Celebrity Century Review

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Excellent Service, Terribly Small Room

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knittinggirl
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Sep 2014
Cabin: Concierge Class

Concierge Class, #9065

Embarkation - We were told to arrive at noon instead of 10:30 am, and as a result, everyone seemed to arrive at once. Everyone was packed into the terminal waiting. We got in what looked like the shortest line, but learned it wasn’t when it began to switch back and forth. We finally got or seapass cards, then were directed to another long line for security. It didn’t help that they delayed embarkation two hours due to immigration the ship before us. They tried to fixe this in Astoria, by bringing the customs aboard and making us go through customs before leaving for the day. So, we actually had this problem with long lines twice due to customs. Once with the arrival of the ship prior to our cruise, and once at a port of call. Staff was very organized.

We prefer Voyager Class Junior suites on Royal Caribbean, so this was very small. So, strange, the bed was too short for my husband, and the safe was too high for me at 5'5" tall. The safe was on a shelf so high , that I couldn’t reach all the way inside it. There was a very steep step (8-10") into the bathroom. While there was a grab bar next to the toilet, there was no grab bar outside the bathroom for stepping into the bathroom. Very tiny room, bed was so small, my husband’s feet stuck about a foot off the edge of the bedWe had a good sized shower! And there were two small towel bars for socks, but no towel bars inside the shower area. If Celebrity wasn’t selling this ship soon, we wouldn’t book this class room again on this ship. Nice view out the balcony from our sofa, which made it wonderful when exploring Tracy Arm Fjord. In this respect, the Concierge Class is actually better than the Sky Suite where we couldn’t see out the balcony from the sofa. Some of the walls took our magnets, but the door didn’t. The cabin is an excellent location, and easy to find right off the elevator bank. We were across from the cabin steward station. Regarding storage, our room was very well designed (except for the desk again too small). Lots of shelves, and drawers and they held our packing envelopes! I mention this, because the drawers on the Vision Class ships (JS) are too small to hold our 15" packing envelopes. We had two small closets, so I put my things in one closet, while my husband used the other. The night table “stands” were way too small. We usually use our night table stands for our sleepware, but no room. Mine was covered with the telephone, and the cord wasn’t long enough to reach the sofa next to it. The desk was way too small. We had two US electrical outlets on the desk, and two on the first shelf above the minifridge.

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Concierge Class

Cabin C2

Very small after our usual Junior Suite preference on Royal Caribbean, but Celebrity doesn't have Junior Suites. We had about a ten-inch step into the bathroom. The bed was so short, my husband's feet stuck off the end of the bed, and the safe was up on a top shelf, so high I couldn't get my hand all the way inside of it. If they weren't selling this ship, we wouldn't book this category again. We had a narrow sofa and a desk chair. We couldn't access the balcony w/o moving either a chair or the table. On the bright side, I COULD see out the balcony from the sofa. Something we couldn't do with our Sky Suite on Century last year. The desk was small too. One set of outlets w/ disabled European Plug on the desk, and another outlet in the shelves above the mini-fridge.

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