Celebrity Summit Review

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Nice cruise but we will stick with Princess

Review for Bermuda Cruise on Celebrity Summit
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CruiseWizz
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jun 2014

Our second Celebrity cruise to Bermuda (we last sailed Celebrity Zenith 15 years ago) was very nice but, in general, not up to the quality we have come to expect and enjoy on Princess. The only area we found the Summit to be better than Princess was the entertainment (more on that later). We chose this cruise because we wanted to go to Bermuda and Celebrity was the obvious choice over RCCL and NCL. The convenience of sailing from Bayonne NJ (a 45 minute drive from our home) was also a factor.

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We hadn’t been to the Bayonne cruise port in 10 years so we were surprised to see it was still an ugly construction zone. We pulled up to a tent to unload luggage then park the vehicles. The lines moved along fairly quickly into the security check point. Everything was going fine until my husband’s hand held FRS radio was confiscated by the security officers. Never in 14 post-9/11 cruises (including one on RCCL) did we ever have an issue with any of his radios. Eventually it was given to the onboard security for inspection (and we were able to retrieve it the next day). We noticed also that they were confiscating other items like Swiss army knives, scissors, corkscrews and such. All this seems a little bit of overkill. After all, the dining rooms are loaded with sharp knives with much larger blades that could be easily taken elsewhere and pairs of FRS radios were sold in the gift shop. So don’t carry any of these items in your pockets or carry-on luggage… pack them in your checked luggage.

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