Thread: NEW Captain's Club Benefits!

This is from the Celebrity web site--new this morning!

Elite Member Benefits (*After 10 earned tier credits)

Existing Benefits
•Complimentary use of the Loyalty Desk member service center between cruises
•Complimentary access to the onboard Loyalty Host during your cruise
•A premium onboard discount booklet filled with special offers during each cruise
•Complimentary custom air request when booking your cruise
•Pre-sailing specialty restaurant reservations available before your cruise
•Annual member reunion cruises which include member events and dicounts
•One category upgrade prior to sailing (when available
)•Complimentary online Captain's Club newsletter with the latest program news and information
•Priority embarkation while boarding the ship
•Invitation to a complimentary wine seminar event
•Priority status on the shore excursion waitlist
•Invitation to the exclusive Senior Officer's Cockatil Party
•Access to the private shipboard departure lounge with continental breakfast during disembarkation•Priority tender service status
•Priority waitlist status for dining room seating
•Invitation to attend the Elegant Tea Service event
•Complimentary use of the Thalassotherapy Pool. (Celebrity Mercury only)
•Ability to enroll in Royal Caribbean's Crown & Anchor Society Diamond Tier



Added Benefits (Available on All Celebrity Cruises EXCEPT Celebrity Xpedition)
•Exclusive Captain's Club Celebration event
•Complimentary pressing of 2 garment items*
•One complimentary bag of laundry (wash, dry, fold) on every sailing (**item counts may vary based on itinerary water usage restrictions)
•One standard bag of laundry (wash, dry, fold) at a discounted price of $20 on all Celebrity cruises of 12 nights or longer
•Complimentary dry cleaning of 1 garment item
•90 complimentary Internet minutes (can be applied to any Internet package of equal or greater value)
•Access to the Captain's Club Lounge at Michael's Club for daily coffeehouse style breakfast and evening social hour
•Complimentary access to Persian Garden (port days only)

There are additional benefits added to the other 2 tiers, but Elite is the most significant.

Thanks Char.

.......and for the poor people not yet Eite members her are the benefits for the 2 other levels:

For Classic members (1-4 tier credits): Access to the loyalty desk and loyalty host; a premium onboard discount booklet; access to the new Captain's Club Celebration event; a complimentary custom air request; pre-cruise specialty restaurant reservations; member reunion cruises; one-category upgrades (when available); and an online newsletter.



For Select members (5-9 tier credits): All of the benefits of Classic membership, plus priority embarkation, a complimentary wine seminar, priority status to shore excursion waitlist, an invitation to the senior officers' cocktail party, 25% off any Internet package, complimentary pressing of two clothing items, and discounted laundry on cruises of 12 nights or more.

Doesn't add a lot to the benefits of Classic and Select, but it does add oodles to the Elite benefits. I would hope the onboard savings booklet is better than the one that I have seen on my last few cruises.

I have to ask, what on earth is this?

•Invitation to attend the Elegant Tea Service event

Originally Posted by Lanky Lad

I have to ask, what on earth is this?

•Invitation to attend the Elegant Tea Service event

Stephen, this is by invitation only. It is an afternoon Elegant Tea (High Tea) with white glove service. One must dress appropriatly to get in as well as have the invitation.

Just got this e-mail:

We'd like to introduce you to the all-New Captain's Club, where our goal is to make you the center of our attention. We believe you deserve more recognition, improved benefits, and quite simply, more ways to feel our appreciation for your continued loyalty. To do that, we're relaunching our Captain's Club today with several exciting new features, and we will be adding many more over the course of 2009.

We'd like to invite you to take a look at some of the great new features we're launching – including an exclusive new onboard "Captain's Club Celebration" event, a new loyalty lounge, and improved internet and laundry benefits. We hope you'll like what you see and we look forward to providing more exciting news later this year!

Thank you very much for your participation in our New Captain's Club!

Originally Posted by Char

Stephen, this is by invitation only. It is an afternoon Elegant Tea (High Tea) with white glove service. One must dress appropriatly to get in as well as have the invitation.

Thanks Char. On Cunard every afternoon tea in the Queens Room is white glove service and open to all

Originally Posted by Lanky Lad

Thanks Char. On Cunard every afternoon tea in the Queens Room is white glove service and open to all

On the other days there is what they call afternoon tea, but it is just a casual snack buffet. I don't know that the Elegant Tea would be too well attended if it was on a daily schedule.

Of course, Cunard would be expected to have High Tea every day! After all, it is a British tradition!

I have just gotten info on the drink menu for the happy hour in Michael's Club!