Cabin Review

Our adjoining ocean view staterooms, #2177 and #2179, had a side door in between which could be unlocked allowing us to go directly room to room. The boys' cabin was arranged in an efficient manner with the table and chairs near the window, whereas ours was set up with the table and chairs in front of the side door. It was also clear our room had not been turned over properly when we discovered half-empty water bottles on the counter and in the open mini-bar. I pointed this out to our assistant steward who informed me the previous steward had gone home on arrival in New Jersey and had left this undone. I also brought this up to the steward when he came to introduce himself, along with the fact that our phone wasn't working and that we'd like our room arranged like that of our sons. In stages over the afternoon we did get the side door opened, the mini-bar locked, the phone fixed and the room rearranged; however, we never got our own bottle of unopened water (which we didn't need anyway) nor a complimentary Celebrity tote bag (which we could have used on our beach day).

Having the two rooms with the door between worked well for the four of us, allowing us to visit freely most of the day and to sleep in relative quiet & privacy when we wished. The location of the rooms near the aft elevators was great for meals -- we could walk up two flights of stairs to get to the main dining room, and the elevator would take us to the middle of the Lido deck cafeteria during the day. At various times early in the cruise, we would occasionally note a faint smell of garbage or of paint as we approached our rooms.