Constellation 18 Dec 06

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Hi All

First cruise in December on Constellation and have a few questions if anyone can answer any of them it would be great.

1 As we are flying in from the UK, we arrive the day before and stay 1 night at a Celebrity nominated hotel in Miami or Fort Lauderdale (don't know where yet). Celebrity are arranging the transfers. Has anyone done this and what are your experiences. I have read that sometimes they cut it fine and there can be hundreds of people waiting with luggage for the buses to the port. Would it be better to get a cab to the port?

2 If the ship runs a cashless system, how does the casino work, do you still use cash in the machines or is there a token system?

3 We have booked cabin 6091 on the Penthouse deck - does anyone have any experience of this cabin or similar - any downsides that you can think of?

4 We have booked the late dining option - what happens if you decide to dine casual (I understand there is a $2 surcharge for casual dining) - do you have to inform the main dining room each day if you don't intend to eat there that night?

Thanks in advance for any info. I'm sure I will have loads of questions over the coming month's as it's a long way to go yet, and sorry if these questions have been asked a million times already.
 
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Ted_D

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Addict,

Let me try to answer your questions.

1. Whether you take a taxi to the ship or use Celebrity's transfers really depends where your hotel is. If it is in FLL, the taxi ride will probably be short and inexpensive, and I would tend to take a taxi. From Miami, howeveer, you will have an hour's ride (or more, depending on the time of day) and it would be fairly expensive, so I'd use the Celebrity transfer.

2. In the casino, you go to a window and "purchase" chips with cash or charge them to your shipboard account. After play, you return to the window and receive cash for your remaining chips. If you are a slot player, the same window can give you the coins you'll need. So, you can see that the casino is an obvious exception to the cashless system that is used on the rest of the ship.

3. Your room is fine. It is mid-ship on what I think is the best deck of the ship. You are far away from all of the pool noise, etc, but close to the public areas below you.

4. It is not required that you notify anyone that you will not be dining at your regular spot, but it is a nice thing to do. Typically, your waiter will not begin taking orders, etc until everyone is seated at the table. So, he/she will wait for you to arrive for no reason at all if you haven't informed them. It will delay dinner for your table mates. It is more considerate to let the waiter and your table mates know in advance, if that is possible.

You'll love Constellation. It is a fabulous ship.

Ted
 
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Great Ted, thanks for that, extremely helpful.

Sure I will have loads more questions over the coming months, so watch out.

Sue
 
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Rooney

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south america Infinity December 30th 2006

we wonder if there are any British on this trip as it is not advertised in the Celebrity brochure. Our knowuledge of Spanish or Portguese is very limited look forward to hearing your comments Rooney
 
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BSeabob

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Re: south america Infinity December 30th 2006

Hi..
Just like all the other X and mainline cruises over here the majority of persons (unless you happen on a major group cruise) will be from the US. and most of them speak English :)
 
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