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You'll be able to note the difference by just looking at the ship. More than a deck 'disapperared' over the three hours between these photos.

From your Upcoming Cruises page (https://www.celebritycruises.com/account/upcoming-cruises), click on Plan My Cruise to go into your cruise planner, then click on your user icon at the top right, then click on Order History. It takes some time after you make your reservation, perhaps a week or two, but they show up eventually. I booked my cruise on 2/27. I see the packages are dated 3/2.

Interesting. Celebrity, in the past, always said that kids cannot join Captain's Club until they are 18. Things must have changed. Our kids shared our status, but never showed points until they turned 18. Now, they show their own earned points.

On a ship with 3,000 guests, on average there are 8 people per day celebrating a birthday. Along with their travel companion, they would more than fill a table every day.

I would never call the music pop! Maybe edm? Kinda modern elevator? Other than it occasionally being too loud, I rather like it. A few years ago, just after we went on Equinox, I found a Spotify playlist someone made from songs he heard on board. I still listen to it to get into cruising mode.

Thanks. Fingers crossed for good weather. We got an itinerary change yesterday. They flipped the order of the Greenland ports.

I suspect Baltimore was always going to be very limited for NCL. There is only the one dock, and with Carnival and RCCL usually departing Saturday and Sundays, there's no opportunity for regular departures except during the week. And with that, I suspect there could be parking issues. Except for Bermuda, I am not a fan of the mid-Atlantic departures as itineraries are too limited. Also excepting my Greenland/Canada cruise next month.

Yes, interesting. NCL currently cruises from both Baltimore and NYC seasonally. It just began Baltimore departures last fall. We did Norwegian Joy from NYC to Bermuda last month. The ship was too big and crowded for me, but I'd be inclined to try Jewel. I love multi-day Bermuda cruises!

I went back though old email and found this from January 2013, which I think was the original 123Go! promotion, where you could pick one of three, beverage package, gratuities or OBC. I think the beverage package existed before then, but it was the first time many "casual drinkers" took it.

I went on a Bermuda cruise with my friend in Summer 2013. One night, a fight broke out in the dining room, and I remember commenting that the new, at the time, drink packages, were to blame. I will never forget my fear that someone was going to get tossed over the railing. It took forever for security to arrive.

I haven’t really heard the term used on a ship in many years. It’s more common to hear bar server, as it is the same person who will serve all of your drinks. No idea if sommelier is their actual title, or training.

If you don’t drink coffee, how many times at breakfast should you have to refuse before feeling slightly annoyed that the cup wasn’t removed, or at least turned over, the first time? This was, in the end, a service issue. If a guest request is reasonable, it should be granted easily. It’s a training issue that a simple conversation between the sommelier and manager should fix.

We are a family of four, mom and dad with our 18 and 21 year old children. We are currently booked in two inside cabins on Apex for Christmas this year. I am considering a very big upgrade, to all four of us in an Edge Villa. We have have cruised with four of us in a cabin since they were 2 and 5, but we have mostly separated into two cabins since they were teens. Hubby and I were on Apex in a Sky Suite last year so we are familiar with the Retreat experience. We enjoyed it. The two of us have also have done a Royal Suite on Millennium and loved the “upper suite”, especially the unlimited dining. And finally, last year we had a Crown Loft Suite on Harmony of the Seas with one of the kids and thought it our best cabin ever! I don’t want the “kids” to have to share a sofa bed. They’re brother and sister, so we’d have to bring in a cot for one of them. Talk me in, or out, to/of doing this!

I have a photo of the theater, but unfortunately not the escalator. Celebrity Century, December 2010

Century! So classic. So beautiful. And with an escalator.

Highly recommend the Rays, Reef, and Rum Point tour with Native Way. We have done it twice, the first time being back in 2010, so they have been doing it a long time. Rum Point is gorgeous! https://www.nativewaywatersports.com/our-tours/about-our-tours

Just to offer a possibility, but not “victim blaming” in any way, but could it have been a time difference mix-up? Grand Cayman does not observe daylight savings time, so unless the ship changed time, you may have been an hour ahead, and when you thought it was 2:00pm by ship time, it was only 1:00pm local time. A long time ago, we found this out, but luckily in the reverse. We rushed off the ship to make our 8:00am excursion, only to learn it was 7:00am local time and we were early. Mexican ports like Cozumel and Costa Maya are the same, and since we most often cruise in the summer, we are extra thoughtful when booking private transportation or excursions.

I'm coming back to this thread because I just came off a cruise and wanted to show how useless location services and AirTags are when you're on a cruise, even if you have internet access. First screenshot is a Find My Friends. My daughter was indeed at home in Philly, but my husband and son were with me. In fact, they were sitting right next to me when I did the screen shot. And here is what I saw for devices. The phone was, of course, in my hand. And finally, the AirTags in our luggage, which were in our cabin a few decks away. .

We just came back Sunday. Both ways were probably the calmest I've experienced in five trips. We were scheduled to go last August, but a hurricane sent us to the Bahamas instead. We booked earlier in the season hoping to avoid storms. At least this year, it worked.

This! No real change for lower tier RCCL or X cruisers, but matching tiers above Diamond/Elite is a welcome change.

It's not the Pride, but there is a cruise ship in Baltimore today. It's Vision of the Seas. Sails tomorrow.!

Just got notice our Labadee stop was canceled for Apex in December.

They're fundraising for the US hospital cost. It probably took a while to go to collections.

I agree that $2,500.00 seems reasonable. "He also has mused whether trying escargot for the first time the night before could have played a role." Ok, that made me laugh. Seriously, my dad had a seizure on a ship after a day in Nassau, likely due to dehydration. We had to leave the ship and he was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where he was cared for overnight. Even having insurance, he still had to pay the ship's medical cost up front, getting reimbursement after the fact. Travel medical insurance is most often secondary, meaning they won't pay until after you submit to your regular insurance (assuming you have it), so it's not like they're going to be sending you cash. While Dad was hospitalized, we contacted the travel insurance company and they were helpful. They were prepared for a medical evacuation back to Miami, where we did not live, but the doctor cleared him to fly, so we just all flew home commercially. We had passports. Dad has since passed, but my family now carries an annual medical evacuation policy that returns us to our hospital of choice, ie. home, rather than the closest hospital.

No. Even if it has the necessary internet access, it will show the location as a dot on the ocean. There is no ship for reference. We had air tags in our luggage. They most often showed as in the last port we were in. We had to turn off notifications that we left them behind.