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Check in is typically 45 days prior to sailing. Your GTY can be issued anytime between now and sailing, although day of assignments are rare. As long as you have a booking number you can check in through the app or the planner.

Hope you can find one. Sounds like a fun idea!

Rather different ships and cruising styles IMO. Breakaway is bigger and was launched in 2013 (11 years ago) and holds 3,900 passengers while Constellation is smaller and older as she was launched in 2001 (23 years ago) and holds 2,100 passengers. NCL's primary target demographics is families and has a lot of amusement type venues are on their ships to accommodate that. Celebrity's primary target demographics is adults and their ships have none of those venues included. They each have comparable stateroom categories and sizes, and are both nice. But as mentioned, IMO completely different.

I believe it includes spiced rum, coconut rum, apricot brandy, pineapple juice, and orange juice.😉

True, and no argument. But all of the infrastructure, massive poos, and water park features @ $250 million set it somewhat apart from the others. And lots of not free stuff as well. Add in the 15 month zero revenue time. Just saying the ROI goals for that investment have been well published. The more ships there -regardless of RCG line - the better for that.

I am aware of that as well as the plans for one in Cozumel. It would be very likely that both would use all. But Perfect Day is a bit unique in that it is really just a huge family waterpark. As I understand it, the others would be intended more as a beach day.

In practice IMO it would be more subtle. Passenger "A" uses his card with a voucher to purchase a given beverage, which is then handed to Passenger "B" for consumption. It is merely one ordering a beverage by way of a voucher for another. As to someone else using someone else's voucher, the answer is no, as the a person's SeaPass card on which the vouchers are loaded is what is used to order the beverage. If someone is off the ship or in a different location they would have their SeaPass card with them.

I may be repeating previous commentary but frankly, I didn't read the previous 7 pages of posts, so if this has been said, I apologize. But regarding Celebrity and Perfect day. IMO the only reason Celebrity is now calling on Perfect day is to help with the RCG goals for ROI on the $250 million 2019 investment in rebranding CocoCay to Perfect Day that was significantly interrupted by the 15 month pandemic cruise hold. I would question any other motive such as blending the two cruise lines as their distinctions are their success. My guess is if the feedback from Celebrity cruisers reaches a negative tipping point with that port of call, it may ultimately be dropped. But in the meantime it is all about the $$$$. Again, JMO.

Or Celebrity + Royal = Celoyal.

If you google "lei greetings in Hawaii" there are several companies listed that do this. While most of them indicate airport greetings they may also do cruise ship greetings as well. I would just call and ask.

With full recognition and agreement of not wanting to start at tipping thread, I just want to acknowledge we do the same thing as a gratuity as while the beverages may be free to us, the bartenders are still serving them.

To be clear they can be used for any beverage that can be purchased on board. They can also be applied as a discount on purchased bottles of wine @ 20% off bottles of wine over $100, and 40% off bottles of wine under $100, with one voucher applied per bottle purchased. The per drink $ ceiling indicated by @Another_Critic at $14 correct for US sailings, but in practice we've never had a requested single purchase beverage refused.

Yes, you can order them in the MDR and WJ. You can also order specialty coffees at any specialty restaurant and Cafe Promenade. I believe OJ is available with room service. If you have access to either the Suite Lounge or the Crown Lounge specialty coffees are available through a self serve machine, but they are complimentary and your package is not required. Not as good as when prepared by the other locations, however.

We have had a similar experience as well. And they don't seem to have any issues with you taking beverages off the ship - just on....LOL

It is a terrible problem to have to deal with.....LOL

To expand on this, you can cash the vouchers out for any unopened canned or bottled beverages - beer, Truly, soda, water, etc. Not just water. They can then be taken back to your stateroom and kept in the refrigerator for another time. We do this with every cruise on which we have remaining unused vouchers at the end of the night. Nice to then have for a beverage on the balcony or to take to the pool the next day, etc. Another point is they are also combinable in that my wife can use hers for me and visa versa which allows for (in our case) 10 total beverages between us each day. Nice feature if one would drink less than the other in a given day.

Sage advice!

The biggest perk may be some amount of OBC with the main benefit being a reduced deposit - same as if you were booking it on Celebrity.

I should add that this lot is a dedicated parking facility for Terminal 18, so getting a spot should not be any problem as no other terminal shares the space.

I know what you mean and not being critical but saying the cruise is cancelled is a bit misleading as it is now a revised itinerary with different ports of call. But to your point they did the right thing in adjusting to the new itinerary early. Should give everyone booked plenty of time to determine the best options for them. This is happening frequently with different cruise lines with plans for that region. Not at all diminishing the impact to the people of the region, but this is very unfortunate and causing a lot of headaches for the cruise lines and passengers alike with the complexities involved with major changes such as this. I hope this works out for you and you enjoy your cruise.

Yeah the info I read said sometime in December of 2023 - removed from 13 ships. My original post referring to them at Latte-tudes was out of date and incorrect.

With bookings made post final payment the full fare typically is due within a few days of the booking. Post final payment fares are also non-refundable. With any cancelation post final payment, the fare penalties affect the full payment made and are scaled by when the cancelation is made. Based on this and when the cancelation is made, you can loose some or all of your full fare paid. You need to confirm your insurance coverage and any exclusions or limits of coverage with late bookings.

But this is not automatic and you will have to call whomever you book through to get it repriced.

The parking at Port Everglades Terminal 18 is an open lot - not a garage. And it takes a while to fill as it holds quite a number of cars.

Yes, there typically are enough around the deck. But as just mentioned by @bouhunterthey are more likely now chairs.