Celebrity Silhouette Review

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Silhouette Western Caribbean

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Sail Date: Mar 2013
Cabin: AquaClass 2

We sailed on the Silhouette on March 10th-17th. This was our 13th Celebrity cruise and our second on an S-class ship. We had a wonderful time, and we have three more S-class cruises booked and are impatiently waiting for the Caribbean deployment to open up in April. There were a few things that were not quite at an exceptional level, but I am mentioning them as mere observations; they certainly did not detract from the overall cruise experience.

My story begins at 1:27 pm on Friday (two days before our Sunday departure), when I received an alert from an app (that I had just downloaded that morning) advising me that Southwest had canceled our Saturday flight from Denver to Ft. Lauderdale. I was able to book a later flight on Saturday, but (rightly) had concerns about the weather. I wasn't able to get another flight on Friday night, but I went ahead and booked a fully-refundable (and very expensive) flight to Ft. Lauderdale on Sunday morning on a different airline. Interestingly, the original price of the Sunday morning flight increased $100 per person between the time I checked on line and the time I was able to get hold of an agent. My DH and I drove down to the airport the night before, just in case the projected blizzard actually arrived. I spent most of the night checking cancellations, and I thought we were going to be okay until mid-morning when the second Southwest cancellation was received. After an hour on hold, I was told the earliest they could get me to Ft. Lauderdale was Tuesday. Thankfully, I was able to get credit for the cancelled flights and keep my return flight for the 17th. We were able to keep the same hotel room for another night (for a mere $50 dollars more than we had paid the night before, without parking). There was a lot of blowing snow, but very little accumulations. The majority of the flights made it out on Saturday; just not ours.

Without daylight savings time, we were up and on our way to the airport by 3:00 am. The weather was beautiful and we left on time. The flight was relatively smooth, and we landed around 12:30 pm. We had no problem getting a taxi to the port, and I could finally start to breathe again.

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AquaClass 2

Cabin A2
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