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When I have booked onboard, in the past, the transfer to my agent was automatic & immediate.  Last I reserved onboard was February, 2023.

1 hour ago, QuattroRomeo said:

Is it fairly recent, or has it been there for awhile? Similar amounts?

I’m not certain.  My first Celebrity cruise is coming up shortly.  Noticed it on their website to buy.  I think the amounts are similar.

Celebrity has this, too. 

Yes,it is yours to take.  I asked the florist onboard last year.

https://www.celebritycruises.com/content/dam/celebrity/pdf/casino-bcc-flyer-july-25-2022.pdf

I am a newbie to CEL & my check-in date is 12/26.  Does it make a difference if I checkin at midnight (assuming that time works) or do it later in the morning.  In concierge class & Eastern time zone.

Thanks 

Sometimes it does & sometimes it doesn’t.  We just had a fare adjusted & were able to keep our OBC.

We are flying to Ft. Lauderdale in February & CEL had a great price in F.

I am 5* & did not get AARP added to cruises booked before the program started.  However, price just went down on a booking, it was repriced & now I have the AARP OBC.  Travel agent handled it all so I’m uncertain how it was handled.

Yep.  Cleared cookies, didn’t help.

I’ve been checking my 28 day cruise for HIA prices & it shows $-1550 for 2.

i keep trying to purchase with no $$ needed but it won’t allow. I know it’s a glitch & keep hoping 1 day it will go through.  😆

If the credit hasn’t shown up, you need to call.  You then have a year to use the credit.

If you don’t have a cruise reserved to put it towards, I’d wait to call until you have one.

Not this this helps this situation,  I lay folded clothes on the bed so I can fit it all in 1 photo & put in the bag.  I delete the photo after I get the laundry back.

I was just turned down for getting the OBC on previously booked cruises.  Asked my agent to try again in a week or 2….or whenever she talks to them.  Maybe she’ll get one to say yes!

I just logged into HAL account & noticed I have an Onboard Credit for $50 that must sail by July 27, 2027.  I assume that is for the AARP promo.  Will have my agent check next week or later when she recovers from her vacation.

I have a gift card credit card that I want to use to buy OBC.  Much easier to do in advance, if possible, than have to stand in line at Guest services while on the cruise.

45 minutes ago, Jim_Iain said:

With due respect  to the previous post,  You actually you can buy OBC - Click on Gifts and Gear

 

https://www.celebritycruises.com/cruise-gifts/items-results?category=ONBDCR&collection=ONBDCR

 

They can be purchased in increments of $25.00 

 

Thank you for your response.  I’ve looked there & OBC isn’t listed.  My cruise is February, 2024, so maybe CEL thinks it’s too early. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I am trying to buy onboard credit for myself & can’t find a place to do it.  Am I missing something?

In February I was isolated with COVID for 6 days.  Yesterday I called Guest Relations to follow up on the credit.  They had to contact the ship & said I’d have the response/FCC once they verified how many days I was quarantined.  5 hours later the FCC showed up in my account.  AMAZING!

👏👏👏👏👏

Dena

1 hour ago, POA1 said:

I'm not sure about the post office, but you do have send your old passport and/or passport card in when you renew by mail. You have plenty of time, so I'd start now.

My passport expires end of October, 2024.  Have to be within a year from expiration date.  I will start the process the end of October, 2023.

My passport expires October, 2024, & have a Caribbean cruise booked in February & Alaska in June.  I just read that you don’t have to send the almost expired passport in.

If I read it correctly, I can go to a Post Office & renew while keeping my passport if I take my original birth certificate & give them a copy of it.  Can only renew passport within 1 year of expiration.  I do intend to check this out further in the fall.

6 hours ago, erdufylla said:

Yeah, it can be a major ordeal here in the US. Mine expires next spring, and I’ve got a cruise booked for next summer I’ll need it for. In order to renew it, I have to mail it in (along with the form, a new photo, and payment) and just wait for it to be returned. If I mail it in now, I will probably have the new one back by October, but it could potentially take as long as 17 weeks according to the website (though that’s the extreme end of the timeline window), and that makes it risky to book anything for October or November of this year.

 

There are places you can go for one-day turnaround on passports in emergency situations, but they’re often fully booked up and don’t take walk-ins, and they’re often not close by. I read one story of a woman who drove 9 hours to one such office that could fit her in (and then 9 hours back home, where she was flying out the next day). 

On last year’s Tales of the S Pacific an antenna was lost on the ship & we had no internet for 5 days, IIRC.  Sometimes the internet was good & sometimes it was horrible when we had it.

I think the room holds about 80.  There is a hallway with windows on 1 side of CO.

Thanks to OP.  Just bought WiFi for B2B @ 40% off.