Myself and my wife like cruising. We were lucky enough to cruise in June with the family on Carnival Breeze and had taken this cruise on Celebrity Silhouette in September as a special treat for an anniversary celebration. Over the years I had seen the Celebrity ships in various ports and the look and reputation of the ships appealed to me particularly the bigger ships. These ships are more expensive than all the other ships we had traveled on and we expected that by paying more you would get a superior cruising experience.

What we found was that this cruise line was no better or worse than any of the others we had cruised on. Lets take food as an example.The food in the Carnival Breeze was actually superior to the food on this ship. I was not expecting that to be the case.We did try three specialty restaurants Murano, Tuscon and QSine and these were good (and expensive) but in the main dining rooms where 95% of people eat the food was just average boring fare.Service in the Cuvee dining room was no better or worse than any other ship we had been on.

Entertainment on board was superior to the Breeze but only because the Breeze was terrible in this department.Other ships such as liberty of the seas and Epic were miles ahead in entertainment compared to this. Read more