We sailed on the Celebrity Eclipse February 8th for a 14 day Caribbean cruise. This was one of the better cruises we have been on.

Embarkation - We had a group of 30 on a bus from the W hotel. The pier was so crowded at noon that our bus was told to circle around again before we could park and unload. Then, there was confusion as we got conflicting directions from the luggage porters to "tip your porter". Yes, which one? Guess we hit the peak time of boarding. Once in the building, the lines were pretty long - took around 45 minutes to be processed. Once on board, we headed to the Oceanview Café for lunch. Our bags were in our room by 1:30pm, which is very good.

The Ship - This is a very large vessel for 2800 passengers. If felt really spacious - the common rooms were very large and airy. I only felt crowded twice - for the first lunch and last breakfast, but this is to be expected on any ship. Everything felt new and fresh. They have a large cleaning staff that is busy all the time. On the first two sail days at sea, everyone wants to get a tan. There were plenty of deck chairs to go around if you didn't mind being up on the deck above the pools. Towels were laid out in advance. Pool staff was helpful. The Solarium is a nice, quiet enclosed pool area with two hot tubs. A nice place to read and snooze. I could not read in the lounge chairs in that area since they could not be adjusted to reading height. Celebrity makes a big deal about the "lawn" on the top deck. Pretty useless in my opinion. I tried the putting contest one day - like putting on your lawn that needs mowing. Read more