Celebrity Century Review

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Fabulous way to celebrate Christmas, New Year and a 60th!

Review for the Panama Canal & Central America Cruise on Celebrity Century
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2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Dec 2012

Arrival was a breeze -- a Celebrity agent met us at the airport and we were whisked to the Sheraton for a couple of days. Fort Lauderdale was lovely, shame we weren't there a few more days! Embarkation day came all too quickly and we were picked up and arrived at the terminal before we knew it. Apparently the cruise terminal is being upgraded, but we stood in line for a few minutes, chatting with our fellow passengers and were onboard in no time. There is half a glass of complementary champagne as a welcome, but people seemed to gulp it down before they even entered the ship! One of the first things we saw when boarding was a picture of Shirley Bassey, so that made our smiles even broader!

Our cabin wasn't ready, so we had a look around and had a quick bite in the buffet until we could get settled. As we were still looking around, the announcement was made that the cabins were ready, so we dropped our hand luggage off. For sailaway, we'd arranged to meet up with fellow Cruisecritic guests at the Mast Bar (mainly because the organizer was a smoker!) On the way, we bumped into a couple who had contacted us on the LGBT "Meet Me On Board" forum who told us that there was an LGBT meeting in the Martini bar at 7.30. For no obvious reason, apart from "it might frighten some guests" this wasn't in the paper, but it was on the community noticeboard near Customer Services, with a couple of other daily announcements. 8.00 was the single mingle in the same bar, the most expensive on the ship, forgive me for being slightly cynical at this choice of venue! It did seem very strange timing as it clashed with the entertainment and dining arrangements. But hard to work out what would have been better, to be honest, as there was so much going on! We were told that Celebrity was voted the best LGBT friendly line, however, I'm surprised there wasn't a formal meet and greet, perhaps in Michael's Bar on one of the first nights.

After some very excitable greetings with fellow Cruise Critic passengers at the Mast Bar, we went to the cabin to see if our cases had arrived, but they hadn't - but was then time for the drill, which really only showed us how to get to the muster station -- lifejackets weren't required. Shame as it's always such fun to see everyone wearing them, and a great photo opportunity!

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Cabin 09

An ideal location, sandwiched between two other cabin only decks. It's just far enough away from the lift (elevator) not to be noisy - we never had any problem with noise, apart from when the ship was shuddering, which did happen from time to time.

It's a minute from the buffet on 11, and easy to reach all other parts of the ship, unless you get talking to fellow passengers! Plenty of closet space, including in the shower room. Not sure you'd really want to eat in the cabin, as the little table wouldn't really be comfortable for two. There's a washing line over the shower, but the sink is very small and you can only wash very small items. There's no plug socket near to the bed, but there is an American (110V) and European (230V) at the desk.

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