Wife and I had a great time on the Celebrity Silhouette 7 Night cruise, departing Venice on Aug 24, 2014.
We are middle-aged, and have both cruised over 10 times, mostly on Celebrity, a couple RCCL, and 1 Princess.
Boarding - we have Elite status, so a wait of a few minutes to get checked in and about 10 more minutes wait for our boarding group to be called. We were in out stateroom 25 minutes after we arrived at the pier.