bigbenboys

It is my understanding you can still get the certificate and OBC for $100. You now have 6 months to book a cruise or your $100 will be credited back to your CC. If you use the certificate to book a suite. You will have to cough up more money to meet the 10% deposit required for suites.

Breakfast on the balcony in sky suites years ago. On an S Class ship with butler service.

PSVA seems to only look at where you get on the ship and where you get off the ship. Your options are bus or train from Vancouver to Seattle or have your daughter pick you up in Vancouver. We have taken the train from Vancouver to Seattle. Next month we are taking the train to Vancouver to get on a Celebrity ship. We have done the bus before also. We have taken the bus from Vancouver to Bellingham and have family pick us up their. If your not on a time schedule then the bus Vancouver to Seattle might be best.

If you show up at Blu about the same time each night the maitre d will try and put you at the same table or section.

Well, I did something I have not done in 12 years. I talked to our TA about booking Princess. I'm Booking a Penthouse 3 with Premier package is $7200. Canceling Celebrity Suite $12,400. Both are 7 nights. I know there have been changes over at Princess. I'm sure a lot has changed in 12 years. With over 30 cruises with Celebrity from Balcony to Celebrity Suite. We mostly book sky suites. The butler change for us is not a big deal. But, many other changes by Celebrity has made us look elsewhere.

All Prime Aqua Class means is prime location of your cabin. Blu is you assigned dining. Celebrity calls it Select Dining. For years now you can order off the MDR menu on Celebrity M-Class and S-Class ships in Blu. Infinity is a M Class ship. The only reason to dine in Trellis is if you are traveling with family or friends that are assigned to the MDR. In Blu we just ask to see the MDR menu and we order off of both menus. Blu seats about 86 guest on the M-Class ships.

I book suites mostly for Luminae. You might be right. If X removes sky suites from Luminae. SC dont have specialty dining included. That would leave SC and any high end suite guest that did not want to dine in a specialty dining restaurant to dine in Luminae. The other option I see would be to remove specialty dining from high end suites. That will free up more room in the specialty dining and more high end guest to Luminae. This would bring in more revenue to X's bottom line.

What I'm saying is that X has changed some sky suites to Aqua Sky Suites. AquaClass you are limited to 2 people in a cabin. You can now book Aqua sky suites with more than 2 people.

While I see anything is possible. M Class has 50 suites of those 22 are sky suites. 10 of them are Aqua Sky Suites. Meaning X will have to move about 44 guest to the MDR or Blu. S Class has 111 suites of those 72 are sky suites. 10 of them are Aqua Sky Suites. Meaning X will have to move about 144 guest to the MDR or Blu. Sky suites can have 4 guests and aqua sky suite can have 2+. So the guests being moved to Blu or MDR at times will be even more. I now see an advantage to book a aqua sky suite beside the location on the S Class ships. Those that want Blu, but have more than 2 in their party can now book and dine in Blu. Another thought is to close down Luminae. Bring it back into the MDR on M and S Class ships. Add specialty dining to CS's. CS suites and above will have breakfast, lunch and dinner in a specialty dining restaurant. We are not in a sky suite until June 2024. CS next month. I normally give our butler our an extra $100 for 7 to 10 nights. If I dont have the same butler, I might just keep my $100.

I'm not done with X. We are in a CS next month. June 2024 we will be in a mid sky suite on Apex to Iceland. I do wish X would be more forward with their changes. I'm just cutting back on X, until things settle down. Who know what changes X will do next. There are 2 things that X did that made me look at Princess. When X stopped serving Prime Rib (yes it is back) and when X cut back on food at dinner time in the Oceanview café.

Yes we got a aft corner PH 3 on deck 12 Feb 2024 . I saw a video online looks great. The suite does seem to be between CS & RS. Premier package gives us 2 nights specialty restaurants and a Invitation to 360 dining.

I'm sure things have changed in 12 years since we were on Princess. Booking Princess PS 3 with Premier package is $7200. Canceling Celebrity CS $12,400. Both are 7 nights.

Well, I did something I have not done in 12 years. I talked to our TA about booking Princess. I'm booking a PH3 with Princess Premier on the Discovery (2022). I know there have been changes over at Princess. I'm sure a lot has changed in 12 years. With over 30 cruises with X from Balcony to CS. We mostly book sky suites. The butler change for us is not a big deal. But, many other changes by X has made me look elsewhere. We do have 3 cruise booked with X. I'm going to cancel one more.

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I remember having butter. The butter was pressed into a rose mold. Like the rose on the wall in Blu.

Our last cruise I ordered Prime Rib from the MDR menu in Luminae. The PR was great, med rare 1" to 1-1/2 thick. Luminae food was ok.

We book mostly sky suites. But will book Aqua and just started booking celebrity suites. Our cruise in Sept is in a CS. March 2019 we sailed on Edge in a sky suite. I did like that we could not order off the MDR menu in Luminae. Retreat Lounge and Luminae had lost its intimate feeling. The Retreat sundeck lacked shade. So I dont like booking E Class. Back in Jan after the news of the changes to the OV and prime rib. I canceled 3 sailings in sky suites. For us the lost of a dedicated Butler is not a big deal. Our Butler brings us breakfast at 7am. We get the same thing each morning so it is nice to only have to fill out the form once. I have now decided to cancel an Alaska sailing in a CS for fall 2024. I have been looking at Royal's GS. This morning I looked at Oceania and Regent. Oceania doesnt seem to visit an glacier. So I'm leaning towards Regent. Still have to do more research on dining. I'll just have to put up with the dresscode. Celebrity, I will now only book close to sailings for suites only. Celebrity has lost my trust.

I also dont like smaller ships or their dresscode. I just want to be able to wear gray jeans (no rips or tears) and a polo on the smaller ships. We tried Azamara, the ship was boring. I'm looking for music closer to Billie Eilish not Lawrence Welk.

We have not sailed on Royal since 2016. I'm looking at sailing with my aunt and her family. I'm thinking of booking a GS. As my assigned dining would be Coastal Kitchen. I see the 1st night of the cruise has prime rib in the MDR. Can I order off the MDR menu in coastal kitchen? Can we join our family of 7 in the MDR for the 1st night only? I looked at Chops Grille, but did not see prime rib on the menu. Or will I have to order room service to get prime rib the 1st evening?

On the E Class ships while dining in Luminae you cant order off the MDR menu. This is the main reason we try not to book E Class ships.

This is the tote bag we get in an sky suite. https://www.ebay.com/itm/166197007862?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=166197007862&targetid=1531876739198&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9033255&poi=&campaignid=19851828444&mkgroupid=145880009174&rlsatarget=aud-1297930287298:pla-1531876739198&abcId=9307249&merchantid=6296724&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5f2lBhCkARIsAHeTvlgxSaTePmJDZxndDRC8_A0lv_vuKpAVU92EgG4y9Worf_kQq6jRhvYaAqygEALw_wcB

We booked through Celebrity. Our tour was just the train ride. We booked tickets for Accademia Museum ourselves.

If I remember correctly. Celebrity pulled out of the LA/Mexico market years ago. X said they were not making any money back then. X added sailings out of LA because of the cancellation of the Asia sailings last year. Times have changed. Hoping X will get back in the Pacific Mexico run. We have Eclipse booked for Sept 24 Vancouver to LA.

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Make the reservations for the specialty restaurants all around the same time. Once onboard got to the specialty restaurants and give the maitre d everyone's cabin number. Tell the maitre d about the 80th BDAY celebrations. They might do something extra for your group. I want to say 8 years ago our TA was able to reserve a table for 10 for us 11 in the select section of the MDR.