Embarkation in Dubai was long. There was an issue with the check-in system which stated that passengers required a Thailand visa, which we didn't. Staff had to manually override this for each cabin, however only one person could do it, we were in line for about 45 minutes, I did hear of others being in line for 5 hours.
A bit disappointed that there wasn't any champagne or juice as a welcoming ...
We were VERY disappointed with many aspects of our recent cruise from Dubai to Singapore.
From what I understand there has been a huge amount of negative feedback about many aspects of this cruise by other passengers on Social Media.
Boarding in Dubai
We arrived at the port just before 1.00 but didn’t board until around 5.00.
We got thru the Dubai immigration in less than half an ...
Our first visit to Japan onboard Celebrity Millennium gave us many highlights of this fabulous country. The 12 night round trip from Tokyo visited 9 ports.
We did not take any Celebrity excursions. As we are a group of 11 Australians we plan our own private shore excursions in each port. We can cover so many more sites and get more information from our private guides than on the ships large ...
We booked this cruise two years ago as our friends were also planning to visit Japan. Stayed in Tokyo for 3 nights and 1 in Yokohama. Loved it. Lots to see and do and loved the friendliness of the people.
Have traveled with Celebrity twice previously and enjoyed both trips. Sadly, the cruise portion of this trip was very disappointing.
Positives: Efficient boarding process and luncheon. ...
service extremely good.
food extremely bad. first night ordered fish. tried to cut with a fork - fork bounced off fish. complained to manager - returned fish.
headline guest entertainers very good.
house singers good but production numbers dont do them justice.
house band very good
lounge bands extremely bad - cant hear female singers bad (no voice)
excursions so so - went to ...
I read so many reviews prior to our sailing I thought I’d give back with my own review as I was very happy with my experience on the Millennium!!
The onboarding experience was so quick and easy! We couldn’t believe how efficient it was, such a breeze!
First glance, the ship was beautiful, well maintained and clean! So exciting exploring all the places on our first day!
We enjoyed our ...
After sailing 4 Princess cruises this year with mediocre food, we wanted an upscale dining experience in main dining rooms. The Solstice food was beautifully presented, and flavors well balanced (although desserts were disappointing) but the dining room was so crowded (2900 sailing on a ship capacity of 2800) that we couldn't get into our seats the chairs were so tightly packed (and we are small ...
We really liked this cruise.
We were originally booked on the Celebrity Millennium, but Celebrity switched ships and we sailed on the Solstice.
No problem, we really like the Solstice. It was a pre-Christmas cruise so the ship was about 70% full which was nice. Embarkation & Disembarkation were smooth & quick. There are many cruise terminals that could learn much from LA's San Pedro port ...
We drove from our home in Phoenix to Los Angeles and spent the night at the Best Western nearest the port. The hotel was nicer than expected, next door to Denny’s (which was also nicer than expected) and included 7 nights of free parking while we were on the cruise. We’d stay there again without hesitation.
We were supposed to check-in for the cruise at 12:30PM, but since we had to be out of ...
Once we saw Celebrity sailing out of LA we quickly booked B2B - itinerary was all new as we had not sailed the Pacific coast before. We like the S class ship and we were pleasantly surprised after reading poor reviews about her condition - I mainly was distracted by the number of windows that need replacing but other than that she is of the classic sailing ship decor in many places but not ...