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The crepes were one of my favorite parts of our celebrity cruise and those little casual special restaurants are something I wish Disney would take note of! We did savory and then sweet ones and they were all wonderful!
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When was your Celebrity cruise? I may have missed your TR, if you did one on this cruise and perhaps, may have been before I was regularly doing the TR thing here! Since, about 2012 on this basis. I think the first one was Cheryl's 2012 London Olympics and a great one to start with! Just guessing!
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When was your Celebrity cruise? I may have missed your TR, if you did one on this cruise and perhaps, may have been before I was regularly doing the TR thing here! Since, about 2012 on this basis. I think the first one was Cheryl's 2012 London Olympics and a great one to start with! Just guessing!
I did it in 2014 I'm pretty sure and I think I did a TR but I'm on my phone so much harder to go looking at this moment. It was over Valentine's Day.
I went and found it... Hope this link works! Valentine's Day Celebrity Cruise TR
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Right in the middle of the lobby seems like a weird place to hold a fitness class. Your lunch looked really good, especially the dessert. Sorry that your server disappeared. That seems very odd.
It was. I've had it a couple of times before where servers have come over and apologised that their shift is over, but they've introduced us to the person coming in to cover for them.
You know, until I went vegetarian myself, I'd never heard of Quorn before either. I remember a few years ago when you guys came to Cologne to meet up with us, we went to a McDonald's and you had me ask the staff (in German) if the veggie burger contained Quorn. Back then, I thought you meant corn so that's what I asked them and yep, the veggie burger does have corn in it. I am fairly certain, though, that it does not contain Quorn so you could've actually had that burger at McDonald's all those years ago
Too funny! Oh never mind, I know I can always have a Fillet of Fish safely at McDonald's, but it's just sometimes nice to try out a veggie burger.
Lunch looked good and especially the Grand Marnier crepes, which I love! I can't believe the size of Mark's salad, yet he had no problem devouring the entire thing!
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We headed down to deck 4, and found some of the bars…
… and Cellar Masters, a wine bar, which looked very relaxing and rustic. Hmmm… we might have to come back here later and try it out.
We wandered over to the Moonlight Sonata restaurant, and I saw a sign that said there were two lines to get in – one without reservations and one for those with, but how do you get reservations? We asked, and apparently you can book for the following night, but not that evening. We were told they were fully booked early on, although we were a bit confused when they told us that if we showed up at 7:00pm, then they’d give us a pager, we could go and get a drink, and then by the time we’d got one, they’d page us and have a table for us. I’m not quite sure how this works in reality, but I guess we’ll find out later…
We wandered down to deck 4…
… saw the casino…
… and wandered our way through the shops on this deck. At first they looked the same as on the upper deck, with lots of designer names, but finally we found a shop that sold vaguely normal things…
They had some Celebrity merchandise…
… and some other bits…
I particularly liked the T-shirts in the third to last shot, and picked up a couple of different designs, and sizes, as I wasn’t sure which ones would suit me, and which would fit me. I couldn’t see a changing room anywhere, so I asked a crew member, and they told me you could just take stuff back to your room, try it on there, and then come back. Of course, they made a note of what you’d taken, along with your name and room number.
We headed back to the room, and I decided on the blue and the white T-shirts, so we then headed back, with all of them in hand, and returned the ones I wasn’t going to get. We also got a Celebrity Eclipse fridge magnet. They had about five or six designs, which is way better than we’ve ever see on Disney before.
While we were in the shops, we heard the champagne art auction taking place upstairs – we know one piece went for $10,300 and another went for $6,900 from what we heard. Oh my goodness! I know I said earlier on in the cruise that I wondered whether the speciality restaurants and the spa were quiet because people didn’t want to or didn’t have the money to spend – well, the latter certainly doesn’t apply to everyone!
Done with shopping, we made our way along deck four, and found another lovely bar area. I’d noticed the bar area before, but not the attached seating area, and it looked like another neat place to sit.
Glad you finally found the normal store! And made some purchases too. They sure do have a lot of bars and lounging-type areas on the ship. Plenty for everyone to find one that they enjoy!
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I'm always surprised at some of the big ticket items they have for sale on cruises. Our last DCL cruise, I found a bracelet I liked, but then found out it was more than $10,000! Nope, not this time.
Glad you found some shirts. 2 for $30 seems very reasonable - at least I think that was what the sign said.
Glad you finally found the normal store! And made some purchases too. They sure do have a lot of bars and lounging-type areas on the ship. Plenty for everyone to find one that they enjoy!
That was nice and we found we liked the Sky Lounge and spent most of our time in there.
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I may have missed your TR, if you did one on this cruise and perhaps, may have been before I was regularly doing the TR thing here! 
Since, about 2012 on this basis. I think the first one was Cheryl's 2012 London Olympics and a great one to start with! 
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I’m not quite sure how this works in reality, but I guess we’ll find out later… 
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