This was our first Celebrity cruise from Southampton, although we had previously done 2 Caribbean cruises with them. This was our third cruise since my wife became a wheelchair user, the others being with P&O, so it would be interesting to compare Eclipse with Azura and Ventura.
We travelled down the night before staying overnight at the Premier Inn at Southampton airport the second time we had stayed here and it did not disappoint, especially as we had managed to book a room for only £29.
We had free parking which worked very smoothly, with ABP you park the car yourself instead of the valet parking system used by CPS, the Blue badge car park is adjacent to the luggage drop off point which was very convenient. We arrived about 11:45 and were on board by about 12:30; however the cabins were not available until 2:00, so we headed for the Ocean view cafe to get cracking on our 2 weeks of over eating.