We are experienced cruisers (16 cruises over 6 different lines) and wanted to try Celebrity. Since we are Diamond on Royal Caribbean, we would be Elite on Celebrity.
We booked late and at the time of booking, regular balcony cabins were about the same as the Aqua Class cabins. We weren't very familiar with Aqua Class but figured, why not? Well, now we are hooked. If we ever cruise Celebrity again, and we hope to, it will be in Aqua Class.
When we arrived at our cabin, there was a bottle of sparkling wine chilling in the ice bucket. We also had fresh fruit and flowers. Our cabin, 1107 was very close to the exterior door which opened onto the outside deck so it was extremely convenient to get to the deck. If your turned right when exiting the cabin and went out that exterior door, you were right above the Sunset Bar outside the buffet. Extremely convenient, just down a quick flight of stairs to reach the bar or buffet.
Cabin 1107 Celebrity Summit. Good location, near exit to deck 11 deck and near exit above Sunset Bar. Generally it was very quiet and deck 11 has almost no traffic at all. Very convenient to aft elevators.