Celebrity Century Review
Post-Thanksgiving/Pre-Xmas on Century
Rating by category
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This was a follow-on cruise with Celebrity for me, but the Century came as a little bit of an initial disappointment at first glance--it looks a bit dinged up--scratched name plates, graffiti scratches in the elevator metal, finishes worn off of public and cabin furniture. But the scale as being one of the smaller, relatively cozier big ships does grow on you.
Embarkation was easy since in San Diego, you fly in right over the ship, and it's a 5 minute cab ride. Luggage gets snapped right up. There are ample lines to get processed and while you are given some specific mid-afternoon arrival times, apparently you can go earlier, and people do.
My own reservation was made late, so it took some processing to get found and put onto the register. However, this account glitch seemed to keep happening for at least the first half of the cruise, where "sorry your cabin number doesn't show up on my system" was the familiar refrain. My key card would fail and have to be reissued on five separate occasions. (is the on-board software also 17 years old?)
Cabin Review
Generally comfortable but a few things to note. A bit banged up on some of the furniture surfaces, and the window has a partial obstruction, which is part of the category. But the window is also scratched up, foggy and salted over for about half of the rest of its view, so it was difficult to see much out of it.
This room is also equipped with bunk beds overhead which, even stowed you can bang your head on until you learn to avoid them when getting out of bed.
The remaining singles, when put together, are of "bunk bed quality"--and these beds don't link together like the ones in other rooms. After nearly slipping onto the floor in the middle of each night, with resulting back pain, the room steward kindly replaced the mattresses with thicker ones and did something to hitch the beds together more tightly.