We arrived on the red-eye flight from LA and they did not provide a bus until well after noon; wish they would not keep you sitting in the airport so long. Holland-America is much better about this.

After waiting a while to be processed for boarding, we found we had been upgraded from a cat 1A to a 'sky suite'. This is NOT a true suite by any standard, but is a nice stateroom that we estimated at about 270 square feet plus a nice verandah; very comfortable; and the closet space was actually adequate (the cat 2c cabin we had before on a sister ship had a two tiny closets; this seems to be a weak point on Celebrity in general). If I was paying top dollar for a suite, I would be disappointed in this non-suite, but as a free upgrade, who can complain?

The food and service on board was generally quite good, although we had some veal one night that tasted fairly good but had the texture of a Michelin truck tire. Very few decent wine selections are available for under 40 dollars; on our previous cruises on H-A there were many many excellent wines for $25-40 per bottle. Celebrity really seems to gouge on the wine markup; far beyond the mark up in most fine restaurants and other cruise lines. I frankly think they would do better business if they were not so greedy. Paying $50 for a wine that costs $10-12 retail is a bit much. Read more