Just returned from our cruise on celebrity constellation. This is our 5th cruise with celebrity which we thought we would return to after two mediocre cruises on RCCL and Holland America. The first thing to go wrong was that my husband and I were allocated a different dining table to my sister and her husband. We did finally sort it out after two trips to see the Maitre d'. We had cross referenced our booking even though he told us we hadn't. So instead of being part of a table for eight as requested we had one for just us four.

We were surprised to be hassled for the first three days to purchase the drinks package, which we knew would be uneconomical for us as we were off the ship for nine of the twelve days but we couldn't sit down before being approached. Bit of a nuisance, we were also offered discounts in the specialty restaurants which again was a bit intrusive. They must have been struggling to fill the places.

We didn't go to many of the shows as we were on late sitting and after a day ashore didn't feel like going to the early show at 7.15pm. There were a couple of late ones which we enjoyed. We used to see passengers going into the main sitting at 6.15 and some didn't go in until gone 7 pm. Maybe this is the reason that the late sitting was at 8.45pm the latest we have ever had. We would have preferred 8.15 as on other cruises. Read more