Celebrity Infinity Review

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Review for the Panama Canal & Central America Cruise on Celebrity Infinity
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DrKoob
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Nov 2014
Cabin: Concierge Class 1

On November 19, 2014 we disembarked in San Diego, CA from Celebrity’s GTS Infinity after a 15-day cruise from Fort Lauderdale through the Panama Canal with many friends both old and new. This is the review that I kept going back and forth about doing or not doing. Guess I am doing it. As my buddy Bob says, “If you don’t do it, you will be sorry later.” He knows I have a review and website for every trip we have been on. It’s how we remember our journeys for every trip we have been on. They are like our online photo albums. So here goes.

This cruise was very special to us for a lot of reasons. First, we had already done a Panama Canal transit. It was our first Celebrity cruise. It sold us on sailing predominately with X (that’s what cruisers call Celebrity) for most of our cruising vacations. This cruise was our 17th with X. We took that first one through the canal from Fort Lauderdale to San Diego back in 2004. It embarked on November 4 and we were on Infinity in aft cabin 9162.

So back in June of 2013 we were talking to our best buddies, Bob and Judy and we decided we should do another cruise. Bob wanted to see the new canal (which was supposed to be finished by the time we did this cruise—it wasn’t—see my Ports of Call page) and the rest of us just wanted to cruise together. So we looked at Celebrity’s Panama Canal transits. Lo and behold we found one that departed from Fort Lauderdale on the exact same day as our original X cruise 10 years earlier and amazingly enough it was on Infinity. So being the unrepentant romantic that I am, I immediately called my travel agent and asked her to book us the same cabin. Which she did. Ten years to the day, same cabin, same ship.

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Concierge Class 1

Cabin C1

Our cabin and why we won’t book it againI think I mentioned above that we won’t book this particular cabin again. We were in an aft cabin (9162) which is located right below the Sunset Bar. Whenever anyone would decide to rearrange the furniture in the Sunset Bar it sounded like a freight train was being driven on our roof. Now 90% of the time this was tolerable but we had one very ugly incident on the morning of the day we made our Panama Canal transit.

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