A Cruise I'm Not Excited About

[Traveling Mike]

On 11/29/2023 at 12:04 AM, Xaa said:

Awesome.  Sounds like the internet was good enough for your meetings.  Do you have the basic or premium offering?

I am on the Celebrity Beyond running the premium package.  I have been doing most of my work in the Buffet area because they have nice, padded bench setting and there are people to bring me drinks all day.  When I run a speed test it looks slow, but I have not seen any delay and I can stream movies without any lag time.  Below are the results of my speed tests.

 

[Traveling Mike]

My Back-to-Back process:

On the morning of my last full day, they had a meeting with all the B2B people.  On my cruise there were between 40 and 50 people.  They let us know the process and answered any questions.  The meeting was nice and short and to the point.  Because I was staying in my same cabin there was nothing for me to do except to make sure my cabin steward knew I was staying.  The people that were changing cabins just needed to pack their personal belongings and the cabin steward would take care of everything else and making sure it got moved.  Most of the people I talked to were packing up their bathroom and drawers and leaving their hanging cloths.  

On the morning of disembarkation, we meet in one of the bars at 9:00 am.  About 9:30 am they walked us all off the ship and just before we left the ship, they scanned our old room key and gave us a new one.  We then walked off the gangway and into the terminal.  We walked up to a Customs scanning camera, got cleared and made a U-turn back onto the ship.  We scanned our new cards and were back on the ship.  We really did not slow down much from the time we left the Club until I was back at the Martini Bar getting me a drink.

Here are a couple of questions people have asked me:

Q:  Did they give you a special breakfast or lunch?
A:  No, we were on our own with the same as everyone else.

Q:  Did you get a discount or anything special on the second cruise?
A:  No, the price was a price, and they did not give us anything special.

Q:  Does the staff treat you differently because you are a B2B?
A:  Yes, just because they remember you from the previous cruise.  It is not because you are special just because they know you.

 

 

[Traveling Mike]

One Day Makes a Difference:

I finished my first cruise that was a 9-day cruise to the ABC Islands.   We unloaded the passengers and reloaded the passengers for the 10-day Southern Caribbean cruise.  Moving around the ship I have not seen so many walkers, wheelchairs and scoters on a ship.  I also looked around for the hundreds of Single Travelers that I knew were coming on the ship.  The previous cruise had a good mixture of people in their 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70.  There was enough kids on the ship where you knew they were there.  This cruise was making me feel young and I am 63 years old.  I also found out as the day went on that all the singles, I was expecting were singles in their 70s and 80s.  Now you understand the difference between the two cruises the question is, why?  With the help of a nice 25-year-old girl I meet that was a seasoned cruiser she pointed out my last cruise was Thanksgiving break, and this cruise was older people coming to stay away from the young people.

Now that I understand the same ship, the same kind of destination and have completely different environments.  I realize I need to think about that while I am booking going forward.  One is not better than the other, but they are different.

[Ampurp85]

Wow.......So this works out to about 20 days of cruising in a row. I bet you are feeling a little bit more excited.

Hopefully the specialty restaurants are a little bit better this time around.

[Cactus527]

I'm laughing that all the old people stayed away at Thanksgiving break time to avoid the young people! I love it!