B2b First time

Hello,

We booked a b2b on Silhouette. This will be my 39th and 40 th cruise, but first time ever doing b2b.. ( retired as of last June). We were unable to get the same Sky Suite on both sailings, but the cabins are fairly close... Can someone who has done this and had to move tell me how it works? Thanks!:)

You will be invited to a back to back meeting to explain how things will work and you will get a letter in the cabin the night before the first cruise ends. The port of debarkation/embarkation determines what the overall process is. We didn’t have to leave the ship for either of our back to backs. Part of your packet will be an “in transit” card. If you get off the ship to play tourist, when you return and reboard you use the transit card to skip the lines. You can’t reboard until general boarding starts.

Your cabin attendant will move you. He/she will take things on hangars and your bags. Everything loose needs to be in bags. We have always been able to move first thing and put our valuables in the safe. One time we had full access to the room. The last time, we got into the safe first thing, had to leave and got back in the rooms when all were ready. Al Bacio was open all morning and “served” the B2Bers.

You will find it quite painless.

About a day before the end of the first cruise you will be invited to a special B2B meeting. They will explain the process to you (it varies by port). They will advise you where to meet if you have to disembark the ship as a group and let you know when you get your new room key.

On the B2B Day you pack up all the things in your drawers and safe. Your stateroom attendant will move everything while you are out including all your hanging items which you leave in the closet.

Thanks! It will be in Miami, and that’s great news if we don’t even have to get off the ship, and if we can put valuables away at least... We would go hide in Solarium till Suite is ready!:D

You will be invited to a back to back meeting to explain how things will work and you will get a letter in the cabin the night before the first cruise ends. The port of debarkation/embarkation determines what the overall process is. We didn’t have to leave the ship for either of our back to backs. Part of your packet will be an “in transit” card. If you get off the ship to play tourist, when you return and reboard you use the transit card to skip the lines. You can’t reboard until general boarding starts.

 

Your cabin attendant will move you. He/she will take things on hangars and your bags. Everything loose needs to be in bags. We have always been able to move first thing and put our valuables in the safe. One time we had full access to the room. The last time, we got into the safe first thing, had to leave and got back in the rooms when all were ready. Al Bacio was open all morning and “served” the B2Bers.

I think you will probably have to get off in Miami unless you’ve gone through US immigration somewhere first. Our first B2B was from Vancouver to Hawaiin Islands and we went through US immigration In Vancouver (yeah, know it is in Canada but they have US immigration.) The second was in Southhampton in the UK. It will be clearly explained.

You will have to get off the ship in Miami. Only to the terminal building to go through C&I.

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We did a B2B where Civitavecchia (Rome) was the mid point. Italian authorities do not require you to exit the ship, so we stayed on board. On disembark day, we went to one of the lounges, turned in our old key cards and received our new cards. Painless!!! Unfortunately, as far as I know, US authorities require everyone to exit the ship, wait until they deem the ship cleared, then allow you to reboard.

In our case, we were fortunate that we kept the same stateroom. Our steward was great, he knew we were staying and did some of his "deep" cleaning the prior day, and on turn around day he made sure to tidy up our cabin while we were at breakfast. So we always had access to our cabin and spent a relaxing day on a quiet ship.....at least until the new passengers arrived.

Without going into all the detail you will essentially have 2 options on your turn around day. 1. You can choose to leave the ship (early in the morning....before around 9:30) and leave the port to explore Miami or whatever. You will have a "Transit" pass that will help you avoid the lines when you come back to the ship.

If you want to simply stay aboard, you will be told to meet at a certain public area around 9:00 - 9:30. You will then be herded off the ship to a holding area in the terminal building where you will wait until the ship has been cleared (zeroed out). Once boarding is permitted (by the US Authorities) a Celebrity employee will guide your entire group back onto the ship. The length of time you would have to wait in the terminal varies...but in our experience it averages about an hour. But if something goes wrong with the clearance process on the ship...your stay in the terminal could become several hours.

Hank

Hello,

 

We booked a b2b on Silhouette. This will be my 39th and 40 th cruise, but first time ever doing b2b.. ( retired as of last June). We were unable to get the same Sky Suite on both sailings, but the cabins are fairly close... Can someone who has done this and had to move tell me how it works? Thanks!:)

Hi we disembarked last week in Rome after our back to back! We were invited to a lunch in the MDR on the embarkation day of the second cruise, our stateroom attendant moved all our stuff to our new cabin all in all it's very stress free. This time we received a bottle of fiz in the room a nice touch! Dianne

When we disembarked in Ft. Lauderdale the customs agent met everyone at the gang way. There were at least 100 guests doing the b2b. A Celebrity employee was at the gang way collecting old sea pass cards, which were returned to us later, and handing out the new cards. Michael's Club Concierge was also there and brought suite passengers, us, and CC Zenith members, 1 couple, to the front of the line. We were off and back on in about 10 minutes. Our one cruise out of Miami the Concierge told us that she was not allowed to go on shore, something about union regulations so that part might be different.

There were some perks offered to B2B cruisers, the only one of value to us was a 10% discount on booking shore excursions for the 2nd week. However, you were not able to cancel a prebooked excursion and rebook to save the 10%. We were in the same suite so did not have to move anything and had access to the suite when we wanted.

Just off Equinox b2b. Perks offered where embarkation lunch and 50% off specialty dining first day only.( we actually where able to move it to 3rd night)

Thanks knew people would know ! excited about extended cruise on the beautiful Silhouette!