timtam2

Number one on the list should have been

Thou shalt not be rude or give attitude to the staff behind the counters!

 

Some people are absolute clods. Several mornings I left the toasting station shaking my head at the impatience and nastiness of a person ahead of me in line. Try uttering the words "good morning", "please" and "thank you".

 

I so agree! On my recent Century cruise, I cringed at the "give me this" attitude of fellow cruisers, with no 'thankyou' afterwards. It was lovely to receive a big wide smile from the servers when I would ask politely for something and say 'thank you so much' in return.

Does the screen generate a lot of heat?

When Mariner moved to China last year, most of the remodelling was done enroute. Depending on the intensity of the work and impact on passenger enjoyment, various levels of OBC were given to passengers on the different sectors.

The ad makes me cringe. 'Cruiselings'? I don't think it's clever and the ad makes me even more determined to never cruise on a P&O Australia ship.

Now , when I watch the 'Take Me Away' ad from the 80s on YouTube, that still works it's magic on me. One of the best Australian ad campaigns of all time.

What a Debbie Downer.Even the poor Polar Bear copped a serve. Do us all a favour and stay home next time.

Several years ago on the old Regal Princess, we had the most hideous noise that would come and go. It was always worse during the night. We persevered,sleepless, for the first few nights, sleeping on deck during the day. We complained and they sent staff but no one came whilst the noise was occurring so they thought we were making it up. Then, we started going into the theatre about 1am and sleeping on the bench seats there. Security found us 1 night and then they began to take us seriously. They offered us sleeping pills and red wine!!!! And ear plugs, which I took. They monitored the cabin more closely and FINALLY they heard the noise. We were then moved to a balcony cabin for the last 3 nights and they told us the cabin would be out of service for the next cruise also......

It seems every one has been very happy with Century - not bad for an 'old' girl! I got the impression from the crew that they are also happy to have Century in Australian waters for some of her final cruises - good times for everyone!

On my cruise, main age group was 40-60, but lots of older people too and several large groups if young adults and many family groups.

Interactive theme parties involve either the cruise directors team and/or the singers and dancers putting on a small show.afterwardspassengers can then join in the dancing to the live band. They often did a themed line d ance prior to the show.

These are usually held in the Crystal Room but there was also a deck party one night.

I think you will be lucky and have CD John Grantham on his last cruise. This is the 2nd time we have cruised with him and he is the best. He runs fabulous music trivia

Definitely will be RTW , probably Princess or P&O UK. Or I msy split it over several legs/ships with land content inbetween.

 

DH has already said he could not stand that much time at sea, so I will be going solo. Only another 10 years or so to wait!

Just off Century this week and it was a pretty lively cruise. However, Celebrity dont offer a lot of organised daytime activities other than bingo and trivia. There are no arts and crafts classes etc. There are numerous 'seminars' where the spa people are flogging their services and the usual art auctions.

 

There are nightly shows in the theatre and on several nights 'interactive' theme parties...70s, 50s etc.

 

The DJ was great and the nightclub always got a good crowd.

 

The crew remarked it was one of the most lively and enjoyable cruises for sometime. Hope yours is the same.

I'm just off Century and can report that all the fogged up windows have finally been replaced. A group of workmen replaced several windows each time the ship was in port. I guess they are starting on some of the easier refurb work before she ends up in Singapore for her pre handover dry dock.

 

The crew were wonderful and overall, Century was in excellent condition.

The port is in Baoshan. I prebooked a transfer and it was about 30-40 minute trip into Shanghai

I hate them with a passion. . I'll never forget on a Dawn Princess cruise a Celine Dion concert film shown endlessly.....at full blast. I find the screens too loud and overpowering during the day.Just an updated form of Muzak

I work for a worldwide travel wholesaler that books private transfers. Yesterday, we received several calls from US and UK pax off Solstice who missed their transfers as they did not know that the drivers were down in Hickson Road - the drivers were not allowed to leave their vehicles unattended for very long. By the time pax gave up waiting and called us , the drivers had already gone (they wait 45mins). Not a nice welcome to Sydney for them.

it would be good to have a sign or better still, a person directing prebooked transfer passengers to the areas where the vehicles are.

The Celebrity ships DO NOT FIT under the Harbour Bridge. Trust us. We live here. Unlike some random call centre operator 1000s of miles away who has never been here.

 

White Bay could be classed as industrial but the ship is not docked there. The OPT is right in the city

What is Carnival doing during this time frame? What info has been sent to their passengers?

Ive had 2 automated phone calls and 2 emails from Celebrity this morning about my 30 October cruise - that pax must adhere to allocated check in time AND complete online checkline.

So the 'Aria' onboard won't be so fresh and clean it seems?

Im going on Century on 30 October - I was wondering why it wasnt on the list...but now I see why. It will be a pain for the workers to be interrupted for 1 day!

Whenever there is doubt, why risk it? In the course of my job, I hear several tales of woe a week re 'denied boarding' due to invalid passport. No refunds for that and I dont think travel insurance has ' but nobody told me' cover

Very happy to see her again this morning

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A lot of people I've spoken to won't sail the Century because there have been so many reports that X have let it slide.

 

Too bad for those people- there are some excellent prices on Century at the moment and Celebrity or the Century on a 'bad' day beats many of the other Australian cruise offerings on their 'good' days!

I think it's fabulous and I can't wait to see it!

I misread it as Ovulation of the Seas and now I can't get that out of my brain!

poor little Century :( So sad to think a dignified older lady is going to be subject to (most likely) a ghastly tarting up by her new Chinese owners. I'll never forget what happened to the SS Oriana after she was sold to the Chinese - it was unrecognizable after they had finished 'refurbishing' her (then they left her to die and sink ..)

 

I'll be on her one more time in 2 months and will savour every moment.

 

I'm also very sorry for the people who have had their plans to sail on her to Rome crushed. I'm sure many of those people are past passengers and friends of Century and wanted to see her out in style. Now, she is going to slink back to Singapore and whatever future awaits her.