Thanks so much, Trish, and thank you for subscribing. I subscribed to your channel too. I wish you an incredible cruise and look forward seeing your villa tour!
Thanks so much for watching and commenting. Celebrity Beyond was definitely the most beautiful ship we have been on. Even a standard cabin and bathroom is spacious on Celebrity. I watched your Dunn's River falls video. It is just how I remember it years and years ago. Thanks for showing the two places you like to eat for breakfast in your Royal Caribbean breakfast video.
Great video! Have you heard of the recent change to replace butler service in the Sky Suites with a "Retreat Team"? I was just wondering if you had any thoughts on that, and if you think it will make a difference in the cruise experience.
Thanks so much! Yes, I have been reading a lot of discussion on the sky suites butler being replaced by a Retreat team as well as some of the butlers losing their jobs. We have had excellent service butler service with a caring butler who wants to help give you a wonderful experience, so I am sad to hear of the change. To me, it reminds me of having to call a call center for help and being assigned a ticket that gets put in a queue to be handled by someone. I can see them being able to offer more standardized, consistent services with less people. I just don't know yet if we will receive that personal, caring level of service or if they may reduce tasks a butler used to do, such as call for cheese and crackers from room service yourself. It will be several months before we experience this new Retreat team experience, but I will be open and positive. It will be interesting to see if they handle the "normal" suite things that I ask for. It is silly but on this trip since we got the premium drink package, I thought to ask the butler for premium waters for our fridge instead of the canned water in the Classic package. Having someone bring waters is a treat period versus making the bar rounds to stock up the water myself. What do you think of the Retreat team change?
@@clairewithlove1 I think I'm OK with the change as long as it's the same level of service. We spoke with a Celebrity Cruises sales consultant yesteray, who said the new Retreat teams will be doing everything the butlers did. We're considering a cruise in a Sky Suite for next spring, which will be our first Retreat experience, so we'll see how it goes!
@@gjones0316 That is good to hear. I am fine too if it is the same level of service. The Retreat on Edge ships and Michael's Lounge on non-Revolutionized ships provides afternoon tea, drinks, so other than wanting something in your cabin that room service would not cover, the Retreat team will hopefully handle those personal request well. For future cruise booking or Shore Excursions, the current Retreat team makes an appointment for you with those teams anyways. On Beyond's Retreat, we enjoyed the padded lounge chairs and more shaded areas and less busy hot tubs. I hope you have a wonderful time when you go.
The bathroom was bigger than hotels we have stayed at. The body level spray actually is super helpful when you don't want to get your hair wet before dinner. You don't need a shower cap even.
Thanks for sharing, Don. I have never done a suite on Royal Caribbean nor eaten in Coastal Kitchen. That is good to hear of the RC Oasis class suite perks.
Great video! Thanks for posting!!
Great video. Thank you for sharing so much information about the cruise!
Thanks so much, Trish, and thank you for subscribing. I subscribed to your channel too. I wish you an incredible cruise and look forward seeing your villa tour!
@@clairewithlove1 thank you!
Great video thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much for watching and commenting. Celebrity Beyond was definitely the most beautiful ship we have been on. Even a standard cabin and bathroom is spacious on Celebrity. I watched your Dunn's River falls video. It is just how I remember it years and years ago. Thanks for showing the two places you like to eat for breakfast in your Royal Caribbean breakfast video.
Great video! Have you heard of the recent change to replace butler service in the Sky Suites with a "Retreat Team"? I was just wondering if you had any thoughts on that, and if you think it will make a difference in the cruise experience.
Thanks so much! Yes, I have been reading a lot of discussion on the sky suites butler being replaced by a Retreat team as well as some of the butlers losing their jobs.
We have had excellent service butler service with a caring butler who wants to help give you a wonderful experience, so I am sad to hear of the change. To me, it reminds me of having to call a call center for help and being assigned a ticket that gets put in a queue to be handled by someone.
I can see them being able to offer more standardized, consistent services with less people. I just don't know yet if we will receive that personal, caring level of service or if they may reduce tasks a butler used to do, such as call for cheese and crackers from room service yourself.
It will be several months before we experience this new Retreat team experience, but I will be open and positive. It will be interesting to see if they handle the "normal" suite things that I ask for. It is silly but on this trip since we got the premium drink package, I thought to ask the butler for premium waters for our fridge instead of the canned water in the Classic package. Having someone bring waters is a treat period versus making the bar rounds to stock up the water myself.
What do you think of the Retreat team change?
@@clairewithlove1 I think I'm OK with the change as long as it's the same level of service. We spoke with a Celebrity Cruises sales consultant yesteray, who said the new Retreat teams will be doing everything the butlers did. We're considering a cruise in a Sky Suite for next spring, which will be our first Retreat experience, so we'll see how it goes!
@@gjones0316 That is good to hear. I am fine too if it is the same level of service. The Retreat on Edge ships and Michael's Lounge on non-Revolutionized ships provides afternoon tea, drinks, so other than wanting something in your cabin that room service would not cover, the Retreat team will hopefully handle those personal request well. For future cruise booking or Shore Excursions, the current Retreat team makes an appointment for you with those teams anyways.
On Beyond's Retreat, we enjoyed the padded lounge chairs and more shaded areas and less busy hot tubs.
I hope you have a wonderful time when you go.
that is a very nice bathroom for a cruise!
The bathroom was bigger than hotels we have stayed at. The body level spray actually is super helpful when you don't want to get your hair wet before dinner. You don't need a shower cap even.
I was on Beyond. It is a wonderful experience.
I am so glad you enjoyed your experience on Beyond as much as us. I thought the shows were really great as well.
Much prefer suites on Oasis class ships. Larger the suite lounge is much larger and coastal kitchen is better than luminae.
Thanks for sharing, Don. I have never done a suite on Royal Caribbean nor eaten in Coastal Kitchen. That is good to hear of the RC Oasis class suite perks.