b2b cruise

[george35]

I filled out all the forms for boarding on our 1st cruise Oct 2nd do I need to do the same for our 2nd cruise oct9th??

 

george35

[canderson]

X treats B2B cruises as separate cruises, so yes, provide all necessary info for both.  In treating each cruise leg of a BxB as an individual voyage, the lines need to collect the info for each cruise manifest to keep the feds happy, even if it happens to be info identical to that of a prior cruise... in this case (and ours as well), a VERY recent prior cruise!  The only thing you won't be providing before you board will, obviously, be your COVID test for the second leg.  Celebrity will take care of that for you the day before the end of leg 1.

[george35]

Thank you canderson for your quick reply to my question. I thought that it would be OK but the way things are now who knows. Once again THANK YOU

 

george35

[Jim_Iain]

5 hours ago, george35 said:

I filled out all the forms for boarding on our 1st cruise Oct 2nd do I need to do the same for our 2nd cruise oct9th??

 

george35

You can if you want but not required.    You are suppose to fill out the health questionnaire on both cruises but when they process the B2B passengers  they ask you the same questions verbally and record on their tablets.   It may save you 20-30 seconds as otherwise security will have to shoot your picture.   On B2B they also shoot a photo of your Vac Card and pull you up by name on their tablet instead of scanning your boarding pass.

 

The tell you that you are suppose to stop by guest relations and have your credit card scanned but we didn't on either cruise and no problem.

 

[canderson]

I'm thinking the OP is asking about things like passport #, contact information, and all of that - all of the stuff that gets filled out online in advance - everything up to the contract acceptance button.

 

We have never been able to complete the online check-in for a 2nd leg without filling it all out again.

[Jim_Iain]

3 hours ago, canderson said:

I'm thinking the OP is asking about things like passport #, contact information, and all of that - all of the stuff that gets filled out online in advance - everything up to the contract acceptance button.

 

We have never been able to complete the online check-in for a 2nd leg without filling it all out again.

 

I just filled out everything a second time.   Actually pretty painless using the app as you just scan you passport and it automatically populates all the fields. 

 

I just get excited when they are first released and use it to keep my excitement going. 

[canderson]

We're not yet able to use the app for any of the B2B check-in process here (one of those late restart cruises), so we started the process on the web site where we could get some of it out of the way.  Being able to scan with the phone would have made things a bit easier.

 

Hoping that we are notified soon that we can complete the process on one platform or another.  We're only 49 days out now.

 

[Northern Aurora]

We rarely do a single cruises but instead to B2B, B2B2B and B2B2B2B series.  We have never been asked for another express pass for the additional leg(s).  Only once were we asked if we wanted to use the same credit card for incidentals or switch to another one; this happened before beverage packages were introduced.

[canderson]

24 minutes ago, Northern Aurora said:

We rarely do a single cruises but instead to B2B, B2B2B and B2B2B2B series.  We have never been asked for another express pass for the additional leg(s).  Only once were we asked if we wanted to use the same credit card for incidentals or switch to another one; this happened before beverage packages were introduced.

We've never supplied passes for leg 2, either.  However, in the past, we have been asked to settle our account at the end of each leg to close out the folio for that leg before starting up fresh for the next one.  Guess it depends on payment method?  

 

[Northern Aurora]

24 minutes ago, canderson said:

……..Guess it depends on payment method?  

 

 

In the years before beverage packages, given how much alcohol folks will occasionally consume on a cruise, I wouldn’t be surprised if folks who don’t pay off their credit card balances each month periodically maxed out their credit cards.  

[jg51]

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We were very recently on consecutive cruises on a Celebrity ship.  As in the past, we were at no time asked to provide a printed Express Pass for the second cruise. 

 

We were asked, however, to do something that didn't recall being asked to do in the past.  In an instruction letter provided to all back-to-back passengers, we were asked to go to the Guest Relations desk -- immediately upon re-embarkation, if possible -- to present our credit cards as a way of starting our new account.  We had to do this even though we had provided the same credit card info when we did our online check-in.

 

Soon afterward, we recalled how surprised we had been in 2019, when, "smack" in the middle of the second of consecutive cruises, we were phoned by Guest Relations and asked to bring our credit card to start up our second account.

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[canderson]

@jg51

Yes, we've heard the same thing.  Close out one folio, open another.  What we also don't understand is why they're not taking the information from the online check-in for the second leg and using that since it's necessary to enter credit card info for each leg separately.  Whatever.  If you collect sea pass cards as souvenirs, it's an opportunity to have your old one back if they asked you to surrender it at the pier upon reboarding.  Apparently Guest Relations retains them for a bit if anyone asks.

 

[Northern Aurora]

We just left the Millennium after a B2B.  The documentation officer asked the consecutive cruisers to stop by Guest Relations to update our credit card info, but the 

GR  told us it wasn’t needed.  We are Zenith members of the loyalty program, and having to confirm credit card info isn’t standard.

[Jim_Iain]

1 hour ago, Northern Aurora said:

We just left the Millennium after a B2B.  The documentation officer asked the consecutive cruisers to stop by Guest Relations to update our credit card info, but the 

GR  told us it wasn’t needed.  We are Zenith members of the loyalty program, and having to confirm credit card info isn’t standard.

Same --- we were told to stop by Guest Relations to confirm credit cards.   We didn't and there was no problems.    Even future cruise was able to pull up our credit card.