Celebrity Silhouette Review

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Our 25th Wedding Anniversary Cruise

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agathasmum
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Feb 2014

We have cruised a fair bit, predominantly with Celebrity and booked this cruise to celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary. Our honeymoon had been spent in France at a “chateau” overlooking a chemical plant, where we spent 4 glorious days holed up in bed with the flu. I was setting my sights higher this time! After the unusually harsh winter we have had in Maryland this year, and after one last removal of 2 feet of snow, it was a pleasure to head for the warmth and sunshine of Florida and the Caribbean, if only for a week. I hope you enjoy my tongue in cheek review of it!

We were flying to Florida from Reagan National and decided at the last minute to spend the night before, Valentines night, near the airport at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, as we had another 5 inches of snow forecast that night. The hotel was very nice and they offered me a hypo-allergenic room with air purifier when all I asked for was non-feather pillows. As it was Valentine’s Day, they only had a special 4 course dinner, which was $45 a person or $70 a couple, with a (dead) red rose for the lady, which this lady declined. I think if I had been male and dining alone, I would have been a little miffed. The cuisine was “Southern” (groan), which meant lots of grits, sweetbreads (ewwww) and corn. Not necessarily what I would chosen, but the meal was very nice, and the staff were very pleasant. All in all our stay was excellent.

The “jetting” to FLL with JetBlue wasn’t as excellent. We were delayed by a late incoming plane, which was understandable because of the storms up the East Coast, but then further delayed when de-icing chemicals made their way into the ventilation system, creating a foul-smelling dry-ice effect in the cabin and causing them to get a mechanic on board to check it out. We eventually took off, found the cabin crew to be pleasant, the flight not too bumpy, and arrived in FLL 2 hours late.

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Cabin was nice. Bed was by the bathroom. We were woken every night around 3am by something loud being wheeled along in a crew area. It sounded like thunder. There was also a rattling sound, like empty coat hangers rattling in a closet. It was pretty irritating.

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