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Shine like the Stars For those that followed my blog last Christmas you may recall me mentioning that Reyd was graduating from high school and I had no cruises booked beyond our Europe 2024 “graduation” cruise on Anthem. There is a reason I always stick to a Christmas cruise so I was not terribly surprised when both Lindsay’s and Reyd’s work schedules conflicted with that trip. I typically book our cruises at or very close to release date so I wasn’t sure that star class would be in our future this year. Surprisingly the shorter 3/4 night sailings had ok pricing so I booked Allure for 2024 and Wonder for 2025 at its release date. 2024 has been a hectic and challenging year in some ways; I lost my Dad unexpectedly last spring just a few weeks before Reyd’s “season of grad” began, followed by Lindsay working out of province for 4-5 months, getting Reyd into trade school and settled in his apprenticeship and me adapting to life after high school. Thankfully Reyd continues to live at home while he works as an apprentice and will commute to SAIT (trade school in Calgary) for the 8 weeks in each period. All of that to say we are very grateful to have this time together this year and can’t wait to get this vacation underway! We have a lot planned so let’s get started!
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This thread is intended to be a Thank You to Michelle C. from MEI for her extraordinary work in making a dream come true for us ! If I haven't made it clear before, let me reassert now, that a good Travel Agent can make things happen that you just never thought you would be able to do ! These 2 cruises on Anthem, Feb 15-23 and Feb 23-3 March 2019 began as lowly inside stateroom casino comped rooms. All we would have had to pay was the taxes and gratuities and we could have been on our way for 16 days for nearly -0- cost. But Michelle immediately upgraded these inside rooms to balcony rooms for us for a very nominal amount (less than $100 each). She was able to find us a nice location on deck 12 where we could have the same room on both cruises, which is a nice touch...no need to change rooms. They remained that way for some weeks...until I asked Michelle to check and find out how much an upgrade to a JS would be for the first half of the B2B. She came back with a very reasonable upgrade charge, so we upgraded the first cruise to a JS on deck 13 and remained in the original balcony room for the second half of the B2B. Then one day I noticed that a Grand Loft Suite (GLS) had popped up on the first half of the cruise (there had been no Star Class suites available on either of these cruises when we first booked). Thinking that there was no WAY we could afford to upgrade AGAIN, AGAIN I asked Michelle to just call and ask. At this time I was on a biz trip (I think I was in Reno at the time !) so even with the time difference, she was so helpful. Sure enough, the price was very attractive, so I pulled the trigger and had her upgrade the first cruise from the JS to the GLS. YIPPEE !!! I was now going to be Star Class for the first half of the B2B. I was in heaven ! ...and wouldn't you know it...shortly after that, another GLS became available on the second half of the B2B and she once again worked her magic and we snagged that one, too !! ...both of these B2B Star Class cruises together were about half the cost of 1 SC cruise by itself ! They are different suites, so we will have to move from deck 8 to deck 10 on the turnaround but I'm hoping that we can keep the same Genie. I have no idea how something like that works. It will be our first B2B and now both of them will be in Star Class. Can it get any better than this ? While Michelle was certainly instrumental in getting all of this accomplished for us, I have to also give credit to the Club Royale people with whom she worked. ...but Michelle was dogged in her pursuit of this dream on our behalf. If she didn't like the price that one agent gave her, she would call back again and again until she got the price she thought we should get...until it was all done. I know I wore her out with all of the calling and rebooking that she was doing. But once again, she has come through for us and I am so very grateful. Great job, Michelle. Thank you !