Royal Suite Silhouette Pictures

 

 Due to covid ships have been sailing at less than 50% capacity to allow for social distancing.  We were ok with this but on the first cruises the passenger load was down around 600 passengers on a ship with a capacity of  2,886.    It was like a private yacht.

Celebrity has a move up program that allow passengers to bid on upgrading to a more expensive cabin.    We were very luck and were upgraded from a SkySuite to a Royal on the first cruise and to the Penthouse on the second.   

 

 

 

 

We  finally came  out of COVID lockdown hibernation after 18 months.    These cruises were booked after cancellation of our cruises just as we touched down at FLL on 3/14/2020.    Wow! That seems so far away now.

This cruise began as a booking of our “FREE” Zenith cruise.   The free cruise when you hit 3,000 points is for a Veranda cabin but you can upgrade to a cabin of your choice by paying the difference.    For this cruise we chose to sail in a SS cabin.   We added the second cruise so we could enjoy a B2B.

The first cruise is a 12 night Ultimate Southern Caribbean departing September 5

 

B2B Equinox

Our first set of cruises w3ere a consecutive Back to Back (B2B) on Celebrity Equinox 9/5 and 9/17/21 Cruises

 1/20/2022

I haven't blogged is a while and decided to fire it back up.  In the past I didn't feel the software was that intuitive, but things have improved. 

As like others the Covid epidemic paid a toll on our travel plans and so many of our dream cruises are no longer operation.   I think the one I miss the most was a planned cruise to Singapore, Viet Nam. Indonesia, Philippians, Australia and New Zealand.  

We took our first dip back into cruising in September and October of 2021.

 

I'm going to post some memories from those before getting into planning our next adventure.

Welcome to Part 2

 

 I would like to invite you to our Blog.   I usually post about our adventures on Cruisecritcs.com under the handle Jim_Iain.

I've tried blogging before but kinda lost focus.   I plan on this blog capturing both our day to day life but also fun at sea.   One of our major passions. 

 I on the left and Iain is on the right. 

 

 

Protocols for Cruising have changed  quite a bit due to Covid.    All passengers are now required to be Vaccinated against Covid and proof of vaccination is required to board the ship.  

In addition at the time of this sailing  we were required to have a covid test 72 hours prior to cruising.