Salt Water Buckeye

Thanks Dougalsgirl! I was able to click on the link for the activities page & translate it into English. Given our 6-hr. window in Haugesund, we could catch the People's Parade starting @ 1. Perhaps a little lunch before & some light sightseeing around the town.

Hopping aboard this roll call very late! We're 4 days from flying to England. Will stay overnight on the 10th in Windsor, then visit the castle on the 11th, finishing up the day traveling to Southampton that evening, where we'll stay @ the Holiday Inn. Should wake up to a beautiful view of the ship! My wife & I have planned this trip for over a year after finding out some of the fjords will be closing to cruise ships after next year. Almost daily I've hopped on YouTube & looked @ a live feed from Geiranger (& also Hellesylt & Bergen). A new camera they recently installed there rotates, giving a great view of the water & the village. Search for "Geirangerfjord cruise port, Geiranger marina" to view it for yourselves. I also like viewing the live feed from Hellesylt. I've used cruisemapper.com to track ships coming & going to Geiranger & what a hoot it is to watch them on the Hellesylt camera as they appear from behind the mountain at the entrance to the Geiranger Fjord; a totally awesome sight! Do you realize that when we're in Haugesund on the 17th, that is Norwegian's Constitution Day, their equivalent to our 4th of July? Hoping to catch some of the festivities there! Looking forward to seeing all on Anthem a week from now!

Yes, I'd volunteer. Already asked my TA if she hears anything about signing up to let me know. We've got skin in the game with a family cruise consisting of 10 people booked on Allure in '21, so anything I can do to move the process along, I'm in.

Wife & I are doing a repositioning cruise on Reflection next spring, so very much appreciated your take on the Summit. Our 1st 2 cruises were on Carnival boats, ‘getting our feet wet,’ followed by 3 RCL cruises, each absolutely fabulous, and now our 1st on a Celebrity boat. I have to think there will be a lot of carry over across the Celebrity fleet. Thank you for your thoughtfulness in sharing this information! I share your sentiments about St. Marten; haven’t been there, but for no particular reason it doesn’t appeal to me. I’d like to do St. Lucia and Dominica. The ABC’s appeal to Dianne, another islands we have not been to.

Thanks for digging into this JLM... I really don't know the answer to your question...just know that the salt water helps a lot. Also sunshine. At the time I first came down wit psoriasis (1979), the doc said salt water & sunshine were the 2 best things for it. At the time I lived in So. Calif. not too far from the beach. I'd sunbath in the back yard on my lunch hour and hit the beach frequently after work. The sunshine seemed to help maintain the gains I made, and the salt water seemed to do the improving. Think it may have been the way the surf exfoliated my skin. As you can imagine, I had one of those Hollywood actor tans going, which helped hide the splotches.

Oops, hit the send button by mistake. I know the Summit isn't in the same class, but what applies to the goose may apply to the gander. If you would be so kind as to post back after your cruise as to what type of water is in the Summit pools, that may be an indicator of what to expect on the Reflection.

Sounds like we're in the same boat Kathy (every pun intended)! Enjoy your cruise!

Wow; I just ran across this site! Have been on several RCL cruises and wife & I are booked on ReflectIon’s repositioning cruise in April-May 2020 (1st time on a Celebrity boat). Have some family business to take care of in Ireland, and when I saw this cruise ends in Dublin…well…sounds like a road, er, water trip to me!!! I have a question hopefully someone is knowledgeable about. Is either of the pools on Reflection salt water? I have psoriasis and salt water & sunshine are the 2 best things for it. With so many sea days, there’s no chance to ‘take a dip’ in the ocean. Hoping I can get my ‘fix’ in a pool.

My wife & I used to live on a 36’ boat. In 2017 we sailed on Jewel OTS & booked the forward most cabin on Deck 9 specifically for the motion to ‘rock us to sleep.’ Big disappointment; didn’t feel a thing! However, eating in the MDR, towards the aft of the boat, with the motion we felt there, we had to fight to keep awake during our dinners!!! Go figure! We will be sailing on Celebrity Reflection next April, and I booked the aft most cabin on Deck 10. Will see how that compares. This cabin is on the starboard side and we’ve always been high up on the port side in all our previous cruises. So, other than the height, quite a departure from our norm.

Don't know the answer to your question, but I do know they only keep the survey time open for about a week after they send it out. Waited a little too long and when I went to take the survey, it had timed out.

Thank you for your feedback!

Have sailed on RCL ships and have accumulated C&A points. Just booked a re-positioning cruise on Celebrity Reflection for April 2020. Celebrity has its own loyalty program, but has anyone else sailed on both lines and knows if sailing on a Celebrity ship can add to your already existing C&A points?

Thanks for the great info! It's just a concept I hadn't thought about before & now have a much better idea of how to work it in this type of situation.

Here’s a ‘Dear Abby’ type of question. We’re going on a family cruise next month on Symphony OTS. We have 2 daughters (both in their 30’s) booked into a cabin that comes with an On Board credit; not much, just $50. The one daughter saw the offer to use the OBC when she purchased an internet package today, but didn’t use it because she didn’t understand what it was. She & mom want to go Parasailing on Coco Cay (of curse, er, I mean course, my wife wants to use our cabin’s OBC towards Parasailing), and beloved daughter 1 wants advise on how to handle the OBC with beloved daughter 2. Being married, we’ve always handled any charges/OBC through 1 person, me, just for convenience sake, so this is new territory for me. I proffered 2 suggestions: 1) as each beloved daughter will have their own account, have Guest Service split the cabin’s OBC in half, $25 on each girl’s account, or 2) beloved daughter simply take all the OBC & give beloved daughter 2 $25. Any thoughts or feedback on how you have handled this kind of situation on your cruises? BTW, both daughters get along great, so I don’t foresee any friction between them.

Oops, forgot to mention my thanks to you too, Twangster! It's 6:30 am & I'm not fully awake yet.