in full and for some reason have to cancel?

We've sailed on Azura and Celebrity Constellation Infinity's sister ship. Without repeating much of what has been said already if given a choice we would prefer to sail on Azura. We weren't keen on the Constellation at all. Now if it was the Silhouette or Edge that would be a different matter..... if money was not an issue of course!

That's what surprised us. Thanks for the dates above. Will message re what out TA.says when we hear from them.

We have just had a communication from our UK TA that the Celebrity 2026 and 2027 itineraries are coming soon. We thought this was very early Celebrity who we thought normally waited until November time. Has anyone else in the UK heard the same news.as us?

What are gratuities now? Have lost track. Thanks so much for your help folks

Ah thanks. That sounds better ☺️

Per person am guessing. Feel like we've lost touch with the pricing for the speciality restaurants at the moment. It seems quite expensive but probably no more so relatively than what we paid in previous cruises

Been a while since we were on Edge. What cost are we talking about for a 3 or 5 night speciality dining package? Thanks