Celebrity Summit Review
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After tons of research here on cruise critic we booked celebrity summit because it included the classic drink package and gratuities and $300 onboard credit. We had a C3 concierge class cabin on deck 8, 8165. We left our 2 kids, 5 and 3 at home so we could celebrate my birthday and our 10th anniversary.
Getting to the ship
We live in Massachusetts, not far from providence, ri so we took a bus from the airport to Bayonne. We left at 7:45 am and stopped a few times along the way, with traffic before the George Washington bridge it took us about 4.5 hours. A little after 12 we had our luggage of the bus and were in the terminal for check in. There were people looking at your xpress pass to direct you to the proper line through security. One was labelled suites and Aqua class and had no line, the other was for everyone else and was pretty long. When I booked concierge I was pretty sure that we got priority boarding so I asked a lady who was directing people and she told us to get in the long line. My husband went to go in line but something told me we were allowed to go priority so I went and asked the guy in charge of the priority line and he said yes it's absolutely for you guys! So my husband got out of the super long line and we went right through security, waited maybe 2 minutes to get our sea pass cards and were on our way onto the ship! My husband said it was so worth it for concierge just for priority boarding.
Cabin Review
Concierge Class 3
Very nice port side aft room, short walk up 2 flights of stairs to the buffet and sunset bar on 10, short walk down 3 flights of stairs to select dining room on 5. Some rust in shower no hairdryer in bathroom, separate hairdryer by desk wasn't strong enough.
Port Reviews
King's Wharf
We didn't do any ship excursions, we thought they were overpriced so we bought a 3 day transportation pass for $44 per person and took the ferry to st. George and Hamilton and the bus to horseshoe bay and the caves.
Bayonne (Cape Liberty)
Getting on and off the ship was quick and easy, pleasant experience! Liked that we didn't have to fly anywhere to take a cruise. No line to go though security because we had concierge class.