Celebrity Eclipse Review

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Beautiful Celebrity Eclipse

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First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Oct 2012
Cabin: Concierge Class 3

I am not sure where to start or how much I should write about my first cruise on Celebrity Eclipse.

First off Eclipse is a large ship and really very beautifully appointed, with a great deal of interesting art located throughout, it's also spotlessly clean and all passenger areas inside and out maintained to a very high standard. Somehow Eclipse also manages to conceal the mass of passengers on board, to the point that I enquired on day 2, if there were many passengers cruising, turns out the ship was full! But yet it never felt crowded, which is pretty clever considering there was over 4,000 people on board including crew.

Embarkation in Southampton was easy and well organised, concierge class was neat in that respect - no queuing - which was good, as I arrived on Eclipse utterly exhausted. By the time I'd found my stateroom my luggage was already inside, together with champagne and a basket of fruit. The stateroom was smartly decorated, very classy and with plenty of storage space, it's a ship after all so I wasn't expecting lots of clothes space. However there was plenty of room for hanging clothes and space under the bed to store luggage. The bathroom was perfect, compact but with lots of storage and ample room to move about, great shower too and throughout the cruise it never felt like the water was desalinated.

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Concierge Class 3

Cabin C3

Great location near the forward elevators and very quiet. Balcony perfect size with very comfortable reclining seats, excellent port side uninterrupted ocean views. Travelling solo, but still plenty of space for two, especially hanging clothes and lots of room under the bed for storing luggage. Bathroom very neat with quality towels and toiletries and again plenty of storage space.

The interactive tv is really easy to use and great for ordering room service. While the choice of free movies and tv channels is pretty good, not sure many people actually pay for movies on a cruise. One small quibble there was no way to watch major sporting events in staterooms or anywhere else on board.

My stateroom attendant Jack was really helpful and kept the room in pristine condition. It was also very easy to maintain temperature with a simple dial, so much better than most hotel systems.

Overall a great stateroom in a good location on deck 10, close to everything and very private.

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