davekathy

Beer mugs work well for holding above the head on the way down. Of course I'm speaking from years of experience. 🤣

TD or MTD we have always received served at our pace. If we have plans that require quicker service, we politely let our wait staff the night before and a polite reminder the evening of. Two top, 6:00 PM. Not sure if that has anything to do with it, but consistently our experiences.

I need something low and with armrests for my own safety as I don't like wearing a helmet. 😵

Thanks for taking us along. 🍻

Or change the rest of their fleet to match the Freedoms new look.

I wasn't going to bring that up, but...😁

I even found Bucky and he was wearing a mask at the time. 👀

So you did get rid of the bottle of bubbly. That was funny you tried giving it to us and we were trying to get rid of ours. 🥂 We gave our second one to our cabin attendant.

Use to be two different lines for MTD. One reservations and the other line for no reservations. Not sure currently. Worked great.

I like the retro look.

I didn't gain weight but a few mornings I woke up with a hangover. 😁🥃

Who said anything about about a lot of issues? Never mind you assumed that. I said concerning that cruise. Lot lots of fun and good times. Only if you were seated with us. 🤣

We always get a two top. TD or MTD.

Totally agree. Wish we could have taking you up on your offer to have diner with you and Bucky that one evening. I can only imagine the conversations the four of us would have had concerning that cruise. The Head Waiter would have had to escort the four of us out as we would have been considered homesteaders at the table or charged us for the table. 😉

No.

And that's why when we first book our cruises I always make reservations as soon as MTD opens in the CP for 67:00 PM. The reason we switch back to TD on our recent Explorer cruise is I selected MTD, 6:PM when we first booked the cruise (about 13 months early). Approximately 45 days prior to the sail date we were notified by RC that our MTD reservations were changed from 6:PM to 7:15 PM. No way. I called RC and requested early (6:PM) TD and got it. According to RC rep. and the app 7:15 was when MTD started for both legs of the cruise. Going forward, we'll always select early TD. I (we) agree with Pat, "After many years of also being a loyal MTD diner....it just doesn't work for us any longer". Hopefully Celebrity doesn't screw up their SD (Select Dining) like RC has with MTD. If they do we will change back to early TD.

Also a great place to ask and look is the Ports Of Call forum. https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/317-east-coast-departures/

I always get the PUP offers including the multiple daily deluge of other emails from Celebrity.

Cons...inside cabin at a higher price and zero natural light. Pros...

For us the issue with deck 3 (no matter the stateroom category/type) is deck 4 is a public area, so noise could be an issue. Not worth the gamble for us.

Thanks for keeping me on course. 😉 (I agree).

For us we've never had an issue with MTD tables. We always got a table for two (and we always have and still do even with TD). Some were next to each other, others not. Most of the tables were set up as a table for two and some for a table for four. But those settings were taken away when we were seated. TD or MTD. What we like is we eat at our pace, not others and engage with others when we want. We've had some very interesting conversations with the tables next to us but when the food starts arriving I'll say Bon Appetit and the conversations stop. Then it's our time.

Didn't we also cruise under the Verrazano bridge after doing a drive by the Statue of Liberty on our September 2019 cruise?

The only time I used the app on our March Explorer cruise was to check out our onboard account for OBC balance. Don't want any surprises at the end of the cruise that I could have had fixed at that time.

Agree. On the Explorer (March) MTD changed from 6:00 PM to 7:15. That change is why we went back to early TD. No issues. Great service and table location. Like always we picked the table location when we first boarded the ship.