If the Celebrity Century's Panama Canal cruise were the first cruise we'd taken, I'd never cruise again. Understand, I like cruising and I like Celebrity. We re-booked after our first Celebrity cruise because the passengers were wonderful. In fact we have even purchase a future cruise with them but this Century cruise was a two star.

The cruise director welcomed us to the floating hotel but I felt more like we were camping than staying in a decent hotel. Even some of the worst hotels that I've stayed in have decent pillows. My guest room at home has decent pillows because I expect for my guest to sleep comfortably. So my first problem with this cruise was the terrible pillows. They were small and hard. I requested larger pillows but was instead given more small hard pillows. At one point there were eight small hard pillows on the bed, all differing in filling. In trying to resolve this simple problem I was told that no other pillows were available.

Now one of the reasons that I felt justified in asking for a larger more comfortable pillow is because we were in cabin 9245. It's a large cabin on the stern of the ship. I requested a cabin in this area because it would offer a wonderful view of the Panama Canal locks as we passed through. I though about engine noise but figured that I'd sacrifice the simple sound of the ocean waves to have an excellent view of the locks. A big plus is that the view was excellent; a big minus is that it's only one day out a of fifteen day cruise. The other fourteen nights we had to sleep on a bed that was only accessible from one side as the head, foot and right side were blocked by walls and a divider. It was also very low and kind of difficult for an older body to stand from. Anyway, because the bed configuration was so bad I figured that we at the very least deserved decent pillows. NO! Read more