Hi All
Thank you for your feedback in advance.

This is our 2nd cruise (1st on pacific Sun last year). We are going on 14 Nov from Sydney to Auckland. Celebrity Millenium.

Tried to book a Family Ocean View W/ Veranda, but our agent could not give us the price as it was not available. I tried to put us on the waiting list, but she could not do that iether. (Even though the category says waiting list is available)
I booked 2 cabins on Vista deck room 7026 (Balcony) & 7056 (inside). We are 2 adults & 2 kids 11 & 2.5 yrs of age.
(Any comments on the rooms & waiting list problem will be appreciated)

I think the family room would have been great with the bigger balcony, as we spend a lot of time in the cabin. (2.5 yr old adds restrictions)Also my wife gets sea-sick, so spends she is mainly confined to the balcony or outside on the main deck.

I had a few questions for the Pro-Cruisers:
1) Is it possible to wash undergarments in the room.

2) What about drinking water. (On the Pacific Sun, we had to buy Botttles daily)

3) Is milk and coffe provided anytime (Self Service). In the Pacific Sun, it was on 24 hours, we could go make our coffe, Tea, Glass of milk & fill baby bottles, and there were no extra charges.

4) I have heard that the rooms have a fridge, but how does one warm a baby bottle ?

5) The on-board duty free:
is it well priced, also does it have days where they give extra 25% off etc, is there a good collection of Scotch.

Sorry for so many questions, but I think I will have more later.....

cheers

Hi Sting1,
Why not call Celebrity about the room directly. We crusie with Celebrity all the time and I have not used a TA yet. We do it all on line and call. Maybe they can help with the room. You can wash a few think in the room, I can't say they will dry fast. You do have to pay for bottled water. They also put ice water in the room nightly. Milk and coffe are free. I would like you could the the bottled warmed anytime. The fridge is the min bar and it is MINI not much room for anything else. They have specials at the shops alot, like days at sea. The shop for Scotch seemed to carry a lot but than I don't really know about scotch.
Call 800-852-7239 and speak to a Celebrity Agent Hope this helps!

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1) Is it possible to wash undergarments in the room.

2) What about drinking water. (On the Pacific Sun, we had to buy Botttles daily)

Welcome to cruise-chat. Your cabin bathroom has a sink, so just bring a small container of woolite. Same goes for drinking water. The water that comes from the faucet is perfectly safe to drink. In fact it is probably safer than the bottled water.

Thank You both for your help.

Because I am in Sydney Australia, I think we need cannot call Celebrity directly.
The TA also informed me that because we have 4 people we cannot book the family room, we need 5.

Thank you for the Water tip (safe to drink from faucet), We go through about 8 litres of water a day. It cost us $180 in water on our last 10 day cruise.

Sting1 she is correct about 5 people for the family cabin, we did ask that at one time. Have a wonderful time ! Don't worry about a thing they will take well care of you.