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2 hours ago, emmas gran said:

 

I have seen people turned away from the Helipad for wearing the "wrong" footwear. Zitsky the helipad you are supposed to wear closed toe footwear - preempting your question🙂

Your correct, when you get invited to the helipad they tell you to wear  certain type of footwear, I think nothing open toed.

6 minutes ago, bigbenboys said:

I have seen that Celebrity Beyond has AquaClass Sky Suite, category TS. 

Yes, Beyond is the only ship right now that will have Aqua Class Suites. They are not on the Edge

3 hours ago, kwokpot said:

I understand your point but the logic is a bit flawed.  A specialty restaurant that is supposed to have better food, service and ambiance has a more casual dress code than the main dining room? That's the only point I'm trying to make. 

I understand your point and in a way it doesn’t make sense like you said, I’m just saying that’s why they have always been casual .

May take a day or so to appear on the account.

On 10/10/2021 at 7:46 PM, kwokpot said:

My point is if you think about it logically it would make more sense to enforce it in a specialty restaurant vs the main dining rooms. By your logic it shouldn't be enforced in the main dining rooms either. 

But you are still missing the point.   When Specialties were first started and even to this day they want to get people into the restaurants to PAY  for the dining there.   Its a money maker plain and simple and causing people to bring fancy clothes will hinder that purpose.   

10 hours ago, zitsky said:

 

Was it the type that was loud but kept to themselves or were kids running around tables willy nilly?

Running around not only in the dining rooms but they were evident around the ship and the parents were no better. 

5 minutes ago, canderson said:

Seems one of your table mates was a bit more put off!

 

"We did have a table of 6 near us with 5 young people and an adult man who all dressed like they were going to the pool.  You saw ball caps and tank tops, etc. and the 2 girls dressed a bit slutty.  I must admit it brought down the atmosphere a bit, especially since they were loud.  They really stood out to the rest of the room."

Sometimes you get VIPs who are in high end suites and think they can get away with anything. We saw that happen on a cruise with a large family and the kids were awful.  We were told the family had mucho stock and staff basically left them along. It’s a shame but I guess a fact of life.

4 minutes ago, kokopelli-az said:

Our Big Box TA has given us a $50 dining credit.   We've booked many cruises through them and this is the first time we've received a dining credit.

 

I asked them if the credit had to be used for dining and was told that was what the credit was identified as but to go to Guest Services and ask if it can be transferred over to an OBC to be used on something else.  

 

Has anyone had a dining credit (not from Celebrity) and been able to have it transferred to OBC?

 

This is for the Reflection in November.  

It will probably be put on your account to use as you wish.

9 minutes ago, Charles4515 said:

What I recall most was wines frequently poured and that a young, attactive, solo woman was invited each time . 

Bingo......

1 hour ago, canderson said:

Did they catch you poking your breadsticks into the butter pats on the first night? 🙂

Taught the kids to do that on Celebrity 30 years ago, they do have good breadsticks. 

2 minutes ago, Phxazzcruisers said:

Our last pre covid cruise was January 2020 and we had dinner with the Captain and a few Senior Staff Officers.  it was not at a table in the MDR as it once was, it was in a Specialty restaurant.

Yes, we had a Royal suite and had lunch with the Senior officers in Tuscan. This was in summer of 19.

I thought that before COVID they had eliminated the classic Captains dinners.

2 minutes ago, goofysmom99 said:

The Summit is doing short, 4 or 5 day sailings out of Miami.  There were only ~275 pax per cruise on the B2B and a surprising number of those pax were first time cruisers.  The majority of people in Luminae were dressed appropriately but there were folks who didn't get the memo, or didn't care.  I think enforcement of the shorts, lettered tees, caps, and flip flops was lax because they didn't want to alienate the few pax they had.  As I said, I was disappointed in the appearance of some of the people dining in Luminae, but once they sat down, I no longer noticed.  It certainly didn't have any impact on my enjoyment.  The menu is a different story; after several short Summit cruises, the Luminae menu repetition is getting old so next week I'll be ordering exclusively from Blu and MDR.  Heck, I might even go up to Oceanview - they aren't busy and they always chat with a solo pax.  Luminae is usually slammed.

Ocean view at dinner can be a nice surprise, no crowds and good variety of food. We do it at least once per cruise. Check out the grill area.

11 minutes ago, zitsky said:

 

Your statement is contradictory and not contradictory. 

Your opinion, I explained it in the body of my post and stand behind what I said

2 hours ago, zitsky said:

 

You say you can wear pretty much whatever you want, but you also say people in shorts are turned away.  So which of your statements is correct?

Both and they are not contradictory. That’s why I didn’t say everything.

11 hours ago, canderson said:

After Ruth's report on Summit of "Short shorts and rubber flip flops.  Oh, and lettered tees and a baseball cap." in Luminae for dinner, I'd say they've given up entirely on all of it.  Spineless.

Problem with that is you can go back on this board and Facebook and find many reports of people being turned away from dining rooms for  wearing shorts and comments that people are happy that the dress code is being enforced.   Remember also, its human nature for people to see what they want to see.

The beauty of Celebrity's dress code is that you can wear pretty much whatever you want from Tuxes on down.  Since they changed it a few years ago there some who just can't accept wheat they have done and unfortuntunately have criticized others for what they wear even though they are complying with the rules.  This works both ways. 

4 hours ago, Silvery Seas Cruiser said:

I didn't mean CDC policy, I meant the ship's COVID protocols, I was wondering if possibly the ship had a more relaxed attire policy about chic nights for whatever reason.  By "very few dressed up at night", I meant I saw only a few people really dressed up on chic night the second one. By a few, I meant maybe twenty percent. I recall past cruises when nearly everyone I saw was dressed up for chic nights or the long past formal nights in days of yore. So, in short, the clothing choices on this Equinox cruise were decidedly more casual throughout most of the ship than have experienced in the past for whatever reason passengers made those choices. I am NOT second-guessing their choices. 

Evening Chic only applies to the MDR, no where else on the ship except Theater but that hasn’t been enforced in years.

1 hour ago, kenb said:

Has anyone ever had the bed in a Summit Sky sute configured to two beds? Any pictures would be great.

 

TIA

Just let the Butler or Steward know it will be the way you want it after dinner.

Last thing I want to do is go on a nice cruise and worry the last couple of days whether I’m going to make my flight.

38 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

My point is if you think about it logically it would make more sense to enforce it in a specialty restaurant vs the main dining rooms. By your logic it shouldn't be enforced in the main dining rooms either. 

Problem is Celebrity wants seats filled in Specialty restaurants and making people dress up is not a good way to do that. I would certainly not bring dressier clothes just to eat in a specialty 

41 minutes ago, deliver42 said:

I've been on a lot of cruises, including on X and usually on a 7 night cruise Formal nights are 2 and 6, which are usually sea days. We are booked on the Beyond and 2 and 6 are port days. Does anyone know how Celebrity handles that?

Celebrity very often holds Evening Chic nights on port days. Usually on 7 day it is as stated 2 and 6 but that may depend on hours.  Just an FYI, don’t know where you are eating but Evening Chic applies only to the MDR, not Luminae, Blu or the Specialties 

14 hours ago, C-Dragons said:

Yes, and to be honest, we like it this way. 😊

We don’t feel the need for anyone to escort us, the staff have so many things to do on embarkation day. But it is a nice touch for those who wish to take advantage of the service, and those who are first time cruisers with X.

Agree, best part is being able to get rid of the carry ons. 

Don’t bring an extension cord, they are on the banned list.

40 minutes ago, detwings said:

This will be the first time we are cruising on the Celebrity Edge Retreat.  We are in a Sky Suite.  We have sailed in the NCL Havens numerous times.  This will be our chance to compare Celebrity's Retreat vs NCL Haven experience.  We are curious about how Celebrity boards the Retreat guests?

 

By comparison, NCL sends all of their butlers, aka Retreat Hosts, to the Haven Lounge in the terminal and escorts all the Haven guests in dedicated elevators to the Haven Lounge.  They are then greeted by the Haven Concierges where they are given a quick brieifing about the services offered, met by the bar staff with drinks and welcome aboard food.  This is all done prior to the Haven Restaurant opening for lunch.

 

Our check in time is 11 and plan to be there by 10:30 am and waiting to get checked in.  We expect to be on the ship shortly after that but are curious how Celebrity boards their Retreat guests on the Celebrity Edge.  Thanks.  Looking forward to sailing on the Edge.

On Celebrity you would go directly to your room upon boarding where you can drop off your carry ons and pick up your sign and sail cards.

1 hour ago, Fouremco said:

Yes, ambiguity for sure. 😇

Another ambiguity that has caused problems for years and many threads has to do with Blu. They write on the web site that if you have an AQ cabin that you have access to Blu. They don’t say the truth, if you book AQ, Blu is your assigned dining room, you do not have a seat in the MDR.