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Jim and Iain, Hope you have a great trip on the lakes. Growing up in this area ( now live 25 miles south of MKE), remember one thing, always look down where you're walking on Mac. Island, not just left or right. Hope the ship will go thru the locks for you to be able to say sailed all five Great Lakes. Happy sailing.

Just finished with an rep from X. It took about an hour but was able to save 144 dollars on seven excursion for my Dec. 23 cruise. Saved from 10 to 36 dollars on each excursion from the flash sale in May. Did take about 30 minutes to get thru, but always like to try and save for extra martini's for the DW.

1) Removal of cheesecake form MDR menu and in Cafe Al Baco. Can't eat chocolate, so limited to fewer choices. 2) Increased pricing of drink packages and having both people having to have same package. Don't drink much other than soda and new non-alcoholic package means at least a six pack a day. (I can do that but DW does not). 3) If vaping does come back, blah. Will help keep me out.

I do hope they will open Crush for during your trip, love most of the cocktails there. GP, is cheesecake still off the daily dessert menu in MDR? Hope not, can not eat chocolate and most desserts are too fancy for me. Thanks for the daily updates.

Last December flew into LAX, lyft driver cost approx. 40 dollars. This year flying into LGB,( don't know how much ride to hotel will be) staying at Doubletree in San Pedro. Your can sign up for the shuttle to cruiseport when you arrive (believe it is a free shuttle.

Thank you RichYak for posting this. I called X to cancel all my excursions for my 16 night cruise and reordered and saved 350 dollars. Did askd if you could upgrade the drinking package for only $10 a night but somehow got cut off from before the he could answer. Thank you again for posting this.

I remember when Al Bacio would have different fruit flavored cheesecake bite during the afternoon. Have not seen these in the last few sailings.

To the original question: Celebrity Captain club members were given double points for 9-11 night sailing for Carribean or Solstice sailing to the Mexican Riviera. That promotion ended in Sept. They now are giving up to 400 OBC for these sailings.