What is the next Celebrity cut?

[NMTraveller]

Well now...  The Celebrity cuts have been piling up.  What is the next cut?  We might as well all prepare for it as we book cruises several years out...

[killaypirate]

Bring your own towels & bedding

[Fly and Sail]

Your toilet only flushes when you tap the Seapass Card. For this, a $2 charge + 20% will be billed to your room.

[Baggy178]

30 minutes ago, Fly and Sail said:

Your toilet only flushes when you tap the Seapass Card. For this, a $2 charge + 20% will be billed to your room.

 

I suppose just leaving a deposit is out of the question ? 😳

[cruisefam38]

9 minutes ago, Baggy178 said:

I suppose just leaving a deposit is out of the question ?

As long as we are clear it is a NON-refundable deposit.

 

[Gracie115]

Daily housekeeping now only available for a $15.00 per day charge.  Towel exchange available once per week at no charge. 

[WatchHill]

Sea pass will scan for elevator access at $2. Plus gratuity with each use.  Using the stairs and avoiding cookie fee will result in my dropping a dress size on our upcoming transatlantic. 
Time to go back to Princess for my daily warm cookies 24/7 at the Atrium cafe, free too! 

[Honolulu Blue]

1 hour ago, cruisefam38 said:

As long as we are clear it is a NON-refundable deposit.

I assure you this is one deposit I never want back. 😄

 

As for the next cut, one that I hope for but almost certainly won't get is a price cut. 🙏

[MISTER 67]

All I know is one thing, that we pay automatic gratuities of 36 dollars a day per couple, the 20% added service charges on just about anything you purchase except in the shops is just plain and simple gouging. I’m surprised there’s not a 20% service charge on the gratuities. 

[cruzeluver]

They get rid of the loyalty program. Just the entertainment factor of the huge meltdowns some would have would be absolutely worth it.

[horseymike]

life jackets will now be 9.99 per day plus 20% gratuity.

[Baggy178]

1 minute ago, horseymike said:

life jackets will now be 9.99 per day plus 20% gratuity.

 

If it's women and children first I'll be exercising my right to identify as a female Russian shot-putter, circa 1970's.

[waddle]

$1 per mile to use the running track 

[Baggy178]

51 minutes ago, MISTER 67 said:

All I know is one thing, that we pay automatic gratuities of 36 dollars a day per couple, the 20% added service charges on just about anything you purchase except in the shops is just plain and simple gouging. I’m surprised there’s not a 20% service charge on the gratuities. 

 

Do what we do.

Cancel the automatic gratuities and instead apply the sum pp that you consider to be most suitable.

That is, after all, the very definition of a gratuity.

In our case it matches the on-board credit.

That way the staff get their salaries paid by the company and not through guest tips.

Kerching.

Simple.👍

 

 

 

Edited August 26, 2023 by Baggy178

[MISTER 67]

3 minutes ago, Baggy178 said:

 

Do what we do.

Cancel the automatic gratuities and instead apply the sum pp that you consider to be most suitable.

That is, after all, the very definition of a gratuity.

In our case it matches the on-board credit.

That way the staff get their salaries paid by the company and not through guest tips.

Kerching.

Simple.👍

 

 

 

I wanted to add that if you order an up charge meal in the MDR like 16.95 for lobster they add a 20% service charge, your server is already receiving part of the automatic gratuities so why the service charge, I refuse to believe that the lines are passing on the service charge to the crew, maybe I’m wrong but just the way I feel. Another way to combat this is go to guest services and reduce the automatic gratuity by 20%, we aren’t grinches, we tip at least 20% in our local restaurants and always tip extra to our waiters and cabins stewards on the ship  but that 20% service charge just leaves a bad taste in our mouths.

[LMaxwell]

Less live music around the ship. 

[leyland1989]

Preferred seatings reservation in the buffet. 

[Wakepatrol]

4 hours ago, killaypirate said:

Bring your own towels & bedding

The campers have been doing this for years

[SoloAlaska]

Premium seating at the MDR for a fee. That romantic table for two comes at a cost.

[mahdnc]

56 minutes ago, horseymike said:

life jackets will now be 9.99 per day plus 20% gratuity.

That's the discounted price for port days. 

[TeeRick]

22 minutes ago, leyland1989 said:

Preferred seatings reservation in the buffet. 

Now that is something I might pay for!

[leyland1989]

Just now, TeeRick said:

Now that is something I might pay for!

Write this down, Laura

[Cruise Gopher]

In the next 5 years, I fully expect some cruise line to do a trial of making the MDR have a cover charge per person and transition to having the buffet be the complimentary dinner option. 

[SoloAlaska]

19 minutes ago, Cruise Gopher said:

In the next 5 years, I fully expect some cruise line to do a trial of making the MDR have a cover charge per person and transition to having the buffet be the complimentary dinner option. 

That is my absolute no go no matter the price of the cruise. I really don’t like buffets and the MDR is non negotiable for me.

[Ex-Airbalancer]

44 minutes ago, SoloAlaska said:

Premium seating at the MDR for a fee. That romantic table for two comes at a cost.

That is last table my wife and I would want , 🤣

a sharing table and bigger the better for us