Extend Your Stay question

[debandjeff]

We will be ending our cruise on the Silhouette in Venice, with debarkation scheduled for Saturday. We had originally planned to stay at a hotel in Venice on Saturday night, then fly home early Sunday AM. After reading about the Extend Your Stay option, we are wondering if it would be simpler to just spend the extra night on board (at a cost of $118 for the 2 of us). Has anyone utilized this option and what are your opinions? Also, how does it work-do we simply stay in our original cabin for another night, or do we have to move? Will it be difficult to find transportation from the dock to the airport early enough to make a 0715 flight?

[ghstudio]

Interesting.....you can probably stay in the same cabin as long as it sleeps four...you and the folks who have booked it for the next cruise...flip a coin to see who gets the bed :)

 

Okay....the real answer is that it's a program to allow you to stay on board until 30 minutes before the ship is going to depart on the next cruise. You must vacate your room but you can stay on board, eat lunch and so on. It's for folks who have late flights and would rather stay on board then do sightseeing or other. It is not a program allowing you to stay overnight....

[Fouremco]

You can stay in your stateroom until 9 am on the day your cruise ends, but you have to be off the ship 90 minutes before the next sailing. You need to pay for drinks, specialty coffees, etc., even if you had a beverage card.

 

[helpthejuggler]

We ended our Silhouette cruise with an overnight in Venice where we had a late flight after disembarkation. We had Celebrity transfers booked. With 3-4 days to go the Concierge called us to offer the extended stay for free.

 

If we had not already been to Venice a few times and knew we would cram our last day there staying on the ship would have been a bad choice.

 

We took their offer. Had to leave our room as normal and then meet in quasar to check out but be given a special pass, for the day. They kept our passports and we could not leave the ship. So we went to the pool and solarium areas, enjoyed an empty ship. We had a limited selection of facilities for a while before being able to use everything after 11am. In the afternoon we showered and changed in the gym changing rooms.

We had a free lunch at bistro in 5 and met up to leave the ship for the airport. Left or bags in the left luggage and used the bus to return to Venice for the evening then bus to airport for very late flight.

 

was a new programme v so was a little flaky, but worked for us.

[debandjeff]

Thanks for the clarification. It sounded too good to be true. The wording "until the ship is going to depart on it's next cruise" led me to believe that , if the ship stayed in port for a few days (which the Silhouette will do), this could be possible. I feel kind of silly, but you don't know unless you ask.