Thoughts About Suites

[Cheffiecruiser]

We have done suites twice, and they have spoiled us!  Loved Luminae, and felt very special.  Only thing is, now its hard NOT to sail with out a suite.  I always feel like they are worth every penny. 

[RodPat]

Okay we are guilty here.  In our garage is a Mercedes 450S and a Porsche 911.  Yes we love suites also.  Our favorite is the Royal Suite.  I should tell you why we have all of this, it is because my husband has worked hard his whole life and now we are in our 70's and we want to spend our money on what we enjoy.  Our kids know that I will not leave them a bill but they have to make their own money just like we did.   We enjoy Celebrity and we sail 3 to 4 times a year.  This is not to say we haven't sailed in every type of cabin over the close to 30 years we have been cruising.  No matter what cabin we have sailed in has always been great on Celebrity.   Sail in what you can afford and enjoy every day at sea.

 

Pat

[cruiselvr04]

We drive a Subaru and a Toyota.  I can see why we cruise in outside cabins and balconies.  Lol.  I’d also rather cruise more often then book suites.  That’s not to say I don’t have a little suite envy from time to time.  Enjoy!

 

[LucidSplash]

This has been a great thread to read.  Just booked RS on Infinity for March cruise with my two best friends.  We managed a really great deal but also... it may not have been quite as good a deal as I told them and I threw in a little extra to make the suite happen and spoil them.  But it was still a great deal lol.  We used to be inseparable and now live in separate cities/states so only get to see each other a couple times a year on these girls' trips so it is totally worth it to me.  I have never been a suite before and they also have not.  But they also have never been on Celebrity before so they will be extra ruined for other cruise lines I think (I'm completely biased toward Celebrity).  The trip would have been great in a balcony room anyway and this will just be the icing on the cake.  With a butler and more closet space for three women in their mid 30s-early 40s.

 

And for the record I drive  Hyundai Santa Fe.  But only because I wrecked my 2007 Mazda 3 last year.  I loved that car.  

[LucidSplash]

On 1/20/2020 at 1:08 PM, goofysmom99 said:

Transpacific, Eclipse, 15-nt, Tokyo - Vancouver, Apr 2021

C2   $201/nt    $20/pt

S2   $494/nt    $31/pt

CS   $628/nt   $26/pt

 

Constellation, 9-nt, Venice - Rome, Oct 2021

O6    $387/nt   $97/pt

2C    $461/nt   $77/pt  (min balcony)

C2    $556/nt   $56/pt

S2    $973/nt   $61/pt

 Excuse my ignorance but can you tell me what the "pt" stands for in your calculations? I tried to do a forum search but keep coming up empty handed.

[goofysmom99]

23 minutes ago, LucidSplash said:

 Excuse my ignorance but can you tell me what the "pt" stands for in your calculations? I tried to do a forum search but keep coming up empty handed.

Point

[LucidSplash]

2 minutes ago, goofysmom99 said:

Point

 

Oh.  Obviously.  😄 My hair must be extra blonde today.  Thank you.

[NMTraveller]

On 1/21/2020 at 1:53 PM, TeeRick said:

Maybe BMW, Audi, Mercedes and Porsche too should start building luxury cruise ships.  It seems like some here would love it!  But no more fanciful names like Symphony of the Seas.  Just ship names with numbers like das 750i boot or ES300 Schiff.  Kind of takes the glamour out of it for me.

I think that Porshe should build cruise ships.  You could cruise at 100 MPH and cut out all of the sea days and see more ports. 🙂

They could call them ms Fast and ms FasterThan#### or

schneller als die Hölle

 

Time to go gas up my ... rhymes with Texas. 🙂

[Mwgw]

38 minutes ago, NMTraveller said:

 

I think that Porshe should build cruise ships.  You could cruise at 100 MPH and cut out all of the sea days and see more ports. 🙂

They could call them ms Fast and ms FasterThan#### or

schneller als die Hölle

 

Time to go gas up my ... rhymes with Texas. 🙂
 

 

 

lol! I need sea days for the casino and sleeping in!

Edited January 25, 2020 by Mwgw

[Oville]

54 minutes ago, NMTraveller said:

I think that Porshe should build cruise ships.  You could cruise at 100 MPH and cut out all of the sea days and see more ports. 🙂

They could call them ms Fast and ms FasterThan#### or

schneller als die Hölle

 

Time to go gas up my ... rhymes with Texas. 🙂

Good one.  You and we are Lexus drivers (bought our first in 1999) for many years but in September we bought two cars from the dark side (MB and Audi) but still have one Lexus.  Our sailing choices will not change, suites when they are relatively reasonably priced, if not AQ.😉

[grandgeezer]

We drive a five year old Hyundai. Being retired we only put a little over 2,000 miles per year so having a new expensive car is number 250 on our list of things we need. We have about everything we want and do whatever we want, when we want to do it and price is no object, if we think it's worth it or makes us happy. Since we cut our cruising back from an average of 44 days a year to 56 days over the last 3 1/2 years, the money has been piling up at an alarming rate. The stock market has been very very good to us also. We have no problem leaving it all to our kids, grandson, and a couple of our favorite charities. Although we are going to do a 20 day escorted tour in Europe in June.

[chemmo]

2 hours ago, grandgeezer said:

We have about everything we want and do whatever we want, when we want to do it and price is no object, if we think it's worth it or makes us happy. 

 

 We do not chase new cars either and although far from rich we are comfortable Last year when we priced up RS and PH suites on Edge we did decide to change our aging car and spent the summer touring Wales in our caravan instead.

 

I think you summarise the thoughts of many of us older cruisers well. We want to enjoy our retirement time and have worked hard enough to deserve it! Many of us have had health scares that make us think leaving the things we really want to do until ‘tomorrow’ just doesn’t make sense...

 

When cruising we enjoy a nice suite but other vacations can be very simple, we often prefer a quiet country inn to a luxury hotel, self catering to AI...If we think ‘it’s worth it and it will make us happy’ then like yourselves we go for it...

Edited January 25, 2020 by chemmo

[Stem to Stern]

19 hours ago, goofysmom99 said:

Point

Thank you for opening up a whole new undiscovered world of Celebrity value calculation.  I can’t believe I have never seen this before.  Maybe getting to Zenith will be possible for me some day.😂
Mini Cooper here btw.

[Husky61]

When we cruise on Celebrity, we always book a Royal Suite.  It is our favorite cabin on the  X ships, and if it isn't available, we find a sailing where it is.😀

[mac_tlc]

Our two Toyota’s have a combined age of 17 and mileage of 223,000. Just got off the Equinox in our first Sky Suite and it won’t be our last. Have two GS’s and two Aquatheatre suites booked on Royal over the next 2 years. It’s all a matter of choosing where you wish to spend your $$$$. 
 

mac_tlc

[Oville]

So going back to post 22, what difference does your car preference make?  We will cruise in AQ or suite based on price not what is in our garage.  We average 5 cruises a year with Celebrity and are usually very happy with our choices.  

[George C]

19 minutes ago, mac_tlc said:

Our two Toyota’s have a combined age of 17 and mileage of 223,000. Just got off the Equinox in our first Sky Suite and it won’t be our last. Have two GS’s and two Aquatheatre suites booked on Royal over the next 2 years. It’s all a matter of choosing where you wish to spend your $$$$. 
 

mac_tlc

Totally agree we have friends with much larger houses and nicer cars but we are satisfied with ours and like spending our money on suites, done GS 7 times and OS once on rccl , now have done sky and celebrity suites and 4 weeks from our first royal suite on celebrity.

[Oville]

3 minutes ago, George C said:

Totally agree we have friends with much larger houses and nicer cars but we are satisfied with ours and like spending our money on suites, done GS 7 times and OS once on rccl , now have done sky and celebrity suites and 4 weeks from our first royal suite on celebrity.

We were posting together. What’s in you garage doesn’t matter it’s what you are happy booking.